Broadcastify Raspberry Pi Image v3.0 Beta

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Thanks... now I see why it is failing.... now I just need to figure out the JSON. I didn't edit much, but I am getting a parsing error. Starting over from scratch.
 

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I am running the Broadcastify 3.01 image and am unable to edit the Crontab file with Crontab -e. It appears the file is write protected but I have changed all permissions on the pi and root files in /car/spool/cron/crontabs directory.
Any ideas?

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pi@Pi5-BCFY:/var/spool/cron/crontabs $ ls -l
total 8
-rwxrwxrwx 1 pi crontab 1156 Nov 19 12:43 pi
-rwxrwxrwx 1 root crontab 232 Dec 30 17:36 root
 

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What is the reasoning for using Trunk Recorder vs SDRTrunk for streaming? IS there something I am missing? SDRTrunk seems to be much easier to configure.
 

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What is the reasoning for using Trunk Recorder vs SDRTrunk for streaming? IS there something I am missing? SDRTrunk seems to be much easier to configure.
SDRtrunk is more computationally intensive. It is barely functional on my Pi 4 while trunk recorder runs with zero issues.
 

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Interesting. I’ve been running SDRtrunk this week on a vacation, and tested sending a stream to the other site and my pi5 hasn’t seemed to have an issue. I could not get trunk recorder to work for the life of me. Even had ChatGPT try to help me make my config file and it kept erroring out.
 

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Update: About 5 hours with ChatGPT and I finally got the config file made. The pitfalls I ran into:
Once I gave it the data from the config readme, things went a lot smoother.
It kept wanting to put a control channel outside of my tuners. I ended up deleting it from the control channel list, and if that is a detriment I will work with it later, but I was having a hard time finding a center freq that would grab all 4 control channels and not error out. I don't want to get a 3rd dongle right now just for 1 control channel that I don't think rotates often.
I tried creating a webhook service to monitor with it also. We kind of got that working. Once again if I had a better understanding of webdevelopment I think I would have made it work.
I think it would be interesting to upload all of the documentation into a NotebookLM and see if that works better. I don't have access to it for personal use through.
 

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Update: About 5 hours with ChatGPT and I finally got the config file made. The pitfalls I ran into:
Once I gave it the data from the config readme, things went a lot smoother.
It kept wanting to put a control channel outside of my tuners. I ended up deleting it from the control channel list, and if that is a detriment I will work with it later, but I was having a hard time finding a center freq that would grab all 4 control channels and not error out. I don't want to get a 3rd dongle right now just for 1 control channel that I don't think rotates often.
I tried creating a webhook service to monitor with it also. We kind of got that working. Once again if I had a better understanding of webdevelopment I think I would have made it work.
I think it would be interesting to upload all of the documentation into a NotebookLM and see if that works better. I don't have access to it for personal use through.
Last update, learning to code some now with this, and with AI have been able to create some neat stuff. I get a telegram alert when the trunk recorder goes up or down, a status update with average cpu usage, uptime, and disk usage every two hours during the day. Also a call log I can open in HTML that rotates daily. and a telegram message if a call is started with the emergency flag as true.
 
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