First RadioReference Audio Feed Appliance now online

[Citywide173]

Use Winamp as the player. It takes a minute or two for it to catch up, but it will display the alpha tags on the Title line.

 

[scanner99]

What kind of antenna are you using for the 8 feeds?

 

[rdale]

I got the attenuator activated on the DC Fire radio and it's working fine now. We installed a rooftop antenna and began to suffer from intermod.

No change. Plus it's very quiet in general - is this just dispatch or are the fireground talkgroups in there too?

 

[eastrocks400]

Originally you said you would be using Fedora...

What was your original reasoning for this and why did you migrate to XP?

 

[blantonl]

No change. Plus it's very quiet in general - is this just dispatch or are the fireground talkgroups in there too?

We're still tweaking the settings and antenna for this... it should get better soon. All Dispatch and Fireground talkgroups are programmed.

 

[rdale]

Copy that. Thanks for all the work you do...

 

[blantonl]

Originally you said you would be using Fedora...

What was your original reasoning for this and why did you migrate to XP?

Integration and remote management reasons. Multiple darkice instances had problems with the USB core functionality in the Kernel. XP allows us to run ScannerCast as well, which after the new year will be the default broadcaster for all RR broadcasted feeds.

 

[mtindor]

I listened to the DC feeds a few hours last night [and will probably do so again tonight]. It sounds perfect. Very nice setup.

XP allows us to run ScannerCast as well, which after the new year will be the default broadcaster for all RR broadcasted feeds.

That's great news. Peter has done a helluva job with it, implementing [or planning implementation] of nearly everything we've all requested. Of course the auto-config for RR streaming is the best feature.

M

 

[blantonl]

Yea, we contracted with Peter to write a RR specific version that we'll distribute to all feed broadcasters shortly.

 

[ResQguy]

No change. Plus it's very quiet in general - is this just dispatch or are the fireground talkgroups in there too?

It's very quiet because the EMS channels are locked out. Otherwise you would never hear a fire.

 

[eastrocks400]

Is there anyway that the scanner cast developers could make it compatible with mac?

I could use virtual machine, but that would be too tedious.

 

[blantonl]

Ok, the DC Fire Feed has been fixed and sounds fantastic. PG Fire/EMS was fixed as well (no audio) so we're looking good.

We need to make some updates to the DCA Airport feed since we're not getting good reception of the tower yet, but that is coming.

Enjoy!

 

[rdale]

Ok, the DC Fire Feed has been fixed and sounds fantastic.

Hate to sound pessimistic but not yet. I might say it's better than yesterday, but still much more garble than voice.

 

[kenisned]

I was listening for a few hours today. The DC Fire feed was excellent.

What a great project, thanks for sharing!

 

[rdale]

It is doing much better this afternoon & evening...

 

[poltergeisty]

The computer is a Mac Mini running Windows XP - broadcast clients are ScannerCast (8 instances running). We remotely control the radios using LogMein.com and Win500

Curious, why not an embedded computer? (For those that don't know what that is..Embedded system - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia)

 

[eastrocks400]

Lindsay if you could answer this....

the sound cards you bought do not say compatible with mac on the ebay listing but ones that appear identical to it say they ARE compatible, but have been from different sellers.

...so are they?

 

[jumbo4498]

the airport feed is unreal great . keep up the great work . jimmy in nc,

 

[blantonl]

Lindsay if you could answer this....

the sound cards you bought do not say compatible with mac on the ebay listing but ones that appear identical to it say they ARE compatible, but have been from different sellers.

...so are they?

These are Mac compatible. This is how they show up...

 

[eastrocks400]

Thanks lindsay!