check to see if your port or baud rate settings changed
I worked on this for a while again tonight and verified all he settings look as they should. Below is my metaPy.py script
#Copyright (C)2013, Brandon Rasmussen, K7BBR
import serial
import time
import requests
'''-----------------USER CONFIGURATION-----------------'''
port =
"/dev/ttyUSB0" #enter scanner USB/serial port in quotes here
baudrate = 115200
#enter scanner baudrate here
icecastUser =
"source" #enter icecast username in quotes here
icecastPass =
"password" #enter icecast password in quotes here
icecastServerAddress =
"audio9.broadcastify.com:80" #enter icecast server IP Address (and port if necessary) here
icecastMountpoint =
"mountpoint" #enter icecast mountpoint in quotes here - don't add leading '/'
'''-----------------END USER CONFIGURATION---------------'''
'''----------UNNECESSARY TO MODIFY SCRIPT BELOW----------'''
urlBase =
"http://" + icecastServerAddress +
"/admin/metadata?mount=/" + icecastMountpoint +
"&mode=updinfo&song="
serTimeout = float(.005)
# serial timeout here (.005 is probably sufficient)
test =
"GLG" #'''test string to send to Uniden Scanner to get current status
#for BCT8 will be RF to get frequency, or LCD FRQ to read icon status
#for BC125AT use CIN'''
TGIDold = 0
#initialize TGID old test variable
metadata = ''
serialFromScanner = serial.Serial(port, baudrate, timeout=serTimeout)
#initialize serial connection
serialFromScanner.flushInput()
#flush serial input
def getData():
global serBuffer, nextChar
serBuffer = ''
#clear the serBuffer
nextChar = ''
#reset the nextChar marker
serialFromScanner.write(test +
'\r\n')
#send initial request to scanner
def receiveData():
if (serialFromScanner.inWaiting() > 0):
#check to see if there's serial data waiting
global nextChar, serBuffer
while nextChar !=
'\r':
#continue filling serBuffer until carriage return
nextChar = serialFromScanner.read(1)
#read one character
serBuffer += nextChar
def parseData(pserBuffer):
parsed = pserBuffer.split(
",")
stringtest = parsed[0]
global TGIDold, TGID, metadata
if stringtest ==
"GLG":
length = len(parsed)
if (length >= 10):
#check list length so we don't get exception 10 for BCT15, 13 for BC886XT
TGID = parsed[1]
SYSNAME = parsed[5]
GROUP = parsed[6]
TG = parsed[7]
if (TGID.find(
'.') != -1):
#check to see if a trunked or conventional system and get FREQuency
FREQ = TGID.lstrip(
'0')
#remove leading 0 if present
if (FREQ[-1] ==
'0'):#remove trailing 0
if present
FREQ = FREQ[:-1]
else:
FREQ = 0
if (TGID != TGIDold)
and (TGID != ''):
#check if group change or scanner not receiving
if (FREQ == 0):
#for a trunked system
metadata = ((SYSNAME) +
" " + (TGID) +
" " + (TG))
else:
#for a conventional system
metadata = ((FREQ) +
" " + (SYSNAME) +
" " + (GROUP) +
" " + (TG))
#User can delete/rearrange items to update
else:
metadata = ''
def updateData(pMetadata):
global TGID, TGIDold
if pMetadata != '':
print pMetadata
TGIDold = TGID
def parseData(pserBuffer):
parsed = pserBuffer.split(
",")
stringtest = parsed[0]
global TGIDold, TGID, metadata
if stringtest ==
"GLG":
length = len(parsed
if (length >= 10):
#check list length so we don't get exception 10 for BCT15, 13 for BC886XT
TGID = parsed[1]
SYSNAME = parsed[5]
GROUP = parsed[6]
TG = parsed[7]
if (TGID.find(
'.') != -1):
#check to see if a trunked or conventional system and get FREQuency
FREQ = TGID.lstrip(
'0')
#remove leading 0 if present
if (FREQ[-1] ==
'0'):#remove trailing 0
if present
FREQ = FREQ[:-1]
else:
FREQ = 0
if (TGID != TGIDold)
and (TGID != ''):
#check if group change or scanner not receiving
if (FREQ == 0):
#for a trunked system
metadata = ((SYSNAME) +
" " + (TGID) +
" " + (TG))
else:
#for a conventional system
metadata = ((FREQ) +
" " + (SYSNAME) +
" " + (GROUP) +
" " + (TG))
#User can delete/rearrange items to update
else:
metadata = ''
def updateData(pMetadata):
global TGID, TGIDold
if pMetadata != '':
print pMetadata
TGIDold = TGID
metadataFormatted = metadata.replace(
" ",
"+")
#add "+" instead of " " for icecast2
requestToSend = (urlBase) +(metadataFormatted)
r = requests.get((requestToSend), auth=(icecastUser,icecastPass))
status = r.status_code
nowGMT = time.gmtime()
timestamp = time.asctime(nowGMT)
print (timestamp)
if status == 200:
print "Icecast Update OK"
else:
print "Icecast Update Error", status
while True:
#infinite loop
getData()
receiveData()
parseData(serBuffer)
updateData(metadata)
time.sleep(.1)
#pause
