PC Hardware For Broadcastify Feed

[RadioDitch]

Morning all,

I'm very seriously considering putting a Broadcastify feed up for an area that currently has zero coverage. I'm curious as to what are everyone's opinions regarding the minimum CPU and RAM requirements for hosting a single feed? I imagine anything newer than a 4th Gen Intel i5 Quad Core and at least 16GB of RAM would work just fine?

Not really looking to build another brand new, high-end machine.

Thanks in advance.

 

[Deziel0495]

Basically any PC can host a feed. The software requires very little processing power.

I just use my everyday PC to host mine, others use dedicated PC's or even Pi's.

This article may be of help: https://broadcastify.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/articles/204740055-Becoming-a-Feed-Provider

 

[thatoneiowan]

I have a 4th gen i5 and I think 8gb ram decoding 4 sites using SDRTrunk but that is resource heavy. If you are using software like radio feed or proscan you could probably get away with almost anything. I had a few copies of proscan running on a 2nd gen i3/4gb ram for a while.

 

[RadioDitch]

Thanks gents. I have the perfect laptop to dedicate to it then! Appreciate the help.