RTL SDR FM Player

Fork from: https://github.com/ktb83/rtl_sdr_fm_player

A simple GUI front end player for rtl_fm and RTL SDR FM Streamer.

Description

Developed to be used on Raspbain with the official Rpi 7 inch touch screen in full screen mode, but should work with any Linux OS in a 800x480 window.

Prerequisites

RTL-SDR

https://osmocom.org/projects/rtl-sdr/wiki/Rtl-sdr

Turns your Realtek RTL2832 based DVB dongle into a SDR receiver. rtl_fm is part of this package.

For Raspbain you can install with apt.

      sudo apt install rtl-sdr

Python keyboard module

For now we’re using Pythons keyboard module to control the volume. Because of this dependency the program must be run with sudo. Maybe there is a better solution?

     sudo pip3 install keyboard

Readsea installing

You can see the instuctions here:

https://github.com/windytan/redsea

RTL SDR FM Streamer

https://github.com/AlbrechtL/rtl_fm_streamer/

rtl_fm will work without any additional installation but it’s mono only as far as I can tell. RTL SDR Streamer provides stereo and seems, to me, to have better sound quality. Couple options to set before make command if you have problems with the driver:

cmake ../ -DINSTALL_UDEV_RULES=ON -DDETACH_KERNEL_DRIVER=ON

To install you’ll have to build and make it.

	$ sudo apt-get install build-essential libusb-1.0-0-dev libev-dev cmake
	$ git clone https://github.com/AlbrechtL/rtl_fm_streamer.git
	$ cd rtl_fm_streamer/
	rtl_fm_streamer$ mkdir build
	rtl_fm_streamer$ cd build
	rtl_fm_streamer/build$ cmake ../
	rtl_fm_streamer/build$ make
	rtl_fm_streamer/build$ sudo make install
	rtl_fm_streamer/build$ sudo ldconfig

Setup

Setup and settings are controlled via the settings.ini file. You have to add your stations to this file manually. Read the comments, it’s easy.

Usage

From the command line cd into the cloned directory and enter

    sudo python3 rtl_sdr_player.py