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Robert Denier wrote:
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<pre wrap="">Has anyone seen an elegant solution to work with Satellite Radio? In
the ideal case, myth basically does everything needed, except obviously
you don't need to record video and you have to get the programming from
some where.
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There is an elegant piece of hardware out there for this.<br>
<br>
The hardware is an adapter board that modifies a Sirius car radio for <br>
control over a serial port. Not only can you tell the radio what
channel <br>
to go to, but you can also get information from the radio about what's <br>
currently playing, and even have the radio inform you proactively as
the <br>
show changes on every radio channel (not just the channel you're <br>
currently listening to). This might be nice for automatically adding
the <br>
show name to mp3's, if you just want to record whatever's on, or for <br>
having the radio switch to shows you like as they come on.<br>
<br>
In addition, the hardware supplies an optical digital out, which may
lead <br>
to higher audio quality. I'd like to try this, but unfortunately I'm
having <br>
trouble getting a cost-effective toslink optical digital input working
with <br>
linux....<br>
<br>
I've been working on a linux driver, and nearly have it to a releasable
state. <br>
The guy who makes the adapter board, MitchJS, is nice but a dos-weanie,
<br>
so he can give protocol help but no linux driver. <br>
<br>
I haven't yet settled on a front end to schedule recordings. I tried
mythtv <br>
about a year ago (or was it two?), and had a so-so experience with its <br>
reliability. Things have progressed, so I'm thinking about maybe
trying <br>
mythtv again as the front end to this radio so I can set up some
recordings. <br>
Alternately, I may just record from a cron job (nearly 100% reliable!)
and <br>
just use mythtv to play them (or download to an IPod).<br>
<br>
You can find more information on the hardware from this web site: <br>
<br>
<a href="http://www.rush2112.net/">http://www.rush2112.net/</a><br>
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<pre wrap="">For one channel, which is likely what I'd get it for, mostly, I figure
you would want a command like
arecord <showname> <duration in seconds>
with the result being
showname-date.mp3
at your desired bit rate.
Hopefully this combined with a series of cron jobs and you would be
done...
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If all you really want is one channel, you don't really need to control
the radio<br>
at all. Just tune it to the channel you want, plug its audio output
into the <br>
computer, and record when you feel like it.<br>
<br>
I've got to wonder what single channel you're trying to record, that is
on both <br>
Sirius and XM, and so important to you that you'd buy a radio, pay $13
a month <br>
for it, and go to some trouble to set up recording on a mythtv box...<br>
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<blockquote cite="mid1131208276.8645.40.camel@chidori.cephiro"
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<pre wrap="">At any rate, I just thought I'd see if this kind of problem has already
been solved by someone.
One of the reasons I want to get XM is, while an internet audio stream
is possible, it is low quality, and I forget to turn the stream off a
lot. Basically it eats away at the amount I'm allowed to download with
satellite internet, so I figure $14.00 a month or whatever is worth it,
hopefully. (I also hope to use it in my car.)
-Robert
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Modifying the car radio for use with a computer makes it no longer work
as<br>
a car radio. However, if you have a car computer (the hobby of
MitchJS), you <br>
could plug it into that and use it in your car. There are some
non-mythtv, <br>
non-linux interfaces for car computers that look reasonably nice, and
also <br>
allow you to plug in your IPod, GPS, etc.<br>
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