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HiFiBerryOS - Play "Radio" from direct URL.

J Jofuga

October 28, 2020 18:32

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Hello,

New to HiFiBerry, recently purchased a Pi4 and DAC+ Pro.

Overall, quite happy so far, so thanks for the unique product!

I've looked where I can think of, but I'm curious if it's possible load a "radio" station directly from a URL?
The URL is a private radio service, and specifically the audio stream (aac) and track info (title/artist).

The URL works in VLC and any other player I've tried, but I'm lost as to how I might be able to load it into HiFiBerry?
The goal is to just use the unit as a headless player using that radio URL.
I can do it with Raspbian, but would rather use HiFiBerryOS, if possible.

Anyways, thanks again for your great product!
Cheers.

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  HiFiBerry team October 28, 2020 19:23

  You can add your radio station in the radio.json file:
  https://support.hifiberry.com/hc/en-us/community/posts/360012681217

   

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  J Jofuga October 28, 2020 19:37

  Looks promising - I'll give this a try tomorrow!

  Thank you!

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  J Jofuga October 30, 2020 17:31

  Alright, I'm pleased to say it worked. Thank you!
  However, it stopped playing the radio overnight, requiring a manual hit play again on it this morning.
  Might have been a blip in the feed overnight, but I have yet to experience that before.
  
  I'm now curious if HiFiBerryOS can be setup to automatically load the radio station automatically upon boot?
  That way, if the feed is indeed has a recurring overnight blip for some reason, I could just have a cron reboot the Pi before the location has opened in the morning?

  Edited by J Jofuga October 30, 2020 17:32
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  HiFiBerry team October 30, 2020 18:42

  There is no feature today to do something automatically after reboot. There is also no cron. While automations could help with this, today there are no automation options available for radio. You might hack toghether some stuff, but today there is nothing that can do this out-of-the-box.

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  Nate November 01, 2020 13:19

  I'm interested in some of these automation efforts as well.  I've created a setup that I'd ultimately like to be controlled via some stereo knobs, not the touchscreen, nor the web interface.  The screen will be tucked away behind an original glass enclosure and I want it to be plugin ready.  I have the volume handled via a rotary encoder and asmixer calls, and the song selection somewhat working with POST calls made as a trigger to an interaction --- via a similar python script concept.  My ideal setup would be to have it maybe shuffle though my songs...  and have an option to directly tune into a favorites list somehow, where I have some interest in this topic of doing something on boot.  I wonder if there are opportunities to expand the interaction menu as that provides a lot of flexibility. 

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  HiFiBerry team November 01, 2020 16:31

  We're open to contributions for new interactions. Best is probably to have a look at the interactions module:

  https://github.com/bang-olufsen/create/blob/master/Beocreate2/beo-extensions/interact