Online Radio

[tanvir586]

Is there any working online Radio module available? Tried couple of modules but no luck

[wishmaster270]

@tanvir586 Hi,
i developed MMM-MplayerRadio a couple of years ago. It still should be functional.

[tanvir586]

@wishmaster270 Hi, tried your one. But no sound. Installed vlc still no sound. Will share my config once I go home. Thanks for replying mate

[wishmaster270]

@tanvir586 Had a lot of problems with the sound of Raspberry as well. It do not think that it is a problem with the modules it might be a problem with the asound or pulseaudio configuration of the operating system.

If you use Buster release sound is configured by asound, if you use Bullseye it is PulseAudio.

Do you use the build in sound of the board or a external sound card?

[bugsounet]

@wishmaster270

If you use Buster release sound is configured by asound, if you use Bullseye it is PulseAudio

Nop… It’s pulseaudio too…

[tanvir586]

@wishmaster270 Hi , Im using my monitors build in speaker. I don’t know which operating system I’m using. I downloaded yesterday. Will let you know once I go home

[tanvir586]

@wishmaster270 Hi just checked. its bullseye. and my config is

{
		module: "MMM-MplayerRadio",
		header: "Radio",
		position: "top_center",
		config: {
			//autoplay: 0,
			stations: [
				{
					title: "Al Mubarak",
					url: "https://emasjidlive.co.uk/listen/almubarakradio",
					logo: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/ac/Antenne-bayern-logo.png",
				},
			],
		},
	},

[wishmaster270]

@bugsounet Oh, good to know. I use Bullseye for a while but currently only have a mirror running without audio.

@tanvir586
In default mode (which you use) mplayer is used. As i wrote in the documentation mplayer has caused a lot of problems with many streams. You could try to switch to vlc instead which is working much better but does not provide the current stream information.

	{
		module: "MMM-MplayerRadio",
		header: "Radio",
		position: "top_center",
		config: {
			//autoplay: 0,
                        customCommand: "/usr/bin/vlc",
                        customCommandArgs: ["-I","dummy","###URL###"],
			stations: [
				{
					title: "Al Mubarak",
					url: "https://emasjidlive.co.uk/listen/almubarakradio",
					logo: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/ac/Antenne-bayern-logo.png",
				},
			],
		},
	},

Make sure to install vlc first:

sudo apt update && sudo apt install -y vlc

[tanvir586]

@wishmaster270 Hi I’ve tried this aswell. And I installed the vlc. But still not working. I’ll try it again now.

[tanvir586]

@wishmaster270 ok. Didn’t work. I have another mirror with no speaker. And that’s os 11.2. I can copy that sd card and try on my new mirror. Do you think it will work or I should do something on this one?

[wishmaster270]

@tanvir586 If you do have graphical access directly or via vnc you can check the audio settings first.
Maybe the sound is send to analog out instead of hdmi.

[wishmaster270]

@wishmaster270 If you do a right click on the speaker symbol you can decide where to output the sound:

[tanvir586]

@wishmaster270 ![alt text]
It’s on Hdmi. And I can play YouTube, sound OK on YouTube

[wishmaster270]

@tanvir586 Ok. Maybe the vlc on the shell ignores it.

Found an interesting thread which suggests running vlc with a additional option:

       {
		module: "MMM-MplayerRadio",
		header: "Radio",
		position: "top_center",
		config: {
			//autoplay: 0,
                        customCommand: "/usr/bin/vlc",
                        customCommandArgs: ["-I","dummy", "--alsa-audio-device", "hw:0,0", "###URL###"],
			stations: [
				{
					title: "Al Mubarak",
					url: "https://emasjidlive.co.uk/listen/almubarakradio",
					logo: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/ac/Antenne-bayern-logo.png",
				},
			],
		},
	},

If you use a Raspberry Pi 4 with two hdmi you may need to change “hw:0,0” to “hw:1,0” depending of the port your monitor is connected to.

Maybe this helps. I can not test it at the moment.

Edit:

Some people suggest to add

dtoverlay=vc4-fkms-v3d

to “/boot/config.txt” additionally.

[tanvir586]

@wishmaster270 found the problem…
its my url. its play http://play.antenne.de/antenne.m3u. but it doesnt play https://emasjidlive.co.uk/listen/almubarakradio.

[tanvir586]

@tanvir586 is there anything I can do here?

[wishmaster270]

@tanvir586 Hi, just checked the website and found the “real” url of the radio.
The url “http://95.154.250.9:9980” works fine with my vlc. As long as they do not change their ip it will be functional.

If it stops working you can go to https://almubarakradio.com/ hit the “Tune in live” button and copy the url of the browser window.

Edit:
Found a better way. You can use the url “https://relay.emasjidlive.uk/almubarakradio” which is the url used by the player on page “https://emasjidlive.co.uk/listen/almubarakradio”

[tanvir586]

@wishmaster270 Mate you’re a genius. Worked perfectly. Seriously can’t thank you enough. Just one question, it’s not 24 hours radio, when it’s come back online will it start automatically? On my computer browser on the radio page when it’s come back online it doesn’t go live automatically, I need to press refresh button to go live.

[wishmaster270]

@tanvir586 Great if I could help.
I am not sure how vlc will handle a connection loss. Normally it will try to reconnect but I do not know how long and often it tries.
Maybe there is a command line option but I think the best option is to try it

[tanvir586]

@wishmaster270 ok. Will try and let you know. Really appreciated. Thanks 😊