Turning the Raspberry Pi Into... an FM Radio Station??

[@onza222]

anyone watching with pi 4 - use freq lower than 93

[@steve_1507]

Finally, my own pirate radio station

[@BlueMSX.]

Great video, love how versatile raspberry pi's are!

[@SimonVideo]

Thank you! Yeah it's awesome!

[@ericplays2021]

Underrated channel!

[@avahahmor]

educational AND entertaining, the way you explained what seems to be complicated things, were easy to understand thank you!

[@SimonVideo]

glad you enjoyed it!

[@gammaboost]

Yo, I had no idea you could do this! Super cool! I've been getting into radios for a while now, I wanted to get one of those low power MP3 radio transmitters but the ones I could find are designed for car 12v sockets. I'm definitely going to try this out!

[@SimonVideo]

Yeah I was surprised it was capable of being a radio transmitter

[@MatsK007]

About if its legal or not, that depends on witch country. In many countries its legal with low power transmitter that don't interfere with licensed transmitters. And I iike your approach and easy explaining.

[@sig6056]

I think where I am, you can go like 500 feet legally lol

[@randomgamingin144p]

what if you do an analog tv transmitter via this.. or perhaps even encoding internet data though that (like 200 kbps at most but that would still be cool)

[@caiomendes377]

Me instantly clicking on this cuz I’m a nerd (not mocking you mkay)

[@SimonVideo]

LOL valid

[@The_darksideofme]

Me too

[@artiedewey6117]

I totally wondered about this. Great job!😊

[@SimonVideo]

Thank you!

[@willemdosestuff6525]

A video on radio !!! Super cool vid

[@SimonVideo]

Thank you !!!

[@mister.man.official]

103.1 is a channel that's active in my area, the southwest.

[@Hoerli]

Have you managed to record music via the 3.5mm connection? I'm currently trying to send a stream with Snapcast via the Pi. I also have a USB sound card to plug in a loop if necessary.

[@SimonVideo]

I think I got it working once but haven't been able to since then :(

[@turkey_sandwhich]

how the hell d o you not have 1m subs??? i didn't realize you had 900 until i looked down. SUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUPER UNDERRATED!!!!!!

[@SimonVideo]

LOL thank you!

[@barneyDcaller]

How to integrate your own song collection in your storage with that? Ans can you link your Spotify with that?

[@SimonVideo]

I had to make one long WAV file with all my songs. I didn't see anything with Spotify 😕

[@kyle207]

Damn that has better range than the bluetooth transmitter i have that plugs into the cig lighter

[@bryceblazegamingyt9741]

Although this is illegal in many places. In the United States at least, you are limited to 100 or 200 feet of range.

[@kyle207]

@@bryceblazegamingyt9741 i knew it was illegal but i didnt know you were allowed a certain amount of range.

[@ricecooker3k]

Yo i want a rasberry pi now and know what all are the commands are

[@benjaalbarran-rw6np]

hi very good vid but i keep on getting this error cc1: error: ‘-mfloat-abi=hard’: selected architecture lacks an FPU

[@SomeRandomGuy407]

Same here, still looking for a way around it.

[@benjaalbarran-rw6np]

@@SomeRandomGuy407 hi i fixed it months ago with my own custom code its faster and more powerful it took me weeks to build it but its done and sound very good

[@phantombeta6053]

​@@benjaalbarran-rw6npCan you pwease send it to me ? 🥺, I'm desperate

[@realgptv01]

This is better than a lion barfing

[@SimonVideo]

HA no kidding

[@MessingAroundInSomeCountry]

After i followed the video i ran the command to start the radio. It does play but it randomly stops playing and a BANG sound happens. Could this be because im not using a wire? (no its not the audio)

[@SimonVideo]

Whaaat that's weird. The bang sound is in real life and not on the radio audio? I think you have to have a wire otherwise it can mess up the RPI since there's nowhere for all that energy to go

[@MessingAroundInSomeCountry]

@@SimonVideo Sorry my bad for adding the last part in. The bang is on the radio audio it let's the audio play for a bit then Bang, silence for like 10 seconds and then the audio plays again and it loops like that.

[@MessingAroundInSomeCountry]

I think I know why it made the bang sound before. My guess is that I was on a frequency very close to another one in use. I've switched to a different frequency that isn't close to any other, and the bangs aren't happening anymore.

[@SimonVideo]

Okay weird. Your audio is more than 10 seconds though? You might want to open an issue on their github

[@SimonVideo]

@MessingAroundInSomeCountry Interesting!

[@giov5342]

how do you go about getting the program that your running to make this work find the .wav file that is your own and not use one of the sample audio files that come in the programs directory?

[@giov5342]

i wanna insert my own audio file instead of the sample files but dont get how i can do this, maybe im over thinkin it and its not as complicated as im making it.

[@SimonVideo]

You should be able to transfer it to the pi with a thumb drive or something and put the path to it in the command

[@andres23380]

Hi! Im using your video as a proof of concept. Im followed all the steps and it worked out! The only issue is that it doesnt allow me to send audios/songs with "long duration" (more than 10s). How would you solved it? Thanks in advance :)

[@SimonVideo]

Does it show any error in the console?

[@kyle207]

Idk if u will see this but is it possible to set it up to auto play songs one after the next?

[@SimonVideo]

I haven't messed around with it. The way I did it was by making one long mp3 of all the songs. But I'm sure theres a way to make a script that autoplays

[@rasyidshiddiq5008]

can it transmit vhf or uhf signals?

[@SimonVideo]

It's limited to 88-108MHz. Maybe it goes a little outside that range but it's only for FM radio

[@Jameslagbheet]

3:00 Command "make clean" not working help

[@Jameslagbheet]

also get error when I type: make

[@Jameslagbheet]

its says lacks an FPU

[@phantombeta6053]

​@@Jameslagbheetdid you find a solution ?

[@LaFantar-j1m]

What Raspberry Pi are you using? I have Raspberry Pi 4 Model B with 8GB ram and it's not working. Browsing through different forums, I have come to a conclusion that older model works but not the latest one. So I would like to know which version do you have.

[@SimonVideo]

I have the 3B+... are you getting any errors?

[@LaFantar-j1m]

@@SimonVideo No, I am not getting any errors but the song/music plays for few seconds when I tune in to the freq set in the command and then static continues forever. PS:- I have tried different frequencies and they all have same issue. Also, to receive the signal, I am using my phone which has built-in Radio. If not Raspberry, then it ought to be the phone and may need to purchase a FM radio. What do you suggest?

[@albaqobe]

​@@LaFantar-j1m I have the same issue with my PI 4 and came across this GitHub repo that has it use pin 21 instead of 4, I'm in the middle of configuring it

[@kuba9286]

When I try to uploud STL format it doesn't uploud

[@SimonVideo]

What error do you get?

[@kuba9286]

@@SimonVideo I already got over it, I just setted is as EBU STL and my font got yellow because I watched a different video

[@gocha-y9q]

does it work on raspberry pi zero

[@SimonVideo]

Sadly the GitHub doesn't list it as compatible but it's worth a try

[@gocha-y9q]

@@SimonVideo its probably a risk I dont want to waste my money

[@SimonVideo]

That's fair

[@layepicfirebrand3251]

How do I do this on the Raspberry Pi 5?

[@SimonVideo]

I would assume it's the same for the 5, but I don't have one to try it on

[@gridpaper2980]

does this work with the raspberry pi 4 as of today?

[@MessingAroundInSomeCountry]

Yes

[@onza222]

@@MessingAroundInSomeCountry did you get it working, I couldn't get it working - signal is being broadcast but no actual audio, just reduces white noise

[@kitwheston]

Any clue why the broadcast would be slowed down like 2x? For whatever audio file I play it seems to do this. Great vid otherwise!

[@SimonVideo]

Yeah, it's the weird PPM error. Try adding "-ppm 1000000" to the end of your command.

[@manelould6925]

what if i want to transmit my voice in real time ... do u have any idea!!!!

[@SimonVideo]

PiFmRds should be able to take input from the mic jack on the pi. I would check the documentation for that

[@MrRetroTechOffical]

I’m a bit stuck with something, how do you terminate it? I can’t get it it to stop 😂

[@SimonVideo]

CTRL+C _should_ work

[@MrRetroTechOffical]

@@SimonVideo Thx 👍

[@MrRetroTechOffical]

@@SimonVideoNow got a complete working radio station! Tunez! on 103.5 FM!

[@RetroSpective-Games-handle]

I couldn’t get it to work on my pi 5 4 gig :(

[@Roufoxx]

Not compatible, you have to wait for an update/a fork of it.

[@RetroSpective-Games-handle]

@@Roufoxx nooooooo waiting!! I hate waiting :(

[@ruffnutts]

very cool, imagen with a bigger anntana to boost it :)

[@samuelbanya]

All this needs is a giant antenna on top of your house.

[@SimonVideo]

Exactly!

[@generic5783]

Cool!

[@rowanklein7538]

it plays out super slowed down

[@SimonVideo]

Yeah try skipping to the part where I talk about PPM.. you might have to adjust that setting. (Starts around 10 minutes)

[@rowanklein7538]

@@SimonVideo yeah I commented that than watched the rest of the video and felt like an idiot for commenting that😂😂

[@SimonVideo]

😂😂 it's all good it happens

[@magnadox]

There is no way that is a legal ammount of radio.

[@martinm9877]

Great video, but dude practice your narration to sound more pleasing

[@SimonVideo]

What do you mean?

[@MCBlast1999]

how do you not have 10k?!

[@deadproxerator1225]

It doesn't wanna work! I have a raspberry pi 3 which by the way looks the exact same to yours but I keep getting sudo: ./pi_fm_rds: command not found it won't work even tho I downloaded everything!

[@SimonVideo]

You're in the PiFmRds directory? It's like a folder inside of a folder.

I get a error on my raspberry pi 5. can u help me? rpi@raspberrypi:~/PiFmRds/src $ sudo ./pi_fm_rds Locale set to en_GB.UTF-8. Failed to map peripheral at 0xfe007000: Invalid argument. Terminating: cleanly deactivated the DMA engine and killed the carrier.

[@Roufoxx]

Yep, also tried it on the RPI5 and it gave the same error. After cheking the issues tab in github it appears that it isn't compatible. The best you can do is create an issue on github and pray for them to fix it/someone forks it and make it compatible.