Robert Denier wrote:
There is an elegant piece of hardware out there for this.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. The hardware is an adapter board that modifies a Sirius car radio for control over a serial port. Not only can you tell the radio what channel to go to, but you can also get information from the radio about what's currently playing, and even have the radio inform you proactively as the show changes on every radio channel (not just the channel you're currently listening to). This might be nice for automatically adding the show name to mp3's, if you just want to record whatever's on, or for having the radio switch to shows you like as they come on. In addition, the hardware supplies an optical digital out, which may lead to higher audio quality. I'd like to try this, but unfortunately I'm having trouble getting a cost-effective toslink optical digital input working with linux.... I've been working on a linux driver, and nearly have it to a releasable state. The guy who makes the adapter board, MitchJS, is nice but a dos-weanie, so he can give protocol help but no linux driver. I haven't yet settled on a front end to schedule recordings. I tried mythtv about a year ago (or was it two?), and had a so-so experience with its reliability. Things have progressed, so I'm thinking about maybe trying mythtv again as the front end to this radio so I can set up some recordings. Alternately, I may just record from a cron job (nearly 100% reliable!) and just use mythtv to play them (or download to an IPod). You can find more information on the hardware from this web site: http://www.rush2112.net/ If all you really want is one channel, you don't really need to control the radioFor 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... at all. Just tune it to the channel you want, plug its audio output into the computer, and record when you feel like it. I've got to wonder what single channel you're trying to record, that is on both Sirius and XM, and so important to you that you'd buy a radio, pay $13 a month for it, and go to some trouble to set up recording on a mythtv box... Modifying the car radio for use with a computer makes it no longer work asAt 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 a car radio. However, if you have a car computer (the hobby of MitchJS), you could plug it into that and use it in your car. There are some non-mythtv, non-linux interfaces for car computers that look reasonably nice, and also allow you to plug in your IPod, GPS, etc.
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