Comments on: Building a Wifi Radio – Part 8, Adding a Tuning Control

By: Jeff

Jeff — Tue, 08 Feb 2011 15:33:53 +0000

You should add the lines shown and keep the rest.

In the future, please direct your questions to the support forum, it’s easier for me to answer them there!

By: Sebastian Salinas

Sebastian Salinas — Tue, 08 Feb 2011 15:29:24 +0000

Hi to everyone
I´ve been trying to finish this project for a long time and I´m stucked in this part. I hope someone could help me.
My question is…in the /etc/sysctl.conf is it necessaty to eliminate everything and add the new lines or just add the new lines without eliminating anything.
Thank you so much

By: Jeff

Jeff — Sat, 27 Nov 2010 03:55:24 +0000

Can you post this on the support forums? I’ll take a closer look and see if I can figure out what is going on.

http://mightyohm.com/forum/viewforum.php?f=2

I think the quick answer is to look at part 9, there are some changes to the firewall and network configs there.

By: Jan

Jan — Fri, 26 Nov 2010 22:33:21 +0000

hi,

I have a problem:

When I telnet the router via the LAN1, then the router doesn’t connect to the wifi network. So I can’t play any music. My settings are:

network

#### LAN configuration
config interface lan
#option type bridge
option ifname “eth0.0″
option proto static
option ipaddr 192.168.1.1
option netmask 255.255.255.0

#### WAN configuration
config interface wan
option ifname “eth0.1″
option proto dhcp

wireless

config wifi-device wl10
option type broadcom
option channel 11

config wifi-iface
option device wl10
option network wan
option mode sta
option ssid netgear
option encryption psk
option key XXXXXXXX

When I change the network settings to

config interface lan
option type bridge
option ifname “eth0.0″
option proto dhcp
#option ipaddr 192.168.1.1
#option netmask 255.255.255.0

then I can’t telnet but I can play music via the terminal

Any ideas on how to make it work via telnet?

By: Jeff

Jeff — Sat, 16 Oct 2010 05:17:05 +0000

Can you be more specific about what is not working?

By: Michael

Michael — Sat, 16 Oct 2010 03:45:13 +0000

I could not make it work correctly, I have even spent some time in the lab at my college but not sure what I have done wrong – thought I could set it up in multi sim and would find my problem but was unable to do so. Thanks for the informations I hope to get it to work soon.

By: Gordon Stewart

Gordon Stewart — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 13:00:25 +0000

Have been using the radio quite a bit, still looking for replacement knobs for the antique radio chassis I put it in. I just found the free MPoD app for the ipod that works perfectly for MPD allowing me to control stations, play songs from the usb drive, adjust volume etc. Its like having a remote controlled jukebox. Thanks for puting this project together.

By: Gordon Stewart

Gordon Stewart — Sun, 17 May 2009 14:31:02 +0000

This is exactly what I’v been looking for!
I have several old wooden antique radio’s and my intention was originally to get them working someday replacing the tubes and capacitors. Then I thought a streaming radio in an antique chassis would be soooo cool.
perhaps when I get this completed I will post photos of the project.

Thanks

By: Cyk

Cyk — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 13:01:08 +0000

Thanks Jeff!

Very good!

By: Jeff

Jeff — Tue, 14 Apr 2009 06:09:56 +0000

Hey guys – I created a forum for this project over here: http://mightyohm.com/forum/viewforum.php?f=2

I am hoping that the new forums help to facilitate better discussion than the comments section on the blog. They should at least help keep the crosstalk interference from multiple discussions down.

Sorry it took so long, I should have set forums up when I originally started posting this stuff. Check them out and let me know what you think.

By: Scott Robinson

Scott Robinson — Sun, 12 Apr 2009 19:28:04 +0000

Thanks for that! After looking at it i managed to get a WL520GU for around £40 which isn’t too bad!

Were trying to find the cheapest way of getting our university radio station into the halls of residence! Theres 7 halls altogether so were trying to find the cheapest way! This seems like the perfect idea!

By: Cyk

Cyk — Sun, 12 Apr 2009 16:46:41 +0000

Scott, take a look at the new La Fonera 2.0.
It will support USb soundcards and 3G sicks out of the box.
And it runs OpenWRT.
I’ll cost 50 Euros. I don’t know of any other router with USB
that is cheaper than that.
I paid 51 Euros for my WL520GU.

By: Scott Robinson

Scott Robinson — Sat, 11 Apr 2009 22:31:55 +0000

Thanks for a pretty amazing blog here! Great use

Two things.

A) Do you know of any cheaper routers that would work the same? Couldn’t see any.. Its around £55 just for the router over in England!

B) When’s part 9 about? Im looking forward to it

C) Whats your opinion on getting a 3G modem into it aswell? The ideas work in my head.. I’m sure you can see where im going with that!

By: Cyk

Cyk — Fri, 03 Apr 2009 11:54:45 +0000

22bsti, as you might have noticed, I’ve posted a simple solution to use
the EZsetup button as a very simple user interface.
We have only 4 gpio’s available on the board:
Power LED, wifi LED, EZsetup button and reset button.
All others are either dedicated to the hub or not routed.
Shurely this would be enough for back/forth and volume up/down,
but not for an LCD. You could use an I2C or SPI IO expander, but
these things are more expensive than a microcontroller, and require
a lot of work for the kernel driver. In this case, Jeff’s solution is much
easier.
Nevertheless, I want to convert an old tube radio to a web radio.
And I want to use the original dial to select the stations.
Therefore I have to read in a potentiometer. I could use a microcontroller,
as I have lots of the lying around, and know how to write the software,
but I have the ambition to use only one gpio for this.
It is possible, but would require to write e very special and timing critical
kernel driver.
If also have some other user interfaces in mind.
If you want, let’s work together.
But I propose that we use a more comfortable form of communication.
A forum would be fine.

By: 22bsti

22bsti — Fri, 03 Apr 2009 05:57:57 +0000

I have been following this for awhile and it seems to me that it would be less work to just use the GPIO’s on the board and have them make mpd change stations and increase/decrease volume. That is the route I will end up going.