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Well, he could have bought an actual wifi capable radio for around half the price of a Stream Deck. (Unless, of course, he already had the latter device.) It's

by atleta 5y ago

Well, he could have bought an actual wifi capable radio for around half the price of a Stream Deck. (Unless, of course, he already had the latter device.) It's an existing product.

AgoRapide 5y ago
Yes, I could. It would not have been so fun. And all Internet radios I have seen so far have some features that irritate me. For instance volume is push-buttons instead of turning knobs. Actually, the only interface I would have on a radio is two turning knobs, one for volume and one for channel. Thats all. The rest could be some phone or PC setup like 'kingsuper20' suggested. Too sad Apple never gave us a radio. I might have been an Apple customer if they had.
- fooblat 5y ago
  I love internet radio projects. Did you consider making a DIY internet radio from a raspberry pi? That's actually what I was expecting to see based on the title. I used a rpi to make an internet radio for our living room our of a 1950s wooden console radio I picked up at a thrift store for 20 euros. Works great and keeps the illusion that the room is free of computers.
  - AgoRapide 5y ago
    I was very limited with regard to time available. With one baby, one toddler and three more kids around there is not much free time :) I would love to put a Raspberry Pi inside an old radio myself.
- atleta 5y ago
  A turning knob is not the best UI for channel selection. It is a traditional one, but even my grandmother's large box radio, that must have been manufactured something like 70 years ago (not a transistor one, mind you!) had push buttons for remembering the stations. (Besides the tuning knob.) Or maybe those were 'pre-programmed', not sure. But again, if you didn't like them and had this gadget (or wanted an excuse to buy one ;) ), then it's the better solution. I was mainly reacting because it seemed like a lot of people thought that this is a generally practical solution.
clairity 5y ago
or, you know, just a radio, a device that's cheap, reliable, fast, responsive, low power, potentially small/portable, fault-tolerant, and private and secure by default. it's a neat project, but if the goal is simply to listen to nearby radio stations (rather than streams), the simple radio is peerless.
- AgoRapide 5y ago
  Not nearby, that was the original problem.
  - clairity 5y ago
    yah, figured as much but didn't see anyone else mention the obvious. as mentioned in your sibling comment, i also wish apple had given us radio functionality in their idevices. as i understand it, it was mostly a matter of providing an app and not disabling the hardware, at least in some if not all iterations of the iphone.

by atleta 5y ago

Well, he could have bought an actual wifi capable radio for around half the price of a Stream Deck. (Unless, of course, he already had the latter device.) It's an existing product.

AgoRapide 5y ago

Yes, I could. It would not have been so fun. And all Internet radios I have seen so far have some features that irritate me. For instance volume is push-buttons instead of turning knobs. Actually, the only interface I would have on a radio is two turning knobs, one for volume and one for channel. Thats all. The rest could be some phone or PC setup like 'kingsuper20' suggested. Too sad Apple never gave us a radio. I might have been an Apple customer if they had.

fooblat 5y ago
I love internet radio projects. Did you consider making a DIY internet radio from a raspberry pi? That's actually what I was expecting to see based on the title. I used a rpi to make an internet radio for our living room our of a 1950s wooden console radio I picked up at a thrift store for 20 euros. Works great and keeps the illusion that the room is free of computers.
- AgoRapide 5y ago
  I was very limited with regard to time available. With one baby, one toddler and three more kids around there is not much free time :) I would love to put a Raspberry Pi inside an old radio myself.
atleta 5y ago
A turning knob is not the best UI for channel selection. It is a traditional one, but even my grandmother's large box radio, that must have been manufactured something like 70 years ago (not a transistor one, mind you!) had push buttons for remembering the stations. (Besides the tuning knob.) Or maybe those were 'pre-programmed', not sure. But again, if you didn't like them and had this gadget (or wanted an excuse to buy one ;) ), then it's the better solution. I was mainly reacting because it seemed like a lot of people thought that this is a generally practical solution.

clairity 5y ago

or, you know, just a radio, a device that's cheap, reliable, fast, responsive, low power, potentially small/portable, fault-tolerant, and private and secure by default. it's a neat project, but if the goal is simply to listen to nearby radio stations (rather than streams), the simple radio is peerless.

AgoRapide 5y ago
Not nearby, that was the original problem.
- clairity 5y ago
  yah, figured as much but didn't see anyone else mention the obvious. as mentioned in your sibling comment, i also wish apple had given us radio functionality in their idevices. as i understand it, it was mostly a matter of providing an app and not disabling the hardware, at least in some if not all iterations of the iphone.