USB FM RDS Solution with sofware

**lez** · 03-11-2007, 03:57 PM

Originally Posted by geeky_hawkes

I second what grayvader has said above really. IM using it connected to my car aerial and the quality is fine, im using it in streetdeck and the integration isnt too bad either! (Especially for 1 £10 card!)

ehh?

Whats £10, and what card? its a dongle and its £27 !

**SmoL** · 03-14-2007, 03:34 AM

Fantastic News!

**lez** · 03-14-2007, 06:39 AM

Originally Posted by SmoL

Fantastic News!

what is ?

**geeky_hawkes** · 03-14-2007, 05:43 PM

Card or dongle, i mean its a usb device (not splitting hairs!) And i got it for £10 so happy with that! Even for £27 its worth it though!

**SmoL** · 03-16-2007, 03:13 AM

the guy with good reception, thats what

**jjnit** · 03-19-2007, 01:22 PM

CRAP!

Well I went out this weekend to do a lot of stuff on my install, part of which was to connect this to the factory aerial. Here's a pic of my soldering job which I thought was pretty good honestly.

I thought it was all good but sometime about an hour after I did it it stopped working, must be a cold joint or something.

Soo - I;'ve got to go back and fix it next weekend (I'm assuming it's a bad solder and that I didn't ruin the board) before I can test results.

I did sheild left and center right - that's correct isn't it? Sort of odd since the PCB doesn't have a trace to the pad that I soldered the sheild to?!?!

Bj/Iceman - any advice?

Thanks!

**dudeness** · 03-19-2007, 01:41 PM

Without reading all sites...

...is this radio working with hibernate?

**jjnit** · 03-19-2007, 01:49 PM

Originally Posted by dudeness

Without reading all sites...

...is this radio working with hibernate?

Yep. I've had an occasional issue(read: like twice in the last 3 weeks) but simply tune to another station and back and you're golden. Doesn't lock up or anything or need a reset.

**dudeness** · 03-19-2007, 01:56 PM

Cool, sounds good. The ADS Tech radio is constructed in the same way, so it also supports hibernate? (Silabs Programm works with ADS Tech Radio).

I cant find a shop which sells the silabs in germany (without 15$ shipping) so i hope the ads tech work also.

**jjnit** · 03-19-2007, 01:58 PM

Originally Posted by dudeness

Cool, sounds good. The ADS Tech radio is constructed in the same way, so it also supports hibernate? (Silabs Programm works with ADS Tech Radio).

I cant find a shop which sells the silabs in germany (without 15$ shipping) so i hope the ads tech work also.

Don't know enough about the ADS to say for sure but I don't imagine it will have any issues. You can always use software to disable the USB device causing issues before hibernating - I forget the name but it's pretty common on this forum...