Thread: siLABS RADIO PLUGIN

I have thought the same.
At the moment I'm using a 7Ah 12V battery on the Aerial amp and manually charge it every 3-4 days, but will compare it (reception wise) to pc 12V and car 12V in the near future.

Henrik

What you need is a clean supply, it's quite possible for the PC supply to be noisier at the frequencies that matter due to the switch mode power supply and processor buses (I get a strong signal at 100MHz due to this but it doesn't affect reception of other stations).

Only real way to tell is try it and see.

Other option is to filter the supply with say a 10uH choke in the line and a 1uF cap across the antenna amp power pins. The cap needs to be good at high frequencies though so avoid electrolytics or tants, a 1uF ceramic in parallel with a 10n ceramic would work well. Need to check the choke current rating is up to it too.

Dear m8s,

From where can i download the source of the latest silabs dll?
Or at least the exported function calls header file would be nice,
sine i am trying to integrate it into my own sw.

Regards

Afraid I haven't got round to uploading the latest source yet, need to tidy it up and get it on google code. Will probably be a couple of days so in the meantime the old source is here ( see the disable direct sound version)

http://code.google.com/p/silabsradiodll/source/browse

and for details of the additional calls in the latest dll and general dll discussion see here

http://www.digital-car.co.uk/forum/s...t=8867&page=71

copied here as well

Code:

USBRADIO_API bool __stdcall HWInitEx(bool enableSound);
USBRADIO_API bool __stdcall TAEnable(bool enableTA);
USBRADIO_API bool __stdcall TAActive();

HWInitEx is an alternative to the standard HWInit that takes an argunment to allow the dll to be called with the DS stuff disabled (in case you do it in your own app), TAEnable turns the automatic switch to traffic announcements by the DLL on or off and TAActive is used to detect whether a TA is currently being broadcast (both std and EON). The last function is included because I couldn't get the sendmessage callbacks to work. They were fine if called from a different process, or the same thread within a single process but wouldn't do anything between two threads in the same process. BTW, don't tend to look in here too often, if you have any more questions your more likely to find me on the forum linked above.

Thx Pete

I am looking forward the latest source.
By the way could you send me just the USBRadio.h of the latest DLL?
And where can i download the latest DLL?
And c u at digital-car.

Regards

Originally Posted by LTi

Thx Pete

I am looking forward the latest source.
By the way could you send me just the USBRadio.h of the latest DLL?
And where can i download the latest DLL?
And c u at digital-car.

Regards

Code:

// The following ifdef block is the standard way of creating macros which make exporting 
// from a DLL simpler. All files within this DLL are compiled with the USBRADIO_EXPORTS
// symbol defined on the command line. this symbol should not be defined on any project
// that uses this DLL. This way any other project whose source files include this file see 
// USBRADIO_API functions as being imported from a DLL, wheras this DLL sees symbols
// defined with this macro as being exported.
#include "FMRadioDevice.h"
//#include "oleauto.h"

#ifdef USBRADIO_EXPORTS
#define USBRADIO_API __declspec(dllexport)
#else
#define USBRADIO_API __declspec(dllimport)
#endif

//Tested
USBRADIO_API bool __stdcall         HWInit();
USBRADIO_API bool __stdcall	        HWInitEx(bool enableSound);
USBRADIO_API bool __stdcall         HWDeInit();
USBRADIO_API bool __stdcall         FMTune (long frequency);
USBRADIO_API unsigned int __stdcall GetSignal();
USBRADIO_API long __stdcall         GetCurrStation();
USBRADIO_API long __stdcall         SeekStation(bool SeekUp);
USBRADIO_API bool __stdcall         IsStereo();
USBRADIO_API const char* __stdcall  GetRDS();

USBRADIO_API long __stdcall ScanStation (bool directionUpDown, long startFrequency);

USBRADIO_API bool __stdcall FMTuneUp ();
USBRADIO_API bool __stdcall FMTuneDown ();
USBRADIO_API char* __stdcall GetModuleName();
USBRADIO_API unsigned long __stdcall GetModuleInfo();

USBRADIO_API void __stdcall TuneFreq (long frequency);

USBRADIO_API void __stdcall SetMute(bool mute);



USBRADIO_API unsigned int __stdcall GetVolume();

// Doesn't support different volume levels per side, ignores right side
USBRADIO_API void __stdcall SetVolume(unsigned int left, unsigned int right);

USBRADIO_API void __stdcall VolumeUpDown(int step);

//VB calls!
USBRADIO_API bool __stdcall     VB_GetModuleName (char szReturnModuleName[256], short *iSize);
USBRADIO_API bool __stdcall     VB_GetFrequency (double frequency);
USBRADIO_API bool __stdcall     VB_GetRDSText (char szRetRDS[256], short *iRetSize);
USBRADIO_API bool __stdcall     VB_GetRDSPS (char szRetRDS[8], short *iRetSize);
USBRADIO_API bool __stdcall		VB_GetRDSPIRegion (char szRetRDS[8], short *iRetSize);
USBRADIO_API bool __stdcall		VB_GetRDSPICountry (char szRetRDS[8], short *iRetSize);
USBRADIO_API bool __stdcall		VB_GetRDSPI (int *rdsPI);
USBRADIO_API bool __stdcall		VB_GetRDSPTY (short *rdsPTY);
USBRADIO_API bool __stdcall		VB_GetRDSTA (bool *rdsTA);
USBRADIO_API bool __stdcall		VB_GetRDSTP (bool *rdsTP);
USBRADIO_API bool __stdcall		VB_GetRDSMS (bool *rdsMS);
USBRADIO_API bool __stdcall		VB_GetRDSEON (bool *rdsMS);

USBRADIO_API bool __stdcall     VB_GetRadioRegisters (char szRetBuf[256], short *iRetBufSize);
USBRADIO_API bool __stdcall VB_GetAFList (float* ary, int* arysize);
USBRADIO_API bool __stdcall     VB_GetRDSRegisters (char szRetBuf[256], short *iRetBufSize);
USBRADIO_API bool __stdcall RegisterTAStart (char windowName[256], short dwData, char lpData[256]);
USBRADIO_API bool __stdcall RegisterTAStop (char windowName[256], short dwData, char lpData[256]);
USBRADIO_API bool __stdcall RegisterRadioText (char windowName[256], short dwData, char lpData[256]);
USBRADIO_API bool __stdcall	TAEnable(bool enableTA);
USBRADIO_API bool __stdcall	TAActive();
USBRADIO_API bool __stdcall SetExFlags(long Flags);
USBRADIO_API bool __stdcall	TAEndAlert();
USBRADIO_API bool __stdcall	TATestSendTA(bool SendStart);

Forgot about the last 2 functions, TAEndAlert is used to cancel the current TA (forces the radio to tune back to the station it was on prior to the TA) without disabling TA. I added TATestSendTA to allow me to debug the TA callbacks, it forces the DLL to simulate the start/end of a TA.

I really don't understand how DLL's work but am quick to learn. I want to use this in my VB.NET project; I downloaded the plugin from the first post ("http://gpsirda.dyndns.org/iceRadio/iceradio_ver1.0.6.zip") and tried to use it as refernce in visual studio 2005 but it didn't work, it said something along the lines that it wasn't a COM component.

How do I use this in VB.NET? any help, even a link that points me in the right direction is greatly appreciated.