For Guino: USB Radio FM with RDS from Silabs - Page 7

gianler · 03-08-2007, 10:02 AM

Quote: Originally Posted by Iceman_jkh

Is there a latest version of this software/plugin for RoadRunner?

I have the Silabs FM-USB and it works great in my car.
Read BJ's and my own account here: http://www.mp3car.com/vbulletin/show...t=64550&page=7.

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RDS functionality for RR plugin

Jarrod · 03-16-2007, 10:20 PM

I'm so keen for an RR plugin for this that works... How would I go about using any of the attachments to get this dongle to work from RR? Is it possible yet? I dont need RDS, but would be nice just for the station information, not interested in traffic announcements at all. I'm not sure it's even broadcast over here in Aussieland

GuMiSZu · 04-01-2007, 11:56 PM

HI!

I can't set up the radiator in RR, I've ADS USBradio (thanks dudeness for the plugin

under windows the radiator is working without RDS function. Could you help me, where can I setup this function? in RR the radiator isn't work..

thx.. (any link is great also )

CdRsKuLL · 04-02-2007, 02:36 AM

What happened to this project ? is it still alive.. RRMobile are you going to be releasing anything ?

CdR

almera · 04-03-2007, 07:13 AM

Also another thread Guino said he would be willing to integrate it:
http://www.mp3car.com/vbulletin/1040424-post172.html

Nerd2 · 04-03-2007, 08:03 PM

I must thank RRMobile greatly for the work done on the DLL and VB interfacing - i've been examining it with my rudimentary programming knowledge, mainly trying to figure out the crazyness that is the RDS info.

The silabs software seems to use some sort of probability calculations to ensure the correct data is always there, a feature I guess must be added to ensure perfect text. Personally here in the UK though I find, with what seems like a good signal, it takes at least 10 seconds to guarentee a station name, and around 45seconds to get radio text!

How do these car headunits do it so easily?????

guino · 04-04-2007, 02:30 PM

It's on the new Beta:

http://guino.home.insightbb.com/RoadRunner.zip

>> Silabs Code is Untested <<

I added support to the Stereo indicator and the RDSText display which was missing.
Also make sure you set RADIOMODE=7 (6 was already the native RadioShark Support)

Now, does anybody know who made this SilabsTest.zip (USBRadio.DLL) ??? -- I'd like to give proper credit to the user.

CdRsKuLL · 04-04-2007, 05:30 PM

Quote: Originally Posted by guino

It's on the new Beta:

http://guino.home.insightbb.com/RoadRunner.zip

>> Silabs Code is Untested <<

I added support to the Stereo indicator and the RDSText display which was missing.
Also make sure you set RADIOMODE=7 (6 was already the native RadioShark Support)

Now, does anybody know who made this SilabsTest.zip (USBRadio.DLL) ??? -- I'd like to give proper credit to the user.

Sorry my fault.. this wont work as it is.. the dll is wrong.. I will repost the right one guino in the other thread..

CdR

Beezer · 04-04-2007, 06:17 PM

It works when you use the correct DLL \o/

Just so there's no ambiguity, the dll I used is attached

CdRsKuLL · 04-04-2007, 06:19 PM

you cant tune up/down fine tune/up and down.. I'm sure he will release a updated beta as soon as hes happy with it, just testing a few things at the mo :-)

CdR

Beezer · 04-04-2007, 06:35 PM

Seek up & down seem to work fine & I can enter a frequency but for some reason when I click on saved stations they don't work.

almera · 04-05-2007, 03:38 AM

Quote: Originally Posted by guino

Now, does anybody know who made this SilabsTest.zip (USBRadio.DLL) ??? -- I'd like to give proper credit to the user.

Thanks to RRMobile, Wickerswammie and Guino, keep up good work.

Quote: Originally Posted by Wickerswammie

Hello all,

As some of you may know I have modified the SiLabs source to be ran from a DLL, and have given it a Radiator compatible interface.

I've tested this within RoadRunner and it works fine.

However, I wanted to remove Radiator from the loop, so I tried (somewhat successfully) to integrate it into RR natively. The motivation for doing this is for faster tuning, scanning, etc.

I have a few problems with the RR integration, mostly from a lack of experience using VC to import DLL functions, but the basic functionality does work and I'm using it in my truck.

I've attached the Source for my DLL and the modified radiator.bas file from the roadrunner source.

Since I only have one of these devices, and it's now working to my needs I can only minorly support the code since the device is firmly behind my dash.

Some things that need to be worked out in my VB code:

[1] Using the RDS functionality.
[2] Sometimes when starting the radio from hibernation the station select reads one station, while the radio is actually playing a different station.
[3] I was only able to get the forward/backward buttons to work from the radio skin.

Using the Radiator interface does not have problems 2 and 3.

I hope this minor contribution is useful to someone, as the contributions from the MP3Car.com forum have been very useful to me and I'd like to repay a part of that "debt".

Thanks

crispyrabbi · 04-05-2007, 05:54 AM

I have tried the new integrated silabs and it is working using the dll from this thread: http://www.mp3car.com/vbulletin/road...drunner-2.html

Thanks to all coders involved!

Iceplayagt14 · 04-05-2007, 04:29 PM

What do i do to get this working? I dont get it lol..

I dont have a Silabs folder or Directory of any sort, so where do these .dll 's goe? Im confused..and this Modradiator thing, whats this all about, some kind of VB code? Lol Im 90% done with this carputer project, and all i want now is the Silabs software integrated into the Digital FX skin of RoadRunner. Thank you! lol...http://www.mp3car.com/vbulletin/images/icons/icon8.gif

crispyrabbi · 04-06-2007, 01:38 AM

Quote: Originally Posted by Iceplayagt14

What do i do to get this working? I dont get it lol..

I dont have a Silabs folder or Directory of any sort, so where do these .dll 's goe? Im confused..and this Modradiator thing, whats this all about, some kind of VB code? Lol Im 90% done with this carputer project, and all i want now is the Silabs software integrated into the Digital FX skin of RoadRunner. Thank you! lol...http://www.mp3car.com/vbulletin/images/icons/icon8.gif

I know its hard to make this carpc thing work cause the software isnt always userfriendly.
First of all its others who have done all the coding and I am just trying this out. You should also remember that its a beta version that has not been tested.

This is what I did:
Copy the contents to your roadrunnerfolder after unzipping this:
http://guino.home.insightbb.com/RoadRunner.zip

Unfortunately the dll supplied in that zip is the wrong one so you have to download a new one and unzip and copy over the first provided. It can be found here under silabs.zip:
http://www.mp3car.com/vbulletin/road...drunner-2.html

after that you have to change "RADIOMODE=7" in your rr.ini file

OK. Now it should work with most functions but not RDS but that is under construction as far as I can tell of the ongoing discussion on the forum thread:
http://www.mp3car.com/vbulletin/road...drunner-3.html

Good luck and I hope I didnt miss anything. If so, you could find all this information on the different threads about silabs.

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