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Pira 32 driver for RadioDJ

A small but efficient solution to drive a Pira 32 RDS (https://pira.cz/eng/) encoder with a Raspberry (or any host running linux) throught serial port. This Ruby app have been running 7/7 days for years. You can tailor this app to suite your needs and have a very powerfull solution for less than 200$

This program is provided AS-IS - It's been only used with RadioDJ 1.8.X

The Pira 32 have been discontinued but the Pira 132 is told to be backward compatible.

This app acts as a TCP server, receiving broadcast data from a RadioDJ client about the currently playing program.

On RadioDJ side :

  • Go to the Now Playing plugin
  • Click network tab and select TCP, port 21100 and type the IP address of the Raspberry
  • Navigate through your filesystem to select a 'template radiodj file' which is nothing more than a text file containing ARTIST=$artist$^TITLE=$title$^TYPE=$track-type$^DURATION=$durationinSeconds$^ALBUM=$album$

Each time a new broadcast program is started, RadioDJ will open a shortlived connection to the RDS driver, providing the informations of the template.

On Raspberry side (Minimal install documentation without details) :

  • clone this repo somewhere into /home/pi
  • install the usual gcc collection with apt-get

if you want to run this app as a systemd service, stay away from rvm - just install the stock ruby 2.x provided with your Raspbian distro

  • apt-get install ruby2.1

  • apt-get install ruby2.1-dev

  • apt-get install gem2.1

  • symlink /usr/bin/ruby2.1 to /usr/bin/ruby

  • symlink /usr/bin/gem2.1 to /usr/bin/gem

  • sudo gem install rubyserial

  • configure the STATION_SHORT (PS), STATION_PI (PI) and STATION_LONG (for Dynamic PS) at the top of rds.rb file

You should configure you RDS encoder by your self (using the provided Windows app OR with a serial terminal under Linux, MacOS or whatever) but in case you're adventurous and lazy you can launch the app as ruby ./rds.rb init Your encoder will be initialized with PI, PS, radio text enabled and dynamic PS enabled.

You'll also need to customize the category variable around line 220. In my case, AFAIR, 0 and 4 were used respectively for radio shows and music tracks.

Daemonization

Create rds.service file in /etc/systemd/system/ as

[Unit]
Description=rds
After=network.target
[Service]
Type=simple
User=pi
Group=pi
WorkingDirectory=/home/pi/rds
ExecStart=/usr/bin/ruby /home/pi/rds/rds.rb daemon
TimeoutSec=30
RestartSec=15s
Restart=always
[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target

Then from there, you can

sudo systemctl restart rds.service
sudo systemctl start rds.service
sudo systemctl stop rds.service

Using systemd is not mandatory, you can start the app as ruby ./rds.rb in a 'screen' session then detach the terminal and leave it running. But if the app crashes you'll be stuck with a non refreshed RDS signal. So, the systemd.

(C) 2016 Christophe Gimenez