Radio stations for NextPVR

[mvallevand]

Are you saying you see them on TuneIn but not in the addon. I can't see them here in Canada potentially because of geoblocking. If so it is possible they use a web player which tune in can launch but NextPVR cannont. You might also be able to find urls for these stations and manually add them as iptv.

Martin

[RecordEverything]

Yes, I can see them on the region page on the TuneIn website (For example: https://tunein.com/radio/Stream-Victor-Valley-r100135/ ). What is the recommended way to find URLs for those stations so I can manually add them?

[mvallevand]

I found out the issue the addon didn't support URL's that gave an erro on the http HEAD command. I was a bit confused by one comment you talk about "Highway Rock 99.7" but it seems that iss two stations Highway Rock 96.9 and ViBE 99.7. Both now are available.

The Bear 102.5 is iHeart radio so it doesn't use an r code, they depend on the location. If you don't find it based on your local location, you could use the option described here https://forums.nextpvr.com/showthread.ph...#pid597262

Try v1.2 in post #1. I expect with the HEAD removed some stations will not be playable, but more will.

For Internet radio in general there are lots of ways to find URL's on the Internet without using Tunein.

Martin

[RecordEverything]

v1.2 worked well and I was able to get the stations I needed. Thank you!!

[LynnO]

I went to update an addon I wrote for v6 but when I checked I couldn't find it so I may never actually released it.   That could explain the lack of feedback!  The main purpose of NextRadio is to provide local radio to NextPVR using IPTV and or cheap SDR radio tuners. 

To install

First unzip the attached into the NextPVR program folder, C:\Program Files\NextPVR or /opt/nextpvr/system/  and then 

- on Windows delete the two JSON files and run NextRadio.exe, 
- on Linux run sudo opt/dotnet/dotnet /opt/nextpvr/system/NextRadio.dll

1.  For Internet radio

Running this will (should?) generate an m3u file with icons for IPTV in your data folder.  On  Windows go to IPTV and for the m3u file enter C:\Users\Public\NPVR-Data\Local Radio.m3u.  On Linux that would be /var/opt/nextpvr/LocalRadio.m3u 

The stations loaded will be the same as you have if you follow the link https://tunein.com/radio/local/  If that doesn't find your local stations go to https://tunein.com/radio/regions/ and navigate to the city that you want and check the URL it should end with -r####  Using Wellington NZ as an example that is https://tunein.com/radio/Stream-Wellington-r101620/  To manually add this you would add the parameter  --rtid r101620 to the command The m3u file will be name CityName.m3u

If you want to confirm the radio stations that will be added use the --list  parameter.

There are advanced options to install based on query too to add genres and specialized music. If you are interested let me know.

2. For SDR radio

SDR radio  uses a program called rtl_fm to tune your FM stations.  Windows and arm32 (for the RPi) programs are included but on Linux if you have it installed locally on Linux that will be used.   Instead of IPTV an extra is created called extra-rtlfm.xml  and you select that directly from the device list.  You will need to refresh the Device list the first time to get it loaded. 

The parameter to install SDR radio is  --sdr   In Canada and the the radio frequencies for you city are geolocated and loaded from this database https://db.wtfda.org/  For other countries all FM radio frequencies are selectable.  You can add the --manual option in North America if your frequency is not showing.

After installing this I leave it to you to tweak the rtl_fm settings. These well be in Windows (C:\Users\Public\NPVR-data\scripts\nextradio\SDRadio.bat and Linux /var/opt/nextpvr/scripts/nextradio/SDRadio.sh Quite often the Internet radio will sound better  but some users link to tinker with their hardware.

If you really only want SDR radio use --no-m3u

Icons for SDR radio will be added from Internet FM if they are found.

Happy listening.

Martin

Hello Martin,

I am trying to put internet radio on an RPi 5 that I am currently running NextPVR on.  I coped the files from NextRadio-1.2.zip to the  /opt/nextpvr/system/ directory, changed the permissions to 777 (chmod 777).  When I tried to run "sudo opt/dotnet/dotnet /opt/nextpvr/system/NextRadio.dll" I got the error "sudo: opt/dotnet/dotnet: command not found".  Do I need a dotnet command, or is it in another directory on my Pi5?

Thanks,
Lynn O

[mvallevand]

Assuming you installed with the deb installer all Linux installs are the same. It looks like I made a type and missed a slash so it should be sudo /opt/...

Martin.

[LynnO]

Thanks Martin! Got it to work . The "Slash" clue is I needed to keep me going. After putting in the "/" I got an error saying it could not find dotnet 8.0. Did some digging and found my Pi5 had dotnet 6.0. After some time of trying to upgrade to 8.0, I had to completly remove 6.0 to install 8.0. Had success in getting the file '/var/opt/nextpvr/Local Radio.m3u'. I renamed and copied it to /opt/nextpvr/system/LocalRadio.m3u before I could import the stations into nextPVR, but hey, got it working.

Thanks again,
LynnO

[mvallevand]

I guess you are using an unsupported version of NextPVR, since in v7 deb installer /opt/dotnet/dotnet wa upgraded to netcore 8. You shouldn't have needed to move the m3u file either it could be related to the space from the source but glad you got it working.

Martin

[LynnO]

I probably do need to update my nextPVR. I am running Version: 6.1.5.231022.

Thanks again,
Lynn O