Raspberry Pi Broadcastify - Feed Setup and Configuration

Feed Setup and Configuration

• Plug the USB sound card into the Raspberry Pi
• Plug your scanner's headphone jack into the mic jack on the USB sound card dongle
• Start alsamixer

pi@bcfypi1:~# alsamixer

• press F6, choose the "USB Headphone Set" entry
• press your tab key to select the "Capture" device volume control
• use your "up arrow" key to adjust the level to it's lowest level possible (6)
• press escape to exist alsamixer
• run the following command to save the volume settings

sudo alsactl store

• Copy the base darkice.cfg configuration file to darkice1.cfg for the first feed

sudo cp /etc/darkice.cfg /etc/darkice1.cfg

• Edit the /etc/darkice.cfg file to match your settings, including the sound card you are using, your feed server, mount, password, and description, then exit and save the file

sudo nano /etc/darkice1.cfg

• Enable the feed to start broadcasting at boot

sudo update-rc.d darkice1 defaults

• Start your feed

sudo service darkice1 start

Note: very little volume will be needed from your scanner - adjust the levels as appropriate for a good sounding feed.