A summer greeting to all the followers of https://devopstribe.it/ 😉
My holidays are getting closer and soon I’ll be away from the city chaotic life… In my backpack, besides a couple of big bottle of Peroni beers this year I’ll bring a “FM pirate Radio transmitter” just in case somebody annoys my nap at the beach by listening to the radio at a too high volume (so common in Italy, ain’t it?) intolerable! if you have taken drugs, it is very likely the music you hear doesn’t come from the neighbor’s speakers, then I suggest you to go and buy an Ice cream at the nearest cafe.
If you wanna equip yourself with this powerful weapon, get the following things, or buy a Radio transmitter on Amazon (though is not cool to buy or download the app 😛 ):
- A Raspberry PI
- A portable power supply for smartphones (solar energy would be perfect
) - A wireless pen drive
- A PHP script for the web interface management, like this https://github.com/lucky-sideburn/piratepiwave.git
- A software to grant the FM signal, for ex: https://github.com/rm-hull/pifm
- Last but not least, your smartphone!
Why point 4?
I was too lazy to fiddle around with GPIO to connect a LCD screen and a frequency controller, so I preferred to control the transmitter via my Smartphone.
- At first let’s install a web-server Apache + Php on our Raspbian Jessie Lite (of course everyone is free to use the favourite OS or web-server)
- If you are lazy it is also possible to use my PHP script https://github.com/lucky-sideburn/piratepiwave.git (I am not a web-developer so YES the graphic interface is super basic and not cool!)
- Install https://github.com/rm-hull/pifm in /usr/local/pifm (in the docs you will find wich GPIO you need to use to hook a handcrafted antenna made of metallic wire)
- Configure the wireless network interface controller in order to connect to your Smartphone hotspot (from the Admin panel you will get the assigned IP)
- Set everything to autostart on boot, attach the external battery to the Raspberry, once ready from your smartphone launch a http://$ipdelraspberry.
What shall we play on the “Zen moment harasser” radio?
Either you can copy and paste your fav audio tracks on /usr/local/pifm/sounds and modify the path of the file you want to use in the PHP script.
How do I select the FM frequencies?
… or you can use the handy bar on top if you want to tune on a radio.
Or you can create buttons like these, with the selected radio frequencies
There you are, the final result!
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Happy holiday!!!