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radio(1) General Commands Manual radio(1)

NAME

radio - console radio application

SYNOPSIS

radio [ options ]

DESCRIPTION

radio is a interactive, ncurses-bases console radio application.

OPTIONS

print a short help text.
enable debug output.
quit after processing the cmd line options, don't enter interactive ncurses mode. Only useful together with other options for obvious reasons ...
mute radio.
tune the specified radio frequency (and unmute the radio).
specify radio device (default is /dev/radio0).
Do a scan for radio stations.
Same as above + write a radio.fmmap with the signal for every frequency. You can get a graph for it with gnuplot (plot "radio.fmmap" w lin).
Scan, write a initial ~/.radio file to stdout and quit. So you can create a config file where you only have to fill in the correct station names later this way: "radio -i > ~/.radio". See below for the config file syntax.

CONFIGURATION

radio picks up station names and present stations from a config file. It can parse kradio (KDE radio app) config files, therefore it first tries the usual KDE config file location: ~/.kde/share/config/kradiorc. Failing that, radio tries ~/.radio (which makes things a bit easier for people who don't use kradio).

The format looks like this:

# KDE Config File
[Buttons]
1=95800000
2=91400000
[Stations]
100600000=Hundert,6
95800000=Radio eins
102600000=Fritz
94300000=r.s.2
91400000=Berliner Rundfunk

The [Buttons] section can have up to eight entries. That are the present stations, they get mapped to F1-F8. The [Stations] section maps frequencies to station names. The frequencies in both sections are specified in Hz.

KEYS

X	     exit
ESC,Q,E      mute and exit.
up/down      inc/dec frequency
pgup/pgdown  next/previous station.  This one uses the


             stations from the config file by default.


             When started with the -s option these keys


             will cycle througth the stations found during


             the scan.
F1-F8, 1-8   preset buttons.
Ctrl+L       redraw screen.

AUTHOR

Gerd Knorr <kraxel@bytesex.org>

COPYRIGHT

Copyright (C) 1997-2001 Gerd Knorr

This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.

You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 675 Mass Ave, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA.

(c) 1998-2001 Gerd Knorr