I wanted to be able to listen to my scanner, sitting in my living room, while I was away. So I got a Raspberry Pi and a Wolfson audio board, hooked them together with darkice and icecast2 and voila! It worked! Not without a little learning curve of course but that just made it interesting.
To get mp3 encoding for darkice I had to compile it because the Raspbian distribution only contains support for ogg format. This may be enough for you. Streaming is not necessary for this particular project.
Bill Waggoner
admin -at- greybeard -dot- org
Note also that there is a version of darkice on google code that appears to be newer than the 1.0 version I started with.
Then, I realized, that I had the Uniden USB serial adapter and maybe I could also monitor and control the scanner with it. Thus this project was born.
As of this writing the project is very much in flux to say the least. I am going to try to keep this branch (master) clean and do the messy stuff in dev and its sub-branches. We'll see how this works out.
Initially this will be a command-line tool that uses curses to enable a richer display. It may spawn a GUI form but, for now, I don't run a GUI on my Raspberry Pi.
Comments and contributions are appreciated.
As I run off a MAC normally I naturally want to provide support for that platform. I'm working on it.
You will need a Serial-USB driver to run this. I found one at http://nozap.me/driver/osxpl2303/index.html
Fast forward a few years! This has been running nicely on my little 3B+ Pi for a long time with few if any changes other that the bi-annual time change.
I have just applied my dev branch up to master as this code is pretty stable.
The current project is to separate the control and monitoring from the display. This way I can run the control code automatically when the Pi starts and run the GUI display when I want to and possibly on a separate platform.