[App_rpt-users] How to stream live audio from URI to broadcast software.

[Mark Johnston]

Add this to your rpt.conf

outstreamcmd=/bin/sh,-c,/usr/bin/lame --preset cbr 16 -r -m m -s 8
--bitwidth 16 - - | /usr/bin/ezstream -qvc /etc/ezstream.xml


I put it above the [Morse....] section - for the node you want to broadcast
keep it all on one line btw -

***** Please Note ***** It has been a while since I used the instructions
here but they should work on Cent OS 5.x
Do NOT just run the EZS script - it is only written as a guide -
attached is a .tgz file with everything you should need -
to decompress I put it in the /root folder
at the shell run -
tar -xvhf ezs.tgz

That should extract the files to the ezs directory -
If you have any questions please let me know.


----- Edit the ezstream file - ezstream.xml -----
<ezstream>
    <url>http://audio9.radioreference.com:80/#######</url>
    <sourcepassword>PW####</sourcepassword>
    <format>MP3</format>
    <filename>stdin</filename>
    <svrinfoname>NAME###</svrinfoname>
    <svrinfourl>http://www.radioreference.com/</svrinfourl>
    <svrinfogenre>Amateur Radio</svrinfogenre>
    <svrinfodescription>DESCRIPTION</svrinfodescription>
    <svrinfobitrate>16</svrinfobitrate>
    <svrinfochannels>1</svrinfochannels>
    <svrinfosamplerate>22050</svrinfosamplerate>
    <svrinfopublic>1</svrinfopublic>
</ezstream>
-----

----- Run the following commands -----
wget -q -O - http://www.atomicorp.com/installers/atomic | sh
wget
http://packages.sw.be/rpmforge-release/rpmforge-release-0.5.2-2.el5.rf.i386.rpm

rpm -ivh rpmforge-release-0.5.2-2.el5.rf.i386.rpm
rpm --import http://apt.sw.be/RPM-GPG-KEY.dag.txt

yum install libshout*
yum install libxml*
yum install taglib
yum install lame

cp ezstream.xml /etc/ezstream.xml

cp bin/* /usr/bin/
cp share/man/man1/* /usr/share/man/man1/
cp -R /share/doc/ez* /usr/share/doc/
-----

One issue with ezstream - this is apparently a known issue - for whatever
reason it tends to crash from time to time - sometimes once in a day
sometimes every week or 2 -

If you want to address the issue, the only resolution I have found is this -
add to your crontab -  crontab -e

*/30 * * * * (/root/killezstream > /dev/null 2>&1)


---- killezstream --- looks like this
# Kill ezstream to keep the connection - alive longer
kill -9 $(pgrep ezstream)&
----

One would think this would stop ezstream every 30 mins but it does not -
might have at most a 30 min down time - but it has worked well for me -
Tried
much shorter times, and that did not do well but feel free to experiment.

To start the stream need to run
asterisk -rx "module reload"
or reboot -

Hope this helps!


73s

Mark KC7DMF


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On Thu, Apr 24, 2014 at 7:18 AM, Loren Tedford <lorentedford at gmail.com>wrote:

> Hello my name is Loren I would like to set up a live audio stream from  my
> repeater to broadcastify if anyone has any suggestions on how or what i
> should do this would be appreciated. I would much rather if I could just
> take the audio from the repeater its self rather than setting up a
> secondary scanner then reroute it back to broadcastify.. Using Acid Linux
> Distro all normal install..  URI connected to two GM300s etc..
>
> Any suggestions on this idea and if you have done this before please let
> me know how ya did this or what i need to do to get started 73's for now.
>
> Loren Tedford (KC9ZHV)
> Email: lorentedford at gmail.com
> Email: loren at lorentedford.com
> http://www.lorentedford.com
>
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