A Raspberry Pi Zero self-updating 24/7 FM radio station
Article excerpt
Pi FM Kitchen Radio Station is a Raspberry Pi Zero project that creates a self-updating 24/7 FM radio station for passive listening. It was built as part of an attempt at digital minimalism / reducing screen time / having overseas content on the radio dial. It pulls podcasts and news from RSS feeds, mixes them with […]
Pi FM Kitchen Radio Station is a Raspberry Pi Zero project that creates a self-updating 24/7 FM radio station for passive listening.
It was built as part of an attempt at digital minimalism / reducing screen time / having overseas content on the radio dial. It pulls podcasts and news from RSS feeds, mixes them with local music/jingles, and beams it out via Bluetooth.
GitHub user trwmato’s setup involves a 12v Bluetooth-FM transmitter that is received by the radio in the kitchen. A Bluetooth speaker works fine too.
Features
RSS podcast + news ingestion via podget
Retry handling for failed downloads via curl. This has been useful for some BBC feeds.
Automatically regenerated playlist
Mix of music / podcasts / news / jingles / oddities
Prioritises fresh content while spacing out repeats
Different retention rules for news / daily / weekly content
Maintenance mode for downloads + cleanup
Automatic boot startup via systemd
Bluetooth output
Samba access for easy content management
Hardware used
Raspberry Pi Zero W
Cheap Bluetooth FM transmitter
Any FM radio
See the details on GitrHub.