Bob Rathbone
@bob_rathbone
Computer programming and consultancy with a special interest in Aviation, Linux, Raspberry Pi and Internet radios.
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On the 2nd of October 2025 the Raspberry Pi foundation released a new version of the operating system called Debian Trixie. A new version 8.2 of the Internet Radio software (Beta) is being developed to support this new release. See bobrathbone.com/raspberrypi/be…
Version 8.1 of the Radio software is now on general release at bobrathbone.com/raspberrypi/be… Although this is a minor release the main change is that the station recording facility now uses LiquidSoap instead of the outdated StreamRipper program.
Beta version 8.1 (Beta) of the Radio software is now available for testing at bobrathbone.com/raspberrypi/be… Although this is a minor release the main change is that the station recording facility now uses LiquidSoap instead of the outdated StreamRipper program.
Version 8.0 of the Radio software is now on general release bobrathbone.com/raspberrypi/pi… This is a major release and is installed and configured using new menu driven scripts. It has new features such as recording radio stations and new display devices plus many other improvements.
Beta version 8.0 of the Radio software is now available for testing at bobrathbone.com/raspberrypi/be… This is a major release and is installed and configured using new menu driven scripts. It has new features such as recording radio stations and new display devices.
Version 7.8 of the Raspberry Pi Internet Radio has just been launched. Apart from adding support for the Grove RGB I2C LCD display this is the fastest version yet with improved sensitivity of the volume control and search facilities. See bobrathbone.com/raspberrypi/pi…
I am pleased to announce Beta version 7.8 of the RPi Internet Radio software. This introduces the Grove v5 2x16 character RGB I2C colour LCD (lcd_i2c_jhd1313_sgm31323.py).integrated into configurator . It is available at bobrathbone.com/raspberrypi/be…
I am pleased to announce version 7.7 of the Raspberry Pi Internet Radio software. This has been specifically released to support the RPi Model 5 running Bookworm. More information at bobrathbone.com/raspberrypi/pi…
For Raspberry Pi Model 5 owners only. There is a new Beta version 7.7 of the radio software for the model 5 only. See bobrathbone.com/raspberrypi/be… It uses a new package called GPIO converter which converts between RPi.GPIO calls and python3-lgpio. See :bobrathbone.com/raspberrypi/gp…
For all racing car simulator fans using SimHub products, I have added a tutorial how to run SimHub on a Raspberry Pi(RPi). See: bobrathbone.com/raspberrypi/pi… This page has a comprehensive manual on how to install the RPi from scratch and run SimHub in a Chromium browser (Full screen)
I am pleased to announce version 7.6 of the Raspberry Pi Internet Radio specifically designed to run on the new RPi OS Bookworm just released. See: bobrathbone.com/raspberrypi/pi… This includes both 32-bit (Recommended) and 64-bit versions. Waveshare DAC and OLED display added.
I am working on version 7.6 of the RPi Internet radio software specifically for the new Bookworm OS plus other features. It is available as beta test on bobrathbone.com/raspberrypi/be… and I expect to release it about the same time as Bookworm. Contact me if you are interested.
Version 7.5 of the Raspberry Pi Internet Radio was launched 9 July. See: bobrathbone.com/raspberrypi/pi… There are both 32-bit and 64-bit versions and the software can be installed by any user that has sudo permissions and not just user 'pi'. Also new there is new IR remote software.
I am pleased to announce the release of version 7.4 of the Raspberry Pi Internet radio software specifically for the Bullseye OS. This also re-introduces support for PiFace CAD hardware. This release is also supported on Buster. See bobrathbone.com/raspberrypi/pi…
A new Raspberry Pi Internet Radio manual for version 7.3 dated 5th of January 2021 has been released. This contains support for Allo DAC products for example Allo Piano. It also describes how to install the Pimoroni On/Off shutdown switch for the Raspberry pi.
A new version of the manual on how to compile MPD and MPC on the Raspberry Pi has been released. See bobrathbone.com/raspberrypi/co… An updated MPD package version 0.23.5 and a new MPC package version 0.34 have also been released.
Patch radiod-patch-7.3-3 for the Internet radio version 7.3 has been released and includes patch 1 and 2. This patch corrects the problem with the radio not shutting down in certain circumstances when the Menu button is held in. See constructors manual on how to install patches.
Radio Patch 7.3-1 released to cure problem loading new playlists. See constructors manual for information on how to install new patches. See bobrathbone.com/raspberrypi/do…
A beta version of version 7.4 has been released to run on Raspberry Pi OS Bullseye. Only the IR remote control (lirc) software is not working. Otherwise the features of version 7.4 are exactly the same as version 7.3. See bobrathbone.com/raspberrypi/be….
Version 7.3 dated 16th November of the Raspberry Pi Internet Radio software has been released. This only works with Buster and not the new Bullseye release (Version 7.4will be for Bullseye). See bobrathbone.com/raspberrypi/pi… There are a lot of changes so please read manual carefully.
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