Re: [beagleboard] Can we turn BeagleBone Black to an FM receiver ?

2016-01-07 Thread WZ9V
If you are not stuck on the Black there is a Grove FM device that plugs into a Green. No idea how well it works. http://www.seeedstudio.com/depot/Grove-FM-Receiver-p-1841.html -- For more options, visit http://beagleboard.org/discuss --- You received this message because you are subscribed t

Re: [beagleboard] Can we turn BeagleBone Black to an FM receiver ?

2016-01-07 Thread Mark A. Yoder
I've had good luck with receiving FM on the Bone using the SDR Dongles. Checkout: http://sdr.osmocom.org/trac/wiki/rtl-sdr. If you have the SDR, you can install the software with: apt-get install rtl-sdr # Then you can decode on the Bone and send the data to a host to play. # On the bone # rtl_

Re: [beagleboard] Can we turn BeagleBone Black to an FM receiver ?

2016-01-06 Thread Graham
You will need a hardware tuner-downconverter in front of the BBB. But these are available for less than $25. Google: "SDR dongle" for a lot of hardware front end alternatives Things like: https://www.adafruit.com/products/1497 http://www.rtl-sdr.com/buy-rtl-sdr-dvb-t-dongles/ The things you fi

Re: [beagleboard] Can we turn BeagleBone Black to an FM receiver ?

2016-01-06 Thread Charles Steinkuehler
On 1/6/2016 7:19 AM, amulya...@gmail.com wrote: > > Now, the main question is, can we make BeagleBone Black as an FM receiver > using only software without using any external FM module ? Only software? No. I've worked on very minimal radios using just a couple of (FPGA) I/O pins and some discr

Re: [beagleboard] Can we turn BeagleBone Black to an FM receiver ?

2016-01-06 Thread Przemek Klosowski
On Wed, Jan 6, 2016 at 8:19 AM, wrote: > I was going through and article about Turning RPi into an FM transmitter . > It consists of just putting a wire on the GPIO4 of Pi which works as an > antenna and run the python script. > > The software uses the hardware of RPi which generates spread spec

Re: [beagleboard] Can we turn BeagleBone Black to an FM receiver ?

2016-01-06 Thread Gerald Coley
My suggestion is that read up on the processor. And there is no FM receiver inputs on the processor. http://www.ti.com/product/AM3358/technicaldocuments Gerald On Wed, Jan 6, 2016 at 7:19 AM, wrote: > Hello all, > > I was going through and article about Turning RPi into an FM transmitter >

[beagleboard] Can we turn BeagleBone Black to an FM receiver ?

2016-01-06 Thread amulya349
Hello all, I was going through and article about Turning RPi into an FM transmitter . It consists of just putting a wire on the GPIO4 of Pi which works as an antenna and run the python script. The s