I'm trying to set up my N800 to do timed fm recording. So far I can record from the fm radio using maemo recorder and aumix. To automate this I plan on using cron. I can start maemo recorder but I can't figure out how to get it to record from a command.

Does anyone know how to do this? Thanks.

Why not use mplayer?

Well, I thought mplayer was just a player! After reading through the manual, I see it can do lots of things. I'm not sure if all the options are available with the Maemo version and if the radio on the N800 is V4L compatible or not. I just need to find time to play around with it.

Thanks for the suggestion.

The FM radio is V4L2 compatible. You can also use pyfmradio for fully controlling the radio with Python.
See http://pyfmradio.garage.maemo.org

thanks for this. problem: I can tune in BBC R2 at 90.10 with a good signal, but when I run the example program, it immediately terminates:

/usr/local/pyFMRadio-0.22 $ ./example.py 90.10
/usr/local/pyFMRadio-0.22 $ Frequency range: 87.50 - 108.00 MHz
scanning @ 87.50 MHz
No radio stations found. The signal is too weak.
Switching off the radio.


any clues? thanks!

did you manage to use mplayer to record? if you did what command line did you use? how's the quality?

thanks.

pyfmradio is not a ready-made application. The example script just demonstrates its usage. Also be sure to have a headphones cable plugged in. Otherwise it won't be able to find any stations.

Here's an example:

aha, that works. well, sort of, it turns the sound on! oddly, volume 100 in pyFMR is much much louder than I can get the tablet set to, which is about 65.

it doesn't set the station, I get this:
# ./example.py
Frequency range: 87.50 - 108.00 MHz
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "./example.py", line 39, in <module>
radio.set_frequency(90.10);
File "/usr/local/pyFMRadio-0.22/FMRadio.py", line 279, in set_frequency
assert(freq == 0 or low <= freq <= high)
AssertionError


this also happens if I try freq 96.00, so it's not the numeric value!

Oops, my mistake. Multiply by 1000. The radio expects KHz units.
So it's

ah, much better, thanks. using "96 x 1000" doesn't barf...

# ./example.py
Frequency range: 87.50 - 108.00 MHz
scanning @ 87.50 MHz
No radio stations found. The signal is too weak.
Switching off the radio.


I'd expect to see no signal, I'm at work and the building is very well screened, will try at home.