Hi all, I am trying to stream audio from a radio scanner connected to my pi via usb. In simple terms it is acting as a usb microphone. So far i have had no luck at all getting it to work! can anyone provide me with a working example flow/guide? The other issue I am having is my iPad Pro does not pl…

Hello, Does your scanner show up under Linux like a standard microphone/audio interface under alsa? If you do a arecord -l on the command line does show up as an input device or does it stream the data in some kind of raw format over serial? Johannes

If shows up with alsa you can install sox and my node-red-sox-utils nodes from github which are in beta right now to interface with it directly from nodered: [image] johanneskropf/node-red-contrib-sox-utils a simple node-red wrapper around the record functionality of the sox commandline …

Thankyou, this works! however the audio is really choppy! have you got any ideas to fix this? my flow is attached [{"id":"1a1e0044.8a069","type":"ui_audio","z":"a96ef2d9.1d179","name":"","group":"a29ae445.1c44c8","voice":"","always":true,"x":820,"y":60,"wires":[]},{"id":"93930129.3b614","type":"so…

Please put your flow inbetween ``` or use the </> button from the toolbar so that your Flow will be formatted properly and can be imported. Are you trying to livestream the audio? How are you consuming the stream?

Yes the audio is streaming to my dashboard

[image] blackwellj: Yes the audio is streaming to my dashboard I have no experience with this. The raw stream output is not really ment for listening, it’s normally fed to other software/nodes for recording or processing. Is the dashboard node you are using ment for playing streams? Because …

I'm using a node to add the wav headers. Is there a way of buffering the audio so its not choppy?

[image] blackwellj: I'm using a node to add the wav headers. Is there a way of buffering the audio so its not choppy? As I said I think the problem is that you are streaming audio chunks and the dashboard node is playing each and every chunk individually and not treating it as a stream. So th…

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@dceejay did any updates get pushed to fix this?

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