Streaming Radio stations into Kodi

Eric S

I apologize in advance if someone had already answered this question but I am trying to get some streaming Radio Stations added to TVHeadEnd so they will show up under the "Radio" menu of the Kodi main screen.

I have pretty much mastered the way to add Live TV streams, I put the URLs into an m3u file (very particular formatting) under Network, it then scans the list and if there are any viable video streams it makes the mux for them which applies to Services which I can then link to a channel. I take great pride in having all of the icons and EPG information so it looks really nice.

But when I put the audio version of the m3u file it usually just doesn't find any viable streams, both the file and the stations work when they are used with VLC.

I realize that streaming audio and video are different. To be honest for a short time I was working with TV Stations that just broadcasted radio, I would have liked to put them under Radio but I don't get them anymore.

I have often seen the suggestion to use the pipe:/// both pick up the URL and route it to the "Radio".
The instructions here: https://tvheadend.org/d/4278-fm-radio-using-rtl2832u-r820t-usb state that if I used a dongle that is specific to FM radio I can't route it directly to TVHeadEnd but I can use a local URL to pipe it through using a mux, but I have never gotten a stream working that way.

Can anyone out there please help me with some 'dummy' instructions from scratch? I am always looking to learn something new about Kodi.

Thanks!

DeltaMikeCharlie

Try using the Kodi HTS PVR addon.

Eric S

DeltaMikeCharlie I loaded up the IPTV Simple Addon, I attached the m3u file that I had for the NOAA Weather radio but I still couldn't get it to come up. Below is the text of the m3u file, both the m3u and the link work in VLC. The same format works for Live TV (when it can be found) but not for audio.

#EXTM3U
#EXTINF: -1 tvg-id="" tvg-name="" tvg-logo="" group-title="USA",NOAA_Weather
https://radio.weatherusa.net/NWR/KEC61_2.mp3

DeltaMikeCharlie

Eric S I loaded up the IPTV Simple Addon,

Try the HTSP PVR Client Addon.

https://kodi.wiki/view/Add-on:Tvheadend_HTSP_Client

Eric S

I think I might not have had ffmpeg installed before but it is installed now. Can anyone provide a good version of the pipe:/// command?

Tony Wagner

Eric S radio pipe command examples are here: https://old.tvheadend.org/projects/tvheadend/wiki/Custom_MPEG-TS_Input

Eric S

Here is the pipe command I am trying to use:
pipe:///usr/bin/ffmpeg -loglevel fatal -i https://radio.weatherusa.net/NWR/KEC61_2.mp3 -vn -acodec copy -metadata service_provider=RADIOPROVIDER
-metadata service_name=RADIONAME -tune zerolatency -f mpegts -mpegts_service_type digital_radio pipe:1

When attempting to run the Mux I get the following in the log. It says there is no data.
2024-12-09 21:15:30.788 mpegts: NOAA Weather in Radio Stations - tuning on IPTV
2024-12-09 21:15:30.793 spawn: Executing "/usr/bin/ffmpeg"
2024-12-09 21:15:30.794 subscription: 004B: "scan" subscribing to mux "NOAA Weather", weight: 6, adapter: "IPTV", network: "Radio Stations", service: "Raw PID Subscription"
2024-12-09 21:15:30.800 iptv: stdin pipe unexpectedly closed: No data
2024-12-09 21:15:45.789 mpegts: NOAA Weather in Radio Stations - scan no data, failed
2024-12-09 21:15:45.789 subscription: 004B: "scan" unsubscribing

Tony Wagner

Eric S Your "KEC61_2.mp3" URL is just a 404 error for me, and this page says it is offline: https://www.weatherusa.net/radio

You have ffmpeg installed at /usr/bin/ffmpeg ? Your pipe command here has a line break in it too, you will need to get rid of that.

You should SSH into your TVHeadend computer (or open a bash prompt in the container) and just run this ffmpeg command to see if it works:
/usr/bin/ffmpeg -i https://radio.weatherusa.net/NWR/KEC61_2.mp3 -vn -acodec copy -metadata service_provider=RADIOPROVIDER -metadata service_name=RADIONAME -tune zerolatency -f mpegts -mpegts_service_type digital_radio -y /dev/null

Eric S

Okay, using the "which" command from a different thread I found a pipe command that worked:

pipe:///storage/.kodi/addons/tools.ffmpeg-tools/bin/ffmpeg -loglevel fatal -i https://wxradio.org/FL-Tallahassee-KIH24 -vcodec copy -acodec copy -metadata service_provider=NOAA -metadata service_name=NOAA_Weather_Tallahassee -f mpegts -tune zerolatency -mpegts_service_type digital_radio pipe:1

It even put the station under Radio and I added icon to make it look nice. Now all I need to do is find a source for the stations that I actually want and perhaps some kind of guide data that I can import into TVHeadEnd.

Eric S

Does anyone know if an icon can be added to the pipe command? What I like to do is setup an Access database that will export the full data and the more I can add the less that will have to be done later.