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Title: FM radio tuner app?
Post by: Grench on May 25, 2018, 01:45:26 am

Has anyone found an Andriod app that uses the FM radio tuner?  Everything I am finding is strictly streaming, which misses the point.

Title: FM radio tuner app?
Post by: vader on May 25, 2018, 02:33:41 am

Quote from: Grench

Has anyone found an Andriod app that uses the FM radio tuner?  Everything I am finding is strictly streaming, which misses the point.

I use one called (and I am not joking) FM Radio. It works well - and like all fm radio apps, needs the headphones. I use yalp, so I cant post a link to it.

Title: FM radio tuner app?
Post by: Grench on May 25, 2018, 12:18:24 pm

Quote from: vader

Quote from: Grench

Has anyone found an Andriod app that uses the FM radio tuner?  Everything I am finding is strictly streaming, which misses the point.

I use one called (and I am not joking) FM Radio. It works well - and like all fm radio apps, needs the headphones. I use yalp, so I cant post a link to it.

I found one in the Play store called, "FM Radio" by SMMG.  It opens up to a full screen ad then - nothing - junk app.  Maybe you have one by a different author?

Title: FM radio tuner app?
Post by: DJO on May 25, 2018, 12:50:18 pm

Mine came with a radio app already installed (UK). If you're building a fresh Android install look for this icon:

Title: FM radio tuner app?
Post by: Grench on May 25, 2018, 02:49:59 pm

Wow! That is actually functional and works.  I had never even thought to look for a pre-installed application for this.

File that one under, "I need to RTFM".

OK, so this, "FM Radio" app that was included on our Gemini units.  It has no 'About'.  Who made it?  Who maintains it?  Why isn't it present in the Google Play store?  Is it open source so we can modify it?

Awesome - thank you!

Title: FM radio tuner app?
Post by: DJO on May 25, 2018, 04:04:06 pm

Quote from: Grench

File that one under, "I need to RTFM".

Well as there is no "M" to RTFM it's quite understandable.

Title: FM radio tuner app?
Post by: Mr Rimmer on May 29, 2018, 07:42:08 am

Quote from: Grench

Wow! That is actually functional and works.  I had never even thought to look for a pre-installed application for this.

File that one under, "I need to RTFM".

OK, so this, "FM Radio" app that was included on our Gemini units.  It has no 'About'.  Who made it?  Who maintains it?  Why isn't it present in the Google Play store?  Is it open source so we can modify it?

Awesome - thank you!

Seems to come with lots of Android phones that have a radio built in  - my Redmi Note 3, which is Qualcom based has the same app.

Title: FM radio tuner app?
Post by: Mr Rimmer on January 03, 2019, 11:59:46 am

Has anyone tried out the radio and noticed that it is only mono?
Either the firmware has been set up that way or the antenna conneciton is too weak/does not have AGC to decode stereo.
It seems that hardly any phones have a working FM receiver these days so would be nice to have this as a backup option.

Title: FM radio tuner app?
Post by: gemini_user_j on January 12, 2019, 12:00:44 pm

if you install the f-droid app store, you can find another fm radio app: https://f-droid.org/en/packages/fm.a2d.sf/ (https://f-droid.org/en/packages/fm.a2d.sf/)
I have the f-droid app store, but I never tried that fm radio app

Title: FM radio tuner app?
Post by: Daniel W on January 12, 2019, 06:21:49 pm

Quote from: DJO

Well as there is no "M" to RTFM it's quite understandable.

Now there IS a manual, http://support.planetcom.co.uk/download/Ge...DAUserGuide.pdf (http://support.planetcom.co.uk/download/GeminiPDAUserGuide.pdf), but as it doesn't mention the FM radio, reading it won't help in this case...  

Quote from: Mr Rimmer

Has anyone tried out the radio and noticed that it is only mono?
Either the firmware has been set up that way or the antenna conneciton is too weak/does not have AGC to decode stereo.

The local FM radio station I listened to on my Gemini earlier today, via headphones, appeared to be in stereo. When using the speakers, though, I can't really tell.