Hi,

I had the impression my stream was stable an didn’t had any interruptions.

I was lucky it came later than planned on-air as I was still sleeping the moment it was scheduled …

I don’t use a pi for my stream(s)

I use a small cheap (100€) power friendly (24 watt) fanless (silent) windows 10 PC

4Gb ram, 32 Gb drive ( + 16 Gb stick for audio )

It has no screen, keyboard or mouse but is remote controlled by TIGHTVNC

I use 2 Chinese brand dynamic microphones. They are in a wooden box. 2 sides are made of foam and acts as windscreens. The box is fixed on the backwall of our house.

I had electrects in the past but learned that they got me into some problems after being for a long time in the cold of humid conditions. The dynamic ones run for al long time now without any side-effects.

An USB EDIROL UA-25EX is my interface

As you can see on the photo … it’s all a bit dusty …

3 programs active on this PC

• DUC 4.11 to stay connected with the “www” as I have a dynamic IP address that changes out of my control
• ICECAST2 v2.x as icecast server
• REAPER as playback and live-input mixer
  it has some plug-ins running
  - 5 ICECAST clients ( I have some experimental streams running )
  - compressor, eq, effect’s
  - 2 players

I enclose a screen dump of it running.

You find all my streams at http://planktone.be/streams/ ( plankklank, plankstroom, planktuin )

PLANKTUIN is our live garden

PLANKKLANK is a live mix of 2 recordings from my personal sound library

PLANKSTROOM & PLANKHUIS are experiments to have more streams running at the same time ( eg. our house ) and give the listener the opportunity to switch of mix between as she/he likes.  It is/was a test for possible future projects.

My network is configured to forward the port used by the ICECAST server to this PC

I don’t know my stream was maybe (more) stable as I don’t use (I suppose) the SONUS server instead my own ICECAST server ?

But it works …

It is for sure possible on a pi ( or other LINUX computer ) too, but I don’t have the experience to do that …

I need only to keep an eye on this PC at regular times and have it updated to have it running stable & save

Grtz,

w.