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Control Software / Setting up RDS with RadioDNS
« Last post by radiojoemo@gmail.com on June 03, 2026, 12:14:40 am »
I count not think of a good subject to explain my questions. First I'm in the US, I have been using RDS4 for a good while now and have everything set up as I believe it should be. I have my PI code and ECC set as they should be and all other information set. I and others are having issues with RadioDNS. I and a hand full of others are set up with RadioDNS and have been for around 2 years, yet even with what we believe is the correct setup vehicles do not get the station information from the database. Any thoughts or suggestions?

WRJE 827A ECC A0

Thank you in advance.
DW
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RDS Spy / Re: Enhanced RT ODA support?
« Last post by Jan on June 02, 2026, 08:09:53 am »
Yes, the eRT is "only" an ODA application which has existed for a long time. However, for practical operation of this function, you encounter the limit of the transmission capacity of the original RDS. For this reason, the latest edition of the RDS standard does not even consider the option of transmitting eRT within stream 0. This is logical, because the transmission capacity is just right even with classic RT and since eRT is not backward compatible, both must be transmitted.
Without full support for RDS2 on the receiver side and without explicit acceptance of this system by the authorities carrying out technical supervision, we will probably not be able to move forward. Although radio stations were expected to be the driving force behind this development, the opposite is true. To this day, most stations are unable and unwilling to broadcast even RT+, which is a 20-year-old feature... There is almost zero interest in the eRT from the stations. The fact that eRT can sometimes transmit slightly longer text is probably irrelevant. The radio industry is more focused on keeping messages as short as possible, while providing more information via hybrid radio services. The eRT+ is still limited to 64 characters - no progress here. I see the real benefit of the eRT in Unicode support, which is unfortunately proving to be a marginal topic for the part of the world where FM broadcasting is widespread. There could be some benefit in countries where an alphabet other than the Latin is used.
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Feature Requests / Re: Truncation of long titles to be usable for Radiotext
« Last post by Jan on June 02, 2026, 07:54:45 am »
Quote from: andrew01 on May 01, 2026, 08:12:33 pm
btw.. is there anything to make it as a condition NOT to truncate unless the text is 64 characters long? That would be perfect :)

Yes, this function exists in the Text replacing tool. You can set a text length criterion and, if the text is shorter, skip processing the next rows:

Code: [Select]
Change
%REGEXP%^.{0,63}$
To
%END%
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RDS Spy / Re: Enhanced RT ODA support?
« Last post by Rían Mac Guinneál (fmdx.ie) on June 01, 2026, 09:16:56 pm »
Quote from: Jan on June 01, 2026, 09:02:01 pm
I am ready to give it the highest priority and fully implement these features to all products within a few weeks. However, it seems that the RDS2 technology (incl. logo and eRT) has been rejected by car radio manufacturers. Until their approach changes, it is unlikely that we will continue to implement software features that will not be useful in practice. Of course, we value our users. We try to accommodate them and we are constantly working on improving features that have daily benefits. Integral part of this activity is the ability to put things aside that may well represent a dead end.
By the way, we gave the RDS Spy a simple API interface. A skilled programmer can write an eRT plugin in a few days if there is real interest.
I understand that you probably expected a better answer, but I hope you will at least appreciate my honesty :)

Thanks for the honesty. At least from my experiments it works in Skoda and VW cars.
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RDS Spy / Re: Enhanced RT ODA support?
« Last post by Jan on June 01, 2026, 09:02:01 pm »
The eRT is an ODA application, so it can be broadcast using existing encoders via the UECP protocol, just like some stations broadcast RT+.
I am ready to give it the highest priority and directly implement these features to all products within a few weeks. However, it seems that the RDS2 technology (incl. logo and eRT) has been rejected by car radio manufacturers. Until their approach changes, it is unlikely that we will continue to implement software features that will not be useful in practice. Of course, we value our users. We try to accommodate them and we are constantly working on improving features that have daily benefits. Integral part of this activity is the ability to put things aside that may well represent a dead end.
By the way, we gave the RDS Spy a simple API interface. A skilled programmer can write an eRT plugin in a few days if there is real interest.
I understand that you probably expected a better answer, but I hope you will at least appreciate my honesty :)
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RDS Spy / Re: Enhanced RT ODA support?
« Last post by Rían Mac Guinneál (fmdx.ie) on June 01, 2026, 08:42:58 pm »
Here is a sample of eRT and eRT+. The recording is long enough to observe 3 messages with 2 different tags.
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RDS Spy / Re: Enhanced RT ODA support?
« Last post by andrew01 on June 01, 2026, 08:35:15 pm »
It would also be really nice if the RDS Encoders would also have these options available, not only RDS Spy.  ;)
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RDS Spy / Enhanced RT ODA support?
« Last post by Rían Mac Guinneál (fmdx.ie) on June 01, 2026, 08:31:47 pm »
Will RDS Spy ever support the Enhanced RadioText (eRT) and Enhanced RadioText plus (eRT+) in the future?

I understand it is not implemented commercially, but I did implement it in my prototype encoder which works in other decoding softwares such as RDS Surveyor.

ODA : Radiotext+ for eRT [4BD8]
ODA : eRT (Enhanced RadioText) [6552]

Would it be possible to implement this?  :D
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Feature Requests / Re: Truncation of long titles to be usable for Radiotext
« Last post by andrew01 on May 01, 2026, 08:12:33 pm »
Never knew you could do this, I thought it can only do the basics, not cut the titles too. Ty and cheers for the script!  8)

Works like a charm! I will adapt it further with AI's help to my needs (cutting info from titles too)  ;)

btw.. is there anything to make it as a condition NOT to truncate unless the text is 64 characters long? That would be perfect :)
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Feature Requests / Re: Truncation of long titles to be usable for Radiotext
« Last post by Jan on May 01, 2026, 07:52:58 pm »
There's really no need to be afraid of using regular expressions even though their writings sometimes look scary.

Go to External Text Sources - Text Replacing and add these two lines:

Code: [Select]
Change
%REGEXP%\s&\s.*?\s-\s
To
 -

Change
%REGEXP%\sfeat\.\s.*?\s-\s
To
 -


Please note the SPACE, DASH, SPACE in the To field.


Result:

Khayan & The New World Power - Feel The Vibe
shows as Khayan - Feel The Vibe

D.O.N.S. feat. Technotronic - Pump Up The Jam
shows as D.O.N.S. - Pump Up The Jam


You mentioned AI, which is a good helper if you want to create another regular expression to find the desired part of the text.
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