TinyRDS / MagicRDS on Linux

[zollymonsta]

Hi from New Zealand.
I'm a long term radio hobbyist since 2006.  I've been searching and it seems there is no linux version of TinyRDS or MagicRDS and it is only available for Windows?

I am setting up a Raspberry Pi with OpenOB for linking (full duplex) and hoping I can somehow control the RDS board via the Pi itself.
There's always the possibility of running it under WINE I guess, has anyone had success with doing this?  My RDS board is controlled over USB and is from Engima in the UK.

Thanks,
Grant

[Foxy]

Hi Grant,

I've (probably) the same RDS board from Enigma and am facing the same issue. So far I have not been able to connect to the board using TinyRDS under Wine, even after a wine regedit mod for setting COM3 up to /dev/ttyUSB0.

So far I have not tried MagicRDS yet, will see if that will bring any luck.

Despite of my age (60) I am quite new to Linux as well, so that doesn't help either. With my W10/Ubuntu dual boot computer in W10 mode I can use the RDS board fine with TinyRDS, but I would like to have it running in Ubuntu as well as I am gradually changing over from Windows to Linux.

Cheers,
Alex

[Foxy]

Well, I've got some more info. I installed Magic RDS using Wine on Ubuntu. The connections I set up was USB with a baudrate of 19200 and voila... it worked.

Being optimistic I shutdown MagicRDS and started TinyRDS again, setting the same com port and that works as well. I don't know what changed, but I can now confirm that both programs are usable in ubuntu when a registry entry is made with wine for COM3 mapping to /dev/ttyUSB0.

Great, no need to boot up W10 for this anymore