DAB+ – IRT Lab

Full DAB+ support for Android car stereos using DAB-Z with OMRI

Alexander Erk — Tue, 12 May 2020 11:40:07 +0000

DAB-Z is a wide-spread radio application for retrofit Android car head units. Affordable Android car head units are being successfully sold worldwide and can be purchased on shopping sites like Amazon, eBay or AliExpress. Prices typically vary between 180€ and 450€ depending on features and specifications such as RAM or flash memory. These units are ...

HRADIO: Online demo of transparent DAB(+) distribution over IP

Alexander Erk — Thu, 21 Feb 2019 13:57:19 +0000

Radio is going digital – slowly but steadily. Currently, this happens in two different worlds: One is DAB(+) and the other is IP streaming. DAB(+) is a sophisticated and efficient broadcast standard with many clearly specified add-on functionalities – but it does not support personalisation of its services as is. In contrast, IP-based radio services ...

Hybrid Radio: 1st OMRI implementation from the HRADIO project

Alexander Erk — Thu, 29 Mar 2018 09:14:32 +0000

Hybrid radio will reveal its full potential once the application developers gain access to radio hardware on mobile systems. One of the goals of the EU-funded HRADIO project is the development of an OMRI (Open Mobile Radio Interface) implementation for these platforms. Application developers get access to tuner hardware and can realise feature-rich applications that ...

Android IRT HybridRadio

Fabian Sattler — Wed, 05 Apr 2017 15:10:51 +0000

IRT’s Hybrid Radio App enables LG’s smartphone Stylus 2 DAB+ as a real hybrid radio platform. The app offers hybrid radio functionalities for instant Radio-EPG, Radio-DNS, Slide Shows and Dynamic Labels. Furthermore, functions such as service following for an automated switching between DAB+ and Internet reception and the linking of radio services with accompanying Podcasts ...