EiBi schedule

[RadioHam25]

Hello! Using EiBi is a good addition to a radio receiver. If the broadcast time matches, the name of the radio station is displayed. It is necessary to supplement the radio receiver so that the list of EiBi radio stations is always displayed under the frequency, and the name of the radio station is displayed when the broadcast frequency matches. When syncing via NTP or RDS CT, some symbol was displayed or the frequency changed its color, indicating that this radio station is currently broadcasting. It will be informative.

[max-arnold]

The stations that are not broadcasting right now are deliberately excluded (not shown). The goal was to show what is being received at the moment. The receiver is not efficient as a full schedule browser (the list is huge and hard to navigate, the time ranges need to be shown somewhere, no search or filtering, etc).

With that said, I'm open to a better schedule browser that works via the built-in web UI over Wi-Fi and allows to tune to any specific station. The hard part is to make it memory efficient.

[RadioHam25]

I understand that. Maybe then add a choice option to the menu, so that it would be possible to select, display stations with reference to time or frequency? This is important when the radio listener is not in cities where there is no Internet and FM radio, but you need to know which radio station is broadcasting.

[max-arnold]

I have an unfinished patch proposed by another contributor, that allows setting time manually via the Settings menu. I think that would solve your scenario

[RadioHam25]

An interesting option. I think it will be useful.

[EmEiBee]

Does the ESP have an RTC? Or how is a manually set time supposed to be counted in the ESP?

Regardless of that: What happens if I connect the radio to a smartphone via hotspot? Does a smartphone have an NTPd or something similar so that the ESP can get the time from there?

[max-arnold]

That is another option. There is no NTP, but a smartphone can automatically submit its own time via JavaScript when user submits the ATS-Mini web configuration form.

[RadioHam25]

Hello!
I use the ATS-Mini ESP-32 / Si4732 for experiments with different antennas. But the new versions do not have a variable capacitor. It was turned off. Is it possible to make a plug-in variable capacitor in the menu or in the settings?
The capacitor is on.
The capacitor is off.

[max-arnold]

Sorry, but it caused more problems than benefits. So for now the answer is no.

See #97 and #13 for more details.

[max-arnold]

You can enable it yourself, just uncomment two lines in ats-mini.ino (search for "capacitor") and recompile the project. This is how to do it: https://esp32-si4732.github.io/ats-mini/development.html

[RadioHam25]

Hi! I did as you recommended. I have deleted the comments from the lines you specified. Everything worked out. Thank you for your help! Good luck writing new versions for ATS-Mini ESP32 / Si4732.

[RadioHam25]

Thank you. Everything is clear.