Show HN: Giving my mother-in-law an easy internet radio with real icon buttons

Re:Show HN: Giving my mother-in-law an easy internet radio w... by AgoRapide on Saturday April 17, 2021 @03:35PM (#26846827)

Yes, I could.

It would not have been so fun. And all Internet radios I have seen so far have some features that irritate me. For instance volume is push-buttons instead of turning knobs.

Actually, the only interface I would have on a radio is two turning knobs, one for volume and one for channel.

Thats all. The rest could be some phone or PC setup like 'kingsuper20' suggested.

Too sad Apple never gave us a radio. I might have been an Apple customer if they had.

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Re:Show HN: Giving my mother-in-law an easy internet radio w... by fooblat on Saturday April 17, 2021 @04:28PM (#26847189)

I love internet radio projects.

Did you consider making a DIY internet radio from a raspberry pi? That's actually what I was expecting to see based on the title.

I used a rpi to make an internet radio for our living room our of a 1950s wooden console radio I picked up at a thrift store for 20 euros. Works great and keeps the illusion that the room is free of computers.

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Re:Show HN: Giving my mother-in-law an easy internet radio w... by AgoRapide on Saturday April 17, 2021 @04:34PM (#26847231)

I was very limited with regard to time available.

With one baby, one toddler and three more kids around there is not much free time :)

I would love to put a Raspberry Pi inside an old radio myself.

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Re:Show HN: Giving my mother-in-law an easy internet radio w... by atleta on Saturday April 17, 2021 @05:10PM (#26847483)

A turning knob is not the best UI for channel selection. It is a traditional one, but even my grandmother's large box radio, that must have been manufactured something like 70 years ago (not a transistor one, mind you!) had push buttons for remembering the stations. (Besides the tuning knob.) Or maybe those were 'pre-programmed', not sure.

But again, if you didn't like them and had this gadget (or wanted an excuse to buy one ;) ), then it's the better solution. I was mainly reacting because it seemed like a lot of people thought that this is a generally practical solution.

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