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Re:Listen to HD radio with a $30 RTL SDR dongle by myself248 on Monday November 06, 2023 @10:24AM (#38163808)
Have you ever found interesting/unexplained data in the packet streams? I know there's provision for traffic stuff in there, and a few other defined types, but what else is hiding?

Reason I ask, is analog FM had all sorts of sideband streams for the longest time, like SCA audio and DirectBand digital, that weren't well known at the time. And while internet access is certainly easier to get these days, there might still be a justification for one-way data broadcasts in certain applications, so I wonder if someone's out there leasing subchannels or sub-packet-IDs or what-not, and shuffling encrypted data around in them.

Re:Listen to HD radio with a $30 RTL SDR dongle by argilo on Monday November 06, 2023 @10:45AM (#38164098)
Some stations have "HD TMC" (traffic message channel) streams. The others that I've encountered are "HERE Images" (traffic & weather radar images, discussed and mostly reverse engineered in https://github.com/theori-io/nrsc5/pull/308), "HERE TPEG", "TTN TPEG", "TTN STM", "NavteqAdmin" and "NavteqPacketData1."

At present, nrsc5 makes these streams available through its API, but doesn't otherwise do anything useful with them. I don't believe any of the GUIs process them either. Some reverse engineering work is needed.

Re:Listen to HD radio with a $30 RTL SDR dongle by argilo on Monday November 06, 2023 @11:17AM (#38164554)
Also, all of those stream types seem to be used across multiple stations. I haven't seen any weird one-off streams.
Re:Listen to HD radio with a $30 RTL SDR dongle by patja on Monday November 06, 2023 @11:59AM (#38165152)
There was the somewhat recent issue in Seattle where a station included an image file with no file extension, and it bricked the radios in Mazdas: https://arstechnica.com/cars/2022/02/radio-station-snafu-in-...