I loaded the black screen radio logo into my MicroHd and that worked fine. Thanks again, Brian.
A few days after, I had the idea of setting up one my 30" dishes as a dedicated radio dish and planned on using a unused Viewsat Ultra Lite that I have here for just radio channels, so the MicroHd isn't tied up if my wife wants to listen to radio and I want to watch TV on it.
The channel editor for the Viewsat just wouldn't work right for me, so I went with a Coolsat 7000 that I have here instead because I found a working editor for that [Kbox editor] and then I realized that I'd have to free up the TV too, no good being able to use the MicroHD if the TV it's connected to is being used to listen to radio stations on!
I had a Belkin Tunecast 2 FM transmitter here, made to hook up to a mp3 player, CD player, etc and transmit to a FM car stereo. The Tunecast can be powered by 3VDC or 12, so I removed the Coolsat's card adapter slot and circuit board, put the Tunecast in that spot, powered it from the 3.3 VDC supply for the CA. Hooked the input of the Tunecast to the audio out on the AV plugs inside the case and now we can listen to the radio stations through our radios anywhere in the house, rather than tying up a TV and the MicroHD.
The Tunecast saves whatever frequency it's set to, [in my case, 88.3] and it automatically powers on/off with a signal, so it goes on and off with the receiver. Once I add a external antenna and clean it up a bit, I'll post up some pictures. Also working on a RF remote to change through channels anywhere in the house.
Removing the card slot did cause the Coolsat to give a error message right after booting that says, "invalid smart card", which goes away about five seconds after. I may hook the card slot adapter back up and use the 12 supply right from the Coolsat's power supply, even though it doesn't really matter about the error because the receiver won't be hooked to a TV, so no one will see it. Or still use the 3.3 for the CS, with it hooked up, seeing as how the CS won't be in use.
Figured I'd post this as it's a way to put one of those old DVB receivers to use. One thing to keep in mind though, is the range of the transmitter. before I used the Tunecast, I looked on Amazon for a FM transmitter and saw some that would go 2 - 7 miles, going that far, you may get a knock on your door if your transmission interferes with anything! The Tunecast has a range of about thirty feet, so basically, it covers inside my house and that's about it. I took my smart phone and used the radio app on it, walked around to see how far the signal went and outside of the house I lost reception, so I figured it's good.
I still have to setup a dedicated dish for it too, for now, I just pointed my Ku motorized one at the correct sat and ran a coax to it temporarily.
Of course, you could just power the transmitter on it's own and hook to the audio outputs of the receiver, I just didn't want a bunch of wires hanging, separate power supplies, etc.
