AGL Radio Tuner Binding

FM Band Plan Selection

The FM band plan may be selected by adding:

fmbandplan=X

to the [radio] section in /etc/xdg/AGL.conf, where X is one of the following strings:

US = United States / Canada JP = Japan EU = European Union ITU-1 ITU-2

Example:

[radio]
fmbandplan=JP

Implementation Specific Confguration

USB RTL-SDR adapter

The scanning sensitivity can be tweaked by adding:

scan_squelch_level=X

to the [radio] section in /etc/xdg/AGL.conf, where X is an integer. Lower values make the scanning more sensitive. Default value is 140.

Example:

[radio]
scan_squelch_level=70

M3ULCB Kingfisher Si4689

The scanning sensitivity can be tweaked by adding:

scan_valid_snr_threshold=X
scan_valid_rssi_threshold=Y

to the [radio] section in /etc/xdg/AGL.conf, where X and Y are integers between -127 and 127. The SNR value is in units of dB, and the RSSI is in units of dBuV. Lower values make the scanning more sensitive. Default values in the Si4689 are 10 and 17, respectively. You may determine the values that the Si4689 is seeing when tuning by examining the results of tuning in the systemd journal, looking for lines like:

Example:

[radio]
scan_valid_snr_threshold=7
scan_valid_rssi_threshold=10

Known Issues

M3ULCB Kingfisher

Initial setup for a new Kingfisher board requires booting an image with Kingfisher support and running the commands:

si_init
si_firmware_update

This installs the provided firmware into the flash attached to the Si4689.

Since all operations are currently done by calling a patched version of Cogent Embedded's si_ctl utility, scanning currently cannot be interrupted. Additionally, sometimes a failure in scanning seems to result in muted state that currently has not been debugged.