Hi Hamish,

Thanks for your question about Campcaster. Please keep us posted on your
progress so that we can add the station to our 'Who's using Campcaster?'
list of stations.

Last year we put together a machine that served as our 'Hardware Reference
Platform,' a machine that should run Campcaster quite well. In general,
you need as fast a CPU as possible, and I'd recommend multiple hard disks
for archiving programs (as big as you can get; 200-300 GB seems to be the
right price/performance point these days).

Depending on how you plan to use Campcaster, you can have 1, 2 or 3 sound
cards.

If all you're doing is running pre-scheduled programs, 1 sound card should
be fine.

If all you're doing is running Campcaster Studio in Live Mode, 2 sound
cards are good - 1 for on-air output and 1 for previewing files.

If you're running in both scheduled and live mode, 3 sound cards are
recommended because the scheduler should run on a separate card than both
preview and live mode.

Campcaster uses ALSA, and the ALSA folks have a big list of sound card
drivers and compatibility here:

http://www.alsa-project.org/alsa-doc

The link to the 'Hardware Reference Platform page is here:

http://code.campware.org/projects/campcaster/wiki/HardwareReferencePlatform


One other thing that might be of interest to you if you're in a rural area
of Laos: Frederic Renet and Ian Howard of Adapted Consulting have been
doing some excellent work on hardware these days. They have just announced
their "Open FM" designs, which can even power a 150W FM transmitter with
solar power (!). There's more on Open FM at this address:

http://openfm.adaptedconsulting.com

We are currently working with Adapted Consulting on the design of a PC
optimized for running Campcaster in rural African conditions. It will run
on 12V DC (for powering by solar panels or car batteries), will use solid
state flash memory for reliable booting and will not have a fan - it will
use a special heat diffusion method because fans are too large a power
draw. When they are finished with the design, we will post it as open
source hardware, so please check back with us about that.


Hope this helps,


douglas

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Author: hammer v2
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Hey guys,
I'm trying to setup a simple, one computer campcaster setup here in Laos
for a UN community Radio project. Anyhoo, I'm in charge of building the
box.
Any suggestions on which hardware is going to work without problems?

I've got a small budget and I know all about hardware and am very familiar
with Linux.

The only request is that I'll be running Ubuntu feisty.

What are you guys running? Is it reliable?
Some pointers here would be great.
Hamish.

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