[1MachineElf]

From 2013-2020 I found myself listening to radio stations on the regular while the rest of my friends were busying themselves with Spotify. In the beginning, it was because I moved to a rural area where FM radio was more reliable than the internet. Later, it was because I could not stream reliably on my phone as I passed through ~80 miles of countryside each way to work for 3 days every week. This has given me an appreciation of FM radio, especially local radio, that's unique among my peers.

I absolutely love this website. I like that my own local radio stations are on this. I like that radio stations from around the world are on this. It's awesome!

For the DC metro area, local favorites are:

- WETA 90.9 http://radio.garden/listen/weta-fm/Jei27SwN

- WPFW 89.3 http://radio.garden/listen/wpfw-fm-89-3/ninSp4px

I take it these are all radio stations that also do internet streaming. There is something similar that I've wondered about for a long time. Is there any easy to build or off-the-shelf device that I could use to stream FM radio on my local network? Say for example, I want to listen to FM radio while in the basement, but the reception is poor. Does there exist an FM tuner that I could mount in the attic window for best reception, connect via Ethernet, and then tune/stream whatever is playing to a client device down in the basement?

[inyorgroove]

This should be possible with a RTL-SDR and a raspberry pi. I don't know of any off the shelf software, but the RTL-SDR for sure can tune FM stations.