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Why do I love innovation and community radio?
November 23, 2022
Open Source, Radio
25 years of CFET Radio. Everyday is innovation day at CFET and CJUC Community Radio. We have a really good pool of experienced professionals working in the field that enjoy meeting new friends from abroad that are passionate about building open source community broadcasting tools. ► เป็นอย่างไรบ้าง ► 你好吗 ► হ্যালো ► Namaste ► Kumasta! […]
Read moreOBServer Release v5.3.1
November 18, 2022
Accessibility, Open Source, Radio, Television
Latest version receiving new features. This version breaks compatibility with modules due to code/API refactoring. For production environments, consider latest v5.2 release until modules are updated. Source code (zip) Source code (tar.gz) Features API v2 using more modern RESTful implementation (alpha) begin building automated testing via CodeCeption (alpha) OB CLI tool (alpha) with “check install” […]
Read moreHindi language accessibility translations
April 11, 2022
Accessibility, Language, Open Source
All the menus and help screens for Observer are now translated into UTF8 Hindi language for the community radio sector in India for everyone to enjoy. We are lucky to have Mohit Godiya on our team, not only providing technical support and coding, but also speaking\writing 7 different languages assisting global users.
Read moreTWiRT 568 – Common Alerting Protocol
October 29, 2021
Emergency Alerting, Open Source, Radio
Common Alerting Protocol Doesn’t sound exciting, but what it’s doing for people in many countries is sometimes life-saving. We might think of CAP as a new-ish way to receive emergency messages, such as Child Abduction Emergency notification. Or we may consider CAP as just another input source to our broadcast EAS systems. There’s a lot […]
Read moreEmergency Disaster Assistance – Resilience Through Innovation
November 18, 2020
Emergency Alerting, Open Source, Radio
Pyrate 3.0 November 18, 2020 Tagish, Yukon, Canada As part of Canadian Innovation Week, OpenBroadcaster Inc is releasing Pyrate 3.0 free and open-source software (FOSS). An open source emergency response radio and TV broadcast toolkit for stations to remotely access their studios and distribute CAP emergency alert messages during COVID19. About Raspberry Pi Pyrate Broadcast […]
Read moreTWIRT 388 Open Source Radio
May 17, 2018
Open Source, Radio
Lots of fun chatting about our company history and innovative open source broadcast automation systems. http://thisweekinradiotech.com/twirt-home/2018/3/23/twirt-388-open-broadcaster-with-rob-hopkins
Read moreOpenBroadcaster Supports Axia Livewire RTP Protocol
January 23, 2018
Open Source, Radio
OpenBroadcaster releases open source software to provide Livewire\RTP support with Axia Audio over IP (AoIP) consoles. This exciting added functionality presents the opportunity to easily field, deploy and integrate standalone OBPlayer into the AoIP broadcast chain with CAP EAS emergency alerts. This innovation builds on the suite of web-enabled general software and automation appliances with […]
Read moreHow did I get here in radio land?
January 23, 2018
Emergency Alerting, Language, Open Source, Radio, Television
Rob Hopkins – Tagish, Yukon Back in 1989 – 1993 I was able to save up and take off with my bicycle and spend a few years traveling around the world, through China, India, South East Asia and Europe. I was able to subsidize my traveling and live the “Yukon dream” by spending 6 months […]
Read more2 Yukon Companies Assist in Deployment of Radio Network in Nunavut
August 31, 2016
Language, Open Source, Radio
For Immediate Release Aug 31, 2016 OpenBroadcaster Inc and Computerisms Corporation are pleased to have played a part in a project spearheaded by SSI Micro and the Kitikmeot Inuit Association (KIA) to introduce its latest public service, the Kitikmeot Radio Network (KRN). The pilot project was launched July 9th and was timed to coincide with […]
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