Press & News
✨ Ready for open source emergency alerting?
April 15, 2025
Emergency Alerting, Open Source, Tech Advisory
UNESCO – Digitization and AI for Archives and collections. Results of a survey exploring how AI is impacting digitization of Archives and Documentary Heritage Material. See Report Sunset Advisory for first generation AlertPlayer 5.0 Systems These devices are over 10 years old, with limited storage capabilities and incompatible with current operating systems. Due to these […]
Read more📻 Climate Emergency Alerting with Open Source Software 📻
February 21, 2025
Emergency Alerting, indigenous, Open Source, Radio
Hello Radio Friends, I am presently working remotely this winter in Thailand and reside in the Yukon Territory up in northern Canada, beside Alaska. Historically 2 major events happened here; the Klondike gold rush of 1898 and the building of the Alaska highway in 1942 to connect the continental US to Alaska in preparation of […]
Read more📢 Indigenous Community Media Fund: Apply Now 📢
December 20, 2024
Emergency Alerting, indigenous, Open Source
Indigenous Community Media Fund The ICMF provides financial support to strengthen Indigenous community media infrastructure. It aims to ensure the sustainability of Indigenous-managed media, with a focus on initiatives related to environmental justice and climate change. Eligible regions include Latin America, the Caribbean, Africa, North America, and specific countries in Asia. Grants offered are up […]
Read more📢 Calling All Raspberry Pi Coders and Hackers 📢
November 8, 2024
Open Source
Are you a DIY coder with a passion for technology and open-source innovation? We’re on the lookout for talented individuals experienced in: – Raspberry Pi – Ubuntu – Open Source Software – Bash Scripting While familiarity with community radio and broadcasting is a plus, it’s not a requirement. This is an incredible opportunity for tech […]
Read more🚨 Open Source CAP Broadcaster – Development Guide 🚨
October 22, 2024
Emergency Alerting, Open Source
Open Source CAP Broadcaster Development Guide 2024 CAP Implementation Workshop Prepared by: Vincent Maggard Executive Summary This white paper is aimed at software developers interested in integrating additional alerting system support into OBPlayer and potentially other broadcast automation systems using Common Alerting Protocol (CAP) covering the following elements: Understanding the Common Alerting Protocol […]
Read more✨New OBServer and OBPlayer 5.3X releases
April 15, 2024
Open Source
OBServer Release v5.3.2 (April 1, 2024) Features 🔹 new language field now using ISO-639-3 languages and showing most used languages at the top 🔹 add support for module update files 🔹 improved OB CLI tool output and added functionality (list and run updates, run cron, change user password) 🔹 config file setting for custom media […]
Read more🔥Wildfire Season Are You Ready for Emergency Communication? 🔥
March 26, 2024
Emergency Alerting, indigenous, Open Source, Radio
Wildfire Season Radio Station in a Box When cell phone towers go down due to fiber cuts or power outages, how do you ensure your community stays informed and safe? Traditional communication methods may falter, but with our mobile Radio Station in a Box, you have a reliable lifeline. Are you part of an indigenous […]
Read more📻 FREE OpenBroadcaster Radio Training
February 13, 2024
Radio
Happy World Radio Day!!! 2 training sessions. No charge. You can try and do these lessons on your own or wait until I show you next week. Will be conducted through Discord Feb 20 15:00 Yukon Time (MST) https://support.openbroadcaster.com/server-training#saved-search-filters https://discord.gg/PjbKZA4z?event=1207106220461260841 Feb 21 15:00 Yukon Time (MST) https://support.openbroadcaster.com/server-training#advanced-metadata https://discord.gg/sdk6MFNx?event=1207107767320580097
Read more✨ Open Source Broadcast Automation
December 21, 2023
Emergency Alerting, Language, Open Source
Holiday Visitors Techsoup Canada Grants and Free Services Are you a non profit needing; web hosting, grants, subsidized rates for commercial hardware and software. CJUC Radio (Whitehorse) recently utilized this easy to access service for a 3,500.00 USD grant for the Azure web hosting offer. There is an entire catalogue of services, products and hardware […]
Read more📢 Emergency Communications 101
April 13, 2023
Emergency Alerting
CAP Alert Player for Radio and Television April 27 2023 at 10:00 AM – Noon Pacific Time Learn how to manage and configure open source systems to provide community emergency alerts and prepare for the National Public Alerting tests May 10 Skill: Beginner or user of Alert Player. […]
Read more📻 Indigenous Community Media Fund
December 21, 2022
Emergency Alerting, Language, Open Source, Radio, Television
Winter Solstice – Northern Hemisphere -40 Celsius here in Tagish Yukon. For our neighbours to the south, -40C is the same as -40F 2023 Call for Proposals for the Indigenous Community Media Fund The Indigenous Community Media Fund at Cultural Survival provides opportunities for Indigenous community radio stations and media outlets to strengthen their broadcast […]
Read more💡 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 more🛠 Build a better broadcast application with open source tools
November 11, 2022
Emergency Alerting, Open Source, Radio, Television
OBServer Restful API Code Update We’ve been picking away at code refactoring and API stabilization over the last 6 months. * selected the PSR-12 standard and have updated code to be compliant * started defining and implementing our API v2 more in line with typical REST principles * started transitioning dependencies to be composer-managed PHP […]
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 moreFunding Estimate Tool
March 23, 2022
Accessibility
Simple as 1, 2, 3 Use this easy to use tool to generate a detailed estimate to pass along to funders and regulators. Add items to cart and set shipping destination Enter your project name then click Finalize Estimate App generates page to print to PDF or paper with QR Code
Read more📻 Rob is Analog 📻 ALFF Audience Favorite Award
March 8, 2022
Emergency Alerting, Language, Open Source, Radio, Television
Available Light Film Festival 2022 Audience Choice Winners The winner of the ALFF Audience Choice Award for Best Canadian Documentary, Rob Is Analog, was also the audience favorite overall. Yukon filmmaker, Jessica Hall’s funny and charming documentary about “Radio Rob” Hopkins: a ramshackle communications pirate who pioneered community radio in Southern Yukon and fights for […]
Read moreHow do I use OpenBroadcaster for Legislative Broadcasting and Audio Archiving?
March 2, 2022
Radio, Television
Legislative Broadcasting and Recording – Setup server and player as normal – Create a DPL that plays the “Off Air” message on repeat – Create a InSession playlist that plays a message on repeat like “The legislature is in session but the audio is currently disabled. Please stand by for resumption of the session” – […]
Read more📻 Rob is Analog 📻 World Radio Day
February 15, 2022
Radio, Television
Happy World Radio Day 2022 https://openbroadcaster.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/wrd_cfet_tagish.mp4?_=2 Rob “Radio Rob” Hopkins is an analog guy in a digital world. A communications pirate fighting for the public’s right to something they might not even know they want. This charming and funny documentary tracks Rob’s quixotic quest to attain a CRTC licence for an over the air community […]
Read moreWelcome to our new web page!
January 23, 2022
Uncategorized
Thanks for your patience while we get everything up and running smoothly
Read more💡Supply chain delays? Open source solutions
December 21, 2021
Emergency Alerting, Open Source, Radio
Winter Solstice – Northern Hemisphere Supply chain issues? DIY Recycle 6 – 8 week lead time sound familiar? Expensive shipping? Stuck on your broadcast project waiting for parts? Re-purpose your existing hardware using Open Source code that runs on surplus equipment. Raspberry PI computers are widely available and inexpensive https://openbroadcaster.com/education/diy-broadcast-projects Repurposed Hardware Our latest IMG […]
Read more⚡ Indigenous radio station emergency alerting tools
December 21, 2021
Emergency Alerting, indigenous, Radio
Winter Solstice – Northern Hemisphere Wishing you and yours all the best for The Holidays… This year more than ever!! CJUC Radio 92.5 FM 24 hour broadcast from Whitehorse Yukon Canada IT’S HAPPENING NOW! Listen LIVE at CJUC FM CJUC is SO EXCITED to be hosting our first 24 hour radio live stream fundraiser/pledge drive […]
Read more📻 UNESCO Remote Radio Week
November 16, 2021
Open Source, Radio, Television
5th Asia Pacific Community Network Xchange We are on a panel discussion with the Asia-Pacific Institute for Broadcasting Development (AIBD) regarding Community Radio and it’s relationship with Community Networks, especially those stations with communications challenges. Date: November 17, 2021 Time: 0500-0715 UTC AGENDA Album Art A large American university recently sponsored development of a feature […]
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 moreOut In The Open – Spring 2021
April 2, 2021
Emergency Alerting, Open Source, Radio, Television
Radio Station in a Box Complete RIAB (Radio Station in a Box) assembled in a hard shell mobile case. 100% solid state, no moving parts 1. Open covers of mobile case 2. Hook up antenna, AC power and internet 3. Begin broadcasting POLLY AI Voices Update for ML210 legacy customers We have created a new […]
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 more📽️ Pop Up Drive-In Cinema
September 24, 2020
Accessibility, Open Source, Television
Decade + OpenBroadcaster = Pop Up Drive-In Cinema 📽️ https://openbroadcaster.com/case-studies/pop-up-drive-in-cinema On the evenings of September 11 + 12, we participated in a really interesting public installation, at the Whitehorse Library. A series of films were shared with an audience in their cars, tuning into a temporary LPFM radio signal for the audio. During the […]
Read more📻 Live Remote Radio Summer Solstice
June 18, 2020
Open Source, Radio
Live Remote Radio Summer Solstice From the land of the Midnight Sun Remote Radio Broadcasting Updated user guides with remote radio broadcasting and Live assist handbooks are available on our support site. Each module now has its own support page. https://support.openbroadcaster.com Live Streaming Use the Live Assist touch screen interface: * Stream to all stations […]
Read more🎉 Hindsight is 20/20…Foresight is 2020 🎉
January 21, 2020
Emergency Alerting, Language, Open Source, Radio
Happy New Year! Welcome to The New Decade! I’m presently located in and working out of Nan Thailand until April, 2020. Sawadee Cup! During the next 4 months, I’ll be travelling to neighbouring countries and hoping to meet some of you face to face. Complimentary Raspberry PI To celebrate this new decade, we are offering […]
Read moreDigital Sovereignty – Do you know where your data is?
October 31, 2019
indigenous, Open Source, Radio
Future Home of CJUC Radio https://www.cjucfm.com CJUC community radio site overlooking downtown Whitehorse Yukon from Haeckel Hill Open Source North 60 Our Second Annual OSN60 event was well attended with guests from all across Canada coming to Whitehorse. There was a diverse mix of languages including regional indigenous dialects and far away Estonian Language What […]
Read more📢 Emergency Alerts for Indigenous Communities
April 16, 2019
Emergency Alerting, indigenous, Uncategorized
Swans in Tagish Yukon Record-high bird count at Yukon’s Swan Haven over weekend. 3,000 birds make an awful lot of noise. https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/north/yukon-swan-haven-record-count Indigenous Alerts Within Canada, there are approximately 635 FNs and 50+ Inuit communities with numerous spoken languages and dialects. Canadian policy related to CAP alerting specifies support for Indigenous languages, but this has […]
Read more🕘 Stop Wasting Time. You Have Even Better Things To Do With It 🕔
October 4, 2018
Language, Open Source
Grass Roots Radio Conference Portland, Oregon – Oct 5 -7 Bill Polonsky, our training manager from the frozen city of Whitehorse Yukon and Adam Brody, marketing and business development will be delivering a joint presentation and hands on demonstration. Raspberry Pi Pyrate Radio — Open Source EAS Friday October 5 at 9:30 AM. Join us […]
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 more🍓 Open Source EAS Raspberry Pi 🍓
May 3, 2018
Emergency Alerting, Open Source
Open Source EAS with the Pyrate Raspberry Pi was mentioned in a letter to the FCC. Read the letter REC Network sent to FCC mentioning our work with open source EAS to Boost LPFM Participation in EAS. Coincidentally we are also mentioned in a recent CRTC hearing. https://www.radioworld.com/news-and-business/rec-to-fcc-changes-needed-to-boost-lpfm-participation-in-eas https://openbroadcaster.com/pyrate-radio-firmware Headless Video Loopback Emulators *** SOLVED […]
Read more📻 New Indigenous Radio Station Receives Federal Funding
April 23, 2018
Language, Radio
Crystal Rain Harry (left) and Bella Alphonse train with Rob Hopkins from Tagish, Yukon for the new Tsilhqot’in Community Radio station, launched on Friday, Dec. 15. On Monday the federal government announced $180,500 in funding for the radio project. New indigenous radio station receives federal funding Minister of Justice and Attorney General of Canada announced […]
Read moreTechnical Advisory – Update your Player
March 20, 2018
Tech Advisory
Excuse sending this later at the last minute. I wanted to do something rather than rely on social media. A situation presented itself today where we discovered a serious glitch in our alert player that had something to do with recent changes at the Pelmorex NAAD. We worked through the day here, tested and pushed […]
Read moreTrevor Baylis: Wind-up Radio Inventor Dies Aged 80
March 5, 2018
Accessibility, Radio
Trevor really inspired me to get into radio and provide services for the rest of the world. Would have really liked to meet him. Where I saw the challenge and opportunity was when these villages in Africa all got around to having a wind up radio, (no one could come up with the combined cost […]
Read more🍓 Raspberry Pyrate Radio 🍓
February 27, 2018
Open Source, Radio
DIY Maker Space Raspberry Pi Super easy, budget friendly, open source broadcast solutions for your Maker space project. Create an amazing, low-tech online digital jukebox broadcast automation system using a cloud based media library. Learn how to create community radio content and start an online radio station from home with open source software running on […]
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 moreOpen Source North 2018 – Whitehorse Yukon
January 21, 2018
Open Source, Radio, Uncategorized
Open Source North Event – Whitehorse Yukon Mar 23, 2018 A couple of like minded fans of open source and broadcasting are putting on an event in northern Canada’s Yukon Territory. We will have a meeting space to spend the day networking and learning more about how open source works with broadcast. This opportunity is […]
Read moreOpenBroadcaster Version 5
June 27, 2017
Emergency Alerting, Open Source
CLFG 1.2 Support Thanks everyone for your support to date. We wish to advise about updates for Alert Player to conform to the new CLFG 1.2 alerting specifications. Available to all customers and the DIY community, no charge. Customers that purchased Alert Player online have a rescue image ISO in User Account or register at […]
Read more🔊 Audio over IP with OpenBroadcaster 🔊
October 19, 2016
Open Source
LIVE Assist Webinar Join us Thursday, October 20 at 10:00 AM PST for a 30 minute demo on the Live Assist feature of our player including: * LIVE Assist Mode * Accepting incoming streams from remote locations * Hot Button Player and LA Play Lists This Webinar will be archived and available after. https://support.openbroadcaster.com/live-assist Global […]
Read moreOpen Source CAP (Common Alerting Protocol) Broadcast Application Developed in Canada
September 5, 2016
Emergency Alerting, Radio, Television
For Immediate Release September 5, 2016 OpenBroadcaster occupies a unique space in the marketplace as the only company in North America that offers a full suite radio automation and media asset management software package equipped with its own emergency messaging system adhering to the Common Alerting Protocol (CAP) CAP-CP History Aug 29, 2014 the Canadian […]
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 […]
Read moreTechnical Advisory – Software Updates
May 10, 2016
Tech Advisory
When there are new software updates, a Technical Advisory explaining what they are, will be sent to manually update installations. Critical security updates will be sent out immediately. Updates Latest Version 4.1.2-20160506 Please ensure your installation is current with these important updates https://support.openbroadcaster.com/install Player – Improved “line in” quality playback. – Fixed geocodes setting to […]
Read moreWhitehorse Trade Show
April 26, 2016
Open Source
New Features Broadcast Lock down. From a web browser, one click puts your station in lock down, disabling all playout and functions from DJs that are overstepping policy for offensive material. Plays the Default Playlist assigned to station service so there is no dead air. Thanks to Pierre@CHMA – Attic Broadcasting Sackville for this idea. […]
Read moreTechnical Advisory – Using the USB-XLR
April 12, 2016
Tech Advisory
Hello, Alert Player customers, Checking in to see how everyone is making out with their installations. There is an audio input mismatch condition that occurs between certain studio equipment XLR hook ups to our Alert Player using the USB-XLR adapter. Using a 20 dB H Pad, the USB-XLR adapter will pass thru +4dBu without the […]
Read moreKIA SSI Radio project in Kitikmeot Region Nunavut
February 14, 2016
Language, Radio
KITIKMEOT INUIT ASSOCIATION AND SSI MICRO TO COLLABORATE ON REGIONAL RADIO PILOT PROJECT Cambridge Bay, Nunavut, June 11th, 2015 The Kitikmeot Inuit Association (KIA) and SSI Micro are very pleased to announce a collaborative partnership to launch a Regional Radio Pilot Project in Nunavut’s Kitikmeot region. The Pilot Project will operate for an initial two […]
Read moreNews from OpenBroadcaster – Community Media Convergence
November 18, 2015
Emergency Alerting, Open Source, Radio
Community Media Conference OpenBroadcaster is busy preparing to attend Commedia at Carlton University Ontario Nov 22 – 24 Stop by and say hello to Jake one of the original lead developers for OpenBroadcaster and my nephew Christopher Nash at Commediaconverge.ca They will have a table participating at the technology fair and presenting about our work […]
Read moreOB Summer of Code
August 12, 2015
Accessibility, Open Source
Summer at OpenBroadcaster How is everyone making out this summer? Not too buggy or smoky? We have some exciting news to announce about our new ecommerce site to create on demand streaming mount points and services. There is also work being done to include some educational video. Stay Tuned for launch details early this fall. […]
Read moreGAATES Emergency CAP Alert LED Signage Project
April 29, 2015
Accessibility, Emergency Alerting, Open Source
CFET CJHJ GAATES Signage Pelmorex Testing March 10, 2015 The pilot project test started out with a couple of bumps. My team worked through these problems enabling both radio stations in Tagish and Haines Junction to each receive and broadcast the emergency messages within the 2 hour testing window. The LCD screen in Tagish Recreation […]
Read moreEmergency Radio and TV Testing
March 11, 2015
Emergency Alerting, Open Source, Radio, Television
Invitation for Emergency Radio and TV testing Tagish and Haines Junction Yukon On March 10, 2015 between 11:00 am and 1:00 pm Pacific daylight savings time Yukon Emergency Measures Organization will be conducting two live to air broadcast intrusive tests of the Yukon Emergency Public Alerting System in Tagish and Haines Junction, Yukon in conjunction […]
Read moreOn Thin Ice: Promoting Disability Inclusive Emergency Preparedness and Response, in Canada’s Arctic
February 10, 2015
Accessibility, Emergency Alerting, Radio, Television
Media Release 9 Feb 2015 In 2013, the Global Alliance on Accessible Technologies and Environments (GAATES) launched the On Thin Ice (OTI) Project. Funded by the Government of Canada’s Social Development Partnerships Program, the project seeks to protect lives and improve the security, well-being, and inclusion of persons with disabilities (physical, cognitive and sensory) and […]
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