![]() Well a transformer will always be some dead weight and a draw, and the inverter will always pull some, although in the end if all your running is a couple of low watt led's its not going to be an issue on anything but the smallest system i would imagine. I have a Morningstar TS-300 running 24/7 anyway for certain items that need it, so run my LED lights off that (it's on anyway) and don't have to worry about voltage surges from battery EQ etc driving the LEDs too hard and shortening their life. Unless of course you have power to spare, which most of us don't. Unless you have power to spare, have extremely long runs from battery to lights that require high voltage to cut transmission losses, or have huge lights, go with 12 volt lights, only use them at night when the voltage isn't so high (charging batteries) and keep that 1000 watt inverter shut down unless it's really needed for big loads. Using a step-down transformer from 220 VAC to whatever voltage you want for the lights would work too, and if the transformer is small, would add little extra load to the batteries compared to the 1000 watt inverter powering it. If you want to run the lights off AC, I definitely would use a far smaller, less energy hungry inverter - that is unless you're lighting up the Wal*Mart parking lotīetter still, eliminate the drain of running an inverter altogether if you have only a few small wattage lights, get 12 volt LED lights, then the only drain would be when a light is actually on, and then only the wattage of the light. And when running the lights, will add it's running load to that of the lights. How many lights will usually be on at one time? And what wattage?įor instance, if only running 3 or 4 one watt LED's off a 1000 watt inverter, the inverter alone could be consuming 20 watts just sitting there idling, providing power just in case you might turn on a light. My next weekend project will be to create a web front-end to shark - perhaps even implement a record-to-disk option.Re: Run LED lights direct from 12v or inverter. Tune in to the stream URL using XMMS, VLC, WinAmp or your favorite audio player, and you sould hear something, at least some white noise.Īfter a few seconds -depending on your audio player buffer size- you should hear the new station. When you reload in your web browser you should get a stream mount point with your newly defined stream. ![]() Start up darkice with /usr/bin/darkice -c /etc/darkice.cfg.You should get a status screen without any streams. Start up icecast2 running /etc/init.d/icecast2 start and check out that it’s running by opening.My own configuration goes something like this: Copy /usr/share/doc/darkice/examples/darkice.cfg to /etc/darkice.cfg and edit to taste.Edit /etc/icecast2/icecast.xml and fill out at least the authentication and hostname sections.Check that your brand-new shark is working:.Input: USB HID v1.00 Device on usb-0000:00:10.0-2ĭrivers/usb/input/hid-core.c: v2.6:USB HID core driver Usb 1-2: new full speed USB device using uhci_hcd and address 3 Plug the radioSHARK in the USB port you’ll get this in dmesg:.So how do you get a full-functioning, live-streaming, all-singing radioSHARK working under Debian? This is the list of packages for Debian GNU/Linux: linux-image-2.6.15-1-k7 The program that controls the radioSHARK lights and change the current station is shark.c, but if you get it from you’ll have to copy+paste and clean it up a bit, so you might want to use this ready-to-go shark.c instead. ![]() I don’t care much for the time-shifting feature of the Windows/Mac client, and the record function can be replicated with VLC save to disk function or using command-line tools. They recommend ecasound to transcode the audio input to the sound card in a single computer, but I rather use icecast2 to stream the signal to different computers around the house - even to the office or while I’m on the road. The definitive guide for the radioSHARK under linux is at. So now it was time to move it over to Linux. Not really an option, but at least it meant that that the hardware was working fine. The only way I got it to spit any sound at all was while in audio “test” mode. Trying to get it to run in Windows XP was totally fruitless. Once the sweet sweet parcel arrived the radio SHARK sat for a couple of weeks gathering dust while I got a moment to play with it. Since it has a nice discount over at amazon I ran out of excuses for not buying one, so I finally ordered it. I have been meaning to get a Griffin radioSHARK with the intention of getting it running on Linux.
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