WOW

I just wanted to submit "Hello World!" to my radio, not overthrowing a government...

Really enjoyed reading your post

@ sulu
Then we are agreed...

I love visiting Germany ..
But there is no way in hell I would move and leave paradise for it.

@ abu
There you go...
"Hello World" can be your Broadcast intro from the back of the moving van as you instigate the new world order from your n900...

In my experience with a car radio, it's measured in cm. Perhaps indoors with a fixed antenna aimed at the N900, across the room.

Updates to the fm transmitter broke the RDS so it always just shows "NOKIA" which is useless IMHO. (I guess there's a radio somewhere that shows the "info" field, but I've never seen it). So every radio station I've ever seen just rotates all relevant text thru the station name field. But you can override that with a direct call to fmtx.

Great idea actually.

Another usecase are Timelapse videos.
With its 5Mpx camera you can still make 2k/1920p videos by shooting images in an interval and then convert the stack of images to video frames with ffmpeg.
Done that some years ago with an obsolete N8

Lucky you. I found the FM transmitter signal to be so weak that I can only use on frequencies waaaaay away from any used channel. There is no way it could "outshout" an existing radio station.

Again, lucky you. In my experience, even 3m can be considered a success under the conditions you describe.

I never had problems in terms of signal strength with my N900's FM transmitter in cars.

The only thing that has become increasingly difficult over the past 5 years is, that radio stations have been packed increasingly dense on the available spectrum. You want to be at least 1 MHz away from the next official channel to get a clear signal.


Neither can I. But at 2m distance to the receiver's antenna I can at least compete with any official station, and Helene Fischer plus Metallica still equals T(h)rash Metal.

When (or small "IF") FM radio Goes down N900 still will broadcast FLAC&MP3 / Internet Radio / FM.

The percentage of high end Radio Tuners that are of high quality and also very good looking still out there will always outnumber the number of DAB+ ones.
If that format ever gets out of the car radio's.
With about 8 or 10 Nokia N900 one could reasonably simulate to unaware grand-kids the thrill and convenience of tuning in to radio stations with free music.

N900 as an Internet Radio it is unbeatable, how was it possible that Nokia integrated the internet radio right into the standard music player and even added play via FM functionality. What where they thinking?
Everybody knows that people rather try 10 to 20 different "radio apps" with visual advertisements and preferable install a different app for every single internet radio station before accidentally stumbling on the one or two apps that offer an global station index service of course still separated from the other music players because integration is what we hate: we want to install apps on our devices while exercising our freedom of choice as a mobile consumer.

I remember on very poor internet the N900 internet radio buffering went way better in terms of playing the stream uninterrupted where the dedicated internet radio could not offer the same experience.

I sometimes even take the physical antenna off of the car when renting to improve the N900's receive vs local FM broadcast.
For a while I was jacking my BH-214 into the aux so I could also skip songs (old car bluetooth did calls not other audio) but now I just use a Pebble watch to skip songs and can use Bluetooth, Aux, or most easily FM transmit. I think having a charge cable improves the link as it puts transmitter ground to car FM receiver ground.
Also the FM transmit boost app really helps, it is a script that sets Xmit to hardware max. Check the repos including testing.