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[MTCD Software Development] [Delta ²k5]:
Hello [MENTION=2734955]KoTiX2[/MENTION] - I recently purchased your great app and wanted to say "thank you!" for the already great job you did :)

Ofc. I also wanted to share some suggestions and bugs I found with you too and hope it'll help you improving it even further.

(Minor) bugs:

1. Live Wallpapers: If you select the background as "wallpaper" in layout settings the app seems to have rendering issues as the apps overlays freeze in place while the live wallpaper is still moving.

2. Audio capturing by third party apps (like visualizers (e.g. Audio Glow) are not working correctly - on the stock radio application it worked like expected).

Suggestions:

1. Like in the original Radio app this one does not provide title info through the notification service like other music apps do (e.g. google play) - so visualizers like Audio Glow won't get that information properly. It would be nice if the RDS info is send as the title and the stations name as the artist somehow :)

2. It would be nice to be able to change the scale and position of elements like the big frequency text in the advanced theme options :)

3. A thing that might or might not be possible: The stock radio app is able to send text through my cars CAN and display it on the MFD. Actually it just sends the frequency while the original RNS510 ofc. sends the full information. I know that the CAN decoder/encoder of the MTC(D) devices is limited, but probably you can figure out some way to actually send the station name and probably RDS info to the CAN.

4. Implementation of some custom equalizer as radio quality most times differs much from mp3 or CD, so it would be great to be able to have separate settings just for radio :)

5. Integration of DAB+ functionality so one would not need another app which would look and work different again (or you could create a DAB fork of this app and sell it separately ;) )

Some hardware info for you:

MTCD Erisin 5015 with Hal9k Android 8 Rom

2012 VW Eos

Greetings!
[MTCD Software Development] AdekP:
Great idea!

If possible, that would be a great thing. So far, it has not been possible to correct the sound by external applications, but KoTIX2 showed that you can catch RDS data, although it was not possible before :)

It seems to me that a simple correction would occur, because the bass in our units is not lacking, and the treble is very short
[MTCD Software Development] f465gt:
I had issues after the first start of the app. It was slow, stubborn and crashed twice. Interestingly DAB-Z also crashed after switching between these two. One reboot later and all is fine. I noticed that NavRadio also uses Viper. Thus I guess it was a problem of system overload and not a specific issue of the app itself.

Anyway I figured out that apparently SWR3.png is buggy and causes the app to crash. I sent you two reports about that. I also tried the png from the Volkswagen archive with the same result.

If I may request two things:

When you set the theme to a light blue it is hard to figure out if e.g. the stereo button is on. I would prefer the old way: off - light grey; on - black

When selecting the station grid 2x4 the counting is odd. I have for stations in my list and it shows up like:

1 2 empty empty

3 4 empty empty

I expected:

1 2 3 4

Empty empty...

So long,

Sebastian
[MTCD Software Development] KoTiX2:
Tnx for your report Sebastian, this help a bit debugging the app.

Right now I'm redesigning the edit/add dialogs and the settings screens to have better readability.

I will change also the sounding menus in same way then..

In the same time I started building the free version and trying to reproduce all the crashes that people are experiencing now.

I'll see if I can add file check when loading the logos but I have to re-zip all the packages anyway please tell me your country so I can remove or fix that bad file.

The buttons issue is set on the todo listo. Tnx ;)
[MTCD Software Development] f465gt:
Hi,

I'm from Germany. I also tried this file from VW: https://webspecial.volkswagen.de/vwinfotainment/ch/de/index/downloads#/

Thanks,

Sebastian
[MTCD Software Development] 9_Mad-Max_5:
[MENTION=2734955]KoTiX2[/MENTION]

I just bought an tested the app.

I´m using Malaysk 1.2.7 an running in some issues.

First things first the download icons button works a kind of but some Station logos are missing for germany.

Not to much of a bummer but ok.

SWR3 is one of those icons.

It kind of struggles with the sound.

Andoid is complaining all the time that navradio+ is stopped because of crashing all the time.

Maybe it is because of the 2*6 Design?

After stopping the app and restarting it with the systemprompt the app starts and runs at least.

But then there is no audio...
[MTCD Software Development] Timpuli:
I have noticed that most recent version of radio apk will "cut out sound" when exiting menus, for example. Same thing if car is reversing (reverse camera is on and radio sound is muted a little) and when resuming to radio app, sound will cut briefly. I think it was not like this in previous version?

Head unit: MTCE_PX30_MX
[MTCD Software Development] KoTiX2:
I probably identified the ****ty bug that is causing the crashes to some of you. Now I need to find a definitive solution .

I'll re-zip all the logos to avoid skipping tsome of them during extraction.

The audiofocus was wrong in previous builds, it was mixing music player and radio togheter.

Now it's more correct, it can be better but first I must kill that f...ing bug
[MTCD Software Development] KoTiX2:
The app download the files from that site and from my dropbox.

When the app extract the files downloaded from wolksvagen not all files are extracted.

So I will port all the packages from wolksvagen to my dropbox recompressing correctly the archives.
[MTCD Software Development] f465gt:
I extracted the SWR3.png, but as soon as you load it, the app crashes. :)
[MTCD Software Development] laihis:
I encountered couple of issues after using this app on weekend.

1) AF is not working. Most often it did not change to better frequency at all. Once it changed frequency to a totally different radio station and once it changed to a channel with only static noise.

2) All found stations are always saved automatically and this needs to be controlled somehow. After 2 days of using I have 90 saved stations with a lot of identical stations and frequencies.

I also had issues with steering wheel controls but I need to test it further.

Icon pack is also containing mostly wrong or irrelevant icons but I'm not sure if this is something that should be maintained as it must take a lot of effort and users are able to fix all icons themselves anyway.
[MTCD Software Development] KoTiX2:
AF is working just like the original app right now. It's inconsistent and sometimes switch to the wrong frequency. I guess it depends also on MCU type but not sure. we are investigating on it...

I don't understand how did it save 90 stations?

Please make a short video showing it because I have no idea how you did it.

Be sure to setup correctly the steering wheels.
[MTCD Software Development] royalhawk2002:
Just to let you know that also with previous MCU V3.07 AF is not working anymore. Since I saw that some people with the same Hal9k Android 9 ROM noticed the same, at this point could be a ROM issue.

Inviato dal mio SM-N960F utilizzando Tapatalk
[MTCD Software Development] royalhawk2002:
Which ROM and MCU are you using ?
[MTCD Software Development] Royaltion:
Way better than stock app, but..

I purchased the app on the play store. It’s a great improvement over the stock app but I have a few problems with it:

1. RDS not working for me. I’m in Australia, not sure if that has something to do with it. Station names are appearing but live rds with track name is not.

2. No station logos for Australia. If you could add this to the app it would be great.

3. Not sure what region to select for Australia. I don’t understand what the region selection is for. Station logos?

4. It’s not sending notifications to Ubiquity music player. I Prefer to be in the home screen after I have selected the radio station and use a widget to display station and RDS info. The stock app also doesn’t support this but there other one on xda forums does.

5. On my 1024x600 screen there is a slight overlap between the saved radio stations buttons in horizontal view - only for the selected station.

I hope you can look at these because the app is generally looking like a step in the right direction. Without items 1 & 4 I’ll probably try get a refund on the play store.
[MTCD Software Development] AdekP:
Have you tried enabling live-RDS in the settings / radio?
[MTCD Software Development] KoTiX2:
Tnx for your purchase Royaltion, I'll try to answer your points.

1.The app can show all the RDS informations it receive from the radio broadcast.

These infos are: station name, RDS text message, pty.

In some countries the RDStext message is totally missing because it's displayed alternatively in place of the station name.

For this reason I added the option for liveRDS in settings/radio menu.

2.sure I can add them but I need some help finding them, maybe you can post me some links? Right now I'm busy killing bugs, make the widget work on MTC, fix the audiofocus.

Anyway if you have your own logos you can just copy them in internal memory wherever you like and setup stations with them.

3.Region in settings is a working progress right now, it do change the radio region on allwinner units and I'd like to make it work on MTC too.

The nationality of the logo can be set in logos section but Australia is missing now (I didn't even know you have RDS there :p )

4.I guess ubiquity need the metadata notifications like Agama , I'll add them soon after the "bugs festival" is ended.

5.The slight overlap of the selected station is a kind of zoomy effect that effectively doesn't make that big effect...

On a side note, just to explain to everybody a few things...

I'm working on this app since july2019 everysingle day, many hours per day.

Surely I'm not the best programmer out there but I try to do my best to make the difference in everything I do.

I'm not forcing anybody to buy the app, google or I can refund the money.

I just hope people is patience enough to accept some initial bugs or incomplete things that I didn't even know that exist.
[MTCD Software Development] Royaltion:
Yep. Tried it on and off. No difference.

---------- Post added at 11:33 PM ---------- Previous post was at 11:28 PM ----------

I’m not dismissing the the effort you have put into this. You’ve done some great work and in my view it’s 90% there.

I think you have done some great work and that’s why I’m giving the feedback. If I didn’t like it, I would have just deleted the app and left it at that. As a developer myself I find that honest feedback helps to improve the product.

---------- Post added at 11:55 PM ---------- Previous post was at 11:33 PM ----------

We’re quite advanced in Australia - we even have the internet. But only when the cables aren’t on fire.
[MTCD Software Development] KoTiX2:
Hehe, in wolksvagen they don't know you have RDS either ...

Somebody should tell them :)

Please let me know if you find logos somewhere, I'll try to dig a bit on Wikipedia but I really need your help on this. :svetius:
[MTCD Software Development] AdekP:
I recommend finding the logos yourself and saving them as * png. You can be sure that when you try, they will be of good quality. I did it and I am more satisfied with them than those included in the application
[MTCD Software Development] KoTiX2:
Please send me your own package so I can update the ones in the application.

I'm not using the wolksvagen links anymore, I'm making my own logo database.
[MTCD Software Development] Royaltion:
This thread on vwwatercooked has most (all?) of them.

https://www.vwwatercooled.com.au/fo...unit-radio-station-logos-album-art-87734.html
[MTCD Software Development] Scopesys:
[MENTION=2734955]KoTiX2[/MENTION]

So today I tested the current USA Maryland logo file set - with mixed results .

The Good news: Those FM station transmitting the "correct" SID, got the correct Logo, the 1st time they were tuned into

But,

(a) Some stations did not transmit a Sid, so nothing resolved ( as expected)

I tried adding the Frequncy to the filename, but still did not resolve.

(b) Some station here in Maryland are transmitting the Incorrect SiD .. go figure, so all bets are off with those.

(c) Station with good sids that matched, got the correct logo, but were sending Song Info at the time the Logo was matched, so the Station got a name that was part of the currently playing song !!

USA RDS is totally screwed up, despite have an Enormously expensive Government agency that is meant to be regulating them.

It would also seem that here in the USA, stations do NOT always use a Sid that is a decode of the Callsign,

ie WPOC should be SID 32178, but because of equipment reasons, use a Sid of 7602

So I don't think it is going to be easy, to generate USA State sets of Logo files, without being able to determine what Sid the stations are using

From WPOC Station Engineer:

https://www.nrscstandards.org/standards-and-guidelines/documents/standards/nrsc-4-b.pdf?

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Bottom line -- I am going to GIVE Up generating a complete Maryland set of Logo Files

For my own use, I am going to modify the last set I sent you, to have the Frequency first in the filename.

They will still work with current navRadio+ if a SID match can be found

I will also update any that I can receive, that have the correct, non "Callsign decoded Sid", so they will resolve..

As for Station without Sids, they will have to be selected Manually, and having the frequency as the first part of the filename , should help that manual process, in making teh correct logo file easier to find manually,

The issue of the RDS putting the Incorrect name into the Station name also have to be addressed Manually, unless NavRadio+ is prepared read and substitute a Station name in the filename, with the Random Rubbish text that so many USA Stations are sending in their Station name Field,

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Yes, the current Maryland file will correctly work for most of the Logo files in it, but I cannot see how any of the other State Logo files can work automatically, without a Sid ?
[MTCD Software Development] KoTiX2:
Ok tnx for all your help testing all this and for your clarifications.

Just to better understand, when you sintonize a station the very first string that RDS show can be the name but also something else?

If automatic assignment of logo and name according to RDS received name is totally not working or not acceptable , then it's better if I add a settings to disable these features.
[MTCD Software Development] Scopesys:
CORRECT: when you sintonize a station the very first string that RDS show can be the name but also something else.

As far as the USA is concerned, it's probably OK as it is:- because apart from Maryland, none of the other States have Sids in the filenames.

The few logos that there are for any particular state, will just have to be selected manually.

Maybe look at it some time in the future, if more USA users start making Logo files that follow the correct filename format.
[MTCD Software Development] KoTiX2:
Hi guys, some screenshots of the upcoming new features:

LIST MANAGEMENT with new sort methods

(File Save dialog can display now the forlders icons too)

AUTOSCAN MENU

In top left corner of Grid view i added a frequncy display that is visible when RDS name is shown. I don't know if i'll add a settings to disable it, i'll wait users response ;)

I improved again the merging of AF frequencies.

Metadatas are send now after 3 seconds that NavRadio goes in background so Agama can get them right away.

Maybe more stuff will come before the end of the week ;)
[MTCD Software Development] KoTiX2:
1. I'll see if i can find a solution but I noticed that after restarting the app the rendering is ok.

2. WHat do you mean by "Audio capturing"? Audio form radio cannot be processed by AudioGlow or any othe android app as i know.

1. Ok, I'll look at it

2. yes it's in my to do list since a long time

3. I beleive that this is handle only by MCU

4. I still don't know if the audio from radio can be processed by android

5. Maybe next year? :P
[MTCD Software Development] okij:
Wow, this looks very promising! :cool: I'm looking forward to the new version! :)

There are some remaining FCC integration issues that I posted here and here on the FCC thread. Some of those issues definitely have to be fixed in FCC itself, but the ones that still might have to be fixed in NavRadio+ are:

Could you please have a closer look into these issues and give us some feedback if they can (and will) be fixed in NavRadio+, so [MENTION=4292729]SpeedFire-[/MENTION] knows if he has fix to them in FCC Launcher? Unfortunately [MENTION=4292729]SpeedFire-[/MENTION] did't comment on them yet or released a new FCC test version since I posted those remaining issues, so currently I don't know when and by whom those issues will be fixed. It would be great to have a fully working NavRadio+ integration in FCC Launcher soon. :)
[MTCD Software Development] Scopesys:
Looks great )

One Thing, rather than the BIG "FILE EXIST", can you either add to, or replace FILE EXITS with the actual filename that is existing.

I know one has just typed it in, but with the popup, it cannot be seen anymore.

Also, please check that ST LOC TA TP a AF are displaying correctly according to what has been selected.

(Also Would be nice if in the selection menu, they are in the same order as on the Screen)
[MTCD Software Development] KoTiX2:
1. There is some missunderstanding with these top icon...

ST, TA and TP don't depend on the selectors condition on/off but on the corresponding signal received. When a station transmit in stereo the ST is lighted up. The same for TP and TA signals.

LOC and AF instead depend on the selection in the bottom menu.

2. You already asked me this and I will add some settings for resizing fonts but this is not my priority right now. So you'll have to wait for that. I will adjust the position of the MHz.

BTW, I like the way it is now :p
[MTCD Software Development] KoTiX2:
1. Good suggestion:svetius: it will be in next release

2. There is some missunderstanding with these top icon...

ST, TA and TP don't depend on the selectors condition on/off but on the corresponding signal received. When a station transmit in stereo the ST is lighted up. The same for TP and TA signals.

LOC and AF instead depend on the selection in the bottom menu.

Ok, I'll put them in the same order .
[MTCD Software Development] Scopesys:
Thanks, I have always been confused with these Letters and what they mean.

Maybe my confusion is because it would seem, that on closer examination, that my Eono Head Unit does not support some of this stuff (Correctly)

What is more upsetting, is that it would seem that despite being able to tell that a Radio Station is transmitting in Stereo, everything plays in Mono, no matter what the Mono/Stereo selector is set for.... No wonder I prefer the sound of Mp3 players !!

Anyway, this is my understanding of these Functions .. maybe will help anyone else trying to make sense of it all --

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The options to use TP and TA are users selectable.

However, here in the USA, it would seem that TA & TP do not do anything. (or are not working in navRadio+ or my Eonon Radio

ie If TP is turned on, it makes NO stations are found that navRadio+ detects are sending Traffic Data, despite the fact that one Local station to me - WPOC, tells me they do send Traffic Data.

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For those in the USA, looking for lists of FM radio stations by State, some with Logos - check out: http://radiostationnet.com/fm/
[MTCD Software Development] emre33:
NO!

TA is a function that can be switched on and off! When I turn it on, it should always be active (white)!
[MTCD Software Development] KoTiX2:
Ok I will set 3 colors for off(grey), enabled(white or custum) and actually receiving signal(colored or custom inverted)
[MTCD Software Development] Drunkenninja:
Is there a way to uninstall the built in radio?

Is it safe to remove as well, will Navradio+ still work ok?

Also sometimes when I press the home screen on the Navradio+ screen it will close he radio, not sure why.
[MTCD Software Development] KoTiX2:
Tnx for this link too. BTW, as we talked privately, I'm downloading and renaming all logos from the gov site you gave me. For all the states.

I did some excel job and learning ;)
[MTCD Software Development] KoTiX2:
You can simply disable it from factory settings.
[MTCD Software Development] KoTiX2:
Release version 1.68 is on the way for testers. This is the changelog:

NEW - LISTS MANAGEMENT with new sort methods, folder and files browsing, overwrite check.

NEW - AUTOSCAN options to add new stations or create a new list

NEW - Main screen ARROWS function setting (smal steps or station change)

NEW - Frequency display in grid view if RDS name is present

NEW - Metadata notifications order selection and Enable options (found it in Interface/Notifications)

NEW - Send PTY information via Metadata ALBUM field (Ubiquity widget can already display it, FCC will probably handle it soon)

Improved Merging of AF frequencies (finally?)

Fixed TA top label color

Fixed USA PTY informations for MTC devices

Surely other fixes and things that i dont remember ;)

Here a picture showing all the widgets working with metadatas, on the right from top: Ubiquity, NavRadio, FCC

ENJOY:)
[MTCD Software Development] Scopesys:
[MENTION=2734955]KoTiX2[/MENTION] Great Update . all looks good except the SORT.

I had assumed the purpose of the sort was to to be able to sort the Presets, when a new Station was added.

Instead it seems to just be sorting the .json file.

So after a SORT, nothing changes on the Presets .. ie they are not sorted.

What one has to do, is to SORT, save the list, and then re-load the list

Maybe after a sort, the issue is that the Presets are not Refreshed on the screen ?

BTW: Still having the issue..

If I manually create a Station, and while on the CREATE Station Screen, select a logo, when I save, the Logo is NOT being saved.

It only gets saved when I go back in and EDIT the station, and find there is no logo, add one ,and then save.

What I feel should happen is.

(1) I create a New Station and while creating it, select a logo for it, edit any other items, and then Save.

it should appear as the Last Preset, with a LOGO.

(2) Then I should be able to go into the SORT menu, and either sort by Freq or Name, and the screen should refresh to reflect that sort.

I should not have to go into Save & re-load a json, just to get things sorted.

Really, the less saving and loading jsons, the better, as potentially when doing this , one can make a mistake and loose a setup.

BTW: Thanks for the update to the save json screen: Showing the current json files, and allowing the option to select any of them as the saved name.. very nice .. makes it so much easier.
[MTCD Software Development] Timpuli:
Updated to ver. 1.68 and it looks that merging of AF frequencies does not mess up frequencies like it did before, not even with weak broadcasts. App gets better and better, great!

Otherwise app works without other issues in my HU, but I do not use other launchers besides of stock one...

PX30, MTCE_MX_3.44

Android 9.0, HAL9 ROM, v4.0.2