Linux and Hauppauge Radio Tuner for Radio VCR?

[Leo Mauler]

A friend of mine recently upgraded her TV tuner, and
gave me her two older TV Tuners.  Her oldest TV Tuner
was one of the Hauppauge WinTV models which came with
an FM Tuner.  I was wondering if anyone has seen a
"Radio VCR" project for Linux using an internal FM
Tuner card.

I am excited about the prospect of being able to
schedule radio recordings, especially as an FM Tuner
should surely be able to be changed internally to
record from different stations automatically.  I've
done some scheduled recordings before but it was
always through Line-In and an external radio set to
one station only.  I'd like to be able to set up a
system to record different radio shows off different
radio stations, much like a VCR can record off several
different TV stations.  I was especially interested in
the use of the "btaudio" driver to permit sound coming
into the TV/FM Tuner Card to be transmitted directly
over the PCI bus, instead of having to run it through
the Line-In on the sound card.

The card is fully supported under Linux, FM Tuner
included, but all the Linux radio projects I've found
through LinuxTV.org seem to be "listening-only", as
opposed to a "Radio VCR". 

http://linuxtv.org/v4lwiki/index.php/Radio_Listening_Applications

(TinyURL: http://tinyurl.com/yp5dwj)

Gnomeradio has the option of recording, but you have
to be there to push the "Record" button, and still
there to shut off the recording, making it rather
useless.

http://www.wh-hms.uni-ulm.de/~mfcn/gnomeradio/

I've found an old "Linux Gazette" article from 2003,
which used ecasound, lame, and cron to schedule radio
programming, but his equipment choice was an external
programmable USB radio, as opposed to an internal FM
Tuner.

http://linuxgazette.net/issue94/yan-fa.html


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