help with sending to a streaming service

[Jay Dub]

Hi All,

I have streamed for years, first from a Uniden BCD396T streaming to broadcastify. 

A few years later I went to using SDRs using OP25 with liquidsoap and Icecast2. I have sent that both to broadcastify and later I started using https://az-streamingserver.com/ for free. For the past several years I have used OP25 on Ubuntu. In the past 4 months I kept having kernel panics with Ubuntu so I wanted to use Linux Mint as I use that daily at both work and home. My past experience with OP25 on Mint didn't work well so I looked for options and that is why I tried SDRTrunk. Wow, starts decoding out of the box and is so intuitive. OP25 has worked great when it works but setup is a bit challenging.  

My problem I am facing is sending my stream from SDRTrunk to cast.az-streamingserver.com like I used to with liquid soap and OP25. Do I need to run liquidsoap with SDRT? It seems like maybe the built-in streaming of SDRT takes the place of liquidsoap but I might be wrong. 

From AZ-streaming's page it says: 

Live Source Connections
Enter this information into your live source software to perform a live broadcast.

When the autoDJ is running and you want to broadcast live to all autoDJ-controlled mount points:
Protocol: SHOUTcast (v1)
Server hostname: cast.az-streamingserver.com
Server port: 8378
Bit rate: 24
Password: (The username and password of one of your DJ accounts, separated by a colon)
  Example: jsmith:secret

When the autoDJ is not running or you want to broadcast live to a non-autoDJ mount point:
For the /op25_live mount point:
Protocol: IceCast
Server hostname: cast.az-streamingserver.com
Server port: 8377
Mount point: /op25_live_live
Format: MP3
Bit rate: 24 kbps

For all mount points, use the 'Source password' value from your stream settings when prompted for a password. Note: When the autoDJ is not running, DJ accounts cannot be used, and each mount point must be sourced separately.

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I have tried 3 ways in SDRT to connect but the Shoutcast V1 says, "No Server" 

and the Icecast 2.4+ just says "connecting" but never connects, and Icecast2.3 says "network unavailable". I do have a local version of Icecast that does connect.

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The system is:

System:
  Kernel: 6.14.0-37-generic arch: x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 13.3.0 clocksource: tsc
  Desktop: Cinnamon v: 6.4.8 tk: GTK v: 3.24.41 wm: Muffin v: 6.4.1 vt: 7 dm: LightDM v: 1.30.0
    Distro: Linux Mint 22.2 Zara base: Ubuntu 24.04 noble

Icecast 2.4.4 running locally

and SDRT v0.6.1 for linux

Any help is much appreciated. I'm missing something.

Jay

[Jay Dub]

See attached

[sdrtrunk]

It sounds like possible networking issues, either on the host computer or on the remote AZ streaming service.

'Network Unavailable' is just that ... sdrtrunk can't talk to the remote streaming service.

Are there any error messages in the application file that provides better information about why the connection attempt is failing?

[Jay Dub]

I'm not familiar with Google Groups. I did a reply to someone I guess and not the group.

If anyone comes along later having trouble connecting to cast.az-streamingserver.com my problem was I was using the wrong username. It's not the scrambled letters associated with the stream, and it's not the username to log into az-streamingserver.com, it's not your email address associated with the account, nor is it the username to Centova Cast. It's simply "source" for the username. I kept trying everything. I knew they wanted the source password they supply. Finally I tried "source" for a username and it logged in and is working great. 

Thanks to the developers for making a do-it-all software that is relatively easy to get up and going. Coming from OP25 that I used for years, this is a treat. 

Jay