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Hello @all,

building up a car pc in my car and due to a lack of good USB tuners i remembered my empeg not being used for a certain time ...

This leads directly into my question:
Is there any project or attempt to control the original empeg or PCATS tuner with a normal PC (like e.g. a hp e-pc 42 that i'm willing to use in my car) via USB or serial interface, ideally under Windows XP?


It would be relatively straightforward to connect the FM tuner (or even just the embedded RF module that's inside the tuner box) directly to a PC serial port + sound card input. This would give mono FM reception very easily.

For stereo reception, and RDS etc.., demultiplexing of the signal is required. The DSP audio processor chip does this in the empeg. I don't know if it can be done in software on a PC or not.. I suppose it depends on the available sampling rates of the sound card.

Cheers