--- title: Custom FM Radio Station Powered By Shell Scripts | daily.dev description: A hobbyist built a custom FM radio station using a Raspberry Pi Zero and shell scripts to reduce phone dependency. The setup polls podcasts and news from RSS... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/custom-fm-radio-station-powered-by-shell-scripts-swngwirkj twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Custom FM Radio Station Powered By Shell Scripts | daily.dev og:description: A hobbyist built a custom FM radio station using a Raspberry Pi Zero and shell scripts to reduce phone dependency. The setup polls podcasts and news from RSS... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/custom-fm-radio-station-powered-by-shell-scripts-swngwirkj og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/SWnGwIrkj.png og:image:alt: Custom FM Radio Station Powered By Shell Scripts og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Custom FM Radio Station Powered By Shell Scripts **[Hackaday](https://daily.dev/sources/hackaday)** · 1 min read · 1 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary A hobbyist built a custom FM radio station using a Raspberry Pi Zero and shell scripts to reduce phone dependency. The setup polls podcasts and news from RSS feeds, mixes them with local content, manages content freshness and playlist rotation, and broadcasts via Bluetooth and an FM transmitter. The project uses podget for podcast fetching and is entirely driven by bash scripts, making it easy to understand and adapt for schools or organizations. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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