Michael Rolig wrote a command-line utility to control the Griffin
RadioShark USB radio, which is AFAIK the only USB radio that transfers
the audio data over the USB rather than needing a separate analog
connection to a sound card. His "shark" program is in the public
domain.
Shark depends on an unreleased version of libhid to write to the
HID interrupt endpoint of the RadioShark. I had trouble building
this, as have others, so I've built i386 and x86_64 RPMs for FC4
and made them available:
http://www.brouhaha.com/~eric/software/fedora/fc4/shark/
The RPMs include the libhid source code, which is subject to the
GPL. The process of building the RPMs builds a statically linked
libhid based on a Subversion snapshot.
The x86_64 RPM seems to work for me. I have not tested the i386
RPM. The "shark" program only controls the LEDs, tuning, and such.
The audio has to be handled by ALSA. There's an explanation of
how I use it from the command line in my blog entry:
http://whats.all.this.brouhaha.com/?p=199
As usual, there is no warranty whatsoever, but comments and suggestions
are welcome.
Eric
