fm (1) Linux Manual Page
NAME
fm – control frequency, volume, mute/unmute of FM radio card
SYNOPSIS
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fm[-h] [-o] [-q] [-ddevice ] [-ttuner ] [-Tnone|forever| time ]on|off|+|–|freq[ volume ]
DESCRIPTION
fm
OPTIONS
-h- Print a usage message to standard output, and exit.
-o- Ignore frequency range limits of card. Use if you suspect that the card supports a wider frequency range than its driver believes.
-q- Quiet mode. Keeps information on station and volume from being printed on standard output.
-ddevice- Sets device
as the device to tune. The default is/dev/radio0.-ttuner- Sets tuner
as the tuner on the selected device to adjust. The default is tuner 0. Most radio devices have only a single tuner.-T none|forever| time- After tuning, sleep for the time specified or forever. Time is specified in seconds by default. A suffix of
mindicates minutes,hindicates hours, ordindicates days.- The
-Toption is useful with radio card drivers that only maintain the tuner settings while the tuner’s file descriptor remains open. Try using this option if runningfmordinarily produces only a single "pop" from your speakers. freq- Frequency to tune the radio to, in MHz. For instance,
88.9specifies a frequency of 88.9 MHz. AM tuner values are also specified in MHz; for instance, 530 kHz would be specified as.530. on- Turn the radio on (unmute).
off- Turn the radio off (mute).
volume- Specify the desired volume, in percent. Not all radio devices support volume control.
+- Increase the current volume.
–- Decrease the current volume.
CONFIGURATION
fm reads $HOME/.fmrc, if it exists, to obtain default settings. Each line may take one of the following forms:
VOLpercent - Specifies default volume (default: 12.5%).
INCRpercent - Volume increment used for
+and–options (default: 10%).TIME- Default sleep time (default:
none).
All other lines are ignored.
SEE ALSO
- Additional documentation:
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/usr/share/doc/fmtools/README - The fmtools homepage:
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http://benpfaff.org/fmtools
AUTHORS
Russell Kroll <rkroll [at] exploits.org>, now maintained by Ben Pfaff <blp [at] cs.stanford.edu>. Sleep time feature contributed by Dave Ulrick <d-ulrick [at] insightbb.com>. This manpage written by Ben Pfaff.