On Jan 04, 2026, onefang wrote:
> I need a radio or TV card for my desktop.
> [...]
> I like to listen to music all day when at home, including when I sleep.
> Chill music like Soma FM's Groove Salad, and SBS Chill here in Australia.
>
> With this crap Internet I can hear a few seconds of music streaming
> before it stops to download the next few seconds. So no music streaming
> for me.
>
> SBS is a local TV / radio network, they have a station called SBS Chill,
> it broadcasts free to air on DAB+ radio and DVB-T TV, as well as
> streaming. TV might be preferable, but perhaps I can get both DAB+ and
> DVB-T?
>
> Hopefully I can receive these in this blackspot.
>
> So I'm looking for a PCIe 4.0 x16 card or USB based DAB+ / DVB-T device
> that'll work fine under Devuan using VLC.

RTLSDR would fit the bill for "USB Receiver". You have to use something
like SDR++ (and probably with a DAB plugin to get the digital broadcast)
to use it, rather than VLC, which has its quirks; but its more a
case of needing to ignore a lot of stuff, because it can listen to
"anything".

Admittedly, I use it to mainly listen to standard analog AM/FM
broadcasts, as well as play about jumping around various ham radio bands
just to see what's out there (surprisingly, it will receive quite a bit)

During the quick websearch, also came across "wellie.io" which says
it'll do DAB/DAB+ with an RTLSDR (but haven't tried it or anything).

HTH :)
-Dan