Our New iOS App, "ShoutPLEX"

Landmark 717 is proud to release a new, ad-free iOS app for an admittedly niche use case!

Meet ShoutPLEX

Last week one of two native mobile apps we've been working on hit the iOS App Store (Android version coming next). It gives you access to our new free audio stream of ANF's "Forest Net" radio system without ads or a paid subscription. Here's what it's all about:

ShoutPLEX lets you play multiple audio streams at a time, ideal for the police or fire scanning enthusiast on-the-go! The app will automatically "duck" the volume of apps you've set as Secondary when Primary streams become active, letting you choose what's most important for you to hear

You can optionally add the credentials of your (paid) Broadcastify membership to add those as well. Channels currently modulating (producing audio) light up pink as shown in the screenshot, to indicate stream activity

The app supports SHOUTcast, Icecast, and Broadcastify streaming URLs. (You'll need to find and add these yourself)

We take privacy very seriously around here and as such, there are no trackers, no ads, and no in-app purchases. Finally, while your Broadcastify credentials are stored in the app's space on your phone, they are only transmitted to Broadcastify when authenticating your requests, via HTTPS. We do not, and will never, store or send those credentials anywhere else

This app's code is entirely open source! Please find that info in the Settings page

I hope you'll give it a try and let me know what you think 🙂

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About That Audio Stream (Stuff for Nerds)

Until now, the only web version of ANF's Forest Net was kept behind a paywall over at Broadcastify. The options were pre-roll ads and paid subscription, and that was a blocked to a handful of projects we're working on to expose public safety information for the sake of us civilians, and the ANF fire staff that have adopted our projects like ANF FireBot.

Being an amateur radio operator and general radio enthusiast, the idea to set up our own scanner-to-web station came naturally- we are always looking for excuses to do things with radios.

So I present to you our beautiful new monitoring station somewhere atop a commercial building in North Hollywood - connected to commercial fiber internet, with backup power, streaming to our own audio server in the cloud.

The system is running an RTL-SDR V4 software-defined radio, attached to a Windows PC running sdrtrunk, streaming to an Icecast server we set up in Amazon Web Services. If you're familiar, we fronted that with their CDN, CloudFront, with SSL via ACM.

Stream URLs

Want to listen for free or integrate our streams into your own applications? Go for it! Please consider mentioning Landmark 717 in your implementation, but no obligation. Direct stream URL, in various formats:

• https://icecast.landmark717.com/anf-forest-net
• https://icecast.landmark717.com/anf-forest-net.m3u
• https://icecast.landmark717.com/anf-forest-net.xspf