Home StationWhy the radio from home is hard to get
They moved a long time ago and built a life here, but the voices of home are still the ones they reach for: the morning news, the call-in shows, the songs from when they were young.
- An FM radio only gets the stations nearby.
- Satellite dishes and internet radios come with remotes, menus and settings, often in another language.
- Radio apps are full of search bars, ads and pop-ups, sometimes in a language they don’t read.
So someone in the family finds the station on their phone, every time. Or they stop listening.
Stations from almost anywhere
Home Station radio finds stations in radio-browser.info, a free community directory: more than 30,000 stations, from almost every country, in dozens of languages. You search by name or by country from your phone, and put the three they’ll love on their buttons.
We never choose for you: you pick what plays. A few broadcasters only stream inside their own country, so if a station doesn’t play where they live, choose another from the same country.
A radio in their language, too
The radio’s own words, like “Playing” and “New message”, can be in English, French, German, Turkish, Polish or Spanish. It follows the phone’s language, or the one you choose from your phone.
Your side, the family’s web app, comes in the same six languages, so a brother in Istanbul and a sister in Berlin can both help.
Looked after from another city, or another country
Set it up once, on a visit. After that, everything happens from your phone, wherever you live.
- Change stations whenever you like. The radio follows within seconds.
- See that it’s online, what’s playing and when they last listened.
- Get an alert if it goes offline or a station stops. If a station’s stream breaks, the radio switches to another stream of the same station, never to a different one.
- Send voice messages from wherever you are. They play on the Family button.
- Invite brothers and sisters, wherever they live, for free.
What you need
- A spare Android phone or tablet with Android 7 or newer. An old one from a drawer works well.
- Wi-Fi at their home, or a SIM card with data. You can limit the radio to Wi-Fi.
- Your own phone or computer to look after it, iPhone included.