Show HN: A private radio station for issue updates across your org

Why. Your team throws off a constant stream of activity — issues, merge requests, deploys, chatter — and keeping an eye on it means living in dashboards. State Media FM turns that activity into a low-key internal radio station: calm focus music with the occasional spoken news bulletin, so you stay aware without staring at a screen.

What. It's a small app you run on your own machine. It reads your team's tools (GitHub / GitLab, Hacker News, and more), writes short news updates, reads them aloud, and plays them over generative background music in a browser tab. It's free and open-source (Apache-2.0), works offline, and phones nothing home.

How. You run one command; it starts a local web server and opens a browser tab. You point it at your sources — and, optionally, an AI gateway for richer news writing — right in the Settings tab. No config files to edit, and everything you set is remembered next time.

You need Python 3.12+ and git. Copy-paste:

git clone https://github.com/statemediafm/statemediafmradio.git
cd statemediafmradio
python3 -m venv .venv && source .venv/bin/activate
pip install -e ".[all]"
statemediafm

That's it — your browser opens to ** http://127.0.0.1:8150**. (If it doesn't open on its own, just visit that address.)

• Click ▶ Start— browsers stay silent until you click, so this begins the audio. It's already playing generative music with a Hacker News bulletin on a timer. - To add your own team's activity, open the Settings tab:- Auth— paste your GitLab (or GitHub) address and a** read-onlyaccess token. Optionally add an AI gatewayURL + key for smarter news writing. - News Update Sources— add your project's URL. - News writer— bulletins are written by an LLM, so you need one**of:- the Claude CLI— run it on a machine withinstalled and signed in, and it writes the news using that login (no API key); orclaude

• an LLM gateway— have its base** URL + API key**ready to paste.

Choose which under

Settings › Auth › News writer. - the

• Everything you change is saved automatically. Next time, just runstatemediafm

again and it all comes back.

To stop it, press Ctrl-C in the terminal.

You can use your own Spotify account as the music mix, so bulletins play over your playlists instead of the generative bed (in-tab playback needs Spotify Premium). This takes a one-time setup: create a Spotify app to get a Client ID and Client Secret, with its redirect endpoint set to 127.0.0.1 (the same address the app runs on).

• At developer.spotify.com, create an app and copy itsClient ID andClient Secret. Set the redirect URI tohttp://127.0.0.1:8150/spotify/callback

. - In Settings › Mix › Spotify, paste the Client ID and Secret (stored locally, never sent anywhere but your own machine). - In the Player tab, switch toPlaylist mode,Connect Spotify, pick a playlist, and press▶.

Want the details — other install options, the command-line tools, how the music and news are generated, the local API, and the architecture? See ** TECHNICAL.md**. For the trust model (what it protects, what stays on your machine, how tokens are stored), see

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