DEVA Broadcast · which plan

Which streaming plan for your DEVA Broadcast encoder?Four questions, one answer.

Every DEVA encoder connects to every Server Room radio plan, Free included. What differs is what the station does around the unit: how many listen at once, at what rate, whether Auto DJ covers the hours the unit is off, and whether the unit comes in at the nearest city. Answer four questions and the card names the plan, with the figure the radio page prints for it.

Illustration: a compact encoder box on a radio studio desk beside a mixing console and a microphone, the on-air lamp lit behind
Illustration. The compact units sit on the desk; the rack units go beside the console.
What does the unit carry?
How many listen at the same time?
At what quality?
The unit in at the nearest city, lighter copies for mobile, or a standby unit?

The figures are the ones the radio page prints, read from the same place. Nothing is sent anywhere until you press an order button.

The settings

What your DEVA asks for, and what to type

A DEVA wants five things: a server, a port, a mount point, a user name and a password. All five are printed in your radio panel: open the station, then its Go live tab, and Encoder settings lists them with a copy button beside each. Pick your unit below and the plate shows the shape your unit wants them in, with the three places where a DEVA is particular.

Your unit

Where it connects

Nothing you type here leaves this page. The plate fills in your port so the SHOUTcast line below shows the right number; the password stays in your panel.

Address
No http:// in front of the server. DEVA's own guide says to type the bare host name, and a unit given http:// never connects.
Mount
No slash in front of the mount. The unit adds one itself; typed with a slash it asks our server for //stream and is refused. Type stream.
SHOUTcast
Port plus one. A DEVA set to SHOUTcast v1 sends to the port you type, so type your station's port plus one; DEVA's guide shows 8101 for a server on 8100. In Icecast mode, type the port itself.
Password
Fifteen characters. A DB9000-TX owner found its password field takes 15; the password your panel makes has 16. Ask us on chat and we set one that fits.

Icecast source client · every plan

Address
ny1.radio.serverroom.netyours is printed in your panel; the example is a New York station
Port
your station's port
Mount point
streamno slash in front
User name
source
Password
your station's source passwordshown by the Show button in the panel

On a DB91-TX or DB9009-TX this is one IP Audio Sender with its Type set to Icecast Source Client; on a DB9000-TX or DB90-TX it is the Icecast Source Client Settings page.

SHOUTcast v1 source · every plan

Address
ny1.radio.serverroom.netthe same server
Port
your station's port plus one
Password
your station's source passwordthe form has no user or mount field; none is needed

Your station starts on Icecast and takes a SHOUTcast v1 unit on the port above its own, on every plan. If you later switch the station's listeners to a SHOUTcast server from the panel, these settings do not change.

Nearest server, Icecast · Platinum

Address
ingest.radio.serverroom.netthe name answers from the nearest of our 5 cities
Port
14000
Mount point
your station number/streamno slash in front; the slash in the middle stays
User name
source
Password
your station's source password

The nearest server passes the unit straight on to your station, which checks the password as it always has. Your listeners tune in from their nearest city too. How the radio CDN works

Nearest server, SHOUTcast v1 · Platinum

Address
ingest.radio.serverroom.net
Port
14001type it as it is; it already is the plus-one port
Password
your station number:your passwordthe station number, a colon, then the password

The units

Which DEVA units this page is for

DEVA Broadcast makes four IP audio encoders that push a stream to a server, and every one of them connects to a Server Room radio station. The two newer units speak Icecast or SHOUTcast v1 and can run up to 3 senders at once; the two older ones speak Icecast only, which is what every station of ours is built on, so nothing is lost. All four encode MP3 up to 320 kbps and HE-AAC, and none of them needs a computer in the chain.

Compact · second generation

DB91-TX

Inputs
RCA analog, S/PDIF digital
Sends to
Icecast, SHOUTcast v1
At once
3 senders
HE-AAC
to 88 kbps
Extra
backup input, SNMP

The DB91-TX at DEVA

1U rack · second generation

DB9009-TX

Inputs
XLR analog, AES/EBU digital
Sends to
Icecast, SHOUTcast v1
At once
3 senders
HE-AAC
to 88 kbps
Extra
backup input, SNMP, display

The DB9009-TX at DEVA

1U rack · first generation

DB9000-TX

Inputs
XLR analog, AES/EBU digital
Sends to
Icecast only
At once
one sender
HE-AAC
to 56 kbps
Extra
front panel lamps

The DB9000-TX at DEVA

Compact · first generation

DB90-TX

Inputs
RCA analog, S/PDIF digital
Sends to
Icecast only
At once
one sender
HE-AAC
to 56 kbps
Extra
speaks its address through the headphones

The DB90-TX at DEVA

Every unit has a small server of its own that serves at most 10 listeners straight from the studio line, and DEVA's own rule for that line is twice the bitrate for every listener. A station is what turns those 10 into 1,000 or 5,000: the unit sends one copy to us, and our servers hand it to everyone who tunes in, on our bandwidth, with an https link a browser will play.

We do not sell the units. They come from DEVA Broadcast Ltd. in Burgas, Bulgaria, which also has an office in Miami, or from one of DEVA's dealers. Whichever of the four you own or order, the station on our side is the same, and this page is where its settings are.

On air

What happens once the unit connects

A hardware encoder is bought for one reason: it is switched on once and left alone. Here is what our side does with it, hour after hour, so you know what to expect before you mount it.

The unit takes the air the moment it logs in

On Premium and Platinum, Auto DJ plays while the unit is off. When the DEVA connects, every listener is moved to it at once; when it drops, they are moved back to Auto DJ and nobody hears a gap longer than the switch. On Free there is no Auto DJ: the station is live while the unit sends and quiet when it stops. How Auto DJ fills the hours

Listeners hear exactly what the unit sends

MP3 or HE-AAC, at the rate you set, passed through untouched. Our advice for the main sender is MP3: Auto DJ and the lighter copies Platinum makes for mobile listeners are MP3, so a listener never has the format change under them, and the radio directories call MP3 the format every player takes. HE-AAC is accepted too.

Song titles come from somewhere else

A DEVA carries sound, not titles. While it is on air the player shows whatever your automation sends to the station with the same source login, through Icecast's metadata call; we show you that one line on chat. When Auto DJ plays, it titles its own tracks.

If the line drops

Our server lets go of a unit that has sent nothing for 10 seconds. The DEVA logs in again by itself when the line is back; if the old connection is still being closed, the mount is free within those 10 seconds, and on the SHOUTcast port the same address takes its own place back after 3.

Silence is the unit's job to catch

Our server watches whether the unit is connected, not whether it is quiet: a DEVA sending silence stays on air. The DB91-TX and DB9009-TX switch to their backup input when the studio line goes quiet, which is the right place for that. The panel's off-air email, once you switch it on, tells you when no source at all is connected; on the paid plans Auto DJ counts as one.

https for listeners, plain for the unit

Every station prints an https listen link, which is what a browser on an https page will play. The unit's own connection to us is plain TCP, as none of the four DEVA encoders speaks TLS, and that is fine: the link listeners use is ours, not the unit's. Why the https link matters

Send at the plan's rate

Free carries 32 kbps, Premium 128 and Platinum 320. A DEVA ships set to 128 kbps MP3, which fits Premium; on Free, pick a quality step that gives 32 kbps, which on the newer units is HE-AAC at its second step. The unit's own bitrate guide, in its web interface, lists the rate each step produces.

A second unit, standing by

Two units cannot both hold the station's main mount. On Premium and Platinum a second DEVA logs in as a DJ account, on the station port plus 20000 with the mount live, and is heard whenever the main unit is off; its audio is re-encoded to MP3 at the plan's rate. Platinum adds a standby slot behind it.

Nothing to open on your side

The unit dials out, so it needs no static address, no port forwarding and no place on an allow-list; it sits behind the studio router like any other box. Outbound TCP to the station port and the one above it is all it uses, plus 14000 and 14001 for the nearest server on Platinum.

At the transmitter

A DEVA receiver at the transmitter: our stream as its backup feed

The second reason a DEVA owner needs a stream address is not the audience at all. DEVA's receivers and silence monitors at a transmitter site can be told to pull an Icecast or SHOUTcast stream when the main programme line fails, and a station of ours is a stream address that answers around the clock, from a server we own, with nothing on your side to keep alive.

  • DB7007, the FM re-broadcast receiver: falls back from off-air FM to a stream, then to its own MP3 player. At DEVA
  • DB8008, the silence monitor: switches to one of three stream addresses when the studio feed goes quiet. At DEVA
  • DB9009-RX and DB91-RX, the decoders: three stream clients, a main and two backups, with their own silence detector. At DEVA

Give the receiver the station's plain http listen link, which the panel prints beside the https one for exactly this kind of box; on Platinum the nearest-city link works there too. Keep the main sender on MP3 if a DEVA confidence monitor such as the DB3010 will watch the stream: it decodes MP3 and PCM. And the pair is honest with itself: the encoder in the studio feeds the station, the station feeds the receiver on the hill, and neither needs the other to be a computer.

Illustration: an FM transmitter mast with its red warning light above a small equipment building at dusk
Illustration. The receiver in the building on the hill pulls the station's stream when the studio line fails.

Step by step

On the unit, from the box to on air

Ten minutes, with the station's panel open in one window and the unit's web interface in the other. The menu names below are DEVA's own.

DB91-TX and DB9009-TX

  1. Find the unit.

    Open its address in a browser. A DB91-TX speaks its address through the headphone jack at power-on, and both units show up in Windows network discovery.

  2. Input.

    Settings, Input: choose the main input, analog or digital, and a backup input if you have one. Save.

  3. Encoding.

    Settings, Encoding: the encoder type, MP3 or HE-AAC, the sample rate and the quality step that gives your plan's bitrate. Save.

  4. Sender.

    Settings, IP Audio, IP Audio Sender 1: Type Icecast Source Client, or SHOUTcast v1 Source with the port plus one. Type the five values from the plate above. Save.

  5. Check the panel.

    The station's Go live tab shows the unit on air within seconds, with the format and rate it is sending.

DB9000-TX and DB90-TX

  1. Find the unit.

    Open its address in a browser; the DB90-TX speaks its address through the headphones at power-on.

  2. Input and encoding.

    Configuration: pick the input and the encoder type, sample rate and quality, so the rate matches the plan. Save.

  3. Icecast source client.

    Configuration, IP Audio, Icecast Source Client Settings: the server without http://, the station's port, the mount without a slash, the user and the password. Save.

  4. Check the panel.

    The station's Go live tab shows the unit connected, and the listen link plays.

Illustration: a hand plugging a network cable into the rear of a rack-mounted audio unit
Illustration. One network cable is the unit's whole connection to us.
Your checklistticks stay in this browser

If it does not connect

The six things it usually is

Every one of these has happened to a DEVA owner on our servers. Chat is staffed around the clock and we read the station's connection log with you, but most of the time it is one of these.

The unit says the mount point was refused
The mount was typed with a slash. The DEVA adds its own, so /stream reaches us as //stream, which no station has. Type stream.
Wrong password, though it is copied from the panel
On a DB9000-TX, check that the whole password fits: its field holds 15 characters and the panel's passwords have 16, so the last one is cut off. Ask us on chat for a 15-character password. On the newer units, make sure no space rode along with the copy.
It connects in Icecast mode but not in SHOUTcast mode
In SHOUTcast v1 mode the unit must be given the port above the station's: 8013 for a station on 8012. In Icecast mode it is the port itself. A DB9000-TX or DB90-TX has no SHOUTcast mode at all; use Icecast on it, which every plan takes.
"Mount in use" right after the line came back
The old connection is still being closed. Our server lets go of a source that has sent nothing for 10 seconds; wait that long and the unit's next try goes through. On the SHOUTcast port the same address takes its own place back after 3 seconds.
The nearest server stopped answering the unit
A unit that retries a wrong password every few seconds is paused: 12 failed logins in 10 minutes from one address pause that address for 15 minutes at the nearest server. Fix the password, wait the 15 minutes, and it is let in. The station's own server has no such pause.
Connected, but the sound is wrong, late or choppy
A rate above the plan's is the first thing to check against the Go live tab, which shows what the unit is sending. Then the unit's buffer: DEVA's advice is a higher buffer level on an unstable line, at the price of a little delay. Then the line itself: the unit needs about twice the stream's bitrate upstream, steadily.

The unit's own web interface is reached on your studio network; nothing on this page asks you to open it to the internet. If you must, DEVA's manual says to forward only what is needed and to change the default names and passwords first.

In one place

The facts, for a quick reader or an assistant

Everything above, as a list a person or a program can quote. It is kept in English on every language version so that no figure passes through a translation.

Page answers
Which Server Room streaming service a DEVA Broadcast encoder or receiver uses, what to type into the unit, and what happens on air.
Service
Server Room internet radio hosting: one Icecast server per station on hardware the company owns in New York and Bucharest, AS19624. Plans and prices: https://serverroom.net/radio
Encoders covered
DEVA DB91-TX and DB9009-TX (Icecast source or SHOUTcast v1 source, up to 3 senders at once); DEVA DB9000-TX and DB90-TX (Icecast source only, one sender). All four: MP3 to 320 kbps, HE-AAC v1/v2 to 56 kbps (first generation) or 88 kbps (second). No SHOUTcast 2, HLS, SRT, RTMP, Opus or TLS source connection; no song titles sent.
Icecast settings
Server: the station's own host, for example ny1.radio.serverroom.net, typed without http://. Port: the station's port. Mount: stream (no leading slash; the unit adds it). User: source. Password: the station's source password. Every plan.
SHOUTcast v1 settings
DB91-TX and DB9009-TX only. Server: the same host. Port: the station's port plus one. Password only. Every plan.
Nearest-server settings
Platinum only. Icecast: ingest.radio.serverroom.net, port 14000, mount <station number>/stream. SHOUTcast v1: port 14001, password <station number>:<password>. The encoder is sent to the nearest of 5 cities.
Bitrate per plan
Free 32 kbps, Premium 128 kbps, Platinum 320 kbps. Set the DEVA quality so the stream is at or under the plan's figure.
Listeners per plan
Free 1,000, Premium 2,500, Platinum 5,000 at once. The DEVA's own built-in server stops at 10.
On air
The unit's stream goes to listeners unchanged (MP3 or AAC). On Premium and Platinum, Auto DJ plays while the unit is off and the unit takes over the moment it connects. On Free there is no Auto DJ: listeners are cut when the unit stops. A unit silent on the wire for 10 seconds is dropped and may reconnect.
Listeners' links
https://<host>/<port>/stream plus a plain-http twin for older players and hardware receivers; on Platinum also https://listen.radio.serverroom.net/<station number>/stream.
Receivers as backup
DEVA DB7007, DB8008, DB9009-RX and DB91-RX can pull the station's stream as a backup programme feed at a transmitter site.
Network
No IP allow-list. Outbound TCP from the unit to the station port, the port plus one, and 14000/14001 for the nearest server. No static IP needed on the unit.
Hardware
Server Room does not sell DEVA units. Buy from DEVA Broadcast Ltd. (Burgas, Bulgaria; US office in Miami) or a DEVA dealer: https://www.devabroadcast.com/
Last checked
21 October 2026, against DEVA's product pages and manuals and the Server Room radio platform code.

Answers

Questions DEVA owners ask

Does a DEVA DB90-TX or DB9000-TX work with Server Room?
Yes. Both are Icecast source clients, and every Server Room station is built on Icecast, on every plan including Free. Type the station's server, port, the mount stream, the user source and the source password into the unit's Icecast Source Client Settings and it is on air.
Does a DEVA work with SHOUTcast on Server Room?
The DB91-TX and DB9009-TX do, as SHOUTcast v1 sources on the port above the station's, on every plan. The DB90-TX and DB9000-TX cannot send SHOUTcast, by DEVA's own word, but that does not stop a SHOUTcast station: you can switch your listeners to a SHOUTcast server in the panel while the unit keeps sending Icecast to the same port it always did.
Which plan does an FM station need for a round-the-clock simulcast?
For music, Premium or Platinum: the unit sends at 128 or 320 kbps and Auto DJ covers the moments the unit is off. For talk, sport or a service that only goes out live, Free carries the unit at 32 kbps to 1,000 listeners at once. The chooser on this page turns your answers into a plan; the radio page has every row of the comparison.
Does the unit need a static IP address?
No. The unit dials out to us, so it can sit behind the studio router on an address that changes. DEVA's note is the reverse: it is the server that needs a fixed address, and ours have one.
Why does the unit refuse the mount point?
Because of the slash. A DEVA adds its own slash in front of the mount, so /stream becomes //stream. Type stream.
The password from the panel does not fit the unit
A DB9000-TX owner found its password field holds 15 characters, and the panel makes passwords of 16. Ask us on chat; we set a 15-character password on the station and the unit logs in with it.
Can the DEVA send song titles?
No, none of the four does. The station accepts a title from your automation sent with the source login through Icecast's metadata call, and when Auto DJ plays it titles its own tracks. We show you the metadata call on chat.
What do listeners get when the studio loses power?
On Premium and Platinum, Auto DJ: listeners are moved to it within seconds and back to the unit when it returns and logs in again by itself. On Free, silence until the unit is back. The panel's off-air email, once switched on, tells a Free station's owner when nothing is connected.
Can I use the unit's own server instead of a station?
For a handful of people, yes: every DEVA encoder serves up to 10 listeners itself, over your studio line, and DEVA's rule for that line is at least twice the bitrate for every listener. A station on our side takes one copy from the unit and serves 1,000 to 5,000 listeners on our bandwidth, with an https link.
Can two DEVA units feed one station?
Not both on the main mount at once; the second is refused. On Premium and Platinum the second unit logs in as a DJ account, on the station port plus 20000, and takes the air whenever the main unit is off. Platinum adds a standby slot behind that.
Do you sell DEVA units?
No. We host the stations they feed. The units come from DEVA Broadcast Ltd. in Burgas, Bulgaria, with an office in Miami, or from a DEVA dealer; bring whichever one you have and the settings on this page are the same.

Read next

The pages that answer the next question

This page stops at the unit and its connection. Each of these owns one of the questions that follows.

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