RE: Re: [EAC] Hardware to room play the collection

Jeff- this is brilliant- the missing piece, and with a Pi no less! Makes me wonder if I could do it with a Pi zero :)


I can't thank you all enough- I had been putting the project off for years because I thought it would such a deep dive, but just like that, I have a _great_ starting point.




Gerry Pehl




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Sent: Friday, May 27, 2016 8:07 AM
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Subject: Re: [eac] Re: [EAC] Hardware to room play the collection






On 27 May 2016 at 5:49, Fred Maxwell
_EAC_moderator@a wrote:


> I don´t know of a way to stream to another device, other than a
> USB-connected DAC.  That said, you might fine that you could use
> something like the HDMI dongle PCs (e.g., Intel Compute Stick, Lenovo
> Ideacentre Stick, etc.) which might be able to feed the audio out of
> the HDMI to something like an HDMI AV receiver.  Then you´re looking
> at about $100 per location for a complete PC that runs Daphile.  No
> promises, just a thought.


Since Daphile is based on Logitech Media Server
(formerly Squeezebox Server), it should work just
fine to send the bits to a Raspberry Pi. Easiest
configuration would be via Max2Play, which is free.


You'd need:


1. Raspberry Pi


2. Case (optional)


3. Power supply


4. HiFiBerry audio card (1/8" analog stereo or RCA
analog stereo or S/PDIF depending on which one you
need/buy)


5. MicroSD card imaged with the correct version of
Max2Play


Configure Max2Play to run Squeezelite at boot and
it should show as another player on the LMS web
interface. You can send separate streams to
multiple players or have all the players synced.


I just built one for $91, though I already had the
MicroSD card sitting around.


I say all of the above based on the assumption that
Daphile has not crippled the multi-player aspects
of LMS. I use a vanilla LMS install feeding a
variety of official Logitech hardware, Wandboard
Quads and Raspberry Pis.