Raspberry Pi

Evening,

Since Sonos removed option to play music from android phone I'm looking for something to store and play music through.

I read that a raspberry Pi was a cheap and easy solution

Anyone have something to that would work, or any recommendations?

Thanks again

Missed this, try this thread. Pihut has reasonable stock at the mo. Justboom boards are OK to pair and play music through.

https://www.lfgss.com/conversations/230903/

Looks like they are going to float on the stock market:

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/01/raspberry-pi-is-preparing-for-an-ipo-in-london-for-likely-more-than-500m/

its CEO expects “no change” in focus

Until the shareholders want better "value".

It’s always been a business first, so I don’t get why there is so much resistance to this.

The "value" shareholders will extract is taking away from the charitable foundation arm, no?

No, it's a separate entity that will own some of the publicly floated company. So the better the latter does, the more revenue for the Foundation.

^ noted, ta.

Jeff is concerned

https://youtu.be/hrhE6MnGi1A

The Raspberry Pi people long ago worked out that it's in their interests to care just enough about hobbyists to ensure no other platform can get a foot in the door, but there's absolutely no reason for them to go beyond that. This isn't going to change that.

If you can find one a chromecast audio works very well from a phone if you're using spotify.

For music on a HDD a Pi is a good solution but you'll need a DAC for it to sound reasonable - a Pi 3 or better is fine for running something like Volumio

I've just listed a Raspberry Pi Zero W in the Misc section of the classifieds in case that's of interest to anyone.

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Edit: just realised this isn't the Pi thread

You were asking about using a Pi to play music, and attaching buttons to control the playback?

Definitely doable, and very much in the Raspberry Pi's wheelhouse.

You could install mplayer, which is a CLI MP3 player (amongst other things) and it can be configured to accept commands via a named pipe: https://askubuntu.com/questions/159762/how-to-use-media-buttons-for-mplayer

The next step is to connect buttons to the GPIO headers, monitor the pins for changes using a small python script, and send commands to the named pipe when button presses are detected. Perhaps a bit like this: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/59985317/monitor-two-gpio-pins-on-pi

Thank you. I copied my post to go and paste in the Pi thread and saw a very similar question relating to a video version that was asked recently and gave me some good info as does your post.

I'm down the rabbit hole now trying to find the right sort of button. Thank you.

Raspberry Pi are now trading on the London Stock Exchange.

Raspberry Pi have launched a new version of their Pico microcontroller, the Pico 2:

https://www.raspberrypi.com/news/raspberry-pi-pico-2-our-new-5-microcontroller-board-on-sale-now/

Just to add, i currently run a raspberry pi 3 with a Dac Hat on to directly power and run my passive sterio speakers. It was a bit of a fiddle to set up, but it's now running smoothly using the Volumio software - it's not without it's issues. But it is opensource and you can link it to Spotify easily (shows up as a speaker in that Spotify acc)

I've got a flashed Asus router and pihole RasPi that I don't use now that I've moved to a Three 5G broadband box (and can't be arsed hooking up again although I've seen video of Bridge Mode so it should be possible). What else can I do with them other than sell them?

I also had a Three 5G router, until the speeds became throttled right after the 6month half price offer ended. I do remember seeing the bridge mode options, shouldn't be hard to reconfiger to work with the Pihole.

Personally switched to Community Fiber, i've never had faster stable and symetrical domestic internet and couldnt be happier.

To clarify, I have a Three router I bought off ebay but I'm using a Smarty SIM for the data.

You're right of course, it shouldn't be hard, but when you have working internet, it's very hard to go "oh I'm just going to break our lives right now to get a little bit more range on the wifi and some extra filtering" :)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xRcQPQRHpyQ

I can't get any of those nice, new fibre options yet, so 5G it is for now.

Anyone used a Pi for a Tailscale 'subnet router' for site to site VPN/tailnet?

https://tailscale.com/kb/1019/subnets