You *might* need a Squezebox remote (when it's sold as a bundle of remote + receiver, it's known as a 'duet') to set up the receiver, though. You can get Squeezebox Receivers for around £50 on eBay (cheaper than a Pi + PSU + DAC). I don't know if multiple PCP will drift away from each other, or if they remain in-sync like the official Squeezebox hardware, as I only had one PCP.ĭue to this, I disabled the DAC (IQaudIO Pi-DAC+) in my PCP install, and now use it just as a touchscreen interface that controls a Squeezebox receiver (the headless squeezebox). Note that if you're running a 'hybrid' setup of Squeezebox hardware and PCP, that (in my experience - maybe different DACs work better?) the PCP and the Squeezeboxes won't sync perfectly (the music will drift and will get a little out of time - which can be annoying if they're within earshot of each other). Would like to sell my sonos system and run a few selfmade boxes with piCorePlayer OS.Ĭan confirm that it works with PiCorePlayer. Really odd, I have no idea why or what was causing the issue.Does anyone know if this LMS Docker can connected/used with piCorePlayer as a client? In frustration I selected another sound card, saved the config and then set it back to the correct one, re-inputted the correct settings and bingo, it worked. I tried making changes to the settings but piecoreplayer kept reporting there was nothing to change. Now it played distorted music, I noted the Kali reclocker was set to 192k which my DAC doesn’t support and yet the squeezelite settings for upsampling where still set correctly to 176.4k. So I left it for 10mins and then it started looking for a sound card and booted up. Plugged a monitor into the RPi hdmi port to see what was going on and the Pi was stuck loading libraries.
I did a full update of squeezelite and libraries but now squeezelite wouldn’t start! Rebooted the RPi again this time the RPi wouldn’t boot. My squeezebox radio was fine as was my office SBmk2. Restarting squeezelite made no difference, power cycling the DAC made no difference, rebooting the RPi made no difference. Really odd issue with piecoreplayer yesterday, music was playing slow, like a 45 record at 33.3rpm. You should have lots of radio options available.Īnd yes, the BBC streams do sound really good.
It's a bit soon to make any judgements but I am conscious that the BBB ran for 2.5 years continuous 24/7 with not one single drop out so this is going to be a difficult baptism for the pi. What I didn't notice was that all the other options in the radio menu have vanished.when I first loaded I noticed all the entries for 'local, 'national', 'genre' etc etc.they've all gone now and all I've got are 3 iplayer entriesĪlso it's all a bit flaky at the mo, the gui has locked up 3 or 4 times today and I've had no control so I've had to reboot via the mains plug. The sq seems to have improved but that may be psychobabble cos it's exactly the same DAC as before I've been listening all day, particularly like all the beeb 320 streams. Oh yeah.'s lookin good, many thanks for that Chris.