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[714.02 --> 719.08] it, and taken up by the open source community and kind of improved over the years. |
[719.92 --> 723.32] Fundamentally, though, it's still the same old piece of crap underneath. |
[723.86 --> 729.64] And I don't wish to be rude about it, but I guess I kind of have been already. |
[729.84 --> 733.26] It's just not a modern application. |
[733.56 --> 735.94] But Alex, it has an iPod Aux in. |
[736.50 --> 738.86] Back when they had audio connections, right? |
[739.28 --> 741.02] Yeah, back when they had audio ports. |
[741.02 --> 746.68] So I was using PyCore Player to actually host LMS. |
[747.36 --> 749.42] And PyCore Player is pretty cool, actually. |
[749.64 --> 752.48] It boots fast and it runs entirely in RAM. |
[752.58 --> 756.94] So it doesn't write to your Raspberry Pi's SD card unless you want to save any settings. |
[757.22 --> 762.80] And it can stream from all sorts of services like Spotify and Deezer and Tidal and BBC Music |
[762.80 --> 764.00] and a bunch of other stuff. |
[764.00 --> 769.66] And it was a pretty simple setup, you know, typical Pi stuff. |
[769.72 --> 773.54] You just flash an image to the SD card and five minutes later, you've got a working system. |
[774.06 --> 779.68] Trouble is, the interface, once this thing loads up, looks like it was written in about 1984. |
[780.74 --> 785.30] And it's got lots of little tweaks and buttons. |
[785.30 --> 790.02] I'm sure the developers of that interface know exactly where they are and which dials to tweak. |
[790.20 --> 795.76] And it's just, it's not an interface written by humans for humans. |
[796.46 --> 797.38] You know what I mean? |
[797.72 --> 797.82] Yeah. |
[798.02 --> 803.42] And it makes it, not only is it a challenge for you, but forget spousal approval if you ever wanted. |
[803.50 --> 804.02] Oh, man. |
[804.20 --> 804.50] You know? |
[804.64 --> 804.82] Never. |
[804.82 --> 811.30] Well, my goal for spousal approval was simply to have it appear as a Spotify Connect endpoint. |
[811.90 --> 815.62] You know, when you list the devices and it says, you know, here are speakers that support like, |
[815.70 --> 818.34] like a Chromecast list or an AirPlay list or something like that. |
[818.90 --> 822.34] My goal was for her not to actually ever interact with this thing. |
[822.70 --> 826.16] Just except from like on her phone, maybe it's one of the available output options. |
[826.46 --> 826.78] Correct. |
[827.34 --> 830.52] But I've got to interact with it and try and figure this thing out. |
[831.16 --> 834.02] Unfortunately, Pi Core Player, I don't think is quite it. |
[834.02 --> 841.40] I couldn't get the speaker groups set up as I wanted or configured correctly, whether that was my fault or the interface or the hardware I've got. |
[842.16 --> 842.66] I don't know. |
[842.92 --> 845.92] It just took up an entire evening of my time. |
[846.04 --> 851.16] And I just got, by the end of the evening, I got quite frustrated and gave up, frankly. |
[851.84 --> 853.06] Were you able to get it working at all? |
[853.44 --> 855.54] Did you get any piece of it working? |
[855.96 --> 857.86] It's still running behind me. |
[857.96 --> 861.12] It's booted on the Raspberry Pi that's on my desk behind me. |
[861.12 --> 864.66] And it's still sat there providing a AirPlay endpoint. |
[865.30 --> 869.28] But what I ended up doing was actually pulling out my Raspberry Pi 2 out of the drawer. |
[869.44 --> 871.82] Probably the oldest Raspberry Pi I have. |
[872.24 --> 872.62] Oh, my. |
[872.80 --> 877.50] And I threw another project on it called RPi Audio Receiver. |
[877.68 --> 879.26] There'll be a link to it in the show notes. |
[879.26 --> 886.86] And this is a simple, lightweight audio receiver with Bluetooth, AirPlay One and Spotify Connect built in. |
[887.30 --> 900.86] I couldn't honestly believe that within one minute of it booting and configuring a couple of things from the command line as a script you install on Raspberry Pi OS, it just worked. |
[901.58 --> 903.18] Mm, that's nice. |
[903.18 --> 909.02] After my whole evening futzing around with Pi Core Player, this thing just worked within a minute. |
[909.14 --> 911.12] I was like, is that it? |
[911.74 --> 912.60] Oh, great. |
[912.80 --> 913.04] Cool. |
[913.52 --> 914.92] Isn't that what you'd expect, too, really? |
[914.98 --> 920.02] Because all of these things are just using, like, broadcast DNS and stuff to just discover each other. |
[920.08 --> 922.10] So you just need to get it on the network, I would imagine, right? |
[922.12 --> 924.34] You must have had to give it, what, DHCP? |
[924.66 --> 927.44] There must have been some sort of network config info, and then it just boots up? |
[927.44 --> 931.22] Yeah, well, so it's Raspberry Pi 2, so I just installed Raspberry Pi OS on it. |
[931.66 --> 942.72] And then you clone the Git repo and you run the install script, which sets up Bluetooth, it sets up SharePoint Sync, and RAS Spotify, which is an open source Spotify client for Raspberry Pi. |
[943.36 --> 950.08] And then once you've configured it via the script, it asks you for a couple of credentials, you're good to go. |
[950.46 --> 950.66] Wow. |
[950.98 --> 953.04] I mean, I guess setting up Raspberry Pi is not too bad. |
[953.14 --> 955.72] Raspberry Pi OS doesn't take too long, but it is a step. |
[955.72 --> 960.54] What took the longest was the Raspberry Pi 2 installing all the packages. |
[960.86 --> 961.26] I mean... |
[961.26 --> 962.10] Oh, slow, I bet. |
[962.24 --> 964.72] That took about 45 minutes to run the script, I think. |
[965.44 --> 967.44] I couldn't believe how slow it was. |
[967.50 --> 969.16] I think I was texting Brent at the time saying, |
[969.22 --> 969.48] Oh, yeah. |
[969.88 --> 972.76] This thing is just one step away from junk. |
[973.02 --> 974.00] Yeah, it's old. |
[974.48 --> 976.36] But, I mean, it doesn't need to be that fast. |
[976.70 --> 978.14] It does the trick for playing audio. |
[978.46 --> 981.86] And one thing I can't say was the case for Pi Core Player. |
[981.86 --> 986.92] Sadly, one of the biggest issues with it beyond the interface was that audio just kept skipping. |
[987.18 --> 987.32] Oh. |
[987.64 --> 990.00] And that's just no good these days. |
[990.24 --> 990.74] You'd think... |
[990.74 --> 992.38] And that was running on a Pi 4 as well. |
[992.50 --> 1001.10] So, for anybody that thinks it was the Pi 2 that couldn't cope with it, the Pi 4 couldn't cope with streaming a Spotify stream through Pi Core Player. |
[1001.50 --> 1001.86] Okay. |
[1002.34 --> 1002.86] So... |
[1002.86 --> 1003.72] That's no good. |
[1003.72 --> 1005.28] I have a question, Alex. |
[1005.42 --> 1010.22] Why did you decide to downgrade to a Pi 2 and not just switch over to the Pi 4? |
[1010.60 --> 1012.98] I was trying to do too many things at once, I think. |
[1014.20 --> 1016.28] I happened to have that one in the drawer. |
[1017.22 --> 1022.06] I knew that I wanted to deploy two of these things to both amplifiers in the house. |
[1022.72 --> 1026.66] And I only had one Raspberry Pi 4 and one Raspberry Pi 2. |
[1026.76 --> 1030.30] So I knew that the Pi 2 was going to have to be used at some point. |
[1030.30 --> 1037.02] I kind of figured out the Pi Core Player wasn't where I wanted to be fairly quickly, but even though I kept at it. |
[1037.56 --> 1041.10] And so I was Googling for other stuff in the meantime whilst it was doing its thing. |
[1041.58 --> 1041.68] Yeah. |
[1041.84 --> 1042.52] I've been there. |
[1042.76 --> 1044.26] You've already burned a Pi. |
[1044.42 --> 1045.70] It's working on another version. |
[1045.98 --> 1047.16] I've got to put this on a different one. |
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