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I've been netbooting Pi's since the very early days and have been running networked sound since then (replacing earlier PC-based setup). Still running on the sa
by zh3 5y ago
I've been netbooting Pi's since the very early days and have been running networked sound since then (replacing earlier PC-based setup). Still running on the same old Pi 2's with Wolfson/Cirrus cards. SD cards are write-locked and all they do is load the kernel; as soon as the system boots, the root FS is mounted off the server (looping on failure, e.g. server not back up yet). Zero reason for the SD cards to wear out (no writes), the Pi's always come back after power fails (and we get plenty of them).
- sokoloff 5y agoWhat software are you using for networked sound? I’ve got three echo dots serving a whole house audio amp, but they’re a little clunky to use and I’ve piles of old RPis sitting around
- zh3 5y agoIcecast driven by mpd on the server; 'mpd' output is also captured as raw PCM and sent over the network to anything that wants to play it back (playback software is just a hack that reads the data and dumps into the soundcard, basically it's pretty much a C program that implements 'netcat | alsa').