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AirPlay running on Raspberry Pi

82 points by emson 15y ago

patrickod 15y ago
It's great to see such projects being created even while so few have access to the beta boards. I'm very interested to see what the community produces once the first batch are sold and in the hands of users.
anykey 15y ago
I'm really disappointed there wasn't more information on what he was running, this is something I'd love to set up on my own, with or without the Rasperry Pi.
- catch23 15y ago
  It was on HN last year: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2431318 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2431318 This is the related code: https://github.com/albertz/shairport/ https://github.com/albertz/shairport/
  - anykey 15y ago
    I must have missed that post; thank you!
  - prehensile 15y ago
    Not quite. From Shairport's README.md: "ShairPort does not support AirPlay v2 (video and photo streaming)." snos has the correct link above, from the beginning of the video, it looks like he's running airplay-nmt: http://code.google.com/p/airplay-nmt/ http://code.google.com/p/airplay-nmt/
snos 15y ago
http://code.google.com/p/airplay-nmt/ http://code.google.com/p/airplay-nmt/
alexbell 15y ago
Playing around developing for a Rasberry Pi (or 4) is going to be one of the coolest/most satisfying things I do coding wise in 2012 I think.
- pdmccormick 15y ago
  On the theme of a very rewarding change of perspective and exciting new possibilities, I'd heartily recommend everyone try their hand at developing for a small, embedded microcontroller platform. I don't know why sequencing and flashing LEDs is so satisfying. That being said, I am excited about the possibilities of Raspberry Pi's, and hope they can meet their ambitious price point and stay well stocked. The design is impressive, and I hope they find equal success with the logistics and supply chain management side of the equation.
  - AdamTReineke 15y ago
    I'm slowly working on my first electronics project. I decided to go big though and I now have 200 RGB LED modules (from 5 strings of GE15 Christmas lights) hot glued into a 20x10 matrix. I'm still nervous about blowing something out though, so I'm hesitant to wire up the power. Eventually it will be a connected to a Arduino Uno with an Ethernet shield. :-) Fun hands-on project for this software guy.
monological 15y ago
I don't understand why the rpi is so special. Any half-decent hardware engineer could have built this. They just optimized the BOM to get it to $25 bucks? Someone explain this to me.
- 54mf 15y ago
  If anyone could have built it, why didn't anyone build it until now?
  - monological 15y ago
    You have projects like http://beagleboard.org/ http://beagleboard.org/ (beagle xm $150 and $89 beagle bone), and http://leaflabs.com/devices/ http://leaflabs.com/devices/ ($45 maple), which are all ARM based devices, that have been around for a while. I just don't understand how these guys got it so cheap, which is why it seems like they just optimized the bom to get it to where it is. I'll hand it to them though, that is an impressive feat.
    - joshu 15y ago
      Maple has no network or USB and is thus not really comparable.
    - av500 15y ago
      Part of being so cheap might be that the main SoC is subsidized by Broadcom. I have no problem with that, TI is doing the same for the Pandaboard (http://www.pandaboard.org http://www.pandaboard.org)
      - nl 15y ago
        They have said the SOC isn't being subsidized.
        av500 15y ago
        I stand corrected
Deejahll 15y ago
For anyone wondering, the video being played is by Cyriak. http://cyriak.co.uk http://cyriak.co.uk
- joshu 15y ago
  Cyriak is starting to get some serious play. This is one of my favorite videos: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f9iIgQN5uZE http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f9iIgQN5uZE
av500 15y ago
In other words, software is successfully running on a CPU, this is news?

82 points by emson 15y ago

It's great to see such projects being created even while so few have access to the beta boards. I'm very interested to see what the community produces once the first batch are sold and in the hands of users.

anykey 15y ago

I'm really disappointed there wasn't more information on what he was running, this is something I'd love to set up on my own, with or without the Rasperry Pi.

catch23 15y ago
It was on HN last year: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2431318 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2431318 This is the related code: https://github.com/albertz/shairport/ https://github.com/albertz/shairport/
- anykey 15y ago
  I must have missed that post; thank you!
- prehensile 15y ago
  Not quite. From Shairport's README.md: "ShairPort does not support AirPlay v2 (video and photo streaming)." snos has the correct link above, from the beginning of the video, it looks like he's running airplay-nmt: http://code.google.com/p/airplay-nmt/ http://code.google.com/p/airplay-nmt/

snos 15y ago

http://code.google.com/p/airplay-nmt/ http://code.google.com/p/airplay-nmt/

alexbell 15y ago

Playing around developing for a Rasberry Pi (or 4) is going to be one of the coolest/most satisfying things I do coding wise in 2012 I think.

pdmccormick 15y ago
On the theme of a very rewarding change of perspective and exciting new possibilities, I'd heartily recommend everyone try their hand at developing for a small, embedded microcontroller platform. I don't know why sequencing and flashing LEDs is so satisfying. That being said, I am excited about the possibilities of Raspberry Pi's, and hope they can meet their ambitious price point and stay well stocked. The design is impressive, and I hope they find equal success with the logistics and supply chain management side of the equation.
- AdamTReineke 15y ago
  I'm slowly working on my first electronics project. I decided to go big though and I now have 200 RGB LED modules (from 5 strings of GE15 Christmas lights) hot glued into a 20x10 matrix. I'm still nervous about blowing something out though, so I'm hesitant to wire up the power. Eventually it will be a connected to a Arduino Uno with an Ethernet shield. :-) Fun hands-on project for this software guy.

monological 15y ago

I don't understand why the rpi is so special. Any half-decent hardware engineer could have built this. They just optimized the BOM to get it to $25 bucks? Someone explain this to me.

54mf 15y ago
If anyone could have built it, why didn't anyone build it until now?
- monological 15y ago
  You have projects like http://beagleboard.org/ http://beagleboard.org/ (beagle xm $150 and $89 beagle bone), and http://leaflabs.com/devices/ http://leaflabs.com/devices/ ($45 maple), which are all ARM based devices, that have been around for a while. I just don't understand how these guys got it so cheap, which is why it seems like they just optimized the bom to get it to where it is. I'll hand it to them though, that is an impressive feat.
  - joshu 15y ago
    Maple has no network or USB and is thus not really comparable.
  - av500 15y ago
    Part of being so cheap might be that the main SoC is subsidized by Broadcom. I have no problem with that, TI is doing the same for the Pandaboard (http://www.pandaboard.org http://www.pandaboard.org)
    - nl 15y ago
      They have said the SOC isn't being subsidized.
      - av500 15y ago
        I stand corrected

Deejahll 15y ago

For anyone wondering, the video being played is by Cyriak. http://cyriak.co.uk http://cyriak.co.uk

joshu 15y ago
Cyriak is starting to get some serious play. This is one of my favorite videos: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f9iIgQN5uZE http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f9iIgQN5uZE

av500 15y ago

In other words, software is successfully running on a CPU, this is news?