OK, in addition to Greg's links to the documentation and kidstypike's
good simple run through...
First of all, relax and enjoy the learning experience, you say you want
to get it right, but it's so quick and easy to start from scratch...
getting anything wrong will just be a good lesson. It takes me less than
an hour to complete my full setup from scratch (including full scan of
local music library, installation of plugins on LMS and configuring all
of my 7 Players).
I've seen some of your other threads and I'll start by trying to clarify
a few things, piCorePlayer is a small distribution based on Tiny Core
Linux, originally created as a Squeezelite Squeezebox player that boots
into and runs from a virtual disk created ram in the RPi, meaning the
software based on the SD card is only used during boot to "create" your
Squeezelite player. The pCP team have subsequently improved and expanded
its capabilities way beyond just a Squeezelite player... LMS, Bluetooth,
Shairtunes, Jivelite, Samba, USB storage support, comprehensive web
based configuration and probably more, LMS particularly has altered the
original philosophy in that it does write back to the the original SD
card and unlike a pure Squeezelite setup it should not just be powered
off (stop LMS before pCP shutdown, reboot or RPi power off).
Squeezelite - Player (A later project for you!)
Jivelite - Controller (Not needed for you, but allows your RPi/pCP with
a screen added to become a controller)
LMS - Server
So onto your specific needs, from what I have gleaned from your other
posts is all you need to start with is an LMS server... using the RPi
and pCP as a player can be done later if required, if you are
referencing the official documentation... it is biased towards pCP being
a player, don't get lost in that, all you need is pCP imaged and running
on your RPi on the same network as your laptop and you accessing pCP via
a web browser to configure it for your needs for now, i.e. LMS
Ideally as an LMS server the RPi should be connected to your network by
ethernet, i.e. cabled not wifi.
To specifically answer the questions you've asked in this post:
Micro SD Card size - anything from 8Gb upwards is plenty, bit you'll
probably struggle to get one that small these days!
LMS Controller - once LMS is running you can control it and any players
using your Duet Controller, smart phone, tablet, laptop web interface
and more.
Setting up using your laptop - all you need is a Micro SD card with a
fresh image of pCP, PSU for RPi, network connection for RPi and a
browser on your laptop
Kidstypike has given you a good outline, a couple of additions to his
steps...
In pCP downloads:
use *PiCorePlayer 7.0.0 - Standard Version* for older RPis or 4B with
2Gb memory
use *PiCorePlayer 7.0.0 - 64 bit Kernel* if your RPi is a 4B with 4Gb of
memory
After download of pCP image - unzip it... it is the .img file you need
to burn to your micro SD card
Here's my edited checklist of tasks for an LMS only build, I've removed
tasks irrelevant to you to keep it clearer and LMS Plugins you'll have
to decide which ones you need:
PC work prior to RPi boot:
- Initial image to card
>From web browser after RPi boot:
- Stop squeezelite
- Disable squeezelite autostart
- Fixed IP Address
- PcP updates: full, minor and patch
- Name
- Timezone
- Turn off wifi
- Turn off hdmi
- Add time update line to Cron
- Resize file system
- Install additional file systems
- Change pCP password
-
and onto LMS
- Install LMS
- Login to mysqueezebox
- Configure each player settings
- add LMS plugins:
- Powersave
- Material
- Shairtunes
- BBC Sounds
- Play Windows Media
- Group players
- LastMix
- Global Player
- RadioNet
-
Obviously if you're stuck on any task, just come back here and ask for
more details.
Hope this helps
Kev
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