Just to return to the original topic of this thread, I recently
installed LMS on a Chromebook. I did not test it extensively, but I was
able to play to a squeezelite player running on another computer on my
network.

The Linux capability built into ChromeOS has improved immensely, and it
is not longer beta. It is not necessary to switch the Chromebook to
developer mode to use it. The usual Chrome environment remains active.
It is necessary to set up port forwarding to allow LMS to communicate
with other devices on the network. The port forwarding state is not
persistent, it has to be manually switched on for each port, every time
ChromeOS is restarted.

The Chromebook I used is not a high-powered model. It's about three
years old and its specs were very modest when it was brand new. (ASUS
Chromebook Flip C101, 16 GB version) This is the model I mentioned
before, with an Arm processor that I previously thought was not
supported by LMS. As I said, I did not test it extensively, so I don't
know how it would deal with scanning a music library. I only tried
playing some online streams.

I don't think a Chromebook is an ideal platform for LMS, but with the
current shortage of Raspberry Pis, it could be a useful fallback.



LMS 8 nightly running on Raspberry Pi OS. Mostly virtual players,
occasionally with SB Radio, Boom or Classic.
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