Hi there,
I built a basic Squeezebox Touch clone using a leftover Raspberry Pi 3B+ and the official Raspi 7" touch display in a SmartiPi 2 case. OS is piCore, and it all works a treat. I don't have any good means of sound output yet (also no GPIO board like HifiBerry DAC+). What I'd like to do: 1) use the player in the bedroom for music, obviously 2) use the unit for an alarm clock Especially for the latter use case it's not so great to need to plug it into some stereo (which I don't have in the bedroom anyway) that needs to be turned on all the time. So I hope I can manage with a (cheapish) speaker set to create a (somewhat) portable/selfsufficient setup, but I have yet to come across a good combo and would like to hear some expereince in case someone else tried the same. What I've tried: 1) getting a cheap 6W soundbar for starters, power and output goes over USB. I also set the output to "USB" in that piCore web interface. Result: no sound at all when connected to the Pi. Maybe the power doesn't suffice, although it was detected by the Pi as device "CD002" or something and I was able to crank it up in the ALSA Mixer, although with no effect. So I returned the soundbar. 2) getting a cheapish set of 6W "Creative Pebbles", with power over USB and signal over 3.5 mm standard headphone jack. Result: It works, even with the USB plugged into the Pi, but it hums and whistles - I suppose that's a byproduct of the Pi's audio connector and to be expected. Not great at night. 3) using my portable Bluetooth speaker (JBL Flip 3). I didn't get that to work at first, until I found out that it isn't used as an output device, but as an additional player instance. Which left me flabberghasted. But oh well. I could get a cheap Bluetooth speaker, keep it permanently on a power cord and synch the player that's created for it with the Touch clone (or switch the Touch clone to control the "speaker player" directly). But I don't like the constantly running Bluetooth connection, also, having a Touch that doesn't control itself feels a little like waste. I now hope that either someone managed to get option 1 running without background noises or that someone can confirm that a GPIO's audio jack won't produce the same background hum so I can resort to option 2. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ TheCoyote's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=68172 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=114154 _______________________________________________ diy mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/diy
