drmatt wrote: > It's a bit of a black art getting the Bluetooth stack to do anything > useful on Linux, so the odds of getting a working Bluetooth audio > receiver in software on a bluetooth-equipped rpi3 is low. So you are > still looking at a secondary Bluetooth receiver with PSU. I recently > swapped a kitchen amp for an all in one class D with Bluetooth, and it > works pretty well. -Transcoded from Matt's brain by Tapatalk-
I find there is a problem with these basic Bluetooth enabled amps, or even the RPi for that matter, there is no easy way to disconnect one phone and pair another. You have to disconnect at the phone end. It really needs a dedicated button on the amp to release the Bluetooth connection so it can be paired with a new device while the previously connected one is still in range. We had a party at Christmas where somebody brought a Bose Bluetooth speaker along. Everyone was choosing music on their phones and we were swapping the Bluetooth continually between one phone and another. There was a simple button on the speaker that enabled that. I have resigned myself to getting another power brick, dongle and set of RCA cables which will require me to switch inputs manually on the amp. Times are changing anyway. Disappointingly the rest of the family have kicked out the Squeezebox from the kitchen (along with neat little Class D amp and excellent B&W speakers) in favour of a pair of Tibo active speakers with Bluetooth. They have another two inputs but the family don't want the clutter of more boxes and cables so I am now down to my last Squeezebox - in the living room attached to my proper Naim system that only I listen to. What it boils down to is everybody "curates" their own music on their own phone (in our case via a Spotify family account) and they simply want to swap from listening on headphones to listening on a speaker, or pair of speakers. They don't want the hassle of opening up a different app on their phone, then the Spotty app in LMS, then going to their library just to get to Spotify to listen to the music on speakers that they were already listening to on headphones. We are getting a home extension which will release one of the bedrooms to be a study. Hopefully I will be allowed to reinstate the Squeezebox system there! Matt SQUEEZEBOXES:[/B] TWO SB DUETS (LIVING ROOM AND KITCHEN) AND A *'PICOREPLAYER' (HTTPS://SITES.GOOGLE.COM/SITE/PICOREPLAYER/HOME) [b]Server:* Synology DS214 (2TB) NAS running LMS 7.9.1 *Network:* TP-Link Archer VR200 router, TP-Link access point *Livingroom:* Receiver, Linn LP12, Naim 72/Hi-cap/110/Headline amp, B&W CM2 speakers *Kitchen:* Receiver, Topping TP20 Mk2 Class T amp, B&W 686 speakers ------------------------------------------------------------------------ TheLastMan's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=16021 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=108286 _______________________________________________ unix mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/unix
