paul- wrote: > To play from your phone to the pCP device, the current implementation is > creating a stream from pCP. You need to have pCP streamer installed > (Tweaks page) and then play the URL from within LMS. The URL is shown > when you install pCP streamer. The nice thing here is that any player > in your LMS system can use this stream...... even create a group of > players listening to the stream. > > Bluetooth and wifi are going to give you problems on any of the pi > devices, when using a 2.4g wifi connection. Bluetooth and wifi use very > similar frequencies, the rpi wifi chip does not perform very well > co-existing. If you have a rpi that supports 5g bands, then bluetooth > will work fine. > > Using pCP as a direct bluetooth speaker is in development.
Hey thanks for your answer - it explains a lot! I actually solved the stuttering shairport issues by changing the wireless channel that was being used on my pi3 - I have a neighbor that is using channel 3 right near to me quite extensively and channel 11 is the busiest overall so it's been guess work to find a reliable channel in between. It only takes one or two to ruin it for everyone! I did not realize how almost 'realtime' shairport seems to function because I have only ever used it next to the AP or over Ethernet years ago.... it must be very susceptible to adjacent channel interference. As for direct Bluetooth speaker mode, I had originally tried with Ethernet to rule out WiFi interference from the beginning (plenty of experience with this chip) and seeing now that the direct Bluetooth speaker function is still only in development that explains a lot. Thanks for getting back to me on that! I have no use for the LMS portion of piCorePlayer - I have no sophisticated home-audio setup - I just really liked the lightweight aspect of pCP and thought it would be easy to set up a multi-purpose wireless audio receiver with its interface. I used to use tiny core as a main OS ten or so years ago too, so I really appreciate what's going on behind the scenes as well. Would you mind recommending another project that is similar to pCP that would allow me to set both airplay and Bluetooth a2dp sink concurrently?.. I have noticed Volumio, Moode and another that does not come to mind right now. They all seem kind of wanting to be professional commercial products so the quality is not so apparent from a noob's perspective. Honestly pCP really stuck out from the rest but I'm not sure I would like to forgo Bluetooth - it would be really inconvenient. thanks again for your help! ------------------------------------------------------------------------ noobity's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=70003 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=111787 _______________________________________________ unix mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/unix
