{"id":513,"date":"2019-01-31T21:09:51","date_gmt":"2019-01-31T21:09:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/elephantandchicken.co.uk\/stuffandnonsense\/?p=513"},"modified":"2019-04-24T18:19:09","modified_gmt":"2019-04-24T17:19:09","slug":"using-an-orange-pi-zero-as-airplay-speakers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/elephantandchicken.co.uk\/stuffandnonsense\/?p=513","title":{"rendered":"Using an Orange Pi Zero as Airplay Speakers…"},"content":{"rendered":"

… and redirecting all sound from desktop Ubuntu to them.<\/h3>\n

Note that this system isn’t working perfectly for me and I’m finding the sound drops out about once a minute. I’m looking into other methods using pulseaudio.<\/p>\n

On Orange Pi Zero<\/h5>\n

Set up an Orange Pi Zero and boot it using an Armbian installation (it will say “Welcome to ARMBIAN” when you log in).<\/p>\n

sudo apt update
\nsudo apt upgrade armbian-config
\nsudo armbian-config<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\"armbian-config<\/a>

armbian-config Main Menu<\/p><\/div>\n

Wait until it loads, then select “System” (arrow keys to move up and down, Enter to select).<\/p>\n

\"armbian-config<\/a>

armbian-config System Menu<\/p><\/div>\n

Scroll down to “Hardware” with the arrow keys and press Enter.<\/p>\n

\"armbian-config<\/a>

armbian-config Hardware Menu<\/p><\/div>\n

Use arrow keys to select “analog-codec” (if it isn’t already) and then press space so that a “*” appears between the square brackets (if it isn’t there already).
\nPress Enter to Save.<\/p>\n

Right arrow to select “Exit” and press Enter.<\/p>\n

Right arrow to select “Cancel” and press Enter.<\/p>\n

Right arrow to select “Cancel” and press Enter.<\/p>\n

You have now enabled the audio output.<\/p>\n

sudo apt install shairport-sync<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

You now have the sound server program running. Lets name it something different.<\/p>\n

sudo nano \/etc\/shairport-sync.conf<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Use the arrow keys to move the cursor to the start of the first line after “general =” that starts with a “\/\/”. Press return to add a new line above it.<\/p>\n

On the new line you created, press tab and then type (for example) :<\/p>\n

name = “Sitting Room Speakers”<\/p>\n

The part of the file should now look like this :
\n________________________________________________________________________________
\n\/\/ Sample Configuration File for Shairport Sync
\n\/\/ Commented out settings are generally the defaults, except where noted.<\/p>\n

\/\/ General Settings
\ngeneral =
\n{
\nname = “Sitting Room Speakers”
\n\/\/ name = “%H”; \/\/ This means “Hostname” — see below. This is the name th$
\n________________________________________________________________________________<\/p>\n

Press Ctrl+x
\nPress y
\nPress Return<\/p>\n

On mine I found that it was turned down really low, so had to turn it up. Run the following command to set the volume levels :<\/p>\n

alsamixer<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Left and right arrows select the “fader” – you want to push “Line Out” and “DAC” up. Push them both up until they start turning grey instead of green – you might want to return to this later to fine tune levels once you have music playing.<\/p>\n

Restart the Orange Pi Zero :<\/p>\n

sudo reboot<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

On Linux Desktop Computer (e.g. BeeLink S2)<\/h5>\n

sudo apt update
\nsudo apt install paprefs pulseaudio-module-raop<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Search for an application called “PulseAudio Preferences” (press the windows key and start typing)<\/p>\n

Check “Make discoverable Apple AirTunes sound devices available locally” and click “Close”.<\/p>\n

Restart the computer.<\/p>\n

Launch the “Settings” application and go to “Sound”. You should see your Orange Pi listed under “Output”. I have two versions appearing, one has what looks like a MAC address after it, the other my Orange Pi’s ip address. Use the latter.<\/p>\n

Note there is usually a couple of seconds of latency due to the buffering, but this is fine with music (not so much with video).<\/p>\n

If the audio drops out once in a while…<\/h5>\n

The following command increases the priority of the shairport-sync server running on the Orange Pi Zero by setting all process run by the user (-u) “shairport-sync” to be very important. Hopefully this will help. Another option might be to increase the buffer size, although this would increase latency.<\/p>\n

sudo renice -n -19 -u shairport-sync<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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