

I purchased a Hifiberry and currently use Roon, but landed here because I have another friend that doesn't want Roon and I think a Plex endpoint might be the best option. There are lots of audio hat's that can work with Raspberry Pi's - I did compile a page of this a long time back which I've linked below. It supports Raspberry Pi Audio hats and such like which means you can choose RCA or Optical or whatever you like. That way you use the built in Plex sharing. I had a friend that used Rasplex on the Raspberry Pi and set that as an Audio endpoint. One thing I've found that is really nice and easy to use the Spotify plugin in LMS which allows playing and controlling Spotify directly from the iPeng interface instead of having to mess around selecting the device in Spotify and then controlling the audio in iPeng. I have to reboot the RPi endpoints occasionally, like once every month or two at the most. I've never had any problems with buffering or stuttering even with 192k/24b files, although there is the occasional hiccup which I suspect plagues any digital distribution system. I use iPeng on my iPhone and iPad for remote control of any of the endpoints or simply listening via headphones on either device, knowing that I'm not getting hi res because of the constraints on the Apple devices.

And for my HiFi system in the living room, I went down the path of using a Pi display with a Jivelite enabled providing USB output to the DAC. For example, I have a RPi Zero and a JustBoom DAC Zero in a little box connected to an older receiver in the garage.

I run PiCorePlayer on a variety of RPi endpoints with various output configurations, depending on the location. The same RPi also does double duty as an endpoint. I run Logitech Media Server (LMS) on a RPi 3B+ which accesses the music stored on the NAS. I use both Ethernet and WiFi for streaming to the endpoints. It's more about keeping things organized. I use XLD to rip CDs that I own and have a script that adds them to the NAS and the iTunes library even though I don't really use it any more. I store both my music and video library on a QNAP NAS which also has a native Plex app. I've considered PlexAmp, but my current system works so well, I've been reluctant to mess with it. This probably won't answer your question directly, but it might give you some ideas. Please go to the relevant subreddits and support forums, for example: Build help and build shares posts go in their respective megathreads No referral / affiliate links, personal voting / campaigning / funding, or selling posts Welcome to /r/Plex, a subreddit dedicated to Plex, the media server/client solution for enjoying your media! Plex Community Discord Rules
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Enable "P3 VNC" or "I3 VNC" (depending on version)ĭefault username and password for the Pi: username: piĭoing the above looks like: Setting up VNC on your PC Using VNC Viewer to remote to the Pi.Latest Regular Threads: No Stupid Q&A: Tool Tuesday: Build Help: Share Your Build: Submit Troubleshooting Post Files not showing up correctly?.Run sudo raspi-config to bring up the configuration menu.Headless for VNC Setting up VNC on the Pi Enabling VNC server on the Pi. Also in the boot partition, create a file named wpa_nf and throw the following into it (with your own Wi-Fi name and password):Ĭtrl_interface=DIR=/var/run/wpa_supplicant GROUP=netdev.In the boot partition of the SD card create an empty file just called ssh.Make sure you've already imaged your SD card.Headless for SSH Short video on how easy it is. Headless for just SSH ( skippable with v1.7 of the Raspberry Pi Imager).After writing this post, version 1.7 of the Raspberry Pi Imager released allowing you to set the headless SSH as part of the SD card imaging - essentially skipping the "Headless for SSH" step below!
