That reference is in one of the programming articles. You must have poked around a bit to find it. "Set it and forget it!".
HamsterRage
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Not specifically, but SnapCast will accept a range of input methods and should be capable of taking output from virtually anything that plays sound.
This was a little problematic at first. Part of my shift over to OPNSense was that I bricked my mesh WiFi when attempting to put it into AP mode. So I had to scramble around to get a WiFi AP. Initially it was upstairs and connected to a swtich that was connected to the homelab in the basement through a Powerline AV. The Pi0's dropped out a lot.
My house is too old for Cat5 in the walls, but does have some coax for cable TV. So I got some MoCa adapters and a second WiFi AP and sorted the WiFi out. After that, no WiFi problems with the streaming. I think the Powerline AV was just too unstable for the SnapCast.
There still are some occasional brief outages, and from what I can see this is caused by buffer overflows or something of that ilk with the SnapCast client software. I've adjusted the parameters as much as I can, and it seems pretty stable. I'll notice a 1 or 2 second outage somewhere in the house every day or so.
Last week the SnapCast in the bathroom was glitching a lot, so I rebooted it and it's been stable ever since. The one in the front room, which is literally 6" from the WiFi AP has never glitched at all, and it's been running for about 3 months now.
I have a section in one of the articles where I talk about recovering from glitches that halt the Mopidy stream itself. In those cases, the Mopidy service is still running, but stops streaming. Using the REST API you can get it running again, so I wrote a cron job that checks every 3 minutes and restarts the stream if required.
I just came back from a 3 week vacation and after 2 weeks the Mopidy service itself crashed. I was getting Gotify notifications every 3 minutes from that cron job as it attempted to restart the stream. If since modified the Mopidy service to restart if it crashes, but it could be months before that ever happens.
I'll wait to see.
Apparently you can run SnapCast on an ESP32 also. For me, the Pi0's cost about $20 CDN, and the DAC card about the same, and the delivery from PiShop.ca was about 3 days. ESP32 would have cost less, but then require some kind of housing because of the two components flopping around. The Pi DAC's slip onto the GPIO pins and the pair are essentially 1 thing at that point. Mine are just tucked away behind whatever the amps are.
I point out in Part II or III that these are essentially appliances once they're set up. As long as they do the job, I don't expect to upgrading them on a regular basis or anything like that. SendSpin looks cool because it does other stuff besides just stream music, but I'm not looking for that. From what I can see, SendSpin runs on Pi's too, so it should be fairly simple to add that to the Pi0's in the future if that's what I want.
I literally only use "literally" when I literally mean "literally".
COBOL system written 50 years ago...JS package at release.
You young punks. :)
I understand that Democrats in 6 key states stayed home, or voted for third party candidates. They gave Trump the win. Nobody else.
After they re-elected the dumb motherfucker based on blatant lies about crime rates and a complete misunderstanding of Biden handling of the COVID era economy.
Wrong. Democrats re-elected him when they stayed home because they couldn't bring themselves to go to the polls and vote for a black women. There's nobody else to blame.
Depending on what you are doing with them, the drives can work just fine running through the USB ports, which can be faster than hard drives in most cases. I have my content - which is like 90% of the data space - on USB hard drives and the databases to manage them on the internal M.2 drive. Works fine for something like Immich.
For some reason, the wife decided to pull out all of the amigurumi critters that she's made since she started doing this at the beginning of the year.
So, here you go, the group shot:
She said that the pattern was awful and that she had fudge all kinds of stuff to make it work. The hat needed to be completely redesigned.
The wife has started to make these amigurumi creatures. Here's her latest two.
She uses worsted weight wool (she tells me) which generally results in bigger creatures.
I wanted one of these back in 1980 when I was 16. I remember that they were $1,200, but they might as well have been $1,200,000 as far as I was concerned.
Many years later I had the $$$ to buy one, and this one is a beauty. Koa, with Bill Lawrence pickups.
Look at all the knobs and switches!!!
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Yes, I saw that comment. I wasn't sure what "But... it has so many downsides...." meant, and the comment doesn't clarify.
To me, the big question is how the "improvements" they are going to make would my installation better. I suspect that most of the improvements are ones that allow them to make Music Assistant better, or allow them to add tighter integration with Music Assistant.
As far as I know, they haven't rolled it out yet. But that thread is almost a year old now.
I would be interested to see what they've done.