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In Reply to: No posted by E-Stat on June 11, 2024 at 12:54:30:
When I got my first Pi I had it up and running in half an hour, unboxing included, and I had zero previous experience with them. I put Volumio on it which is a complete build including OS and it boots directly to it. Connecting to it is easy as it exposes itself as a wifi endpoint and you connect to it, set it up to see your home network and password, reboot and go. It shows up after that as a DLNA endpoint, an Airplay endpoint and has its own interface too. My kids knew immediately how to connect to it from their phones with Spotify as it showed up as a speaker selection. I myself used Audirvana on a Mac and it too showed up as a selection through DLNA without any change to AV. That's how I use it today, running AV on three different Macs, and having 3 different Volumio/Pi endpoints. Any Mac can connect to any endpoint, all over the wifi. The only problem is forgetting to switch speaker output and it'll start playing in the kitchen when I'm in the living room.It did help that I had the image already downloaded on my Mac and burnt to an SD card, but that didn't take long either. Unfortunately Volumio made it more difficult with their later version, but maybe they've fixed that. I'm pretty sure Volumio is one guy working from Florence, Italy, so I give him some slack.
Plug and play? No, but really easy to setup this way. No Linux required.
Edits: 06/13/24
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Follow Ups
- RE: No - zacster 07:02:36 06/13/24 (7)
- Yes, Volumio is easier to set up than Roon ................. - Cut-Throat 07:47:50 06/13/24 (6)
- Really? Setting up Roon is child's play ;-) - AbeCollins 08:16:06 06/18/24 (5)
- Volumio is even simpler ........ - Cut-Throat 08:19:23 06/18/24 (4)
- Never tried Volumio... - AbeCollins 08:45:19 06/18/24 (3)
- RE: Never tried Volumio... - Cut-Throat 08:51:34 06/18/24 (2)
- RE: Never tried Volumio... - AbeCollins 09:12:48 06/18/24 (1)
- The WiiM Products .............. - Cut-Throat 09:31:15 06/18/24 (0)
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