Shairport OS
Posted: Mon Jun 27, 2016 4:06 pm
Just landed with five minutes free time, so thought I'd point people in the direction of this which I made about a year ago:
http://birdslikewires.co.uk/download/op ... irport/os/
It's an image which uses shairport-sync to provide multi-room AirPlay with audio synchronisation.
What does that mean? In basic use just AirPlay music from iTunes or your iDevice to the Joggler - it'll play it, extract the metadata and display it on screen. If you play from iTunes you can select multiple devices and in theory, they should sync up so you don't get weird echo effects between rooms.
I created it as a bit of an experiment into producing embedded read-only-filesystem operating systems, so the bonus of this is that you can just switch off the Joggler at the mains any time you wish. Nothing is mounted as writable on the device, so power on and power off to your heart's content. Just follow the instructions on one of my other images to write it to a USB stick, edit the config files in the boot partition using your computer (wifi network, AirPlay name and the like) and you're off.
As I say, it's over a year old, it's unfinished and not terribly well tested - so your mileage may vary! But I'm still finding it handy, so I thought others might too.
Oh, there is a version there for writing to internal memory, but only use this if you know how to make a recovery stick with which you can edit the config settings in the boot partition - because the internal version is read-only as well.
http://birdslikewires.co.uk/download/op ... irport/os/
It's an image which uses shairport-sync to provide multi-room AirPlay with audio synchronisation.
What does that mean? In basic use just AirPlay music from iTunes or your iDevice to the Joggler - it'll play it, extract the metadata and display it on screen. If you play from iTunes you can select multiple devices and in theory, they should sync up so you don't get weird echo effects between rooms.
I created it as a bit of an experiment into producing embedded read-only-filesystem operating systems, so the bonus of this is that you can just switch off the Joggler at the mains any time you wish. Nothing is mounted as writable on the device, so power on and power off to your heart's content. Just follow the instructions on one of my other images to write it to a USB stick, edit the config files in the boot partition using your computer (wifi network, AirPlay name and the like) and you're off.
As I say, it's over a year old, it's unfinished and not terribly well tested - so your mileage may vary! But I'm still finding it handy, so I thought others might too.
Oh, there is a version there for writing to internal memory, but only use this if you know how to make a recovery stick with which you can edit the config settings in the boot partition - because the internal version is read-only as well.