Also control through a web-browser is possible via the LMS web-page.Īdding an IR-receiver or an USB receiver to the RPi allows for control via a remote controller. Other ways to control the music is via your smartphone or tablet - using free as well as commercial apps.

This page briefly explains how an equivalent to the late lamented Squeezebox Touch can be build for relative peanuts. A disclaimer, this is not all my own work, so many thanks to all those who contributed their time and knowledge for the benefit of us all. JiveLite is mimicking the interface from original Logitech Touch. PiCorePlayer + Waveshare 3.5' TFT screen + Jivelite. Using very few tweaks, it can even be used as an input to the JACK2 audio system, albeit not supporting. If you choose to use a RPi as the LMS server this can easily be done by a simple click on the pCP web-page that install LMS on your RPi (see option 2 and option 3 on the front page)īy adding a touch-screen to one of the pCP players it is possible to control all the connected players via the JiveLite interface. Fabulous continuation of SqueezeBox (Logitech Media Server) players, thanks for your support and helping us LMS users getting even more out of their systems I use this under Linux and I’m really happy now since it supports PulseAudio, too. LMS can be installed on a computer, NAS or even another RPi. Music are streamed through a LMS server available on your network (see sketch above). Kodi is available for multiple operating-systems and hardware platforms, featuring a 10-foot user interface for use with televisions and remote controls.

To install pCP please read the getting started.īy using several Raspberry Pi's it is even possible to build a multiroom music system that allows for streaming synched music as well as different streams to separate rooms. Kodi is a free and open source media player application developed by the XBMC Foundation, a non-profit technology consortium.

Squeezelite is the backbone that allows a Raspberry Pi to play music from your LMS server.

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