DIY Airplay or DLNA on Phantom (Raspberry Pi)

[daibaron]

Hi, i am a Silver Phantom owner.
Unfortunately, the Spark app turned me into a Devialet hater... and this is not going to change so far.
Devialet is really pushing us to buy an Apple Airport router (expensive with poor features) to get Itunes as a music player instead of the crappy Spark which is only good to play FLAC.

I've been able to find a solution working with the Raspberry PI 3 and HiFiBerry Digi+ (TosLink out)
This is not an out of the box working solution... but once it is set up and working you can turn a non wireless speaker into an airplay speaker.

Basically the RPi 3 is connected to your home network and will work as an Airplay server.
The RPi 3 is connected to the Phantom Dialog using the Toslink input.
Your music app like Itunes on desktop computer or Ipod Touch / Iphone  with see the RPi as an Airplay client/Serveur.
This solution can be extended to every non wireless speakers with Toslink or 3.5 audio in capability.

what you need is :

*  Raspberry Pi 3
*  8 GB SDHC card
*  a power supply...
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Vilros-Raspberr...berry+Pi+3

*  HiFiBerry Digi+ std.
https://www.amazon.co.uk/HiFiBerry-Digi-...ry+Digi%2B

* Raspberry case
https://www.amazon.co.uk/HiFiBerry-Unive...ry+Digi%2B

* TosLink cable.

* the Airplay client/server (software)
http://www.pimusicbox.com/
http://www.runeaudio.com/ (highly recommended) and very new to me



the next step for me is to use MusicBee to organize my music (Flac & MP3)
http://getmusicbee.com/

I can get you more explanations if you guys show a little interest in this thread.

Have fun !

[Gaustabl]

Hi, this is very interesting, how do you control the volume in this setup?

best regards Lars

[daibaron]

Hi Lars,

you can control the volume with your Ipod/Iphone physical +/- buttons or Itunes/Spark
You can also control the master volume on the RPI3 web interface.

Regards

[angenet]

Hi Lars,

you can control the volume with your Ipod/Iphone physical +/-  buttons or Itunes/Spark
You can also control the master volume on the RPI3 web interface.

Regards

hi,

I have been up and running using the Moode Player since last Tuesday  and everything is excellent..
I can finally play the music from my NAS , iphone, on  my Phantoms  and the quality is excellent..
You can control the volume also from Spark...
I'm currently building the radio list with my favorite radios stations..

Very good Solution...

[trashken]

Welcome to the Sparkless movement...

[tennisinme]

Hello,

I am having trouble installing an OS onto the Raspberry Pi. I have gotten as far as flashing runeplayer onto my SD card but I can't access the Raspberry Pi and can't create a separate network (SSH problem I think) for the airplay to activate.

Could you help out here? Thank you so much!

[daibaron]

Hi,
I'm glad you found this thread... that was not popular at all.
My current setup is this one :

I bought a DigiPi (L2S driver is Hifi Berry) and now i use the Optical output.
Musicbee player>(over dlna)> Volumio+ DIgipi>(over optical) speakers
MusicBee is not compatible with my speaker over DLNA but works well with Volumio (DLNA client over the local network).
That's why there is an extra step by adding the RPI DAC to make it work.

maybe SSH is now disabled by default that's the case with Volumio