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 !