A simple, light weight audio receiver with Bluetooth (A2DP), AirPlay, Spotify Connect and UPnP.
Devices like phones, tablets and computers can play audio via this receiver.
- Raspberry Pi with Bluetooth support (tested wth Raspberry Pi Zero W) or USB dongle
- Raspbian Stretch Lite (tested with version 2017-11-29)
- USB or I2S Audio adapter (tested with Adafruit USB Audio Adapter and pHAT DAC)
Sets hostname to airpi, the visible device name to AirPi and updates the Raspbian packages.
sudo apt update -y
sudo apt upgrade -y
sudo SKIP_WARNING=1 rpi-update
sudo apt install -y --no-install-recommends git
git clone https://github.com/nicokaiser/rpi-audio-receiver.git
cd rpi-audio-receiver
sudo raspi-config nonint do_hostname airpi
sudo hostnamectl set-hostname --pretty "AirPi"
Sets up Bluetooth, adds a simple agent that accepts every connection, and enables audio playback through BlueALSA. A udev script is installed that disables discoverability while connected.
sudo ./install-bluetooth.sh
Installs Shairport Sync AirPlay Audio Receiver.
sudo ./install-shairport.sh
Installs Spotifyd, an open source Spotify client).
sudo ./install-spotify.sh
Installs gmrender-resurrect UPnP Renderer.
sudo ./install-upnp.sh
To avoid SD card corruption when powering off, you can boot Raspbian in read-only mode. This is described by Adafruit in this tutorial and cannot be undone.
sudo ./enable-read-only.sh
- Only one Bluetooth device can be connected at a time, otherwise interruptions may occur.
- The device is always open, new clients can connect at any time without authentication.
- To permanently save paired devices, the Raspberry has to be switched to read-write mode (
mount -o remount,rw /) until all devices have been paired once. - You might want to use a Bluetooth USB dongle or have the script disable Wi-Fi while connected (see
bluetooth-udev.sh), as the BCM43438 (Raspberry Pi 3, Zero W) has severe problems with both switched on, see raspberrypi/linux/#1402.