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  • New Article - Whole Home Audio with SnapCast

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  • Yes, I saw that comment. I wasn't sure what "But... it has so many downsides...." meant, and the comment doesn't clarify.

    To me, the big question is how the "improvements" they are going to make would my installation better. I suspect that most of the improvements are ones that allow them to make Music Assistant better, or allow them to add tighter integration with Music Assistant.

    As far as I know, they haven't rolled it out yet. But that thread is almost a year old now.

    I would be interested to see what they've done.

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  • That reference is in one of the programming articles. You must have poked around a bit to find it. "Set it and forget it!".

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  • It was in my list of options when I started. I liked the modularity of SnapCast, though. SnapCast just handles the whole-home aspect, and the you pair it with a music player that you like.

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  • Not specifically, but SnapCast will accept a range of input methods and should be capable of taking output from virtually anything that plays sound.

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  • This was a little problematic at first. Part of my shift over to OPNSense was that I bricked my mesh WiFi when attempting to put it into AP mode. So I had to scramble around to get a WiFi AP. Initially it was upstairs and connected to a swtich that was connected to the homelab in the basement through a Powerline AV. The Pi0's dropped out a lot.

    My house is too old for Cat5 in the walls, but does have some coax for cable TV. So I got some MoCa adapters and a second WiFi AP and sorted the WiFi out. After that, no WiFi problems with the streaming. I think the Powerline AV was just too unstable for the SnapCast.

    There still are some occasional brief outages, and from what I can see this is caused by buffer overflows or something of that ilk with the SnapCast client software. I've adjusted the parameters as much as I can, and it seems pretty stable. I'll notice a 1 or 2 second outage somewhere in the house every day or so.

    Last week the SnapCast in the bathroom was glitching a lot, so I rebooted it and it's been stable ever since. The one in the front room, which is literally 6" from the WiFi AP has never glitched at all, and it's been running for about 3 months now.

    I have a section in one of the articles where I talk about recovering from glitches that halt the Mopidy stream itself. In those cases, the Mopidy service is still running, but stops streaming. Using the REST API you can get it running again, so I wrote a cron job that checks every 3 minutes and restarts the stream if required.

    I just came back from a 3 week vacation and after 2 weeks the Mopidy service itself crashed. I was getting Gotify notifications every 3 minutes from that cron job as it attempted to restart the stream. If since modified the Mopidy service to restart if it crashes, but it could be months before that ever happens.

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  • I'll wait to see.

    Apparently you can run SnapCast on an ESP32 also. For me, the Pi0's cost about $20 CDN, and the DAC card about the same, and the delivery from PiShop.ca was about 3 days. ESP32 would have cost less, but then require some kind of housing because of the two components flopping around. The Pi DAC's slip onto the GPIO pins and the pair are essentially 1 thing at that point. Mine are just tucked away behind whatever the amps are.

    I point out in Part II or III that these are essentially appliances once they're set up. As long as they do the job, I don't expect to upgrading them on a regular basis or anything like that. SendSpin looks cool because it does other stuff besides just stream music, but I'm not looking for that. From what I can see, SendSpin runs on Pi's too, so it should be fairly simple to add that to the Pi0's in the future if that's what I want.

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    New Article - Whole Home Audio with SnapCast

    www.pragmaticcoding.ca /homelab/snapcast0

  • We need a word for "literally" that doesn't also mean "not literally"

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  • I literally only use "literally" when I literally mean "literally".

  • Still valid

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  • COBOL system written 50 years ago...JS package at release.

  • Are you on which team: vim, nano, micro, er ed for you terminal based text editor?

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  • You young punks. :)

  • Nearly half of Americans say they are cutting daily expenses to deal with spiking gas prices from Trump’s Iran war

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  • I understand that Democrats in 6 key states stayed home, or voted for third party candidates. They gave Trump the win. Nobody else.

  • Are you on which team: vim, nano, micro, er ed for you terminal based text editor?

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  • Vi

  • Nearly half of Americans say they are cutting daily expenses to deal with spiking gas prices from Trump’s Iran war

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  • After they re-elected the dumb motherfucker based on blatant lies about crime rates and a complete misunderstanding of Biden handling of the COVID era economy.

    Wrong. Democrats re-elected him when they stayed home because they couldn't bring themselves to go to the polls and vote for a black women. There's nobody else to blame.

  • What Is A Good Sub $300 Computer I Can Use For A Server?

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  • Depending on what you are doing with them, the drives can work just fine running through the USB ports, which can be faster than hard drives in most cases. I have my content - which is like 90% of the data space - on USB hard drives and the databases to manage them on the internal M.2 drive. Works fine for something like Immich.

  • What tv show has the best theme song?

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  • Barney Miller

  • What would the next pres of USA have to do to gain back trust for America? Hold a televised event saying the last person was just a fuck up?

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  • Isn't that what the current one does constantly???

  • 🐙 Octopus is Octopus 🐙

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  • For decades now, my wife and I have used "Kleeni" as the plural of "Kleenex".

  • 🐙 Octopus is Octopus 🐙

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  • Seriously, it should be "octopoda".

  • What are your personal beliefs and values?

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  • It is an "octothorpe".

  • What band did you hear one song of, check the rest of their music, and find it was a one-off and none of their other music sounds like that?

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  • True - Spandau Ballet

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    VLAN’s and Subnets For Home Networks

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    1981 Mockingbird Supreme

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    What Does the Big Number in the Top Right of Each Post Mean?

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