Final Assembely of a Raspberry Pi Music Server

hello and good evening my name is bob and this evening i'm going to talk a little bit about raspberry pi's as music servers and do the final assembly of a new music server i have under construction here in the shop so in front of us here are the basic components of the music server this uh server has a four terabyte hard drive it's a raspberry pi 4 with 8 gig of ram probably not necessary but that's what i've got and then it's booted off the micro sd card of course then in between is this daughter board and what the daughter board does is a couple of things the first thing is is it mounts the ssd and then gives a usb interface so it's like an ssd on a usb cable then you jumper the this to the raspberry pi and that gives you the complete system it goes in a plastic case which we're going to like saying case and there is a fan in this case but i think it's optional and we're going to see what happens with some temperature testing over time i've put these extra big heat sinks on the raspberry pi and we'll see try and avoid that it's not a pulse uh fan so it should be should be fine but we'll see if it makes any noise or whatever so the first part of the assembly i think what we'll do is put the ssd on and i want to show you something i found as i was doing test assemblies so the ssd mounts on the board and then there are two studs that hold the ssd to the to the board and notice there's a gap at this one board so everything's not completely square and that's a little disconcerting i was going to drill these out and uh just run the screws through because they're threaded which didn't make any sense to me but we'll go from here and just not worry about it for right now so what i'm gonna do first here is get this ssd mounted and the other thing to note is is these studs are not perfectly straight i think it's a little manufacturing defect that um i'm just gonna have to deal with for now okay i got it lined up and so now the ssd is mounted there are four standoffs that will go onto the case so let's put those on real quick probably should have put these in before the ssd it's a little harder with the ssd on there helps maybe that turn it over the other way oh wrong screw so ssd's mounted standoffs are there the wrong way no wonder i'm having trouble so what happens when you shoot live you get nervous and you do things backwards no harm no foul wouldn't work too well trying to get the raspberry pi over those standoffs too late in a day for caffeine i think by the way this is anti-static plastic here so i'm doing my best here to keep keep reasonably safe from causing any electrical damage probably ought to be wearing a wrist strap okay and maybe just give them a little extra nudge so they stay tight now here's one of the interesting things about this board there's no jumpers or wires that go from the raspberry pi to the board the way they do it is these things called pogo pins and you can see this little pin here at the camera to focus on the little pin is spring-loaded and it pushes down and the pins line up with the factory test points on the bottom of the raspberry pi board so that gives us the exact alignment we need and as long as the raspberry pi folks manufacture them all the same then that'll line up go get the rest of the hardware here so now as i kind of mentioned in the post on audiophile style and alluded to in the youtube the uh you're in the middle of this project okay so it may seem a little bit cold but i have i think i have good reasons for that first one was i didn't think of this until about this time and the second one is i'm trying to show how reasonably easy this is to do and this one is this one's a little more complicated because of the extra board i'll show you another one in a minute and a big shout out to chris conaker for you know all kinds of ideas about that so here we go we've got the raspberry pi attached to the daughter board and ssd attached to the bottom notice that the in this case the slot for the micro sd card is available these all come out the side okay and then this is the jumper block that goes between the daughter board and the um cpu and i'm sort of disappointed in this because it's all exposed another company which i'll talk about in a second makes one which is in this lovely little plastic case so i think that uh i think the folks at uh geek pie where i got this probably need a little yeah up the ante just a little bit now the fan is on this part of the board here okay and it connects up with the connector on here the 5 volt out so we have the red to plus and we have the black to minus and to be perfectly honest i don't like those those are like not very good connections and we'll see how they do so there we go it's assembled it's not in the case i think what i want to do is kind of get it started into the case and see what happens and then we'll go the next phase so the some folks might not like the look of this kind of open computing style i happen to think it's pretty cool so that's why i'm doing it what i'm going to do first here is quick put the side standoffs on just to maybe give me a little bit more support when i'm putting the sides on we'll see if that works out the instructions for all this are just a little bit lightweight they're they're mostly in pictures on the amazon page so i find that um fascinating at best this is one of those builds where you could uh use one of those fans with rgb lights and do all kinds of crazy stuff but i don't think it's worth it so i'll unplug this for the minute till we get that in so here's the pie whole thing screws down to that location right there now the one thing i do notice is it's really close to these sides and i have the feeling i'm going to have to adapt here a little bit as i'm going on so this side is the vent side okay and that lines up with the connectors for the raspberry pi now one of the things to remember with this is do not plug power into here okay for this setup they have it open but they say don't plug power into there i'm sure there's multiple reasons why but uh i think i know a couple because it is being fed from this barrel jack connector now what's nice about the barrel jack connector it lets you use some more standard as an audiophile land power supplies so we can pick our favorite um our favorite linear power supply which is which might be fun um i don't i don't know how that will work out it will be an interesting thing to try and i plan on doing that but i think what we'll do is we'll start out with something that's not quite so sophisticated and i'll show you that in a second but i want to just get the flavor for getting this assembled first i think they probably laser cut this i don't know it looks really nicely done all right so now let's see if we can probably pull that out that probably sticks out too far to make this fit nicely yeah we're gonna have to play this game a little bit more so put the raspberry pi in there and then assemble this yeah i think the key to assembly is to leave one uh post off hopefully i won't have to leave two off okay so now you can see that all lines up pretty nicely and let's go ahead and put this on to kind of hold that side together just because i think it's a good idea of course it only goes on one way there we go so now we're kind of halfway together and then this side goes here and supposedly lines up to give us the okay lesson is two posts not four okay that's pretty good now this will be the interesting part getting the final one in and that uh that seems to have worked out rather perfectly now i'm going to screw this one down just to hold things together a little bit better okay those three are on let's go ahead and put the fourth post on yeah do this this way a little bit of a little bit like a worn out tinker toy set they don't quite stay together when you want them too okay that's not super tight so there we are all together and i'm gonna plug the fan in to that connection okay so there we go it's all in we'll put the top case on in a minute i think what i might want to do is make sure it works before we uh fire this all the way up so let's talk about power supplies first now the same company who manufactures the case also sells this about 13 or 15 dollar switching power supply with the proper connector for getting juice to it and so what i think we'll do here is uh plug this in and see about powering this up now raspberry pi 4 does have wi-fi but since this is my server i sort of decided not to use wi-fi i'm going to use ethernet and just for the heck of it here okay plug in an hdmi connector and we're going to go black and let's see what happens well that's a good start that's the raspberry pi getting started screen and you can see pi core player booting up and while it plays with itself doing these weird grips that don't seem to do anything on boot up i think what we'll do is look at putting the case the rest of the way together okay and of course little noisy things okay so it looks like okay i don't know if you can hear that or not but it does make a little bit of noise um we'll see it's going to be here and in the basement so it won't be in the room with the stereo so that it shouldn't bother but what i want to find out in the long run is do we actually need the fan do the temperatures uh rise with those good heat sinks i'm hoping they don't and then we will see what happens and one more screw so now the server is completely assembled and it's actually booted up and running okay very nicely so [Applause] what we can do is try and talk to it real quick to make sure that it's working so there it is pi core player and sure enough that's happening and bring up logitech media server and yep logitech media server is there too all right so now the server's running let's bring up a player so this usb cable is a little short this is a pi 4 in the standard pi 4 display case the 7 inch display case and it's also running pi core player and it has usb out to my uh sms 200 smsl a0200 amplifier over there and let's boot this up and watch it come up and see what happens and again the graphs now this pi core player is running this little thing called jive light which gives you um the ability to have this nice display with the touchscreen so we can go local radio we'll go fm and my favorite classical welcome to the wfmt audio stream co-sponsored by windtrust when you choose a wintrust community bank your money stays here in the community with their maxing program you can receive up to 3.75 million dollars in fdic and tour deposits find out more at windtrust.com i would say that's a success so there we go that's one of the servers and one of the streamers working i wanted to just real quick show i'm not going to disassemble it now because we're kind of getting long on time here this is a different case that does some things in a very similar manner so there's a company called argon 40 and this is the argon 1 version 2 case now it has on the bottom of it a similar usb to ssd card but it uses m.2 sata only not nvme sata only drives it's all encased in this nice little cabinet there is a fan which is controllable in here the version 2.1 has an ir receiver in it and they have software for the ir receiver there is one disadvantage to this m.2 model is there's no way to access the sd card so you have to take the case apart four screws pull this off to do that the other thing that they've done which is advantageous is full-time full-size hdmi and it is powered by a usb-c connector so this is my big shout-out to chris conaker because that in fact is pocketable so chris thanks for the inspiration and i think we'll call it an evening let folks uh get to bed and end the show for now catch you soon bye-bye you

Channel: Bob Fairbairn

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Length: 25min 0sec (1500 seconds)

Published: Thu Sep 23 2021