HOWTO: DIY Raspberry Pi HiFi network streamer - DigiHat + Volumio

Hi and welcome to another  video from experiencing IT  Today I'm gonna show you how to turn your  raspberry pi into a HiFi network streamer   with the help of this little piece of hardware  and Volumio, an open source music player. Stay tuned! For this project you will need obviously a  Raspberry Pi. I believe that any Raspberry Pi will do so if you have an old one hanging around make good use of it. The one I'm using here is a  Raspberry Pi 3 A+ You'll need a micro SD card. I'd suggest... getting one that is at least16 gigabytes in size. A power adapter. I'm using a generic one here but... I'll leave a link on the video description below to the recommended Raspberry Pi power supply. Now, the little piece of  hardware I've shown you in the entry piece is what the manufacturer of this board calls a Digi Hat The Digi Hat connects to the Raspberry Pi using the GPIO and it provides the Raspberry Pi with a digital  output over an optical or coaxial connector  This is commonly known as S/PDIF. You then connect one of these to the corresponding S/PDIF  connector on the back of your amplifier or DAC   No additional power supply is needed with this  HAT as it draws its power directly from the GPIO   According to the manufacturer, with this HAT you also get full galvanic isolation   on the coaxial output between your Raspberry Pi  and your amplifier This means that no electrical current should flow between the Raspberry Pi and the amplifier thus delivering a no-noise high-quality audio signal over the coaxial connector Over the optical connector you  should get no interference from the get-go as the data is transmitted using light so no worries here  Another option if your amplifier has an HDMI input  is to use the HDMI output of the Raspberry Pi   For that you have to use an HDMI cable from  the raspberry pi to one HDMI input port on your amplifier If your amplifier has neither HDMI or  S/PDIF inputs no worries as there are also several DAC options to go with the Raspberry Pi To pack it all up you could also use the case with your  Raspberry Pi For the sake of this video I'll leave mine without one but if you're going that way you'd have to check with the manufacturer of your board of election if they've designed and built a case that will accommodate the Raspberry Pi plus the board you're using and to make it all work we need  an Operating System and, of course this is where Volumio comes into play So, let's get on with it! Okay let's start by assembling the board  which comes with its own mounting hardware It also comes with an optional infrared receiver that you would mount on the board like this To download Volumio you have  to head on to volumio.org   and click on get started   Raspberry Pi is the first one in the list on the right (*left) and it is already selected  so you just have to click download let's wait for the download to finish now it will come as a zip file. I'm going to browse to where I've downloaded the file and I'm going to extract it just right click on the file and select extract all once extracted you need to burn  or write it to the microSD card   I have a small thingy like this i just insert the  SD card here and then I plug this to my computer   to burn the file onto the SD card you need  an app called balenaEtcher I already have it  installed in my computer but if you haven't you can download and install it from balena.io/etcher   You click flash from file  and browse to the folder where you've downloaded   the raspberry pi image to select it and click open make sure the target is the correct one   if you select the wrong device all data in that  device will be erased so pay good attention to it you then click flash and wait once it finishes writing to the SD card it is  now time to boot up the Raspberry Pi with it ok so to boot up with Volumio you just need to  insert the SD card into the slot on the back   of the Raspberry Pi and plug the power adapter   Be patient as the boot process could take some time pay attention to the green light when it  stops flashing you should be good to go and once it has stopped flashing it is time to So, if your Raspberry Pi has a wireless card  Volumio will create a wireless hotspot   the name of the hotspot is  volumio and the password is volumio2 After connecting to the hotspot a new  browser window with the Volumio configuration page   will pop up if not open a browser window  yourself and in the address bar type    volumio.local not forgetting the http:// The first step of the wizard  is to choose the language which I'll leave as default the second step is to name the device   for the sake of this video I'll leave mine as  default now, the third step is an important one   most probably volumio has automatically detected  the type of audio output device you are using but   if not this is the time to choose it   As you can see here it detected by itself that I have a  JustBoom Digi Board so, I'll just click Next on step 4 choose the user experience simplified or advanced Now, for the network select the Wi-Fi network to which you want Volumio to connect to   type in the password and click Connect Volumio will then connect to the wireless  network after setup is completed we'll also add new music after finishing the setup and Volumio connected to the Wi-Fi network   So, let's click Next  and if you'd like to immediately donate  you can do so now now, click Account and in my case I have to restart   I don't know if it would be needed if you'd be  using just the HDMI output of the Raspberry Pi   but anyway I'd advise you to reboot after this first setup after rebooting it is time to... Okay, to add music first of all connect your  computer back to your regular Wi-Fi network   once that is done open again the  Volumio web interface and go to Settings Sources... and click on Add New Drive Volumio will scan for network drives if you NAS show up automatically on a list just select the shared folder where you have your music   and click Save if it doesn't show up and you  know its details you can and should fill them in the Alias is just an identifier for the drive   I'll now type in the NAS IP address or the name  and the path to the shared folder I'll now go to the Advanced Options because I need to   insert the username and password to the shared folder and I'll click Save and I should be done Now, if I go to artists I should see some  artists you'll see that for the sake of  this video I only have one artist here and if I hover the mouse over it, you'll see a play button   if I click on the play button it will start  playing of course one very important thing  to do before playing music is to connect the Digi Hat to the amplifier I can assure you that I have sound. Unfortunately, I cannot show it to you because of copyright strikes   So, I hope you liked this video. Don't forget to like the video and subscribe to the channel if  you haven't done so So, thank you very much for  watching and I hope to see you again soon

Channel: Experiencing IT

Views: 36,446

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Id: aXUsEFBblZo

Length: 10min 37sec (637 seconds)

Published: Sat Oct 03 2020