ROCKI Wifi Music System Poor Man's Sonos?

Other Devices & Integrations Home Theater & Smart Speakers
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http://kck.st/18jiLWS

Essentially it is a streamer over WiFi from your phone to your speaker system. Pretty neat concept, we have a bluetooth one connected to our AV Receiver that powers some speakers on the back porch…the problem is our porch is too far away from the receiver for bluetooth.

Figured some where would have some interest :slight_smile:

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I came across this in Kickstarter as well. It sounds it can do exactly what Sonos does…
if so this is definitely poor mans Sonos… A vera plugin for this would be awesome…

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I still prefer SqueezeBox and raspberry pi’s.

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Is there a particular set up/build you use for that e.g - http://www.squeezeplug.eu

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I use picoplayer:

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For the price Sonos charges, you’d think they would support 24 bit audio

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And their other limitations!

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[quote=“garrettwp, post:3, topic:177979”]I still prefer SqueezeBox and raspberry pi’s.

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Hi Garrett,

I was going to do the house up with sonos devices. A connect amp on the porch, master bedroom, master bathroom, and kitchen. Then I was hoping I could control the music in each of those locations with my wall mounted tablets. For example: Simultaneously play XM in the kitchen, pandora on the porch, and personal library in the master bedroom and bathroom.

I saw your post and started trying to educate myself on running squeezebox. I have several Raspberry Pis from other projects, and I have plenty of old AV recievers laying around. I am having trouble understanding some of the squeezbox functionality though. If I run PiCorePlayer, it makes the Pi into a squeezbox? Do I still need to run a Squeezbox server somewhere? Can another Pi serve as the server? I looked and found tons of android apps. Is there one in particular that would let me control the individual Squeezebox Pis?

My interest is piqued!

Thanks,
Josh

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[quote=“gijosh28, post:8, topic:177979”][quote=“garrettwp, post:3, topic:177979”]I still prefer SqueezeBox and raspberry pi’s.

  • Garrett[/quote]

Hi Garrett,

I was going to do the house up with sonos devices. A connect amp on the porch, master bedroom, master bathroom, and kitchen. Then I was hoping I could control the music in each of those locations with my wall mounted tablets. For example: Simultaneously play XM in the kitchen, pandora on the porch, and personal library in the master bedroom and bathroom.

I saw your post and started trying to educate myself on running squeezebox. I have several Raspberry Pis from other projects, and I have plenty of old AV recievers laying around. I am having trouble understanding some of the squeezbox functionality though. If I run PiCorePlayer, it makes the Pi into a squeezbox? Do I still need to run a Squeezbox server somewhere? Can another Pi serve as the server? I looked and found tons of android apps. Is there one in particular that would let me control the individual Squeezebox Pis?

My interest is piqued!

Thanks,
Josh[/quote]

You’ll need a server and there are a few options that turn your raspberry pi into a logitech media server. I’ve been using picoplayer and been enjoying it on the raspberry pi’s. It uses low resources and works very well with syncing with my squeezebox players. I am not sure of the performance of running the server software on the pi’s, but it seems that many are doing. I would suggest that you look here for resources:

Here for resources on running on Linux and raspberry pi info:

This might be of interest where the developer of picoplayer is working on getting Logitech Media Server running on the micro core architecture that the player is running on:

  • Garrett