Hardware

• Raspberry PI W
• HiFiBerry - DAC Plus

Setup

• OS Setup, Instructions

• HiFiBerry Setup (Information source)

  • Remove/comment from /boot/config.txt if it exists, for disabling onboard sound.

    dtparam=audio=on
    

  • Add this lines to /boot/config.txt

    force_eeprom_read=0
    dtoverlay=hifiberry-dacplus
    

  • Copy file etc/asound.conf

  • Reboot

• SqueezeLite

  • Check latest version

  • Download latest version

    cd /tmp
    wget https://sourceforge.net/projects/lmsclients/files/squeezelite/linux/squeezelite-1.9.9.1392-armhf.tar.gz  
    

  • Untar downloaded files

    tar -xvzf squeezelite-1.9.9.1392-armhf.tar.gz
    

  • Move untar file file to /usr/bin/

    sudo mv squeezelite /usr/bin      
    

  • Check if is executable

    ls -la /usr/bin/squeezelite
    

  • If not make executable

    sudo chmod +x /usr/bin/squeezelite
    

  • Start on boot (as a service)

  • Download/copy file etc/systemd/system/squeezelite.service to /etc/systemd/system/
    check file for squeezelite configurations
    squeezelite --help for arguments

  • Start service if used with bluealsa only one can be running sudo systemctl start squeezelite

  • Enable service on boot
    if used with bluealsa only one can be used on boot

    sudo systemctl enable squeezelite
    

• Bluealsa - using pi as bluetooth speaker

  • Install

    sudo apt update && sudo apt install bluealsa -y
    

  • Start on boot (as a service) sudo service bluealsa enable && sudo service bluealsa start

  • Setup bluealsa-aplay
    Download/copy file etc/systemd/system/bluealsaaplay.service to /etc/systemd/system/

    • Enable service on boot
      if used with squeezelite only one can be used on boot

      sudo systemctl enable bluealsaaplay

    • Start service if used with squeezelite only one can be running sudo systemctl start bluealsaaplay

• bluealsa-aplay and squeelite

  • squeelite on boot

    sudo systemctl enable squeezelite
    

  • change to bluealsa-aplay

    sudo sh -c 'systemctl stop squeezelite; systemctl start bluealsaaplay'
    

• change to squeezelite

   sudo sh -c 'systemctl stop bluealsaaplay; systemctl start squeezelite'