Raspberry Pi for Roon Bridge and Airplay Receiver

I love Roon! After trying it out for 14 days, I bought the subscription. It’s just so easy to manage my FLAC library with Roon. The number one feature I love is Roon’s attention to high quality output and flexibility to play music to any receiver. My receiver is a Raspberry Pi. A few days ago I set up my Raspberry Pi to act as a Roon Bridge. I plugged my USB mixer to my Raspberry Pi allowing me to listen to music even if my Hackintosh is turned off. It’s a simple Behringer Xenyx Q502USB. Before using this mixer, I plugged a Behringer UMC202HD but was disappointed by the loudness, but then it’s powered from the USB bus so fair play to it. Plugging to the small mixer made a world of difference in loudness. ...

April 3, 2020 · Batista Harahap

DIY Integrated Home Entertainment

I’ve always wanted my own Home Entertainment solution before I bought my Cubieboard. Now, after buying a Raspberry Pi, what I want came true. With some research and a weekend, I got it up and running perfect. What I have in my disposal for this to happen are: Cubieboard A10 with Cubian - NAS, nginx, CouchPotato, Transmission, Headphones and SickBeard Raspberry Pi B with Raspbmc USB Hard Drive - Attached to the Cubieboard OpenWRT Wifi Router - or any router you can manipulate DNS with Another Wifi Router - because the main router’s coverage is spotty upstairs, Raspberry Pi is attached to this router TV with HDMI (obviously) - spare HDMI input for the Raspberry Pi Cubieboard and Raspberry Pi are connected using LAN cables. I’m not too sure about the Wifi’s signal strength. ...

August 16, 2014 · Batista Harahap