![]() This can also work as a headless Kodi installation using Kore Android app, but I’ll get into more details a little later. That’s what the Kodi/XBMC tab is for, as it will allow you to configure Kodi, for example to decide whether you want to start it automatically. Vana Player is also powerful enough to act as a video player when connected to a TV via its HDMI port, so you can enjoy both high quality audio and video. But again, I have not changed anything in that section. You can also install plugins in that menu such as ShairTunes / ShairTunes2 (Airplay), and Google Music. SqueezeLite will communicate with SqueezeBox Server, which can be configure in the tab of the same name. I have not changed anything but you can disable autostart, set advanced options, and enable/disable the Graphics Equalizer. ![]() You can access the settings for each in Audioplayer tab in the web interface. Two players are installed: Squeezelite working with Logitech Media Server (now Squeezebox Server) and Shairport for Airplay support, with both players set to auto start. It’s telling me an update is available, so I went to Settings / Reboot tab, and successfully upgraded it from version 1.0 to version 2.36. Now that we have the IP address, let’s open a web browser and access Max2Play web interface. While running arp-scan in my Ubuntu computer looks up the manufacturer (CEM Solutions Pvt) from the MAC address suffix (00:17:f7):Įnding arp - scan 1.8.1 : 256 hosts scanned in 1.550 seconds ( 165.16 hosts / sec ). In my router, the kit is detected as pcm5122: Now that the board is started you can find the IP address with an IP scanner software or your router DHCP list. ![]() If your kit includes Kali reclocker board, it’s also very important not to connect 5V to Sparky board, but only to Kali board. The user manual recommends to connect the 5V power supply provided with the kit, before turning on the 19V power source, and do the reverse while powering it off (turn 19V off first, then 5V). Finally I connected an Ethernet cable, and a USB hard drive. I tried four different laptop power supplies, but none of the jack would fit, so finally I change the plug from a Sony Laptop power power supply. You’d normally want to use two speakers for the Volt board, but that will do for testing. ![]() I connected some USB powered speakers to the headphone jack of Piano board, and one 5 ohm speaker to Volt amplifier board which I had left from a speaker set. In the first post, I just described the boards, and showed how to assemble the kit, but now that I have received the user’s manual, it turns out the kit is actually called “Vana Player” and the provided Ubuntu firmware image runs Max2Play Browser based system that’s also available for Raspberry Pi and ODROID boards.īefore starting the kit, you’ll need to connect speakers to Piano DAC board and/or Kali board, as well as a 19.5V power source such as a laptop power supply to connect to the CM board. However, a more elegant user experience which could be achieved the integration of the plug in information in the artist pages and album pages selectable via the artist and album menus of the man menue would be a substantial improvement of the web user interface of LMS.Last month I showcased what I called “ Allo Sparky Audio Kit” with a DAC board (Piano), an amplifier board (Volt), and usually hard to find reclocker and capacitance multiplier boards (Kali & CM), all connected to Allo Sparky ARM Linux development board powered by Actions Semi S500 quad core Cortex A9 processor, and running Ubuntu 12.04. In LMS you can have similar or even more detailed information by means of the Biography plug in and the Album Review plug in. The artist pages with information and content from external providers is fine, but requires the subscription for the Plex pass. A music search on basis of genre, composer and other categories as provided by LMS and can be refined using certain plug ins is not possible. Scanning the music file collection is very slow. However, at least for a large music collection it is a pain. Maybe there would be more hope for a squeezelite plugin being developed for Plex?Īnd a good video summary of th new features: Is there any hope that the Squeezebox web interface will ever be modernized? If Logitech was still active in developing the product one could hope that new HTML5 web interfaces would eventually be developed? While I am a long time Squeezebox user and love its flexibility and community resources, I also feel it is dropping further and further behind in the web interface due to it being in maintenance mode only. I'm a big fan and user of Plex which I use to manage all my Videos that I play to various computers and Roku devices around the house.
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