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Re: Using a Raspberry Pi with Android phones for media streaming with UPnP / DLNA

scp93ch — Wed, 22 May 2013 04:34:35 -0000

Glad to hear it works for you, and thanks for the message.
I don't know why you get funny problems with the MP3s you describe. I've not got anything with such a low sample rate. 22kHz is half what you need to capture the full range of human hearing.

Re: Using a Raspberry Pi with Android phones for media streaming with UPnP / DLNA

scp93ch — Wed, 22 May 2013 04:32:03 -0000

I'll give this a try - thanks!

Re: Using a Raspberry Pi with Android phones for media streaming with UPnP / DLNA

mills — Tue, 21 May 2013 16:15:33 -0000

Hey great project, works a charm. Currently I'm streaming music from my media server (Mezzmo) to the raspberry with bubble upnp. Thanks for the guide.

One question is there a reason why mp3's with a low sample rate (eg. 22khz) sound like static?

Re: Using a Raspberry Pi with Android phones for media streaming with UPnP / DLNA

tarem — Mon, 06 May 2013 16:26:03 -0000

great tuto , thx , everything work great.

to avoid unpleasant clicks and pops when track changes you can type :

$ pacat /dev/zero &

to force pulseaudio to play silence between track

Re: Using a Raspberry Pi with Android phones for media streaming with UPnP / DLNA

Alex S — Sat, 27 Apr 2013 14:28:03 -0000

I wonder if it would be possible to add an lcd to this project with the artist name and song title?

Re: Sound configuration on Raspberry Pi with ALSA

scp93ch — Sun, 21 Apr 2013 06:51:36 -0000

Thanks Goran.
As far as I understand, it isn't about the quality of the sound output but the facilities provided by the different systems. Pulse Audio builds on top of ALSA, providing additional features for other programs to make use of. Pulse Audio can accept audio input from multiple programs (including software running on other computers in the network) mix them and output them (e.g. via ALSA to the sound card).

Re: Using a Raspberry Pi with Android phones for media streaming with UPnP / DLNA

scp93ch — Sat, 20 Apr 2013 10:48:54 -0000

Great!

Re: Sound configuration on Raspberry Pi with ALSA

Goran Jordanov — Fri, 19 Apr 2013 23:35:01 -0000

Good post sir. Is Pulse Audio a better sound output then Alsa? How hard is to configure RasPi to work with Pulse Audio. Thanks

Re: Using a Raspberry Pi with Android phones for media streaming with UPnP / DLNA

disqus_zc8ifla9ib — Fri, 19 Apr 2013 13:26:11 -0000

Thanks a lot for this great step-by-step manual.
If it wasn't for this tutorial, I would have wasted a lot of time (and hair).

Now, my Raspberry PI (running Raspbian Wheezy), an old Sony speaker and a 20 bucks amplifier module are turned into what I really call a decent UPnP renderer.

Sincerely,

ThaGoob

Re: Using a Raspberry Pi with Android phones for media streaming with UPnP / DLNA

Mike Schmalz — Fri, 19 Apr 2013 02:14:27 -0000

Hmm. I had the gmediarender working once from the instructions in your original post, but I never got the pulseaudio stuff working. I decided to revisit today and I found this post, so I started with the latest Wheezy image. I can use aplay to play one of those wav files just fine, so I know my audio is working, but I am getting these errors when I run gmediarender from the shell and I cannot stream an MP3 like I could previously:
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Registering support for 'application/x-yuv4mpeg'

(gmediarender:2468): GStreamer-CRITICAL **: gst_pad_new_from_template: assertion `GST_IS_PAD_TEMPLATE (templ)' failed

(gmediarender:2468): GStreamer-CRITICAL **: gst_pad_template_get_caps: assertion `GST_IS_PAD_TEMPLATE (templ)' failed

(gmediarender:2468): GStreamer-CRITICAL **: gst_pad_set_caps: assertion `GST_IS_PAD (pad)' failed

(gmediarender:2468): GStreamer-CRITICAL **: gst_element_add_pad: assertion `GST_IS_PAD (pad)' failed
Registering support for 'application/x-gdp'
Registering support for 'audio/x-wav'
Registering support for 'video/x-matroska'
Registering support for 'video/webm'
Registering support for 'application/x-apetag'

(gmediarender:2468): GConf-WARNING **: Client failed to connect to the D-BUS daemon:
Unable to autolaunch a dbus-daemon without a $DISPLAY for X11
GConf Error: No D-BUS daemon running

Registering support for 'audio/x-bv'
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This is the live output when I am sending commands to the renderer:

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Ready for rendering..
webserver_get_info:(filename='/upnp/rendertransportSCPD.xml',info=0xafa01570)
webserver_get_info:(filename='/upnp/renderconnmgrSCPD.xml',info=0xafa01570)
webserver_get_info:(filename='/upnp/rendercontrolSCPD.xml',info=0xafa01570)
webserver_get_info:(filename='/upnp/grender-128x128.png',info=0xafa01570)
event subscription request
Subscription request
uuid:GMediaRender-1_0-000-000-002
urn:schemas-upnp-org:service:RenderingControl
1 evented variables
Subscribe to 'LastChange' == '<Event xmlns = "urn:schemas-upnp-org:metadata-1-0/AVT/"><InstanceID val="0">
<Volume val="100"/>
<VolumeDB val="0"/>
</InstanceID></Event>'
HZ: -----> push notification : TransportState = 'STOPPED'
output_gstreamer_set_uri: setting uri to 'http://192.168.157.1:57645/external/audio/media/9638.mp3'
HZ: notify all uris changed ------
<event xmlns="urn:schemas-upnp-org:metadata-1-0/AVT/"><instanceid val="0">
<avtransporturi val="http://192.168.157.1:57645/external/audio/media/9638.mp3">
<avtransporturimetadata val="<DIDL-Lite xmlns=%22urn:schemas-upnp-org:metadata-1-0/DIDL-Lite/%22 xmlns:upnp=%22urn:schemas-upnp-org:metadata-1-0/upnp/%22 xmlns:dc=%22http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/%22 xmlns:dlna=%22urn:schemas-dlna-org:metadata-1-0/%22 xmlns:sec=%22http://www.sec.co.kr/%22><item id=%22/external/audio/albums/102/9638%22 parentID=%22/external/audio/albums/102%22 restricted=%221%22><upnp:class>object.item.audioItem.musicTrack</upnp:class><dc:title>Lean On Me (Single Edit Version)</dc:title><dc:creator>Bill Withers</dc:creator><upnp:artist>Bill Withers</upnp:artist><upnp:artist role=%22Composer%22>Bill Withers</upnp:artist><upnp:artist role=%22AlbumArtist%22>Various Artists</upnp:artist><upnp:albumArtURI>http://192.168.157.1:57645/external/audio/albums/102.jpg</upnp:albumArtURI><upnp:genre>Pop</upnp:genre><upnp:album>Billboard #1s: The '70s</upnp:album><upnp:originalTrackNumber>6</upnp:originalTrackNumber><dc:date>2010-01-01</dc:date><res protocolInfo=%22http-get:*:audio/mpeg:DLNA.ORG_PN=MP3;DLNA.ORG_OP=01;DLNA.ORG_CI=0%22 bitrate=%2232000%22 size=%227659493%22 duration=%220:03:46.000%22>http://192.168.157.1:57645/external/audio/media/9638.mp3</res></item></DIDL-Lite>">
<currenttrackuri val="http://192.168.157.1:57645/external/audio/media/9638.mp3">
<currenttrackmetadata val="<DIDL-Lite xmlns=%22urn:schemas-upnp-org:metadata-1-0/DIDL-Lite/%22 xmlns:upnp=%22urn:schemas-upnp-org:metadata-1-0/upnp/%22 xmlns:dc=%22http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/%22 xmlns:dlna=%22urn:schemas-dlna-org:metadata-1-0/%22 xmlns:sec=%22http://www.sec.co.kr/%22><item id=%22/external/audio/albums/102/9638%22 parentID=%22/external/audio/albums/102%22 restricted=%221%22><upnp:class>object.item.audioItem.musicTrack</upnp:class><dc:title>Lean On Me (Single Edit Version)</dc:title><dc:creator>Bill Withers</dc:creator><upnp:artist>Bill Withers</upnp:artist><upnp:artist role=%22Composer%22>Bill Withers</upnp:artist><upnp:artist role=%22AlbumArtist%22>Various Artists</upnp:artist><upnp:albumArtURI>http://192.168.157.1:57645/external/audio/albums/102.jpg</upnp:albumArtURI><upnp:genre>Pop</upnp:genre><upnp:album>Billboard #1s: The '70s</upnp:album><upnp:originalTrackNumber>6</upnp:originalTrackNumber><dc:date>2010-01-01</dc:date><res protocolInfo=%22http-get:*:audio/mpeg:DLNA.ORG_PN=MP3;DLNA.ORG_OP=01;DLNA.ORG_CI=0%22 bitrate=%2232000%22 size=%227659493%22 duration=%220:03:46.000%22>http://192.168.157.1:57645/external/audio/media/9638.mp3</res></item></DIDL-Lite>">
<nextavtransporturi val="">
<nextavtransporturimetadata val="">
</nextavtransporturimetadata></nextavtransporturi></currenttrackmetadata></currenttrackuri></avtransporturimetadata></avtransporturi></instanceid></event>
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HZ: -----> push notification : TransportState = 'PLAYING'
HZ: -----> push notification : CurrentTransportActions = 'PAUSE,STOP,SEEK'

** (gmediarender:2505): WARNING **: Command line `dbus-launch --autolaunch=57ae80824714b7b337db9bbc5115ac19 --binary-syntax --close-stderr' exited with non-zero exit status 1: Autolaunch error: X11 initialization failed.\n
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Also to note: I have no idea where 192.168.157.1 would be coming from. Everything here is 192.168.1.x /24 (255.255.255.0) Maybe that's the local media server on bubbleupnp on my phone? if so, it's in the wrong subnet and it worked before! Any ideas?

Re: Using a Raspberry Pi with Android phones for media streaming with UPnP / DLNA

chris mobberley — Tue, 16 Apr 2013 02:11:57 -0000

Great tutorial! I had a couple of hiccups mainly due to not really using jar files before but everything is working perfectly now! minidlna and grenderer are excellent! I have seen a few people ask about running bubbleupnp as a background service so inspired by your init.d script I created my own for bubbleupnp.jar file http://c-mobberley.com/wordpre... let me know what you think :)

Re: A UPnP renderer for the Raspberry Pi

Rodger Evans — Sun, 14 Apr 2013 15:17:26 -0000

Hi, thanks for the tutorials. I have a raspberry Pi running and playing music from a HD attached to an Asus RT N56U. Is their a way to tell the Pi to start playing at a given time? This is for a bakery and I'd like the music to auto play from open to close every day. I've looked for command line tools or something of the sort but no luck. Cheers

Re: Using a Raspberry Pi with Android phones for media streaming with UPnP / DLNA

Jon Peterson — Fri, 12 Apr 2013 17:26:49 -0000

Since gstreamer 0.10 is no longer being maintained ( http://gstreamer.freedesktop.o... ), can/should the package installs be for something newer?
jon
btw: gstreamer0.10-plugins-ugly is required for wma support.
for a solution to the "popping noise" see: http://forum.stmlabs.com/showt...

Re: Using a Raspberry Pi with Android phones for media streaming with UPnP / DLNA

Maarten Prinsen — Wed, 10 Apr 2013 16:26:29 -0000

Thanks! This works very fine. I've made a 'network speaker' of my audio installation.

My RPi is now dedicated audio render. You can download a image of my SD-card at: http://www.famprinsen.com/2013...

Re: Using a Raspberry Pi with Android phones for media streaming with UPnP / DLNA

Guest — Wed, 10 Apr 2013 16:19:13 -0000

I've made a image of my SD-card, when you write the image to your SD-card, it will work. With this image your Raspberry Pi will act like a network speaker.
Link: http://www.famprinsen.com/2013... - gmrender.rar

Re: Using a Raspberry Pi with Android phones for media streaming with UPnP / DLNA

azureatwork — Fri, 29 Mar 2013 12:12:26 -0000

Magic, a few issues with setting up wireless. Don't have ethernet pugged in too as I found out it didn't allow the WIFI to be configured!! doh! Working with Skifta & XBMC or Windows Media Player in Windows no problems!

Re: Using a Raspberry Pi with Android phones for media streaming with UPnP / DLNA

scp93ch — Fri, 29 Mar 2013 11:21:03 -0000

I can't see why not, but the RPi boots in a few seconds anyway with the standard Debian Wheezy distribution. You'd also tend to leave this sort of system turned on.

Re: Using a Raspberry Pi with Android phones for media streaming with UPnP / DLNA

Guest — Thu, 28 Mar 2013 13:59:22 -0000

Is it possible to get this running on Arch Linux? The main beneift is the boot up time

Re: Using a Raspberry Pi with Android phones for media streaming with UPnP / DLNA

David Mehren — Tue, 26 Mar 2013 10:13:51 -0000

You can use Squeezelite to synchronize players and create a multi room sytem:
http://www.raspberrypi.org/php...

Re: Sound configuration on Raspberry Pi with ALSA

scp93ch — Sat, 23 Mar 2013 15:52:13 -0000

That's really helpful, thanks Craig. I suppose the output from "amixer controls" was different for you? It seems like the sound configuration is still in flux.

Re: Sound configuration on Raspberry Pi with ALSA

Craig — Sat, 23 Mar 2013 13:23:56 -0000

Thanks for this. Useful guide to someone who's just starting out on their RPi journey. I had a couple of issues getting this to work:

- Going into /etc/modules I found the system was trying to load Snd-bcm2835 on boot. Nothing worked. Changing it to Snd_bcm2835 seems to have sorted it.

- I also had some fun with amixer - on the latest wheezy distro (as of 23.3.13 anyway) setting numid=3 controls the output (headphones, HDMI etc) not the volume. That caused a minor headache!

Hope this helps!

Re: Using a Raspberry Pi with Android phones for media streaming with UPnP / DLNA

scp93ch — Fri, 22 Mar 2013 07:27:45 -0000

Not tried video. There are solutions such as Plex and XBMC for RPi which are what most people use.

Re: Using a Raspberry Pi with Android phones for media streaming with UPnP / DLNA

Matt Lindsay — Fri, 22 Mar 2013 07:25:36 -0000

Did you ever try doing something similar with video as well as audio? Any advice for me if I give a full video implementation a go?

Re: Using a Raspberry Pi with Android phones for media streaming with UPnP / DLNA

David Kebler — Thu, 21 Mar 2013 15:10:27 -0000

I am looking to do the same thing as our home has multiple room prewired in wall speakers going to a common wiring closet. Did you find any related posts at the RPi forums yet? In the setup I envision each Pi renderer needs to be able to render/play any UPnp server stream/playlist in the house, possibly simultaneously with other Pi renderers. There will be more than one server as well.

Re: Using a Raspberry Pi with Android phones for media streaming with UPnP / DLNA

scp93ch — Tue, 12 Mar 2013 14:09:10 -0000

No, sorry. You can't do it with this method. Have a look in the RPi forums - I expect someone's doing it!