Is there a way we can steam the audio from a Bluetooth receiver to all lms end points?
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Yes, steam, that's what I meant. Stream for goodness sake auto spell, stream. -
Yes.
For example - if your Bluetooth receiver is a Raspberry Pi then you can use that to receive the data and then it can forward it to LMS for LMS to send it elsewhere.
pCP has this capability.
There are other ways ... but you then need something to capture the received data and pass it in via something like WaveIn plugin.Paul Webster
Author of "Now Playing" plugins covering Radio France (FIP etc), PlanetRadio (Bauer - Kiss, Absolute, Scala, JazzFM etc), KCRW, ABC Australia and CBC/Radio-Canada
and, via the extra "Radio Now Playing" plugin lots more - see https://forums.slimdevices.com/showt...Playing-pluginComment
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4lex, you have asked this before on christmas day 2020. And this was my reply:
You replied that it worked, so I suggest that you repeat the procedure...| LMS 8.3.2 on Linux Mint | Squeezebox Boom | RPi0W + pCP 8.2.0 + HiFiBerry DAC Zero | ESP Muse Luxe |Comment
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Lol. Senior moment evidently.
I did recall setting this up, but it seemed pretty hit or miss as to either it would stay working, requiring restarts to make it go again. Maybe I'll set up another rpi on the bench and test.
The reason i ask is I'd like to set it up so guests can stream music without my needing to set it up for them. CheersComment
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I think that what you want will not work when using piCorePlayer as Bluetooth receiver, since with pCP you would first need to pair with a bluetooth device, and then set the bluetooth type of that device to streamer. So you would need to pair and configure every individual bluetooth device of your guests.Originally posted by 4lex View Post
Maybe bluetooth receivers exist that do not need any configuration (although from a security point of view that would not be safe in my opinion). If so, you could connect such a bluetooth receiver to an audio line input of your LMS server, using the WaveInput plugin of LMS. If your pCP has an analog or digital (spdif) audio input, this could also work with the "streamer for audio input" of pCP.
Maybe you can get help from forum members that have experience with using audio input (other than bluetooth) on LMS or pCP.
| LMS 8.3.2 on Linux Mint | Squeezebox Boom | RPi0W + pCP 8.2.0 + HiFiBerry DAC Zero | ESP Muse Luxe |Comment
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I don't assume there is a plugin or other method that'd work for LMS on Windows? It's easy to use Windows as an audio sink/target, but I can't find a way to allow LMS to ingest that and stream it outbound.
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I only know about the WaveInput plugin that I mentioned in my post above and that is also available for LMS on Windows. For more info see following (outdated) Wiki article: WaveInput plugin - SqueezeboxWiki (slimdevices.com)Originally posted by damazta View Post
I do not know about a plugin to capture a bluetooth audio stream on a Windows PC and stream it to squeezebox players through LMS on Windows.| LMS 8.3.2 on Linux Mint | Squeezebox Boom | RPi0W + pCP 8.2.0 + HiFiBerry DAC Zero | ESP Muse Luxe |Comment
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If the Windows machine can play the audio from the Bluetooth source, then can Stream What You Hear be used to send it to LMS?Originally posted by damazta View PostComment
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Good point, that should indeed work. To damazta: see this forum post.Originally posted by P Nelson View Post
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If Bluetooth appears as an audio source (I.e. a Sounds Input device in Settings) then WaveInput plugin should be able to access the device. Run the plugin's wavincmd in a CMD window to list available input devices.Originally posted by CJS View Post
Alternatively, VLC should be able to make a MP3 stream form the Bluetooth audo source.Comment
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