re-purpose boom

[joske]

Even better, the spotty plugin can do spotify connect now (don't recall that from back in the days before chromecast ;-)), so now I can stream from spotify app directly to the boom (what was my goal all along)

[joske]

I pressed the 1 preset button and connected power, and after a while I heard a pop in the speakers, I kept it pressed some more, but the screen didn't come on.

Then I tried to play music with LMS and sound came out! So half of the problem is solved, screen still dead.

But I...

[joske]

Oh, I read here: https://forums.slimdevices.com/forum...99#post1310399 that you can also use the 1 preset button on the boom itself for the xilinx reset. JoeMuc2009 can you confirm this? Anyway, will try this tomorrow.

[joske]

Thx, but I'm in Belgium ;-). I'll try if I can find a universal remote.

[joske]

Hi JoeMuc2009, thanks for the reply. I don't remember as the display failure was in 2020, and I stored the boom since, only this week I started looking into it again...

I don't have a IR remote with a keypad, I do have a duet (no idea if that still works), but its remote also doesn't have...

[joske]

JoeMuc2009 Any thoughts?...

[joske]

I did not test line out with line in (I only found 1 3.5 mm jack cable...).

Edit: tested with playing music from LMS.

[joske]

Hi All,

thanks for all the suggestions. My investigations tonight have lead to this:

• boom reacts to LMS power button, volume is synced (can change volume in LMS GUI and on the device and the change is reflected in the GUI)
• tried line in via an old iPhone 6 (checked the line out is working

...

[joske]

Oh that's not how I remember it working. I'll try again tomorrow then.

Yes, I know I could use the pi as squeezebox player, but I'm more interested in re-using the audio of the boom as spotify connect player.

[joske]

Yes I used it as such many years ago, but IIRC you had to set the boom to line in mode using the screen + dial. As the screen is not working, I have no idea how I could do that.

[joske]

Hi Jim,

I've read that paper before, unfortunately it doesn't say how/where to inject audio and ignore the rest of the software.

Yes squeezebox server sees the player and says it's playing music, but I don't hear anything.

I know the display is replaceable, Joe...

[joske]

Hi All,

my boom display is dead for second time (the rest clearly works, as it lights up and takes an IP address. When connecting to squeezebox server, it doesn't play sound though. So there might be more wrong.

Anyway, I have a pi zero with audioberry hat that runs raspotify....