Light and Technics Sibrecht Goudsmedt
Appdaemon is a piece of software, designed to work with Home Assistant. It can be used to write automations in python. The reason I want it to run in a virtual environment is because of appdaemon uses different versions of the same software. On a test computer with Home Assistant and Appdaemon not in a Read More …
This post will show how to install python 3.6 on Armbian on Orange Pi. The Orange Pi is a single board computer like a Raspberry Pi, but a lot cheaper. The orange Pi PC+ I use even has an EMMC or built-in memory. $ sudo apt-get install software-properties-common python-software-properties $ sudo add-apt-repository ppa:jonathonf/python-3.6 $ sudo Read More …
In this post, we will install the mosquitto MQTT broker. There are yet a lot of posts about installing it. This post is mostly for easy getting the right commando’s. Installing mosquitto: $ sudo apt-get install mosquitto $ sudo apt-get install mosquitto-clients In the folder /etc/mosquitto/conf.d, make a new file (default.conf) with the following text: Read More …
This post goes about installing Librespot. This player will be connected to Snapcast. If you want to use it with Snapcast, read part 2 about installing it. Download and install Librespot needs to be installed from source. The following steps need to be done: On the page of Snapcast, they ask to build Librespot in Read More …
This post goes about installing Mopidy with the interface Iris. This player will be connected to Snapcast. If you want to use it with Snapcast, read part 2 about installing it. The following steps are needed to install Mopidy: Add the archive’s GPG key Add the APT repo to your package sources Install Mopidy and Read More …
Introduction This post goes about installing Snapcast. This is the transportation system for the audio. From a player, discussed in part 3 & 4, it receives audio and sends it to a client. The full installation instructions can be found here. First, we need to install the Snapcast system. Snapcast exists of a server and Read More …
I would want to have a complete audio system in my house. I have already a server running on an Orange Pi PC plus. Home Assistant is installed on this server and it would be nice to completely control it from this dashboard. I will show here all the steps I did, plus all the Read More …