Entrypoints, the audio entrance to Roon, made the move to HiRes!

[John_Ku]

Is it possible to feed system audio (os x) to roon?

[Andreas_Melzer]

Roon as a sound output option in Mac OS X would be great!

[Todd_Haugen]

Jan, just tore down my entrypoint and rebuilt from scratch with 1.0. Flawless. My only issue was I did not know what my HiFiBerry frequency output was so I had to try both. Turns outs its 48:-) might be worth some visual feedback to check other frequencies as it took me a bit to figure out that was what was wrong…

[Todd_Haugen]

native will not happen but simply build your self a raspberry pi with a hifi berry dac+adc pro and install Jan’s extension manager. You can just plug audio right in.

[Todd_Haugen]

I just rebuilt my entrypoint with the new 1.0 flawless! Don’t forget to match your sample frequencies or it just says no radio station available at that address…

[Todd_Haugen]

Additional Bluetooth configuration information to setup bluetooth and allow it to auto connect… First off here is a list of bluetoothctl commands to help: Bluetooth Commands – Raspberry Pi Projects

I am betting you are like me and want to allow bluetooth devices to connect without logging into your BT Entrypoint device. First run sudo apt update && sudo apt upgrade to get current. Then run sudo apt install bluetooth pi-bluetooth bluez to get bluetooth fully installed. Reboot. now add three lines to ‘sudo nano /home/pi/.bashrc’ hciconfig hci0 up to ensure Bluetooth is running, ‘sudo hciconfig hci0 piscan’ to make your device discoverable, and ‘sudo hciconfig hci0 sspmode 1’ to enable Secure Simple Pairing. Hope this helps!

[Todd_Haugen]

@Jan_Koudijs , so I have two entrypoints on my network one has both the gateway and the audio entry point and the other has both the bluetooth and the audio entry points. My bluetooth entrypoint works but I cannot get the audio entry point to work. Does the group number have any impact on this both entry points have the same default group number. I am running RPI 4 with latest dietpi and loaded entry point code directly from the dietpi-software screen. Both devices are identical. The path shows lossless all the way through and says streaming but no audio is coming through. I have tried both 44.1 and 48khz and rebuilt from scratch same result.

[Steve_Gore-Smith]

I’ll try this as soon as I can. Do you know if these commands are relevant to DietPi as well as Rasbian/RPOS?

[Todd_Haugen]

I believe they are

[Steve_Gore-Smith]

Thanks… I’ll give it a try and report back.

[Jan_Koudijs]

@Todd_Haugen

Does the group number have any impact on this both entry points have the same default group number

The default group number (29) is correct for DietPi. How do you differentiate between the 2 installations, have you changed the hostname of one of the devices?

I need to have a look at the logs to see what is going on. Can you download the logs via the Extension Manager of the DietPi installation that is having the issue? Instructions are here.

[Todd_Haugen]

OK, I am an idiot. I had the DAC+ ADC Pro and I had the DAC+ ADC picked as the audio card. As soon as I changed it smooth as silk. Apologies for wasting your time.

[Todd_Haugen]

@Jan_Koudijs OK I have the aux in working but when I install the BT entry point it says No Default Controller Available. When I go into BluetoothCtl it confirms no controller available. When I then uninstall the BT Entry point I can then go into bluetoothctl and scan on and it finds a controller. I looked in the logs and did not see anything obvious but I do not really know what I am looking for… I am running a RPI 4 with a CAD+ ADC Pro board with the latest dietpi.

[Larry_Post]

Shoutout to @Jan_Koudijs for helping me resolve an issue preventing Audio Entrypoint from installing in Docker and more important to me assisting with setting up loopback to pump Spotify into Roon!

[Sloop_John_B (John B)]

Another way to show appreciation just in case you’re not aware.

A way to give a thank you to Jan for his excellent extensions

Hi @Sloop_John_B, Sure I don’t mind this separate thread (although I initially thought to have it somewhere a bit hidden to see if it picks up anyway ). Thank you for being so clear in showing your appreciation for what I created, and for getting me into this donation thing , let’s see what it brings. For those that prefer a direct link:

.sjb

[Larry_Post]

Excellent, happy to encourage further development with coffee or whatever Jan wishes to purchase.

[Jan_Koudijs]

@Todd_Haugen

when I install the BT entry point it says No Default Controller Available

I can reproduce this on an up to date DietPi installation, the sd-card with an older version that I used during development still works.

I have to look into this, it might take some time.

[Jan_Koudijs]

@Larry_Post

more important to me assisting with setting up loopback to pump Spotify into Roon!

Hi @Larry_Post, with the input you provided I now wrote a Wiki page that explains how to setup an Audio Entrypoint to receive input from Raspotify. Thanks for testing this setup!

To give some context to the rest of the community . Larry and I teamed up to test a DietPi setup where Raspotify is used to let a Raspberry Pi act as a Spotify Connect device, and forward the music stream to an Audio Entrypoint, in order to listen to it in Roon via a web-radio stream. You can read all about it in the above link.

[Todd_Haugen]

Sounds good! Most of my devices still have minijacks but not much longer it seems…

[Steve_Gore-Smith]

Nice! That’s a tidy way to get Spotify into Roon. I’m still running LMS on a separate Pi for Spotify and BBC Sounds with a SPDIF link into the entrypoint Pi. Convoluted, but means I can run LMS through a VPN to get UK higher quality BBC streams while keeping Roon on my local network.