Outside audio sources

Arne_Quanbeck · October 23, 2021, 4:58pm

Has anyone tried getting live, local audio sources to stream to other speakers via Roon? I know this is a bit outside the initial design, but we listen to a lot of live stuff that isn’t going to be in a library, and a hack like this would make Roon a more universal audio transport tool.

Marin_Weigel · October 23, 2021, 5:09pm

Maybe you should have a look at Entry Points Roon extension.

Arne_Quanbeck · October 23, 2021, 5:11pm

Cool! Thank you. I’ll check it out.

Steve_Gore-Smith · October 31, 2021, 9:10pm

I use a Pi running LMS feeding in to entrypoints as a live radio stream. That gives me Spotify, Soundcloud, Youtube audio, Mixcloud, Sprocket (podcasts) etc… Works well, if a bit of a faff…

Arne_Quanbeck · November 1, 2021, 5:51am

How do you connect LMS to entrypoints?

Steve_Gore-Smith · November 1, 2021, 8:32pm

I run LMS on a separate RPi using Picoreplayer as server and player. Then a USB to SPDIF optical adapter… Running entrypoints on another Pi with a SDPIF optical to USB adapter as input… As I say, it’s a bit of an untidy solution, but works.
I think it’s possible to run Picoreplayer and entrypoints on the same Pi using an ALSA loopback, but I wanted my LMS on a separate network for VPN reasons.