Wifi Roon Ready endpoint with just USB out?

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I’ve never even seen an RPi. I saw a picture of one once, probably yesterday on this thread.

I’ve also never seen a video on it, and don’t know what a Flirc case is.

So… that’s why.

I don’t understand why people are reluctant to do many things that I find to be extremely straightforward, but they are straightforward because I’ve done them a lot.

I was just thinking of this while I lit a fire in my fireplace actually. I’ve watched dozens of grown adults unable to light a campfire without an accellerant. My 11 year old daughter can do it with a flint rod though and making her own tinder from the wood. It’s all about experience, exposure and instruction.

I’m absolutely going to try an RPi based on this thread, but I’m starting flat-footed. Almost 100% of my knowledge of the device is coming from this thread.

But, I’m going to go search for RPi4 on Amazon, and Flirc, and watch the Darko video and hope for the best.

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The RPi4 running RoPieee is much easier than some here would have you believe. First of all, I posted links to the parts for just over $100 including the RPi4, power supply, Flirc case, and micro SD card.

As far as parts, there is the SD card on which you burn the RoPieee software using the free Etcher program on a computer. You simply stick the RPi4 in the Flirc and attach the bottom of the case with 4 screws. Then you slide the micro SD card into the slot.

It’s fine if someone does not want to use the RPi4 device, but there is no reason you need to try to influence the OP by exaggerating the difficulty. I’ve assembled 3 of these, two with screen, and sold one. The RPi4 works great using ethernet or WIFI.

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Exactly my thought. Putting off people of trying some great low-cost endpoint solution is off-putting behavior…

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See… this is where I pull back. :joy:

You just mentioned two things very matter of factly that I certainly don’t have, didn’t know I needed and would have not understood why it didn’t work.

I (mistakenly) thought I could just write something to an SD card. I’ve never heard of etching program, or burning something to an SD card.

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You must not have read the instructions I posted above.

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Before setting up my Roon endpoint I hadn’t, either…

That can easily be remedied, you’ve been given the relevant links…

Again, you’ll find the link right here in your thread. It’s a nice-looking and passive-cooled metal case for the RPi; that is, there is no fan and its totally quiet, and the case itself functions as a heat sink.

Being reluctant to do something is not the same as something being a hassle. It’s very easy to put a RPi in its case and screw the top on. Anyone can do it, given he can get over his reluctance to try; I bet your 11 years old daughter can…

Nothing wrong with that; and I wager that should you run into a problem or should you need advice, here is where you’ll find many a helpful soul…

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Honestly.,. I thought all of those images were ads for stuff we were discussing. I didnt realize those were links until 20 minutes ago. Making my way through them now.

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As will I. I’m for sure ordering them.

As I mentioned, I’m not only new to this program, but new to the forum as well. The links that were posted kindly by everyone I completely ignored, not recognizing them as links, and I thought they were ads. Extremely prescient ads… but ads nonetheless.

I’m not daunted by bolting it together in the slightest, only reluctant to jump on something from a software perspective that I don’t understand.

For example, it sounds like it is running Linux. That could not be a more foreign concept to me. So many things in computing are considered to be “easy” by people with experience in them, and they are massive hurdles for those who don’t. Bios settings, command prompts, redirecting startup menus etc…. I’m just blindly following instructions with zero clue what they are actually doing, or how it works.

I’m willing to try, because RPi is something I’ve been intrigued by for some time. But, I’m not expecting to get it right first time.

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But, you’ll get it right the last time.

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Then RoPieee is your friend, as it completely shields you from the underlying complexities of the operating system. It’s more sort of an appliance, and you change settings using a web-based interface. So, absolutely no Linux knowledge or experience expected…

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Into the breach.

All parts are ordered for the RPi4/Flirc case, power supply, short USB-B cable (weird printer input on the Jot DAC) and Micro SD cards.

I’ll report back in with how silly I feel when it’s super easy to build and get running… all for $103.

Thanks everyone… sorry to be a nebbish.

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That is just a USB-B port most commonly found on printers, scanners and DACs (and not much else).

You’ll need a card reader too (assuming you don’t already have one).

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He needs an SD card slot in his computer. If not, an adapter/reader.

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That’s still a card reader. How it gets connected to the computer or which style is used is really irrelevant.

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Don’t want him to order something he doesn’t need.

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I didn’t realize the OP already had a way to read cards.

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We don’t know that, do we.

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He needs to be able to read cards that I do know. If he already has a way to do that then great.

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I’ve got one. My Roon server is a pretty rad Alienware M18 laptop. It would have been on my Mac Pro, but I switched to a Windows system this year because Solidworks (my primary income) only runs on Windows and the VM Ware virtual machine problem to run windows on a Mac OS was just becoming onerous.

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Wifi hotspot setup was added during Harry’s NG “NextGen” rewrite of RoPieee in 2022. Described on page 25 of the setup guide: https://ropieee.codexwilkes.com/downloads/ropieee-installation-guide.pdf. Volumio already had the feature for a few years.

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