Bluetooth support

Hi Tang,
Thanks for the input! We will look into the benefits and issues that go with Bluetooth compatibility and how many people request this feature.

Ja, Bluetooth wünsche ich mir auch! Wäre klasse.
Meine eigenen Versuche damit sind leider gescheitert, weil das Kernel-Update die Cirrus-Soundkarte verworfen hat. Der Bluetooth-Dongle lief aber bereits.
Für die m2play-Experten ist das vermutlich eine Kleinigkeit.

Gruß,
Mike

Bluetooth Addon is available for download: https://www.max2play.com/en/portfolio/plugin-bluetooth-2/

Hello malina,

thank you for your request.

Sorry, we have currently no plans for a plugin to make the Pi become a bluetooth player.

Roman from Max2Play

I would also like to see this bluetooth receiver support.

I have been looking for a device I can have connected (wired) to my amp and speakers, which I can connect to via bluetooth or AirPlay from my phone and stream audio from the phone to the device for playback. There are many options for Airplay only (like M2P in it’s current iteration) and there are many devices that do bluetooth to RCA out (Logitech makes one for US$25) but I have not found anything that does both.

Now that the RP3 has both bluetooth and wifi built in, M2P has shairport already, and the bluetooth addon exists (albeit only for broadcast), I hope this can be something that can be added in without too much additional effort.

Unfortunately, Airplay is only on Apple products. By adding the bluetooth playback option, any guests to my home, with either Apple or Android devices, could easily connect up to the system and play their music.

I don’t know anything about programming hardware/software drivers and interfaces. I did find that someone had put this together already on an RP2, so he had to use 3rd party bluetooth hardware and software. The comments on his Instructable indicate that with the RP3, none of those 3rd party items are necessary, and also that the scripts he provides don’t work. However, it may provide a good jumping off point if it is decided to look further into this feature, as I hope happens. The old directions can be found here: http://www.instructables.com/id/Raspberry-Pi-BluetoothAirplay-Audio-Receiver-combo/?ALLSTEPS

Hello Roman,

may I ask for a reason, why you do not plan this feature?
Do you think it will be too complicated?
In my opinion it would be very useful, because currently, I am not able to stream music from youtube.com or other music sites to my stereo
system.
On the net I already found BT player solutions for RasPi, but I cannot use them without breaking my M2P installation.

Please, consider it again!

Thanks,
Mike

Hello Heiner,

happily received your message today and tested it immediately:
After installing BT support, the first reboot produced an error (sth. like „Installation went wrong.“) but after a second reboot everything was fine:
I connected a BT Speaker (as receiver) and my tablet (as source).
They both work and even output to my stereo system is correct! (Cirrus/Wolfson card via LineOut).

Great work from you and the others on the team!
Big „Thank You“ for implementing this!

Viele Grüße,
Mike