Reply To: Touchscreen in room while raspberry pis are centralized… HELP!

Hi jeff,

Situation is not bad at all, you can control all Squeezelite units from any Pi in the network running Jivelite.

Generally, I would have indeed recommended going for a more modular approach with ethernet cables connecting all Pi’s centrally and perhaps Amp HAT’s used on each for individual setups. But your setup can work fine this way too with a central place for all Pi’s. Just make sure that the connection with long speaker cables does not lose you any quality in music playback.

But there’s also advantage to your setup. Since you already have the Pi’s with sound card centrally stored and want your rooms with touchscreens, you can use a touchscreen that’s connected directly on the Pi rather than the big 7″ official one by Raspberry Pi.

We have one with a custom Jivelite skin by watterott that works great, but there are also others out there that work well with Max2Play’s Jivelite.

I would suggest you check out one touchscreen-based setup in your environment and see if the handling and control of our Jivelite fits your needs.