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27. Dezember 2016 at 20:31 #25268

This Pi is never going to be viewed except by SSD (Putty). It just sits in a closet headless running Squeezeplug and Logitech Media Server. It has run like this for 3 years and works perfectly. I access Pandora and my music via either Squeeze Ctrl on my phone or via the LMS web page on my PC. It does everything I want.

That said, how can I get the new version of Max2Play to run command line Linux from boot every time? Please.

My only motivation for upgrading was to get bluetooth capability.

The only reason I plugged in a monitor was to set it up and edit the /etc/network/interfaces file to give me a static IP address, to install the nightly LMS, etc.. It was at this point I saw X-Windows and could not easily get rid of it. I do not need the CPU overhead of any extra tasks.

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27. Dezember 2016 at 19:47 #25264

I got my RPi3 and I installed the image. OMG: It always boots to x-Windows. I cannot stop it. I went through raspi-config, changed the root passwd. Whenever I stop typing for a while it flops back to this horrible grey screen windows. I absolutely do not want this.

What I need is a command line prompt at every boot and to run only squeezeplug. If it is going to do this I will just stick with my old working squeezeplug. What have you done to this system. It used to work beautifully. Now???

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25. Dezember 2016 at 19:00 #25234

Bluetooth gives horrible audio quality and I really only think it suitable for hands free phone calls in my car.

However it is very simple for anybody to use.

I have several sound systems here. I have a very nice one in my home studio that I use as a reference. I the lounge I have a 1959 Rogers HG88 MkIII valve (tube) amplifier that I rebuilt to new standard a few years back. I use this for playing my ancient vinyl collection.

Then I have the whole house system which is single zone and powered by a QSC 300 Watt (RMS into 8 Ohms) rack mount amp. This is connected to a Raspberry Pi That will be the HiFiBerry DAC device. The Logitech Media Server (squeezeplug) is currently a Pi 2B moving to a Pi 3. Mainly this is used for playing Pandora station.

Occasionally and, this is where the bluetooth comes in, I would like to stream music from my phone. My grandchildren also would just love to use there phones to blast us with whatever they currently fancy.

There you go. That’s why bluetooth. Sorry it took a while but, you did ask :).

Merry Christmas and thanks for your help. I have no doubt I shall be back…

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25. Dezember 2016 at 3:37 #25224

Thank you. When my new hardware arrives I shall install that image.

Edit: Thanks, I shall only be using this for music streaming.

Edit2: Is this release Jessie for the Raspberry Pi? Apparently this is needed to stream bluetooth to (not from) the Squeezebox Server. This why I am doing all this. I tried to install this on Wheezy and it told me I needed Jessie to support it.

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23. März 2016 at 17:13 #19431

Thank you Heiner. I got it working but in all honesty I really prefer the Linux command line for installing stuff. I only use Squeezeplug so that LMS will work on my RPi2.

This Max2Play this is more trouble than it is worth. Even though it was free.

I tried the Bluetooth plugin but, of course, it work backwards for what I want to do. I want to stream music from ,y PC or phone into my whole house system. The Max2play thing is an output and is looking for speakers. Frustrating.