Playing net-radio on Beolabs with no Beosound device

[Ravsted]

Sharing some experience.

Wife wanted to play (net)radio on the kitchen Beolab 3s by pressing one button on the Beo4.

The solution:

Beolab 3s

Raspberry Pi running ‘Volumio’

B&O Link Eye

Works like a charm. Pressing RADIO starts the favorite radio station and other stations can be selected by pressing 1-9.

[Millemis]

Thanks for that tip!

I guess most of us will need a bit more information about that/about how to control that with ‘the remote’.

MM

Location: Flensborg————Danmark

[Ravsted]

Hi,

I can share that.

Download ‘volumio’ and burn the image to an SD card.

Boot up your pi. On the monitor connected to the pi, you can see what IP the pi got on your network.

Access the ‘volumio’ frontend via the  browser on your computer. Register a free account. From the web frontend you can now install the IR remote plugin. And in the ‘volumio’ settings you choose your audio output. I use minijack.

Connect the B&O IR Eye to PIN 2, 6 and 12.

Pin 2 is +5v

Pin 6 is ground

Pin 12 (called GPIO 18) is data

In the IR plugin on the ‘volumio’ web frontend select GPIO 18 and save.

All that is remaining is to create a folder with the name ‘Beo4’ in a specific folder on the pi. The web frontend defines where.

In that folder you place two custom files which tells the pi how to decode the signal from the B&O IR Eye and what to do when a specific button is pressed.

When the folder is created and the files are saved in the folder, Beo4 will appear in the remote control list. Select and save.

The files are called:

lircrc

lircd.conf

Now restart the plugin.  A bit of flair for Linux, ssh and command line is an advantage.

I will share my 2 config files. That will make it easier to get started and modify for your needs.

Hope this guide helps.

 

Link to GPIO overview:

https://cdn.sparkfun.com/assets/learn_tutorials/1/5/9/5/GPIO.png

 

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[Ravsted]

I have tried to upload the config files… but it does not seem to work 🙄

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