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It was around Christmas, free from work, high energy level.
Endlessly scrolling on the internet, and bought me a Beosystem 7000 black edition with a nice set of Beolab 8000 speakers.
Beomaster, Beogram CD and the rare black edition Beogram 7000 :)
Yes, the Beocord is missing. Still missing.. But maybe I don't want a Beocord, for those 2 audio cassettes I have.
I have also a 5500 set and a 5000 set which are both complete, but the Beocord is never playing in those sets.
Maybe I need some more modern component, but it doesn't exist. Some sort of networkplayer to lift the system into the new era.
If it doesn't exist, maybe I can create it myself. A new search on the internet learned me I am not the first, but let's get inspired by what others did.
My first inspiration: The Beomodern project by Henryk.
Introducing BeoModern
He created a real nice device, and it triggered me a lot. But it's based on microcontrollers I have no knowledge of.
So I decided to see if I can create something like this project but with the audio streaming software of Volumio on a Raspberry Pi.
My requirements:
- It has to integrate within the existing Beosystem ecosystem (5000/5500/6500/7000)
- The Beomaster is the master, and has to stay the master. The streamer system has to listen to the Beomaster commands (ir remote commands also from the Beomaster)
- It has to look like it was made by B&O
- I want LED matrix screens in the same color as the rest of the system to show what the streamer is playing
- Audio streaming from different sources (the more the better, Volumio helps me al lot)
- Internal SSD harddisk for ripping music from my CD collection
- A modular system. If a component fails, it has to be pretty easy to replace it.
In the next few posts I will guide you through my journey of building this neat little device which is at 80% of completion at the moment.
It was around Christmas, free from work, high energy level.
Endlessly scrolling on the internet, and bought me a Beosystem 7000 black edition with a nice set of Beolab 8000 speakers.
Beomaster, Beogram CD and the rare black edition Beogram 7000 :)
Yes, the Beocord is missing. Still missing.. But maybe I don't want a Beocord, for those 2 audio cassettes I have.
I have also a 5500 set and a 5000 set which are both complete, but the Beocord is never playing in those sets.
Maybe I need some more modern component, but it doesn't exist. Some sort of networkplayer to lift the system into the new era.
If it doesn't exist, maybe I can create it myself. A new search on the internet learned me I am not the first, but let's get inspired by what others did.
My first inspiration: The Beomodern project by Henryk.
Introducing BeoModern
He created a real nice device, and it triggered me a lot. But it's based on microcontrollers I have no knowledge of.
So I decided to see if I can create something like this project but with the audio streaming software of Volumio on a Raspberry Pi.
My requirements:
- It has to integrate within the existing Beosystem ecosystem (5000/5500/6500/7000)
- The Beomaster is the master, and has to stay the master. The streamer system has to listen to the Beomaster commands (ir remote commands also from the Beomaster)
- It has to look like it was made by B&O
- I want LED matrix screens in the same color as the rest of the system to show what the streamer is playing
- Audio streaming from different sources (the more the better, Volumio helps me al lot)
- Internal SSD harddisk for ripping music from my CD collection
- A modular system. If a component fails, it has to be pretty easy to replace it.
In the next few posts I will guide you through my journey of building this neat little device which is at 80% of completion at the moment.
Location: Netherlands
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