Hello,
I am trying to take out the speakers and necessary parts from an old Avant (CRT) and connect them with a Rasberry Pi board to make them WiFi speakers with Spotify capabilities. I understand that the speakers are similar to the BL4000 and I noticed that the speakers are neatly set in plastic enclosure which should preserve the good sound setup from the TV. All this triggered my interest in recycling them into new stand-alone speakers...
Firstly, I have managed to install Spotify on the Rasberry Pi board and got it to work via Wifi to send a signal out from the phono connector with variable volume set on the Spotify app on my phone. So, the easy part is now done... Now over to the difficulty part of connecting together a set of active speakers... I managed to find a wire diagram which is uploaded below which gave me some understanding.
From the Avant, I have harvested the speakers and the sound board (10). I have reconnected the speaker cables to the sound board as connected when in the TV on P77 and P78 connectors (also according to the diagram below). I managed to find a 20v 4A transformer which I connected to the board on P58. Assuming this is correct, I am then struggling to understand how I should connect the Rasberry Pi to the connectors in P57. Using L, R and GND does not work which makes me wonder if the setup is missing a component from the TV or I need other components to get it working.
any thoughts?
I am trying to take out the speakers and necessary parts from an old Avant (CRT) and connect them with a Rasberry Pi board to make them WiFi speakers with Spotify capabilities. I understand that the speakers are similar to the BL4000 and I noticed that the speakers are neatly set in plastic enclosure which should preserve the good sound setup from the TV. All this triggered my interest in recycling them into new stand-alone speakers...
Firstly, I have managed to install Spotify on the Rasberry Pi board and got it to work via Wifi to send a signal out from the phono connector with variable volume set on the Spotify app on my phone. So, the easy part is now done... Now over to the difficulty part of connecting together a set of active speakers... I managed to find a wire diagram which is uploaded below which gave me some understanding.
From the Avant, I have harvested the speakers and the sound board (10). I have reconnected the speaker cables to the sound board as connected when in the TV on P77 and P78 connectors (also according to the diagram below). I managed to find a 20v 4A transformer which I connected to the board on P58. Assuming this is correct, I am then struggling to understand how I should connect the Rasberry Pi to the connectors in P57. Using L, R and GND does not work which makes me wonder if the setup is missing a component from the TV or I need other components to get it working.
any thoughts?
