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Lol I didn't know about the nano editor thing. That goes to show you how reliable this is; I haven't logged into the Raspberry Pi in years yet I use it to stream to Sonos almost every day.

OMG, you're so right! Thank you. I edited the title.

Yes, there's one on the side. It's a male, threaded pvc plug.

HDMI is also a Raspberry Pi audio device so It's probably just switching audio output when you plug the display in. Look at this: https://www.raspberrypi.org/documentation/configuration/audio-config.md

Quite the opposite. Try to disable the HDMI audio output and set the USB sound card as the default soundcard. Wait, is your monitor a TV or have speakers?

I took a lot of the pictures with the wide angle setting on my phone so that makes it look smaller. Here's one not wide angle. The door behind it is 36 inches wide.

No, I had to crawl under the house and cut one of the 1/2" hot water pex lines, insert a T-connector, crimp that and then run the new hot water pex extension to an exterior wall and crimp that onto the hot/cold tap.

Oh, I empty the tub before I snap on the wheels to move it.

It's literally the same size as a claw foot tub but taller and since it doesn't have feet it goes all the way to the ground so it actually holds more water.

Lol

Wow, that's beautiful.

Perfect.

The only thing I can think of with that model sound card is do you have the input slider switch set to line or phono?

Thanks! I watched a lot of videos from Lee Spangenberg from secretdoorways.com Start with this one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=82P_vkNPnkk He's who I bought the hardware from and he's available to answer any questions but it is still up to you to build the door. He recommends using nice, cabinet-grade plywood but I chose plain pine boards because they are lighter than plywood and matched the rest of the old trim in my house and frankly was a little easier for me to work with than plywood since I didn't have access to a workshop during the renovation.

I haven't found one.

Thank you!

Thanks! I removed the top pivot pin to remove the door while the room was being renovated. Also I read you shouldn't use a roller for an outswing door since it will eventually leave a mark giving it away. The door is not very wide and has a lot of pocket screws and glue holding it together so hopefully it won't sag.

Thanks! I've always thought they were the neatest things and was so excited when I realized I had the perfect situation for one. It was an odd-sized door opening so I couldn't cheat and buy a pre-fab unit and wood-working is not my forte but I was determined so I'm really proud of the way it turned out.

Hey, thank you so much! Stay safe!

Hey, thank you so much! Stay safe!

Thank you! I had a home theater in my previous home and enjoyed it so much that when I moved and renovated this 100-year-old house I had to improvise with an upstairs bedroom.

Unfortunately, no. There is some delay in the signal processing but the real delay is in the conversion to mp3 and then streaming it across the network.

Have a look at my other Instructable: https://www.instructables.com/Play-Bluetooth-on-Sonos-Using-Raspberry-Pi/ It's almost identical except I'm using the PI as a bluetooth receiver.

Yes, that's what most have been doing if they have a turntable with USB out.

Yes.

I think a Pi3B can handle encoding two simultaneous mp3 streams but I haven't tested. It would be a easier to just use two Raspberry Pi's or run both the turntable and tape deck into one Pi using a splitter.

Google "mini wired spy camera" and look for the one that has both infrared night vision and microphone. I just found it on ebay: https://www.ebay.com/itm/Wired-Mini-CCTV-Spy-Camera-Home-Security-Infrared-Video-Recorder-Night-Vision/183003756301

Wait, that one I just linked says it requires light to work at night. Get this one with the infrared diodes: https://www.ebay.com/itm/Wired-CCTV-Mini-Camera-Security-Color-Night-Vision-Infrared-Video-Cam/391916159668

Yes but the audio is delayed so it would be out of sync with the video.

Awesome! Also check out my other related Instructable where you can send bluetooth audio directly from your phone to every Sonos speaker in your house:https://www.instructables.com/Play-Bluetooth-on-Sonos-Using-Raspberry-Pi/

Unfortunately even if you could use the HDMI audio input the conversion to mp3 and broadcast to Sonos takes a couple of seconds so the audio would be way out of sync with the video.

Unfortunately it's not possible to decode Sonos streams to play on anything other than their equipment.

I've not had any problems. I'd say make sure your Sonos software is up to date but it forces updates when you open the app so that's probably not it. If the Raspberry is on WiFi could it be losing connection? You could try prioritizing traffic to the Pi using QoS on your router.

This one: https://smile.amazon.com/gp/product/B00H3TE5P2

Hey thank you! I actually wound up cheating and bought an analog multi headphone amp because in my case I was splitting the signal to another source as well to record and needed a higher volume but it solved my Sonos volume as well.

Unfortunately you would have to manually edit that file again or you could create a second entry and call it "phone2" or something like that, e.g. "joesiphone", and then edit the darkice.cfg file to use "phone2", "joesiphone", etc. in the line:device = phone2 # name of bluetooth device

From your phone

Lol I just did the same thing! I got my scrap piece of PVC stuck coring the holes and had to notch the side with a saw and use a shovel to pry it out.

Yes it will be out of sync. There is a delay in both the bluetooth connection and encoding the bluetooth audio into an mp3 stream so those combined will result in a full one to two second delay. This is not a solution for watching videos with sound. It's just for playing music.

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No, you won't have to make any changes. Those settings will give you the highest quality stream possible.

Awesome! The automation for the reel-to-reel is cool. Is it something like a Wemo switch where it just powers it on or is it more complex?

I moved recently and wanted to to continue to listen to my sports team's game broadcasts on my Sonos speakers so I too wanted to stream the audio playing on my Raspberry Pi's internal soundcard to my Sonos speakers so and thought it would be simple to do using software but it turns out that is not the case since Darkice is looking for an audio input signal. The easiest and most reliable way is to simply plug one end of a 3.5mm to 2x RCA adapter into the Raspberry Pi's headphone out and the other end into the external soundcard's RCA inputs. The sound is coming from a webpage I wanted to launch automatically when the Pi booted so edited the autostart file in /etc/xdg/lxsession/LXDE-pi/autostart and added this line at the end:@chromium-browser https://tunein.com/radio/Ole-Miss-IMG-Sports-Ne…

I moved recently and wanted to to continue to listen to my sports team's game broadcasts on my Sonos speakers so I too wanted to stream the audio playing on my Raspberry Pi's internal soundcard to my Sonos speakers so and thought it would be simple to do using software but it turns out that is not the case since Darkice is looking for an audio input signal. The easiest and most reliable way is to simply plug one end of a 3.5mm to 2x RCA adapter into the Raspberry Pi's headphone out and the other end into the external soundcard's RCA inputs. The sound is coming from a webpage I wanted to launch automatically when the Pi booted so edited the autostart file in /etc/xdg/lxsession/LXDE-pi/autostart and added this line at the end:@chromium-browser https://tunein.com/radio/Ole-Miss-IMG-Sports-Network-in-Partnership-with-TeleSouth-Commun-s230243/It works great!

Yes, there will be a 1 to 2 second lag from the time you drop the needle to when you hear it playing on Sonos but all your Sonos speakers will be in sync once it starts playing. About 1 second if the Pi is connected via Cat5 and about 2 seconds if it's on Wifi.

I updated the Instructable with instructions how to keep the Sonos bluetooth "station" streaming when the bluetooth connection is interrupted.

Yes, you could use an external bluetooth dongle but after doing some reading and trial and error the past hour I figured out a way you can stream bluetooth directly to the Raspberry Pi and stream it to Sonos without even having to use the external sound card.Open the terminal window and install bluealsa. If it is already installed it will tell you.sudo apt-get install bluealsaPair your phone with the Raspberry Pi using the bluetooth icon on the desktop then run this command to reveal your connected device's bluetooth MAC address:sudo bluetoothctlMy phone's bluetooth MAC address is 50:F0:D3:7A:94:C4In order for darkice to be able to use it as a PCM input device we have to create a file in the "etc" folder called "asound.conf" (/etc/asound.conf). Use the steps above to c…

Yes, you could use an external bluetooth dongle but after doing some reading and trial and error the past hour I figured out a way you can stream bluetooth directly to the Raspberry Pi and stream it to Sonos without even having to use the external sound card.Open the terminal window and install bluealsa. If it is already installed it will tell you.sudo apt-get install bluealsaPair your phone with the Raspberry Pi using the bluetooth icon on the desktop then run this command to reveal your connected device's bluetooth MAC address:sudo bluetoothctlMy phone's bluetooth MAC address is 50:F0:D3:7A:94:C4In order for darkice to be able to use it as a PCM input device we have to create a file in the "etc" folder called "asound.conf" (/etc/asound.conf). Use the steps above to create the asound.conf file in the etc folder and paste these lines into that file (with your phone's MAC address substituted for mine of course):pcm.phone {type plugslave.pcm {type bluealsadevice "50:F0:D3:7A:94:C4"profile "a2dp"}}Then edit the darkice.cfg file and comment out the beginning of the "device=" line and make a new one with "phone" as the input device:device = phone#device = plughw:1,0 # Soundcard device for the audio inputReboot the Pi and after it has restarted pair your phone's bluetooth with the Pi if it doesn't do it automatically and start the Raspberry Pi radio station on your Sonos speaker. If it worked then any audio you try to play on your phone should come out the Sonos speaker.

Yes, that is exactly what this is for. Any analog audio signal plugged into the Behringer sound card is what you can play on any Sonos speaker on your network.

This could be funny gag! Someone asks for a charge so you stick one end of your cable in your mouth and the other end in their phone and imagine the look on their face when their phone lights up and starts charging! lol Or tell them you'll charge their phone using static electricity and start vigorously rubbing the other end of the cable against your hair or sweater.

Excellent! Thanks for sharing!

I know this isn't the answer you're looking for but it would be easier to install the full Raspian package rather than try to fix it piecemeal. In my limited experience with Linux, even if you manually install the missing packgages: libjack-jackd2-0, libjack-0.116, libogg0, libvorbis0a and libvorbisenc2, there will inevitably be other problems that crop up since they won't be the right versions, installed in the right locations, etc.

Darkice is not running. Both darkice.cfg and darkice.sh are located in the /home/pi/ folder, correct? And you made the darkice.sh executable? And the format in the darkice.cfg file is set to format=mp3?

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Your welcome and thank you!

Icecast is running obviously or else you wouldn't have the status screen so I suspect darkice is either not starting or is not configured properly. Double-check your darkice.cfg settings file and check the Cron scheduler using "crontab -l". There is a Cron GUI that can be installed by entering "sudo apt-get install gnome-schedule" at a terminal prompt and then opened by selecting "Scheduled Tasks" from the main menu. Here's the help page for refefence: https://www.raspberrypi.org/documentation/linux/usage/cron.md

Icecast is running obviously or else you wouldn't have the status screen so I suspect darkice is either not starting or is not configured properly. Double-check your darkice.cfg settings file and check the Cron scheduler using "crontab -l". There is a Cron GUI that can be installed by entering "sudo apt-get install gnome-schedule" at a terminal prompt and then opened by selecting "Scheduled Tasks" from the main menu. Here's the help page for refefence: https://www.raspberrypi.org/documentation/linux/usage/cron.md

Glad it worked! Mine has literally been running 24/7 since I published this back in October and has not crashed once. That's probably more of a testament to Linux and the Raspberry Pi than my computer skills though, lol.

I can't test but you could try setting the device in the darkice.cfg file to default and see if it just streams the internal soundcard's output:[general]duration = 0 # duration in s, 0 foreverbufferSecs = 1 # buffer, in secondsreconnect = yes # reconnect if disconnected[input]device = defaultsampleRate = 44100 # sample rate 11025, 22050 or 44100bitsPerSample = 16 # bitschannel = 2 # 2 = stereo[icecast2-0]bitrateMode = cbr # constant bit rate ('cbr' constant, 'abr' average)#quality = 1.0 # 1.0 is best quality (use only with vbr)format = mp3 # format. Choose 'vorbis' for OGG Vorbisbitrate = 320 # bitrateserver = localhost # or IPport = 8000 # port…

I can't test but you could try setting the device in the darkice.cfg file to default and see if it just streams the internal soundcard's output:[general]duration = 0 # duration in s, 0 foreverbufferSecs = 1 # buffer, in secondsreconnect = yes # reconnect if disconnected[input]device = defaultsampleRate = 44100 # sample rate 11025, 22050 or 44100bitsPerSample = 16 # bitschannel = 2 # 2 = stereo[icecast2-0]bitrateMode = cbr # constant bit rate ('cbr' constant, 'abr' average)#quality = 1.0 # 1.0 is best quality (use only with vbr)format = mp3 # format. Choose 'vorbis' for OGG Vorbisbitrate = 320 # bitrateserver = localhost # or IPport = 8000 # port for IceCast2 accesspassword = hackme # source password for the IceCast2 servermountPoint = rapi.mp3 # mount point on the IceCast2 server .mp3 or .oggname = Raspberry Pi

Great news!

I'm not sure what would be causing this. Is the Pi responsive when this happens? Do you have to reboot? Did you enable the lock screen or sleep mode? It is off by default. Did you install any other software or tweak any other settings? How are you powering it? USB cable plugged into a computer or dedicated power supply? I think its a power issue or corrupted sd card. Or even a bad Pi.

Good deal! Glad it worked. My delay is about 1 second but I'm connected via ethernet.

I don't know what I was thinking...my radio source is in my office and I was playing the Raspberry Pi stream in my browser so of course streaming to my Sonos speakers downstairs takes an extra second. Cheers!

I just did some extensive testing with using the Behringer's headphone output to boost the input signal and had some interesting results. Previously I had just used the radio's outputs to prove that feeding the Behringer's headphone out back into its own input using the Turtle Beach cable would work. It did work great but a radio source is not high fidelity so this I used my computer's outputs to feed the Behringer and Raspberry streamer some Enya, Chris Botti and Diana Krall and cranked the Sonos Play 5's volume way up to see if I could hear any distortion, feedback or any other artifacts and there was none except when I unplugged the input cable while the Behringer's headphone out was at max volume then there was a noticeable clicking noise that looped that went away when I turn the Beh…

I just did some extensive testing with using the Behringer's headphone output to boost the input signal and had some interesting results. Previously I had just used the radio's outputs to prove that feeding the Behringer's headphone out back into its own input using the Turtle Beach cable would work. It did work great but a radio source is not high fidelity so this I used my computer's outputs to feed the Behringer and Raspberry streamer some Enya, Chris Botti and Diana Krall and cranked the Sonos Play 5's volume way up to see if I could hear any distortion, feedback or any other artifacts and there was none except when I unplugged the input cable while the Behringer's headphone out was at max volume then there was a noticeable clicking noise that looped that went away when I turn the Behringer's volume down under 75% or so. Then I tried using my phone as the input source and here is where it gets interesting...trying to use the Behringer's headphone out to boost the input signal had no effect whatsoever when using my phone as the input source! I can only surmise that it has something to so with not sharing a common ground or something since the phone is running off an isolated battery. The point is, you can try the output/input loop trick to try to boost your source's volume level and it will not hurt anything or affect the fidelity of the music but it may simply not work and if it does work I would recommend keeping the Behringer's headphone volume dial at 75% or less :)

I was thinking about it and why not just borrow someone's laptop, connect it to your home wifi, install the Sonos desktop controller app, add the custom url then uninstall and return the laptop? It is not needed after the custom url has been added.

Good to hear it's working! I don't think the headphone out of the Behringer goes through any kind of digital to analog conversion when you have the monitor switch turned on. I think it just passes it straight through the Behringer's analog headphone amp as I couldn't detect any feedback or degradation in sound quality.

Thank you all for the kind words. I'm glad it worked for you.

:)