Absolutely. I would love to see what you have.
The popping sound is a problem for everyone, so "they" are working on it and maybe in a future image release, or at least for the 3rd gen Pi.
I just saw another forum thread by a guy who was running a php headless pandora station via a browser, which might also be ported. I may take a stab at that this weekend, unless your work gets me past that.
let me know.
toggle quoted message
Show quoted text
--- In Crestron@..., John Beasley <john@...> wrote:
I also bought a pi with integration into my Crestron at home for Pandora in mind.
What I accomplished was basic/beta. I enabled telnet on my Pi and then created a TCP/IP Client Connection in Simpl to telnet into the unit with Serial IO to negotiate the telnet connection and login I then ensured that the login automatically started pianobar. It worked and started the pianobar and outputted it to my AAE and you could user serial sends from simpl debugger to change stations and what not. I too had the audio pop and also got garbled sound 25% of the time through the analog output so I turned my pi into an Xbian box instead.
I also used my Pi with an arduino and ser2tcp as a network IR server for my harmony to control my Crestron AAE until I got a pvid, rmc and mird going.
They are pretty fun to play with. I still have the SD card with my pianobar setup and just commented out the symbol in my program. I can put together a quick package of what I got done so far if you would like.
Thanks
John
From: Crestron@... [mailto:Crestron@...] On Behalf Of jgreenink16
Sent: Friday, February 22, 2013 10:07 AM
To: Crestron@...
Subject: [Crestron] Re: Controllable Pandora Options
I'm working on this at the moment. There are lots of hurdles to overcome yet. First, most of the instructables end up with a problem at a step. It took me almost a week of forum posting to get mine running with help. Now that it's running, the problems are:
1. The analog output pops at the beginning and end of each song. So you get two loud pops at each change. You can use a usb audio output, but I haven't tried that yet. The HDMI output does have audio on it without the pops, but now you have to extract it, or use an hdmi input on a receiver.
2. I haven't started to try to send the data to a processor yet, but I'm expecting problems because I don't know linux that well. I'm hoping that a few more forum threads will get some linux guys to help me output this. Then, I need to get the presses in.
It's a great device, and I'm expecting a solid little thing that will eventually be the Pandora solution. Right now though, I don't know if anyone else is working on it.
I'm open to collaborating.
--- In Crestron@...<mailto:Crestron%40yahoogroups.com>, "Chip" wrote:
That looks pretty cool... I'm not feeling like tinkering for this, otherwise I'd probably have a go at it!
- Chip
--- In Crestron@...<mailto:Crestron%40yahoogroups.com>, "jrw_96" wrote:
This is what I'm going to do (or something like it) when I find some extra time one of these weekends.
The Raspberry Pi is pretty sweet for the low low price of $35
JRW
--- In Crestron@...<mailto:Crestron%40yahoogroups.com>, "Chip" wrote:
The PC I had been running SqueezeServer on has gone belly-up, rendering my SB streamer a useless hunk of plastic and metal. I don't have any desire to replace the PC, so I'm looking for other options for Pandora that are A) cheap, B) standalone, and C) have an API I can take advantage of.
The WD TV Play/Live look like contenders, but I can't tell from a quick skim over the WD site if there's an API available. I see them tout their i-Device remote, so I'm cautiously optimistic. Has anyone looked further into these or any of the similar media playback boxes?
Sure as hell would love an ATC-AUDIONET option, but not for how much the card and a freaking CEN-TRACK cost... :(
Thanks,
- Chip
