![]() For ease and reliability, we offer affordable official USB-C and micro USB power supplies in a variety of regional formats. Power supplies come in a variety of formats, and you may find that an unofficial model such as a phone charger won’t be powerful enough for your Raspberry Pi. Older models will require a micro USB power supply and a standard-HDMI-to-HDMI cable instead. If you’re using a Raspberry Pi 4 or a Raspberry Pi 400, you will need a USB-C power supply and a micro-HDMI-to-standard-HDMI cable. For this reason, we recommend using a Raspberry Pi 4 8GB, but any member of the Raspberry Pi 4 range should do the trick. The faster your Raspberry Pi, the faster your data will save to your external storage. Using Raspberry Pi, you can connect your existing storage devices - such as external portable hard drives and USB flash drives - to create secure backups of all your important files, accessible from anywhere in the world.Ĭhoosing the right Raspberry Pi and accessories I have an Allo DigiOne Signature on the top of the RPi, directly connected to a Naim DAC via DC1.Network-attached storage (NAS) allows you to save files from your computer and mobile devices to external hard drives via your home or office wireless network. Streaming from another RPi (wired to the router) wirelessly also works fine. I have a 1TB SSD with my whole music collection attached to the RPi. The system is up and running for months, does not need any maintenance and is immediately available on any control point. Apart from the basic system, only MinimServer and upmpcli ( ) run on the RPi. I use a very minimal Raspbian installation: no X, bluetooth, HDMI output and internal sound card disabled. You do not need to run any windowing and desktop system to control the RPi. Thanks for reading if you made it this far. ![]() I guess there is a lot of tuning possible now, so open to any suggestions! I was thinking a dedicated ethernet switch, not sure what else Would recommend it to anyone who wants to make the switch to streaming. Total cost, UPNP Server, RPI, accessories, but without the USB drives is around 100 euros - the raspberry pi is great value, pretty powerful, and also fun to set up. Going forward I will plug a couple of 256GB USB keys to hold all my files, and then enjoy the music. I have the Argon box on the way to run it in a nice enclosure with a fan, but even when it is cooled passively the temperature stays reasonable. It is connected with an ethernet cable to my ISP router and the ND5XS is also running an ethernet cable from the same box. I have loaded VNC onto my PC to control it remotely, and Minim server works well too. It turns out that the Raspian OS on the RPI4 is so intuitive and easy to use, my new UPNP server was up and running in less than an hour. I ordered a Raspberry Pi 4 (4GB) expecting to spend days and nights setting it up, typing command lines into a black screen and battling with overheating, fans, and other stuff. I don’t really want to have a laptop running all day, so I started looking at NAS drives - seem really expensive for what they do. The question remained on which UPNP server to use, I bought Minimserver as it seemed to be quite simple and effective, and ran it off my laptop, the same as used for ripping. I bought a second drive to be able to rip 2 discs simultaneously and now am almost done. Running out of things to do during lockdown - I pulled out a very old laptop and cd rom drive, downloaded dbpoweramp and starting ripping all of my 1000+ CD’s to flac. I have been playing CD’s and Vinyl’s religiously for a while, and managed to get the ND5XS a while back, since installation I have been enjoying Tidal and iRadio, fantastic sound quality. Might be of interest to those hesitating about streaming, as I was until recently. ![]() I don’t post here very often, so sorry if my post is a little obsolete already… I wanted to share an experience I had this weekend with the Raspberry Pi.
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