Quote from ckruetze on August 11, 2018, 10:26 am

Got may clock this week and started to play around with it today.

Bluetooth audio works fine except I haven't figured out how to change the volume on the clock. However I'm usually either listening to music on my NAS or some internet radio station. Is it already possible to play audio from network sources such as a local NAS or even internet radio stations?

 

Christian

 

Quote from Zheng Han on August 13, 2018, 4:03 pm

@ckruetze

Oboo is capable of playing any mp3 streaming sources including internet radios. Here are some pointers to set it up

first you need to install some packages

opkg update

opkg install alsa-utils mpg123

 

then you need to make sure the audio subsystem is put in to internal audio mode

#Internal Audio

gpioctl dirout-low 41

# BT Audio

gpioctl dirout-high 41

You might need to toggle gpio 41 a few times to get it registered (we are working at simplifying the process)

To verify the sound card is recognized properly run

aplay -L

You should see the following

null
Discard all samples (playback) or generate zero samples (capture)
default:CARD=AUDIO
USB AUDIO, USB Audio
Default Audio Device
sysdefault:CARD=AUDIO
USB AUDIO, USB Audio
Default Audio Device
front:CARD=AUDIO,DEV=0
USB AUDIO, USB Audio
Front speakers
surround21:CARD=AUDIO,DEV=0
USB AUDIO, USB Audio
2.1 Surround output to Front and Subwoofer speakers
surround40:CARD=AUDIO,DEV=0
USB AUDIO, USB Audio
4.0 Surround output to Front and Rear speakers
surround41:CARD=AUDIO,DEV=0
USB AUDIO, USB Audio
4.1 Surround output to Front, Rear and Subwoofer speakers
surround50:CARD=AUDIO,DEV=0
USB AUDIO, USB Audio
5.0 Surround output to Front, Center and Rear speakers
surround51:CARD=AUDIO,DEV=0
USB AUDIO, USB Audio
5.1 Surround output to Front, Center, Rear and Subwoofer speakers
surround71:CARD=AUDIO,DEV=0
USB AUDIO, USB Audio
7.1 Surround output to Front, Center, Side, Rear and Woofer speakers
iec958:CARD=AUDIO,DEV=0
USB AUDIO, USB Audio
IEC958 (S/PDIF) Digital Audio Output

 

Now the fun part, find the URL of your favorate internet radio station and run mpg123 <URL>

For example to play BBC world news you can use the following command

mpg123 http://bbcwssc.ic.llnwd.net/stream/bbcwssc_mp1_ws-einws

to make it run in the background add & to the end of the command

Finally to adjust the volume use alsamixer

 

 

 

Quote from ckruetze on August 13, 2018, 5:18 pm

Very cool, it works 🙂