Setup Wifi
Warning
If you have added # Maintained by user to the first line of your wpa_supplicant.conf file, the piCorePlayer GUI will completely ignore your configuration file. It can only be maintained by using a text editor.
Setup Wifi without ethernet
wpa_supplicant.conf to the boot partition (Using a setup computer) may be the only option.
Situations like the following:
- You have a Raspberry Pi without built-in wired ethernet so wifi is the only option.
- You want to use Raspberry Pi’s built-in Wifi.
- You don’t have wired ethernet available.
See what networking options are available on the various models of the Raspberry Pi—see Raspberry Pi.
Install Lyrion Music Server (LMS)
1. Connect the Raspberry Pi and Initial Configuration
Insert the SD card into your Raspberry Pi, attach a wired ethernet connection, and plug in the power. Give your Raspberry Pi a minute or so to power up and connect to your local network.
Then look at the boot console. The IP address will be displayed at the end of the boot process.
Or launch Advanced IP Scanner to identify the IP address that has automatically been assigned by your network to the Raspberry Pi via DHCP.
Upgrade Lyrion Music Server (LMS)
Lyrion Music Server 8.2.0. This is a release branch that does not get nightly updates. If you want to select stable bugfix or development branches, you need to follow these instructions.
Steps
Step 1
Access piCorePlayer via ssh—see Access piCorePlayer via ssh.
Add a USB hard drive and setup SAMBA
Step 1 - Adding an USB Hard Disk - Preparation
If the USB hard disk you are adding is formatted as FAT32 or NTFS you will need to install the “additional Filesystems pack” before you can load and configure the disk.
Note that this step is not required if your disk is formatted as EXT4. Windows users can pre-format such a disk using the free utility MiniTool Partition Manager, and this is in fact what I have done.
Add a WD Elements SE 4TB hard disk drive
Add a third partition on a SD card
Warning
- It is recommended that you use an additional USB storage device rather than adding a third partition to the SD card.
- Adding a third partition on a SD card will prevent resizing the second partition in the future.
- There is a chance that future upgrades may clobber the third partition.
Add USB Ethernet adapter
piCorePlayer includes the extension net-usb-KERNEL.tcz on the pCP image for those occasions when you have a RPi with a spare USB port but no Ethernet port and want to connect to a wired network. By default this extension is not loaded.
To facilitate a headless install of net-usb-KERNEL.tcz, piCorePlayer looks for a file named netusb on the boot partition.
Add a network share (Synology NAS)
I’m assuming that you are a Linux noob, like me, and want to connect to a Synology NAS.
You have to configure access at both the NAS and the piCorePlayer LMS.
For the piCorePlayer LMS you need:
- A name for the mount point. This will only be used by the piCorePlayer LMS, so I used the name of my Synology NAS.
- The IP address for the NAS on your local network.
- The share name from your NAS. You will need to get this from Shared Folders on your NAS, in my case it is ‘/Volume 1/Music’
- Select NFS as the Share Type.
Warning
Don’t press the ‘Set NET Mount’ button yet!
Setup passwordless ssh access
Step 1
Determine the <IP address> of the remote computer—see Determine your pCP IP address.
Step 2a
Create the public/private authentication keys using <Enter> to accept the default values.
$ ssh-keygen -t ed25519
Valid encryption types:
- dsa
- rsa
- ed25519
Step 2b
Or, create the public/private authentication keys non-interactively.