Category: Setup

Add a network share (Synology NAS)

redgum 4 December 2020 pCP 6.1.0 Setup • How to  •

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:

  1. A name for the mount point. This will only be used by the piCorePlayer LMS, so I used the name of my Synology NAS.
  2. The IP address for the NAS on your local network.
  3. 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’
  4. Select NFS as the Share Type.
Warning

Don’t press the ‘Set NET Mount’ button yet!

Setup passwordless ssh access

pCP Team 11 December 2020 pCP 6.1.0 Setup • How to
Setup ssh access to piCorePlayers without prompting for passwords. This is useful if you need to use scripts that interact with remote piCorePlayers.
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.

Setup Digital Dreamtime Akkordion Music Player

pCP Team 9 June 2023 pCP 9.0.0-a2 Projects • Setup
This project is to install piCorePlayer onto a Digital Dreamtime Akkordion Music Player which has a DAC based on the OEM IQAudIO DAC+ or DAC Zero module.
This Akkordion is a rare example of an early Raspberry Pi based music streamer. It uses a Raspberry Pi 2B and a pre-HAT specification i2s DAC added to the GPIO port. This means the sound card overlay is not automatically loaded and requires a correctly configured config.txt. This Akkordion is routinely used as a test bed for piCorePlayer, so putting together these few notes will serve as a test procedure and maybe help others setup similar old hardware.

What was used

Hardware

  • Akkordion
  • SanDisk Ultra 8GB SD card—see SD card.
  • Generic Wifi with arial.
Warning

This i2s sound card was designed before the Raspberry Pi 40-pin HAT standard.

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