piCorePlayer 11.1.0

The pCP Team has released an new version of piCorePlayer.

For support—see this topic on Squeezebox Forum.

Significant changes

• Kernel 6.12.67
• Squeezelite 2.0.0-1542
• LMS default install is 9.1.0 (As of the date of this posting)
• Web interface changes
  • Bluetooth: Added Extra options for Bluetooth Input devices
  • Bluetooth: Add BLE/Gatt Remote Control options See this thread for reference
  • Bluetooth: Add extra command options for each squeezelite session.
  • ShairportSync: Add the ability to select AirPlay 1 -or- AirPlay2 (Requires updated shairport-sync package)
  • Wifi: Add ability to add multiple SSID’s and priorities from the web interface. Thanks @chrober
  • Audio: New speaker test function (On squeezelite page) This will cylce through all audio devices to see what works for you.

Notes

• Update your Pi4/5 Bootloader (Not Automatic) (On the Diagnostics/Raspberry Pi Web Page)
• There is no default ssh password, it must be set on first connection to the web interface.
• Adding wpa_supplicant.conf to the boot partition will automatically enable Wifi—see Setup Wifi without ethernet.
• See https://github.com/morrownr/USB-WiFi for some information about wifi drivers with linux in-kernel drivers.
• Adding a file named netusb to the boot partition to force loading of the net-usb kernel modules.
• Write your image, boot the RPi, and find it by http://pcp.local This is broadcasting the hostname of your player, so please change your hostname on the tweaks page if you have multiple pCP devices.

Download

• Best using RPi Imager
• piCorePlayer will be listed under the Media Player OS section.
• Selecting the Rpi board type will show you compatabile images.
• RPi Imager image customization support is NOT supported at this time.
• For Lyrion Server
  • Pi0-3, best to use the 32bit image for better memory usage.
  • Pi4/5, use the 64bit version.

New images or insitu update are available. The released versions can be downloaded from here.

• piCorePlayer 11.1.0 - 32-bit Kernel sha256: c29e81e37b4631bf18ab27f82dd1e5bec7da2bc35aabc6985b8189b757bc19b5
• piCorePlayer 11.1.0 - 64-bit Kernel sha256: 89c266b26cab2ab4f6a623e49491b6b511c154edd65ff03c191b5f9c71eec8d9

The pCP Team
Paul, Greg, Ralphy and Steen