![]() Mopidy is really a framework that allows you to use other components to build an excellent music server. Prepare items at the OS level in preparation for the mopidy server install You should also use a good power supply as to not over tax your PIs.Alternatively you can use a separate power source for the speaker and the PI. If you power the speaker off the PI USB port you’ll need these. USB Wifi, while the PI 3 has built in WiFi it not very good and it results in the music stream dropping out.A very old stereo system (optional) in living room.I do have some concern that the spotify stuff will stop working in the future, but for now it’s good.I was informed by Nick on the mopidy team that You can use a PI4 but you must install the 32 bit version of the raspberry operating system. I’ve had no performance issues using the PI3. They do have a version for the PI 3, that’s why I’m using it for my music server. As such you can’t find a version complied for the PI 4. Note I intended to use a PI 4, however the required Spotify library hasn’t been updated in a while, and may never be. Raspberry PI 3 for the mopidy music server.I tried multiple things I found on HACS but ended us just using an HA vertical stack card with a horizontal stack cards for each speaker. If anyone has a better way to implement this tab/view please let me know. Using the forth tab you select the stream number you want associated with a speaker and then click the button to make it happen. Most of the speakers connect into the system via wifi, while my HA, music server and one speaker are hardwired. This is a simple picture of what these instruction build. HA is used to simply provides a means to access the Mopidy Iris interface and to provide control for connecting the speakers to individual streams. I did not use the HA Mopidy add on, as it didn’t seem like a good use of HA resource and I don’t believe you can run multiple copies to provide multiple music streams. With my install the bulk of the implementation was done outside of HA. If you have an alternative setup I’d love to hear what products you’re using. The end product is based on mopidy, mpd, Iris, spotify-library, snapcast and HA. Since I have to replicate this for multiple family members I figured I go ahead and capture the instructions here. On the internet (this forum include) I found partial instructions for pulling the system together. With all the discussion on the internet my requirements didn’t seem like too much to ask. The implementation has to be build on all open source software.Anyone living in the house has to be able to start a stream on any speaker (NO IT SKILLS required).Play back of pod cast and other sources would be nice, but not required.Needs to allow playing of music from Spotify.I have a lot of music CDs that I’ve ripped. The system must allow playing locally stored music. ![]()
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