Jeder der ein (oder mehrere) Apple-Geräte verwendet kennt sicherlich die AirPlay-Funktion. Dank dieser lassen sich Medien aller Art an andere Geräte im Netzwerk streamen. So kann man Fotos auf einem AirPlay fähigen Fernseher anzeigen, Videos abspielen oder auch Musik auf AirPlay fähigen Lautsprechern wiedergeben.
Zumindest letzteres könnt Ihr auch ganz einfach mit einem RaspberryPi erreichen und so einen RaspberryPi zu einem AirPlay fähigen Lautsprecher umbauen.
Ich verwende diese Lösung zum Beispiel in meinem MagicMirror. So könnt Ihr den RaspberryPi (der im magicMirror) verbaut ist auch noch als Musik-Lautsprecher nutzen. 🙂
Alles was Ihr benötigt um Euren RaspberryPi so einzurichten, ist im folgenden Artikel beschrieben.
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Requirements
Helpful articles:
Before you start with this article you should have prepared the RaspberryPi so that it is accessible via the network and controllable via SSH.
The following three articles describe what needs to be done to prepare the RaspberryPi:
RaspberryPi – setup for nerdiys!
RaspberryPi – The first configuration!
RaspberryPi – Control the RaspberryPi via SSH
Required tool:
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Required material:
In the following list you will find all the parts you need to implement this article.
Log in to the RaspberryPi via SSH
To start, you must first log in to the Rasp Pi with Putty via SSH. How to do this is in the article RaspberryPi - Control the RaspberryPi via SSH described.
Update package management
The package management in Linux is a "central place" through which various software packages can be installed. In order for this to work reliably, the lists and sources of the package management should be updated before each installation of new packages.
sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get upgrade
Shairport installieren
Die Installation von Shairport ist dank des Paketmanagers sehr einfach.
Gebt dazu einfach folgenden Befehl in die Konsole Eures RaspberryPi ein.
sudo apt-get install shairport-sync
Eine eventuelle Nachfrage, dass dadurch Speicher belegt wird, könnt Ihr mit “Y” und “Enter” bestätigen.
Die Installation läuft dann automatisch ab.
Um Shairport nach der installation zu starten, müsst Ihr nun noch folgenden Befehl ausführen
sudo systemctl start shairport-sync
Status anzeigen
Dank des Kommandozeilentools systemctl könnt Ihr Euch leicht einen Überblick über den Status Eures Shairport-Servers verschaffen.
Gebt dazu einfach folgenden Befehl in Die Konsole Eures RaspberryPi ein.
sudo systemctl status shairport-sync
Hier könnt Ihr nun sehen, ob der Shairport-Server “active” oder “inactive” ist.
Autostart aktivieren
Damit Euer Shairport-Server auch nach einem Neustart des RaspberryPi automatisch wieder startet, solltet Ihr nun noch dessen Autostart aktiviern.
Gebt dazu einfach folgenden Befehl in die Konsole Eures RaspberryPi ein.
sudo systemctl enable shairport-sync
Musik Wiedergabe starten
Das war schon alles. Nun solltet Ihr auf Eurem iPhone (oder anderen Apple Gerät) bereits in der Lage sein Euren selbstgebauten AirPlay-Receiver nutzen zu können. 🙂
Zum Beispiel findet Ihr nun in Eurer “Podcasts”-App das gekennzeichnete Symbol.
Sobald Ihr darauf klickt…
…sollte Ein Menü geöffnet werden, in der auch Euer soeben eingerichteter AirPlay-Lautsprecher (hier “MagicMirror” genannt) angezeigt wird.
Sobald Ihr diesen anklickt, sollte die Musikwidergabe darauf starten.
Have fun with the project
I hope everything worked as described for you. If not or you have questions or suggestions please let me know in the comments. I will then add this to the article if necessary.
Ideas for new projects are always welcome. 🙂
PS Many of these projects - especially the hardware projects - cost a lot of time and money. Of course I do this because I enjoy it, but if you think it's cool that I share the information with you, I would be happy about a small donation to the coffee fund. 🙂
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Hi,
thanks for the article. Runs!
Small hint: You have update package management twice inside.
LG,
Flo
Hey Flo,
thank you, I'm glad. 🙂
Oh, thanks for the hint. corrected it. 🙂
Best regards
Fabian
Hello, my name is Achim Graf
I have the problem that Shairport-sync, whether on the Rapi 3b+ or 4b, does not connect to Airmusic on a rooted Amazon tablet. Airmusic on the tablet immediately finds the Raspi with the Shairport sync started, but when I want to connect it, the Airmusic icon turns blue for 1 second, then red for 3-5 seconds and the game starts over. After about 5 runs, an error message comes up with tips that I have already gone through several times.
Raspian was reinstalled each time with Raspberry Pi Imager, everything as described.
Airmusic connects immediately to Shaiport4w on the notebook and to my Sony Android TV.
I'm getting desperate, it would be great if you could help me get this going.
It works for sooo many, what am I doing wrong.
Tried everything with the desktop version, the lite version, with WiFi and with a LAN cable.
lg. A.Graf
Hi Achim,
I can't really make sense of it right now. (Also because I don't use Airmusic and co).
But it sounds a bit like the Shairport client on the Raspi is crashing and restarting. Can you please check the journal (the logger output of the process) and post it here?
Du müsstest ihn mit folgendem Befehl anzeigen können “sudo journalctl -f -u shairport-sync”. Am besten das Journal starten und dann einen Verbindungsversuch starten. Vllt. kann man dort ja schon sehen was passiert ist. 🙂
Best regards
Fabian
Hello Fabian,
Thank you very much for taking care of the matter.
Since I have my problems transferring the text from the terminal, I write it in here, it repeats itself 8x until Airmusic gives up.
Es steht vor jeder Zeile der Raspi Name mit folgendem ” systemd[1]: ”
but that's probably always the case.
Started Shaiport Sync - Airplay Audio Receiver.
shairport-sync.service: Main process exited, code=killed, status=11/SEGV
shairport-sync.service: Failed with result 'signal'.
shairport-sync.service: Consumed 3.099s CPU time.
shairport-sync.service: Scheduled restart job, restart counter is at 1.
Stopped Shairport Sync - Airplay Audio Receiver.
shairport-sync.service: Main process ex…………. The whole thing is then repeated 7 times.
I hope this is meaningful enough to fix the problem.
Greetings, Achim
Hi Achim,
Alright, looks like my initial suspicion is confirmed. The Shairport service seems to crash when you try to connect.
Unfortunately, the current LogLevel does not give you a correct statement as to why this is happening. So we need to increase the LogLevel.
You have to adapt the service file a bit for this.
To do this, enter the following
sudo nano /lib/systemd/system/shairport-sync.service
and change the line
ExecStart=/usr/bin/shairport-sync –daemon $DAEMON_ARGS
to
ExecStart=/usr/bin/shairport-sync -vvv –daemon $DAEMON_ARGS
(Du musst also nur die “-vvv” hinzufügen.)
Then please run the following command to reload the service file:
sudo systemctl daemon-reload
Nun solltest du wieder das Journal des shairport Service starten “sudo journalctl -f -u shairport-sync”.
Am besten öffnest du jetzt eine weitere SSH Verbindung/Terminal um dann den Shaiport Service mit “sudo systemctl restart shairport-sync” neu zu starten. Nun solltest du bereits mehr Informationen im Journal sehen.
Please try to connect to the Shairport server again. Now the output in the journal should be much more detailed.
Then copy the issue of the journal here again. 🙂
(How to copy text in putty is also described here, for example: https://www.alphr.com/copy-paste-putty/)
Best regards
Fabian
// Content .service file:
[unit]
Description=Shairport Sync - AirPlay Audio Receiver
Documentation=man:shairport-sync(7)
Documentation=file:///usr/share/doc/shairport-sync/README.md.gz
Documentation=https://github.com/mikebrady/shairport-sync
After=sound.target
Requires=avahi-daemon.service
After=avahi-daemon.service
Wants=network-online.target
After=network.target network-online.target
[Service]
type=simple
Restart=on failure
EnvironmentFile=-/etc/default/shairport-sync
ExecStart=/usr/bin/shairport-sync $DAEMON_ARGS
User=shairport-sync
Group=shairport-sync
[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target
——————————————————————————
// After entering -vvv but without -daemon , because it doesn't exist in the original.
// ExecStart=/usr/bin/shairport-sync -vvv $DAEMON_ARGS
login as: guido
guido@192.168.188.47‘s password:
Linux Bestatt02 5.15.56-v7+ #1575 SMP Fri Jul 22 20:28:11 BST 2022 armv7l
The included programs with the Debian GNU/Linux system are free software;
the exact distribution terms for each program are described in the
individual files in /usr/share/doc/*/copyright.
Debian GNU/Linux comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY, to the extent
permitted by applicable law.
Last login: Wed Aug 17 10:25:33 2022
guido@Bestatt02:~ $ sudo nano /lib/systemd/system/shairport-sync.service
guido@Bestatt02:~ $ sudo journalctl -f -u shairport-sync // .service file edited.
guido@Bestatt02:~ $ sudo systemctl daemon-reload
— Journal begins at Mon 2022-04-04 14:05:58 CEST. —
Aug 17 10:25:33 Bestatt02 systemd[1]: Started Shairport Sync – AirPlay Audio Receiver.
Aug 17 10:25:33 Bestatt02 systemd[689]: shairport-sync.service: Failed to locate executable /usr/bin/shairport-sync-vvv: No such file or directory
Aug 17 10:25:33 Bestatt02 systemd[689]: shairport-sync.service: Failed at step EXEC spawning /usr/bin/shairport-sync-vvv: No such file or directory
Aug 17 10:25:33 Bestatt02 systemd[1]: shairport-sync.service: Main process exited, code=exited, status=203/EXEC
Aug 17 10:25:33 Bestatt02 systemd[1]: shairport-sync.service: Failed with result ‘exit-code’.
Aug 17 10:25:33 Bestatt02 systemd[1]: shairport-sync.service: Scheduled restart job, restart counter is at 5.
Aug 17 10:25:33 Bestatt02 systemd[1]: Stopped Shairport Sync – AirPlay Audio Receiver.
Aug 17 10:25:33 Bestatt02 systemd[1]: shairport-sync.service: Start request repeated too quickly.
Aug 17 10:25:33 Bestatt02 systemd[1]: shairport-sync.service: Failed with result ‘exit-code’.
Aug 17 10:25:33 Bestatt02 systemd[1]: Failed to start Shairport Sync – AirPlay Audio Receiver.
^C
guido@Bestatt02:~ $
// restart Raspi
—————————————————————————————————-
jetzt mit “-vvv –daemon”
guido@Bestatt02:~ $ sudo nano /lib/systemd/system/shairport-sync.service
guido@Bestatt02:~ $ sudo systemctl daemon-reload
guido@Bestatt02:~ $ sudo journalctl -f -u shairport-sync
— Journal begins at Mon 2022-04-04 14:05:58 CEST. —
Aug 17 10:25:33 Bestatt02 systemd[1]: Started Shairport Sync – AirPlay Audio Receiver.
Aug 17 10:25:33 Bestatt02 systemd[689]: shairport-sync.service: Failed to locate executable /usr/bin/shairport-sync-vvv: No such file or directory
Aug 17 10:25:33 Bestatt02 systemd[689]: shairport-sync.service: Failed at step EXEC spawning /usr/bin/shairport-sync-vvv: No such file or directory
Aug 17 10:25:33 Bestatt02 systemd[1]: shairport-sync.service: Main process exited, code=exited, status=203/EXEC
Aug 17 10:25:33 Bestatt02 systemd[1]: shairport-sync.service: Failed with result ‘exit-code’.
Aug 17 10:25:33 Bestatt02 systemd[1]: shairport-sync.service: Scheduled restart job, restart counter is at 5.
Aug 17 10:25:33 Bestatt02 systemd[1]: Stopped Shairport Sync – AirPlay Audio Receiver.
Aug 17 10:25:33 Bestatt02 systemd[1]: shairport-sync.service: Start request repeated too quickly.
Aug 17 10:25:33 Bestatt02 systemd[1]: shairport-sync.service: Failed with result ‘exit-code’.
Aug 17 10:25:33 Bestatt02 systemd[1]: Failed to start Shairport Sync – AirPlay Audio Receiver.
^C
guido@Bestatt02:~ $
// checked the .service part again in nano, everything is correct ... I hope.
[Service]
type=simple
Restart=on failure
EnvironmentFile=-/etc/default/shairport-sync
ExecStart=/usr/bin/shairport-sync -vvv -daemon $DAEMON_ARGS
User=shairport-sync
Group=shairport-sync
// same error message
// I can't get any further
greets achim
Hi Achim,
das Problem liegt wohl daran, dass vor dem “-vvv” ein Leerzeichen fehlt.
In der Zeile “Aug 17 10:25:33 Bestatt02 systemd[689]: shairport-sync.service: Failed to locate executable /usr/bin/shairport-sync-vvv: No such file or directory”
kann man sehen, dass versucht wird den Befehl “shairport-sync-vvv” auszuführen. Der Parameter “-vvv” wird also als Teil des Dateinamens interpretiert und nicht als Parameter.
Bitte prüfe hier nochmal ob zwischen den Teilen “/usr/bin/shairport-sync” und “-vvv” auch wirklich ein Leerzeichen ist. 🙂
Best regards
Fabian
Sorry, just wanted to say thank you for putting so much effort into it.
Unfortunately, the thing with the extended log doesn't seem to work for me, I don't know if there are too many spaces in it, I'm not that familiar with the syntax, but try not to make any incorrect entries.
In addition, setting via reCaptcha is a horror. I never know what that stupid button on the bottom right of me wants, mostly only works at 3 or 4x and then I never know why it worked...grrr.
Hello Fabian, this site is a disaster.
I've now tried 3x to send a text, which apparently worked after x attempts, but every time I call up the page after a few hours, my comment has disappeared.
This must be related to the reCAPTCHA, I don't get a prompt to click on any stuff, fire alarm, bicycle, etc., hopefully this won't get lost again. If I send you one of my forum email addresses and we exchange it for my sane one via email, can we communicate through it?
Only if you still want to help me with the problem.
Greetings achim
Hi Achim,
the site is working and your comments have all arrived. But I have to activate the individual comments.
Unfortunately, there is no other way, since the comment columns are pasted up several times a day by spambots.
I try to look at your problem during the day.
Best regards
Fab
Hi Fab,
new update, after I went to a wine festival last weekend and immediately caught Corona, it took me a week to get by again.
Got to work with new energy and tried to activate the extended journal again.
Both Raspis switched on and noticed with a stupid face that both immediately connected to Airmusic on the Fire tablet after booting up.
Without Flaks, I've had the parts since August 18th. not touched, there's no such thing, is there?
It's nice that it works but it doesn't satisfy me because I don't know why...
Don't want to annoy you any further with the mystical doing of the Raspis.
Thank you very much for your patience, you have given me the confirmation all along that it will eventually work.
However, I didn't think it would work like that.
Have a nice time.
Greetings, Achim