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Introduction


Multi-room
Since model 2.0, balenaSound helps a number of, synchronized units permitting you to construct your personal DIY Sonos or customized multi-room audio system. For those who’ve solely acquired one machine, that also works nice and because it did earlier than. Now, you may merely flash one other SD card with the identical picture and that machine will play the identical audio as your first machine fully seamlessly.So long as your units are linked to the identical WiFi community, they’ll routinely uncover one another and synchronize audio output.Log Messages and Customized Tags
The CastDebugLogger API permits you to create log messages that seem on the receiver debug overlay with totally different colours. The next log strategies can be found, listed so as from highest to lowest precedence:
castDebugLogger.error(custom_tag, message);
castDebugLogger.warn(custom_tag, message);
(custom_tag, message);
bug(custom_tag, message);
For every log methodology, the primary parameter is a customized tag. This may be any figuring out string that you simply discover significant. The CastDebugLogger
makes use of tags to filter the logs. Utilization of tags is defined intimately additional under. The second parameter is the log message.
To point out logs in motion, add logs to your LOAD
interceptor.
You possibly can management which messages seem on the debug overlay by setting the log stage in loggerLevelByTags
for every customized tag. For instance, enabling a customized tag with log stage BUG
will show all messages added with error, warn, information, and debug log messages. Enabling a customized tag with WARNING
stage will solely show error and warn log messages.
The loggerLevelByTags
config is non-obligatory. If a customized tag shouldn’t be configured for its logger stage, all log messages will show on the debug overlay.
Add the next code under the CORE
occasion logger:
Video
Initialization
Add the next code to index.html
within the header:
Add the next code to index.html
<physique>
earlier than the <footer>
loading receiver.js,
to offer the receiver SDK with area to bring-up the default receiver UI which is transport with the script you may have simply added.
Now, we have to initialize the SDK in js/receiver.js
, consisting of:
- buying a reference to
CastReceiverContext
, your major entry level to the entire Receiver SDK - storing a reference to the
PlayerManager
, the thing dealing with playback and offering you with all of the hooks it’s worthwhile to plug-in your personal customized logic - initializing the SDK by calling
begin()
onCastReceiverContext
Add the next to js/receiver.js
.
Join your audio system
Most Hello-Fi programs and powered audio system will embody an auxiliary (AUX) enter for connecting issues similar to your newly-created balenaSound machine. To do that you’ll want to make sure you have the correct cables. The audio output on the Raspberry Pi (and the PHAT DAC) is a 3.5mm stereo audio jack, and most AUX inputs are going to be both the identical or maybe extra generally a phono/RCA enter, that are the person pink and white connectors. Subsequently you’re going to wish a cable to work together with your setup. The AmazonBasics vary is an efficient place to start out wanting, the cables are good high quality with out costing an excessive amount of.- 3.5mm to RCA cable (Amazon USA)
- 3.5mm to RCA cable (Amazon UK)


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