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C.Programming for the Audio Streaming
C.Programming for the Audio Streaming

Revision as of 13:18, 16 May 2014

Description

a Rasperry Pi-based appliance that broadcasts video or audio via DILC servers.



Materials

A. Audio Streaming

  * Raspberry Pi (Model B)
    
  * SD Card with installed Raspbian "Wheezy" OS (Operating System)

         
  * USB Sound Card
    


  * Audio Computer Microphone
    
  * USB Micro Cable with Power Brick (5 Volts, 2 Amperes)
         
  * Ethernet Cable 
    

B. For Programming

  *PC Monitor 
  *USB Keyboard
  *USB Mouse
  *VGA to HDMI Cable or RCA Cable




Procedure

A. Installing and Running the Rasbian Wheezy OS (Operating System)

  • Insert the SD Card into your Raspberry Pi and write the disk image file using the installed win32 Disk Imager.


B. Setting Static IP

  • Check first the set-up by


cat /etc/network/interfaces


then the line iface eth0 inet dhcp implies that the IP address is via DHCP which is dynamically registered by the router.This is what we want to change.


  • Get Information


ifconfig


with these you will get the different information that we will use later such as:


inet address (Pi's Current IP Address)

Bcast (The Broadcast IP Range)

Mask (Subnet Mask Address)


then


netstat -nr or route n


(note that these commands will give you the same information)


Get also the


Gateway Address

Destination Address


  • Editing Network Configuration

open the file /etc/network/interfaces by:


sudo nano /etc/network/interfaces

change the line

iface eth0 inet dhcp

to

iface eth0 inet static


then after this line directly type the information that we gathered a while ago then save and exit by Ctrl+o and Ctrl+X

next is to reboot..


sudo reboot


to check..

ifconfig

these will reveal the changes or try to ping it with your IP Address by

ping (your IP Address) -c 5


C.Programming for the Audio Streaming

After installing and running the OS of your Raspberry Pi, you are now ready to program the audio streaming.

Open the LX Terminal,


  • Install PulseAudio and these preference GUI with the command


sudo apt-get install pulseaudio

sudo apt-get paprefs

sudo reboot


  • After the system being rebooted, next thing to do is to edit and add the following lines in the file /etc/pulse/daemon.conf by these command


sudo nano /etc/pulse/daemon.conf


lines:

resample-method = ffmpeg

default-sample-rate = 44100

alternate-sample-rate = 44100


after these save and exit by Ctrl+o and Ctrl+x


  • To make the Raspberry Pi audio server appearing automatically in your "Sound Setting" on every client (PC) and the server (raspberry Pi).


sudo sed -i 's/AVAHI_DAEMON_DETECT_LOCAL=1/AVAHI_DAEMON_DETECT_LOCAL=0/g' /etc/default/avahi-daemon


  • Activate the network feature of PulseAudio on both client and server.


paprefs


For the server mark the following boxes


Network Server -Enable network access to local sound devices

Network Server -Allow other machines on the LAN to discover local sound devices

Network Server -Don't require authentication


For the client you want to stream from the server (Raspberry Pi)


Network Access -Make discoverable PulseAudio network sound devices available locally


  • Reboot the both server and the client by:


sudo reboot


After the system rebooted the Sound Setting should appear like these:


  • To check if the streaming is working plug in the Computer Audio Microphone in the USB Sound card and start to talk. note that there will be a delay of 1000ms-2000ms.


Project Team

  • Catherine Bagotsay (developer)
  • Dawn Benigno (consultant)
  • Dan Villareal (consultant)
  • Peter Sy (consultant)



References