Posted: 3/14/2015 6:18:42 PM EDT
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Our clinic is in the middle of a big, steel building and our radio reception is sketchy at best. I have a 100 megabit fiber connection to the internet, so I want to stream some Pandora/iHeartRadio/rdio, etc. However, my small stereo system sits high on a bookshelf, near the drop ceiling. I can drop an Ethernet cable down from the ceiling. I realize I could run some speaker wires from a computer to the stereo. But, I'd like to plug the Ethernet directly into some small device that I can then connect to the stereo. The device would need to be able to tune in the various sources mentioned above. Does anyone have some suggestions about such a device? I want to avoid having to use a computer to stream. |
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Raspberry Pi plus Squeezeplug. It will take some setup but it's easy to follow the directions. It's basically a mini computer board, but it's powered by a cell phone adapter so not going to be using much. Also has ethernet. and it's $35.
Squeezeplug Raspberry Pi 2 
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I like the Raspberry PI idea. I haven't played with Squeezeplug yet. How do I go about changing the stations/channels on Squeezeplug? Is there a Web front end, so I could log in from a machine on the LAN to control the music?
I'll read on this some more when I get home from work. Internet access is somewhat limited at work. |