Raspberry Pi as UPnP renderer

Date: 2017-10-24
lsb_release Description: Raspbian GNU/Linux 9.1 (stretch)

I setup a multiroom music playing environment. For this I use Raspberry Pis for renderer in a room. Here I found a somewhat outdated howto but it points me in the right direction. Here is howto install it.

At least the default audio output should do. Test it with

We use gmrender-resurrect which is available in the repository. Install it on a RasPi with needed plugins.

pi@raspberrypi:~ $ sudo apt install gmediarender gstreamer1.0-plugins-base gstreamer1.0-plugins-good gstreamer1.0-plugins-ugly gstreamer1.0-alsa
pi@raspberrypi:~ $

Test installation with

pi@raspberrypi:~ $ /usr/bin/gmediarender -f Test -u 42 --logfile /dev/stdout

Configure in /etc/default/gmediarender. Don't use "special" characters like umlaut. Startup will quit with an error message. Seems gmediarender still not understand UTF-8 :-(

Start gmediarender as service:

pi@raspberrypi:~ $ sudo systemctl enable gmediarender.service
pi@raspberrypi:~ $ sudo systemctl start gmediarender.service
pi@raspberrypi:~ $