Streaming Workshop | Brighton  Digital Festival | Onca Gallery |  12-10-17

 




Building a streambox with Raspberry Pi



EQUIPMENT


— Raspberry Pi
— Power adaptor
— Cirrus sound card (or a different soundcard)
— SD Card
— Microphones
— USB Wifi adaptor

— USB SD card reader
— Laptop

— Maybe a 4G dongle to connect to mobile networks directly, eg


— Disk image to flash onto your SD Card (ARM6 for Pi v1; ARM7 for Pi v2)
[or from a local machine]
— Apple Pi Baker for flashing 
— A Locus Sonus account (username and password)

STEPS


SET UP AN ACCOUNT AT LOCUS SONUS


— From the Locus Sonus login page choose ‘open a new microphone and join the Locustream SoundMap project’

— Enter details for your stream name, password, name and email (You can change these later). Click Submit.

— An email tells you your details and your stream should be validated quickly by a moderator.

INSTALL SOFTWARE


— Download Apple Pi Baker and download or copy the disk image for your Pi onto the laptop you will be using

— Insert an 8GB Class 10 SD card in the SD card slot on your laptop (or use a reader)