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​​Streaming Workshop | S+E  3-7-17

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​​Building a streambox with Raspberry Pi

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​​Equipment - you will need:

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​​— Raspberry Pi

​​— Power adaptor

​​— Cirrus sound card (or a different soundcard)

​​— SD Card

​​— Microphones

​​— USB Wifi adaptor

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​​— USB SD card reader

​​— Laptop

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​​— Disk image to flash onto your SD Card (ARM6 for Pi v1; ARM7 for Pi v2)

​​http://locusonus.org/streambox/

​​[or from a local machine]

​​— Apple Pi Baker for flashing 

​​https://www.tweaking4all.com/software/macosx-software/macosx-apple-pi-baker/

​​— A Locus Sonus account (username and password)

​​http://locusonus.org/soundmap/dev/admin/login/

​​Instructions

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​​SET UP AN ACCOUNT AT LOCUS SONUS

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

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

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

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​​INSTALL SOFTWARE

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

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

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​​— Open Apple Pi Baker, select your SD card carefully, browse to the disk image you want to use and select Open. Select Restore Backup

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​​— When complete (about 8 min):

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​​ENTER YOUR ACCOUNT AND WIFI SETTINGS ON YOUR PREPARED  SD CARD

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​​— The SD Card appears as NO NAME in the Finder.

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​​— Use a text editor (eg TextEdit) to open the file ‘streambox.txt’ in the root directory. ** Check that the editor has smart quotes DISabled **