Hello,
I thought I'd share my journey and seek advice and recommendations on replacing my whole house entertainment system. I researched various projects including Roon (I really wanted to use this but there were limitations), Volumino and many others. In the end I settled on piCorePlayer. Before starting this project I had no experience with Squeezebox or piCorePlayer, but after testing it out it seemed like the ideal fit. The system I'm replacing is an ELAN Z series whole house system. There are 8 zones with controllers and each will be replaced with a raspberry pi and 7" touch screen.
The ELAN system controllers are connected with CAT5 Ethernet, but with non-standard termination so each one is or will be re-terminated to standard EIA/TIA-568B wiring. These will all be powered by POE and initial testing has been a success.
Many zones consists of multiple speakers connected to a impedance matching volume controller. II intend to keep the volume controllers.
All of the speaker wiring and controller wiring starts in my office and right now I have a giant spaghetti mess.
To reiterate and clarify:
Each Zone will have a Raspverry Pi B+ with 7" touch screen as a controller only.
Each Zone will have a Raspberry Pi B+ and HiFi Berry Dac+ as a streamer only.
They will be connected to two Dayton Audio MA1260a. I chose these amps for cost and auto sensing power on.
Where I could use some suggestion:
I am thinking of mounting the raspberry pi streamers to chassis via a DIN rail, but I am open to suggestions.
I want to replace the multiple speaker connects that are wiring together with a wire-nut with something like a terminal block.
I have installed two flush mount wall units already and I will provide pictures and method shortly.
I thought I'd share my journey and seek advice and recommendations on replacing my whole house entertainment system. I researched various projects including Roon (I really wanted to use this but there were limitations), Volumino and many others. In the end I settled on piCorePlayer. Before starting this project I had no experience with Squeezebox or piCorePlayer, but after testing it out it seemed like the ideal fit. The system I'm replacing is an ELAN Z series whole house system. There are 8 zones with controllers and each will be replaced with a raspberry pi and 7" touch screen.
The ELAN system controllers are connected with CAT5 Ethernet, but with non-standard termination so each one is or will be re-terminated to standard EIA/TIA-568B wiring. These will all be powered by POE and initial testing has been a success.
Many zones consists of multiple speakers connected to a impedance matching volume controller. II intend to keep the volume controllers.
All of the speaker wiring and controller wiring starts in my office and right now I have a giant spaghetti mess.
To reiterate and clarify:
Each Zone will have a Raspverry Pi B+ with 7" touch screen as a controller only.
Each Zone will have a Raspberry Pi B+ and HiFi Berry Dac+ as a streamer only.
They will be connected to two Dayton Audio MA1260a. I chose these amps for cost and auto sensing power on.
Where I could use some suggestion:
I am thinking of mounting the raspberry pi streamers to chassis via a DIN rail, but I am open to suggestions.
I want to replace the multiple speaker connects that are wiring together with a wire-nut with something like a terminal block.
I have installed two flush mount wall units already and I will provide pictures and method shortly.
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