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I have a Bang & Olufsen Beoplay A8 that I have connected to a Raspberyy pi 4 by usb (Beoplay A8 has a built in usb DAC, but only Airplay 1). It works great! Prior to using Shairport-sync for this I used an old mac mini to get airplay 2. When I connected it via the mac mini I was able to use the physical buttons on the Beoplay A8 to skip tracks and pause. I can't get this to work with shairport-sync. Any idea how I can do this with shairport-sync? |
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Thanks for the post. Shairport Sync (“SPS”) treats the A8 strictly as a DAC and doesn’t receive any return information from it, so unfortunately it isn’t possible to get SPS to respond to commands coming from it. |
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I understand that. Any that this could be implemented in the future? I suspect that there are a number of people that have USB DAC's with physical buttons. |
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No plans, I'm afraid. |
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I got this working by asking ChatGPT. In summary one can use the evtest application to detect button presses. Then write a script (ask chatgpt to do it) to forward the commands received to the D-bus interface of SPS. |
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Impressive use of ChatGPT. |
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I got this working by asking ChatGPT. In summary one can use the evtest application to detect button presses. Then write a script (ask chatgpt to do it) to forward the commands received to the D-bus interface of SPS.