cannot build/install

[th3w1zard1]

How in the world do you install this? Running make gives the error

~/multizone-audio$ make make: *** No rule to make target '/home/<user>/.venvs/chevron/bin/chevron', needed by '../snapserver.conf'. Stop.

Big admirer of the dedication and effort you've put into getting this project working the way you wanted it.

[markferry]

Ah, as you've noticed I haven't added any build instructions yet. (There are still have a bunch of hardcoded paths I haven't abstracted yet).

But to get you back on track you need an install of chevron - a very simple templating engine. I happen to have it in its own python virtual environment.

Something like this...

python3 -m venv ~/.venv/chevron
source ~/.venv/bin/activate
pip install chevron

chevron takes each template and merges in the variables from either the players.json or <room>.json files.

[markferry]

I'm afraid for now there is quite a lot of repetition (related to my personal setup) in the various json files. You'll need to adapt them to your own setup of course.

If you look at the Makefile you'll also notice some "dev" targets. I keep a dev branch with patches to the json files for paths local to my dev machine so that I can run the entire system locally and unprivileged (systemctl --user) for testing purposes.

[markferry]

Updated the Makefile to install chevron in a python virtualenv if necessary.

Also added a Usage section to the README.

Hope that helps.

[th3w1zard1]

I'd like to reiterate how blown away I am by your approach on this subject. Most people would just pay whatever to some tech giant to get something that would only work for 2years or however long they decide to host the cloud. Even going a step above that other people would continue using what they setup initially because they're already habitually used to how it works, but I've noticed you even dumped Volumio which a lot of other users are using for their setup. Snapcast-autoconfig is a nice touch.

I'd very much like to install this with librespot-java, installed through https://github.com/spocon/spocon honestly that'll be a project I'll tackle after I get an actual initial setup going.

Shairport-sync now supports AirPlay2 in its beta version which will be a nice addition I believe.

Anyway I'll attempt a build in the next few hours and follow up here afterwards! Great work man.

[markferry]

spocon is a good find!

I originally had independent service unit files (see, for example librespot@.service.template), but dumped them for the simpler approach of having snapcast run stuff. That might have had something to do with metadata (which is incomplete #3).

You can't restart individual stream sources, but you get a tidier system status:

$ systemctl status snapserver
● snapserver.service - Snapcast server
   Loaded: loaded (/lib/systemd/system/snapserver.service; enabled; vendor preset: enabled)
   Active: active (running) since Tue 2021-10-05 14:31:39 BST; 1 weeks 5 days ago
     Docs: man:snapserver(1)
 Main PID: 12268 (snapserver)
    Tasks: 308 (limit: 9830)
   Memory: 53.0M
   CGroup: /system.slice/snapserver.service
           ├─12268 /usr/bin/snapserver --logging.sink=system --server.datadir=/var/lib/snapserver
           ├─12275 /usr/local/bin/shairport-sync --name=Study --output=stdout --use-stderr --get-coverart --configfile=/etc/multizone-audio/shairport-sync.study.conf --metadata-pipename=/tmp/shairmeta.12268.5106 --port=5106
           ├─12282 /usr/local/bin/librespot --zeroconf-port 39806 --name Study --bitrate 160 --backend pipe --initial-volume 50 --onevent /etc/multizone-audio/librespot-event.sh study --verbose
           ├─12302 /usr/local/bin/shairport-sync --name=Library --output=stdout --use-stderr --get-coverart --configfile=/etc/multizone-audio/shairport-sync.library.conf --metadata-pipename=/tmp/shairmeta.12268.5107 --port=5107
           ├─12320 /usr/local/bin/librespot --zeroconf-port 39807 --name Library --bitrate 160 --backend pipe --initial-volume 50 --onevent /etc/multizone-audio/librespot-event.sh library --verbose
...

Could use process:// stream source, or Snapcast could maybe implement librespot-java:// (badaix/snapcast#928).

[th3w1zard1]

Wow! Well I've got my work cut out for me!

Could use process:// stream source, or Snapcast could maybe implement librespot-java://.

here's the link I believe you're trying to reference. It was broken on my end.
https://github.com/badaix/snapcast/issues/928

I will stay subscribed with the project,

Cheers mate,

[markferry]

Added #10

[markferry]

Added section on deploying