18th Feb

The slates start to come off

17th Feb

Looking for the waterpipe to the house

16th Feb

The scaffold goes up

15th Feb

Flower photo

14th Feb

Why can Scouts never cook pancakes? 

13th Feb

New kitchen units in  place

12th Feb

Orchids

11th Feb

A night visit to Waddecar

10th Feb

The view from our window this morning - a typical lakeland morning!

9th Feb

We had a lovely walk from the hotel to Far Sawrey where we had a drink and the returned via the ferry.

8th Feb

Away this weekend at the Hydro weekend, Cath in our room at the hotel.

7th Feb

An old pot

6th Feb

Sunset

5th Feb

Cath

4th Feb

No photo today I'm afraid but I did make a video of Luke. He's explaining why he would make a good hotel inspector.

3rd Feb

Luke mows the grass

2nd Feb

Dawn

1st Feb

At last - I'm home from work in the light.

Pi problems..

OK, last night everything was working, the PI was visible to itunes and music played through the TV speakers connected via HDMI.

Unfortunately I made one small change so that sound would come out of the 3.5mm jack and everything stopped. No amount of starting / rebooting or even changing the sound back to HDMI worked. Nothing was to be heard.

Anyway, this time I'm going to try again but using just a single source of information, http://mattshirley.com/adding-airplay-to-an-external-usb-audio-interface/

His approach certainly seems clearer than some of the others.

# Change to our home directory, install all the packages we need.

cd ~ apt-get install build-essential libssl-dev libcrypt-openssl-rsa-perl libao-dev libio-socket-inet6-perl libwww-perl avahi-utils pkg-config git emacs

sudo git clone https://github.com/albertz/shairport.git

cd shairport

sudo make

# Install Net::SDP Perl module 

sudo -s
perl -MCPAN -e 'install Net::SDP'

I decided not to bother with this bit as I don't have a USB soundcard
# Demote the onboard soundcard and allow USB soundcards to become default 

# Add 'options snd_bcm2835=-2' 

# Comment out line 'options snd-usb-audio index=-2' 

nano /etc/modprobe.d/alsa-base.conf 

# Copy the example init script 

cp shairport.init.sample /etc/init.d/shairport 
# Edit the init script to point to Shairport
# NAME=RecordPlayer
# DAEMON="/home/pi/shairport/shairport.pl"

nano /etc/init.d/shairport

sudo update-rc.d shairport defaults
sudo reboot

Let's see what results we get tonight.