Some notes for the installation and configuration of Raspian on my Raspberry Pie I Rev. B.

• MPD
• Kodi, mostly for sound only
• Sound goes to external USB Soundcard
• Mumble (?) as a radio :P
• SSH Server

dd (https://www.raspberrypi.org/documentation/installation/installing-images/linux.md) :)

Start it.

• Expand Filesystem
• Memory Split; change GPU to 128 instead of 64 default to be able to use kodi for video. ([http://forum.kodi.tv/showthread.php?tid=218703 see here])
• Overclock to 950 (Turbo) to have more power for PulseAudio :)

• sudo apt-get install htop tmux vim kodi alsa-utils openbox mpd mc mpc mpg321 lame mplayer pavucontrol pulseaudio pulseaudio-module-zeroconf
• rpi-update

• disable_overscan=1

• static ip address

• nameserver x.x.x.x

• First ssh-copy-id
• Then change port
• Set “PasswordAuthentication no”

• Move data to stick
• add it to fstab as /home

• Set bind address to “any”
• Change default paths to /home/music/…

Change index for driver of usb soundcard to make it the default card…

Disable authentication for native-tcp…

Then you may start on your local machine:

PULSE_SERVER=192.168.0.10 pavucontrol

• Disable “load-module module-suspend-on-idle” ([https://dbader.org/blog/crackle-free-audio-on-the-raspberry-pi-with-mpd-and-pulseaudio source])
• Change “load-module module-udev-detect” to “load-module module-udev-detect tsched=0” which seems to lower to cpu usage of PulseAudio(?).

• Also disable realtime bla stuff in daemon.conf:
  • high-priority = no
  • realtime-scheduling = no

Some applications like my browser still have laaaaaaaggs when moving the sound to my raspberry over network; in such cases use:

PULSE_SERVER=IP.of.your.pi browser-bin

browser-bin then uses the pulseaudio server of your pi without the need to tunnel it through whatever…

• enable it in /etc/default/kodi
• Install and use the reFocus theme which needs less CPU than the default one. (thanks @n. for this :))
• also change USER to “pi” because of PulseAudio access which runs for user pi
• in Systemsettings change audio output to pulseaudio stuff. Do a restart of your pi after that or it won't run at all…