Streaming from Volumio to smartphone/tablet? Is it possible?

Could someone explain to me the possibility or limitations of streaming from Volumio on a raspberry pi over wifi to my android or ios device so that the audio comes out of the mobile device instead of the dac on the pi/udoo??

Just trying to understand how this would work or why it wouldn’t work.

Is it a feasible future feature?

Hello Shano,

I’m looking into the same thing myself. I actually got an RPi for just this purpose, but then I discovered volumio and I’ve been sidetracked. (A lot of this relies on SMB/Samba-- a widely used standard for sharing folders or drives over a network.)

A few possibilities for such a thing:

Inside your LAN

  • Access Volumio’s existing SMB shares from your preferred slab of glass. There are a few apps on Android that let you do that, and I believe some for iPhones.
  • Install a DLNA server on your Volumio box.

(I haven’t looked into these much-- when I’m on my own LAN, I’ll be using Volumio’s standard music player).

Outside your LAN/Over the Internet

  • Set up a VPN to your home network, and use SMB shares as above. I tried this, and I’m not happy with it-- VPN’s tend to be slow, and running one through a residential internet connection is painful

  • Make your SMB viewable from the internet-- BAD idea. Huge security hole.

  • SSH tunnel for an SMB share-- theoretically possible, but I’ve not found an easy way to deploy it.

  • SFTP - Rather clunky.

  • Seafile or similar DIY cloud package-- All of these tend to set up their own filesystems, that don’t play well with Volumio. I want one set of music files to run through volumio or remotely.

(Everything over the internet requires some sort of way for your to find your home network, like a DDNS service)

The ability to access my music library over the internet is a big thing for me. None of the options I’ve found are satisfactory; I’ll keep looking into it.

Follow-up: DLNA comes with Volumio 1.1, but it’s not configured. You need to edit /etc/minidlna.conf to add the files you want browsable (for me it was the USB drive, /mnt/USB), then force DLNA to update its DB

Here’s some useful information: everbit.wordpress.com/2013/04/01 … pberry-pi/