Hah, I completely understand! Even tied to a desk job, and working from a home office I have a hard time to find the time to fit in projects like this
One more thingā¦ you may already know this but thought I pass it along.
I use a combination of VNC and Filezilla to remotely manage all my RPiās. This allows me to operate everything headless (no monitor, keyboard, or mouse). VNC gives you a virtual desktop on my windows desktop for each RPi and Fillazilla allows me to transfer files between all the devices devices ā such as adding new sounds or changing old ones.
I VNC in to the pi too! I ordered a wifi dongle to get this moved out of my office and into the middle of the house so everyone can appreciate when I come home and the theme song of Sanford and Son plays and when my wife comes home Crambone from good 'ol Tom and Jerryās Uncle Pecos sings.
I got VLC thing working with Big Talker. I defin have a clipping issue and its pretty random. My PC that iām using is wired ethernet and just using my computer speakers (3.5mm), it clipsā¦
Backend issue still? Anything we can do from a setting perspective to reduce the clipping?
Once I switched from HDMI to bluetooth the problem disappeared. If I switch back the problem returns. I can only surmise an issue between VLC and the driver. Folks on the VLC forum were non responsive to the issue and I didnāt have the patience to open a problem report with VLC . I think thatās the next step if we really want it resolved properly.
To be clear I am not blaming HDMI, I believe itās the particular driver I have that handles the HDMI connection. So whatever is wrong could be wrong with any driver. Maybe you can select a different one for your speakers or try a different set of speakers as well.
Itās just odd that a wired connection like HDMI would be the laggy issue for the clipping. High bandwidth connection with low lag.
Bluetooth has delay and bandwidth issues of itās own. but maybe the delay is enough so there is no clipping. I guess Iāll have to pair a bluetooth speaker to my computer and have VLC output sound to it.
Itās just odd that a wired connection like HDMI would be the laggy issue
for the clipping. High bandwidth connection with low lag.
Bluetooth has delay and bandwidth issues of itās own. but maybe the delay
is enough so there is no clipping. I guess Iāll have to pair a bluetooth
speaker to my computer and have VLC output sound to it.
I suppose vlc can be the issue too.
Agreed , I donāt think itās a hardware issue I believe itās likely some
sort of driver issue that VLC is struggling with.
Hi Iām having some trouble setting this up. I have the handler and vice installed and canāt seem to get it to connect. Having trouble finding my port I think. Could you help me?
@geko, I have this working, and it is coming from my computer speakers, is there a way to use ChromeCast or Alexa without having to go and open a developer account on Amazon? I am a little lost with the Media renderer thing. I just would like sound from different places in my home.
Also the computer I am using has both LAN and WiFi, does it matter which I use? Also any hints on eliminating the lag, or the times it doesnāt respond. I turned off sleep for the HD, so I am hoping that will work.
Thank you for that. What about which way to connect, WiFi or LAN? And why is there times that the speech is cut off or stats in the middle? If I did something wrong how do I correct this? Thanks again.
Vlc is a program that runs on your computer so whatever sound output your computer is set on thats where you will get the sound.(example: I have the VLC program running on 2 computers- One is connected to wired speakers via the headphone jack and the other is connect to bluetooth speaker)
If you do something wrong you can always uninstall and reinstall the program.(VLC).
VLC thing is the device that you have installed in your Smartthings app, its like a remote controller for your VLC installed on your computer.
Scroll up and you will find many discusssions about speech cutoffs.
If you have Wifi speakers and you prefer to use those then its best to use the Mediarenderer instead of VLC thing
MediaRenderer is a a ST smartapp that uses a DLNA speaker to playback sound and music, just like VLC.
If you get Samsung speakers that are supported by ST then you dont need mediarenderer nor vlc. you control it via ST.
Sonos is another way to go.
Yes I run 2 VLC things in ST pointing to the 2 different addresses
Thank you for the detailed answer, then the Samsung speaker is the way to go. The range of my Bluetooth speaker is horrible, so the Samsung is the way for me to go.
OK I am interested in your thoughts. I want the best integration I can get at a reasonable cost. The Sonos doesnāt need a hub it is stand alone? Will the Play 1 work?
