{"id":217,"date":"2022-02-06T18:29:09","date_gmt":"2022-02-06T17:29:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.deeplake.ch\/cms\/?p=217"},"modified":"2022-02-06T18:38:29","modified_gmt":"2022-02-06T17:38:29","slug":"picoreplayer-with-custom-made-psu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.deeplake.ch\/cms\/2022\/02\/picoreplayer-with-custom-made-psu\/","title":{"rendered":"PiCorePlayer with custom-made PSU"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Powering a Raspberry Pi and its 7&#8243; display is not really easy, it needs strong cables, and better be at 5.1V than 4.9, unless you want to endure the &#8220;Low voltage warning&#8221; aka &#8220;Under-voltage detected!&#8221;. I assembled this player using  a Raspberry Pi 3 Model B Rev 1.2, the standard 7&#8243; display, and then assembled a dual-connector micro-USB cable and power-supply within an independent box. The software is <a href=\"http:\/\/picoreplayer.org\/\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"http:\/\/picoreplayer.org\/\">piCorePlayer<\/a>, along with Squeezelite and Jivelite. Thanks to the respective teams for the great packages. The player is talking to a back-end Logitech Media Server packaged by my &#8220;Swiss neighbour&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/michaelherger?tab=repositories\">Michael Herger<\/a> who does a great job packing up LMS with goodies like Radio Paradise plugins.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"https:\/\/www.deeplake.ch\/cms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/pcp_psu.jpg\" alt=\"PSU\" class=\"wp-image-219\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.deeplake.ch\/cms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/pcp_psu.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.deeplake.ch\/cms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/pcp_psu-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.deeplake.ch\/cms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/pcp_psu-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption>Custom-made PSU module for Raspberry Pi and 7&#8243; display.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"854\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/www.deeplake.ch\/cms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/pcp_dac-854x1024.jpg\" alt=\"pcp and dac\" class=\"wp-image-220\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.deeplake.ch\/cms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/pcp_dac-854x1024.jpg 854w, https:\/\/www.deeplake.ch\/cms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/pcp_dac-250x300.jpg 250w, https:\/\/www.deeplake.ch\/cms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/pcp_dac-768x921.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.deeplake.ch\/cms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/pcp_dac.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 854px) 100vw, 854px\" \/><figcaption>PiCore payer on top of my Teac UD-503 DAC.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"650\" src=\"https:\/\/www.deeplake.ch\/cms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/pcp_playing.jpg\" alt=\"pcp vu-meters\" class=\"wp-image-221\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.deeplake.ch\/cms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/pcp_playing.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.deeplake.ch\/cms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/pcp_playing-300x190.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.deeplake.ch\/cms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/pcp_playing-768x488.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption>My favorite song &#8220;Tunnel of Love&#8221; from Dire Straits. Playing from Radio Paradise in FLAC mode.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The selected PSU is a switching block from Mean Well, 5V, 5A, adjustable output to get 5.1V measured within the Raspberry Pi.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Powering a Raspberry Pi and its 7&#8243; display is not really easy, it needs strong cables, and better be at 5.1V than 4.9, unless you want to endure the &#8220;Low voltage warning&#8221; aka &#8220;Under-voltage detected!&#8221;. I assembled this player using a Raspberry Pi 3 Model B Rev 1.2, the standard [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":221,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,28],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.deeplake.ch\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.deeplake.ch\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.deeplake.ch\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.deeplake.ch\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.deeplake.ch\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=217"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.deeplake.ch\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":227,"href":"https:\/\/www.deeplake.ch\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217\/revisions\/227"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.deeplake.ch\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/221"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.deeplake.ch\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=217"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.deeplake.ch\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=217"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.deeplake.ch\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=217"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}