Simple, working Bluetooth with cornrow

[eriqjaffe]

I have successfully added Bluetooth to snapcast using cornrow. I had been playing around with various tutorials to make a Raspberry Pi into a bluetooth receiver and none of them worked to my satisfaction - but cornrow is just dead simple and works.

By default cornrow will output to ALSA which I've always found a bugger to work with. The dev just added the ability to output to a TCP/IP stream in the 0.8.0 release which makes it a breeze to add to snapcast. Per the dev, I modified the /etc/cornrowd.conf file as follows:

# This is a TOML document.

[bluetooth_source]
codecs = [ 0x0 ]        # As defined in the A2DP specification (SBC (0x0) is ma$
sample_rates = [ 44100, 48000 ]

#[airplay_source]
#name = "myAirplay"
# port = 0              # port to listen on (0 for auto select)
# buffer_time = 2000    # in ms (defaults to 2000ms)

#[alsa_sink]
#device = "default"

[tcp_sink]
host = "127.0.0.1"
port = 4953

And added the following to /etc/snapcast.conf:

source=tcp://127.0.0.1:4953?name=cornrow&sampleformat=44100:16:2

...and it just works beautifully. Might be a good idea to add this to the documentation since it's a very simple solution.

[uSpike]

Oh wow that's great! I've tried to do this with bluez and pulseaudio and all, and it's a real pain. I will try this out, thanks.