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Ottercast / OtterCastAudioV2

OtterCast is an open-source audio streaming device running Linux. Based on a Sochip S3 SoC, featuring a Webinterface, shairport-sync, snapcast, Spotify Connect and pulseaudio sink/source.
https://cast.otter.jetzt/
MIT License
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USB-C POE support #6

Open jonfen opened 3 years ago

jonfen commented 3 years ago

Will we be able to use something like this:

https://store.google.com/us/product/chromecast_ethernet_adapter_gen_2?hl=en-US

Instead of adding the ethernet jack to the unit?

Manawyrm commented 3 years ago

in theory, yes! I suspect that this adapter is using a regular USB-Ethernet chipset. Those are somewhat unstable and use a lot of CPU time which could be saved by using the internal NIC.

But the hardware should support USB host mode on the USB-C plug and the software should follow soon (although we still have some problems there, see https://github.com/Ottercast/buildroot-ottercast-audio/issues/27 )