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trevorKirkby / iota

A Raspberry Pi based doorbell system.
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Play sound on Alexa from rpi #1

Open dkirkby opened 8 years ago

dkirkby commented 8 years ago

After updating to new Raspbian, can pair with Alexa as a bluetooth speaker. Audio from the browser is not transmitted via bluetooth, but the cmd-line mplayer does transmit via bluetooth. Some simple tests have bad sound quality, with frequent interruptions in the audio stream. Possibly due to low coupling between the bluetooth antennas?

trevorKirkby commented 8 years ago

Update: Sound quality issues have been traced to the fact that the raspberry pi built in antenna is not ideal. When alexa and the pi are in the same room, the sound quality has no noticeable problems. An external antenna on the raspberry pi should solve this.