Raspberry PI + Raspbian + Squeezeslave

Jul 11, 2013 · DIY, Technology

I am not going to waste too many words this time, instead I am just posting the commands required to get squeezeslave run as deamon on a Raspbian Raspberry Pi.

Download and untar latest Squeezslave for your Raspberry from https://code.google.com/p/squeezeslave/. As of today this can be done via

wget https://squeezeslave.googlecode.com/files/squeezeslave-1.3-390-armhf-lnx32.tar.gz
tar -zxvf squeezeslave-1.3-390-armhf-lnx32.tar.gz

Move everything into the right places

sudo mkdir /usr/local/squeezeslave
sudo mv squeezeslave /usr/local/squeezeslave
sudo chown root:root /usr/local/squeezeslave/squeezeslave
sudo ln -s /usr/local/squeezeslave/squeezeslave /usr/local/bin/squeezeslave

From here on you should already be able to run squeezeslave via

squeezeslave -o 0 YOURSERVER

To run squeezeslave as a deamon and at the system start you’ll need to add this file and get it to the right place.

wget https://blog.chschmid.com/media/squeezeslave
sudo mv squeezeslave /etc/init.d
sudo chown root:root /etc/init.d/squeezeslave
sudo chmod 755 /etc/init.d/squeezeslave
sudo update-rc.d squeezeslave defaults

Now all that is left is to create a config file
```
sudo joe /etc/default/squeezeslave
```
with the following content:
```
SSMAC="xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx"
SBSHOST= YOURSERVER
SSOPTIONS="-o 0"
```
Obviously you want to configure it to work with your server and add the MAC address which you find under HWaddr using
```
ifconfig
```
You can now either reboot your machine or start the service manually
```
sudo service squeezeslave start
```

Another problem is that the Raspbian by default boots at a rather low audio volume. This can be fixed by

setting the volume with the command line mixer
```
sudo apt-get install alsa-utils
alsamixer
```
and storing the settings
```
sudo alsactl store
```