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First of all I build it with a Raspberry Pi 3 and the HiFiBerry DAC+ but if you use other hardware like a USB sound card you can easily adapt most of this tutorial. Goal of this article is that you have a running Radio Pi at the end.

Raspberry up and running

The first step is to download the latest 2017-11-29-raspbian-jessie-lite.zip image. After you unzip it you can copy the the image to your sd card.

Please make sure /dev/sdX is the right device!

sudo dd if=2017-11-29-raspbian-jessie-lite.img of=/dev/sdc

Now you can connect a monitor and a keyboard and start your Raspberry Pi. This shouldn’t take to long.

Now you should see a line like

My IP Address is 192.168.1.XXX

To login we use pi as the user and raspberry is the password. And we start ssh to do the rest remote.

sudo systemctl start ssh

Static IP

With the IP and ssh started we are able to login to our Raspberry Pi with ssh pi@192.168.1.XXX. Before everything else change the password with passwd. Cool now we can configure a static IP. You don’t need one but it makes life simpler. (Also I always install vim)

This is my config you can just change the address, gateway and netmask to match your network. Just add it to the end of the /etc/dhcpcd.conf file.

interface eth0
static ip_address=192.168.17.61/24
static routers=192.168.17.1
static domain_name_servers=192.168.17.5 192.168.17.6
static domain_search=l33t.network
static domain_name=l33t.network

You should also enable ssh that it starts with bootup.

sudo update-rc.d ssh enable

HiFiBerry

Since they done a pretty good job in documenting what you should do to get there hardware running, here just a TL:DR and the link to there documentation.

Replace in /boot/config.txt the dtparam=audio=on with the one matching your hifiberry which is in my case: dtoverlay=hifiberry-dacplus.

Create /etc/asound.conf with

pcm.!default  {
 type hw card 0
}
ctl.!default {
 type hw card 0
}

Now you can reboot it and relogin on your new IP. You can test the sound with speaker-test -c2 -t wav. Your Raspberry Pi is now ready for the software installation which is covered in an other post.