Creating an Air Play Device using a Raspberry Pi

I have several iOS devices at home and love the ability to broadcast whatever audio is playing on my device on one or more of the Air Play speakers in the house. I did a lot of research looking for speaker systems with this built in but it seemed that if you put “apple” in it, you have to bump the price tag up by a couple of hundred dollars. I set out to do the same for ~$50 total…

• Raspberry Pi 3 Model B, Power Supply, and Clear Case
• SanDisk 8GB microSD Card
• AmazonBasics USB-Powered Computer Speakers

1. First Load the OS onto the SD media
2. Do the initial configuration steps for Raspbian and update.
3. Build Shairport-sync

   sudo apt install -y autoconf libtool libdaemon-dev libasound2-dev
   sudo apt install -y libpopt-dev libconfig-dev libssl-dev
   sudo apt install -y avahi-daemon libavahi-client-dev libsoxr-dev
   sudo apt install -y git
    
   mkdir /tmp/shairport-sync
   git clone https://github.com/mikebrady/shairport-sync.git /tmp/shairport-sync
    
   cd /tmp/shairport-sync
    
   autoreconf -i -f 
   ./configure --with-alsa --with-avahi --with-ssl=openssl --with-systemd --sysconfdir=/etc --with-metadata --with-soxr
    
   make
   sudo make install
   sudo systemctl enable shairport-sync

4. Shairport configuration: sudo nano /etc/shairport-sync.conf
5. In the General section:
   1. Update the name to the correct name and uncomment the line.
   2. Update the volume_range_db to 60 and uncomment the line.
6. In the alsa section:
   1. Update the output_device to hw:0 and uncomment the line.
   2. Update the mixer_control_name to PCM and uncomment the line.
7. Finally start the service: sudo service shairport-sync start
8. Open AlsaMixer and move the volume to the highest setting that doesn't show red.