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Shairport on OpenWRT Backfire ASUS WL-520gu

Written by admin January 17, 2012 @ 13:17

How I installed shairport onto an Asus wl-520gu router running OpenWRT with a USB sound card and USB storage.

You def don’t want to do this. The results are flakey at best and it will take a while. My an airport express or an apple TV. Or use a cable.

Most of this is documented, but there are a few places where the information is scattered.

What You Need

• ASUS wl-520-gu
• USB 2.0 Hub (I think USB 2.0 is important!)
• USB 2.0 Thumb drive (I think USB 2.0 is important!)
• USB Soundcard
• Speakers, cable etc.

Process I Followed

1. Install a Virtual PC
2. Install debian (6)
3. Follow the excellent OpenWRT instructions to set up their build environment
4. Add a feed to install the pure C version of the shairport app
5. Build a custom firmware image, with sound, USB storage and shairport packages as installable modules
6. Configure the router as a client on the network and enable the USB storage
7. Use the USB storage as the root partition and install the sound and shairport libraries
8. Create a startup daemon
9. Play some music!

Camping 2.0 Gem Released - Instructions Updated

Written by admin April 50, 2010 @ 01:50

Camping 2.0 has now been released as the camping gem

I’ve updated the camping 2.0 sample heroku app with even simpler instructions!

New Relic

Written by admin March 21, 2010 @ 15:21

New Relic Camping Support – Cool

How to run Camping 2.0 apps on Heroku

Written by admin December 07, 2009 @ 04:07

See the full article on How to run Camping 2.0 apps on Heroku

It’s great!