Hello
New to crazy-audio, I discover the potential of the HiFiBerry. I'm not sure that it's what I need, so I describe my project.
My mother has a flat screen tv, with poor sound. I have two speakers and a bass boomer (self powered), but I don't have any AV amplifier. I would like to connect these speakers to the TV, using one of the audio outputs, which means adding an amplifier. I would like my mother to use her TV remote control for adjusting the sound volume and the amplifier going on/off with the tv, in order not to bother her with sereval IR remotes. So need to use the CEC interface on a HDMI line of the TV.
Of course I could buy an amplifier, as for example a Yamaha RXV 473, which does the job, though I'm not sure I could program correctly the cec functions to adapt to the Samsung TV (sometimes language barriers beetween makers). Also it's a big box to add and my mother doesn't want to add such a box in her lounge.
As I would like to get into the Rasberry Pi and do some realization with it, I think it could be time to do it on this project. I guess, though I'm not sure, that a RPI with HiFiBerry and a low cost (20€) stereo amplifier kit could be the solution. Of course I don't want to use the potentiometer volume adjustment of such a kit, but get a software volume control through the cec echo of the tv remote. For power on-off, I would like to use also the remote ON/OFF to power the RPI and my amplifier kit. Could anyone tell me if this is possible and help me to build the hardware/software stack to have these functions ?
Thanks for helping.
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HiFiBerry team Ji Jean-Pierre,
It might be possible. However, if you're looking for a solution for your mother, I would not go with the Raspberry Pi. Often minor issues occur with configurations that needs attention. I would just go with an external amplifier and a programmable remote control
Best regards
Daniel -
Jean-Pierre Desmoulins Well, I would debug and field-test the thing myself before deploying it in mum's lounge :)
I use myself a programmable remote control : logitech. It took me one year to teach my honey (a blonde) how to use it. The two stroke sequence (select device - activate function) was too difficult for her. She still calls me somemtimes "hey, I can't get the sound or this f... installation !" or "can't no longer change channel..." depending on the last command she issued and the unbelievable sequence of touchs she pressed in order to try to have the function she wanted.
So my religion is now : one single remote control with no "device select" trick, or nothing. -
HiFiBerry team Then go on with it. When you have it running, we would like to hear how you did it. It might be interesting also for other people.
Best regards
Daniel
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