[HowTo] Install airsonic in osmc rpi3

[bacitoto]

Airsonic/libresonic/subsonic allow you to stream music/video over the internet, so you can listen your petabyte music collection in your phone

This is a noob aimed tutorial so everyone should be able to do it

What I used

• windows computer with 7zip/winrar/etc
• raspberry pi 3 with OSMC 17.3 installed
• putty ssh client
• samba share to copy some files over (probably not needed but that’s how I managed)
• lot’s and lot’s of google

1 .Samba (access OSMC folders with Windows explorer)

So first you’re going to MyOsmc>Appstore>Samba>Install

Install putty make sure you can connect to your raspi3

type the raspi local ip (you can check/set this in MyOsmc>Network) and click Open
A console should appear with “login as:” type osmc and password also type osmc (you can’t see your password being typed, but it’s there don’t worry)

2 .Setting up the files

I tried installing java the regular way, but I failed over and over
Go to oracle website and download the latest Linux ARM 32 Hard Float ABI build (download current one)

Extract the .gz file you just downloaded; run 7zip as admin otherwise it will probably fail the unpack. You should have .tar file now extract that aswell and you should now have a folder called jdk1.8.0_144 or jdkversionnumber
Now open the folder jdk1.8.0_144 and copy the jre folder to your Osmc
Filexplorer Network>osmc>osmc or type \osmc\osmc in the addressbar
it should look like this

3 .Time to install Java

( I followed this guide and adapted)

Install putty and make sure you can connect to your raspi3 via ssh

type the raspi local ip (you can check/set this in MyOsmc>Network) and click Open
A console should appear with “login as:” type osmc and password also type osmc (you can’t see your password being typed, but it’s there don’t worry)

Now type the following commands

mv /home/osmc/jre /opt
sudo update-alternatives --install /usr/bin/java java /opt/jre/bin/java 100

Now let’s check if it installed

java -version
Should output something like: Java™ SE Runtime Environment (build 1.8.0_-) Java HotSpot™ Client VM (build 25.131-b11, mixed mode)

4 .Installing Airsonic (Stand-alone WAR installation)

sudo mkdir /var/airsonic
chown osmc /var/airsonic
wget https://github.com/airsonic/airsonic/releases/download/v10.0.1/airsonic.war --output-document=/var/airsonic/airsonic.war
java -jar airsonic.war

This last command takes time, at the end it should fail saying it can’t use the port 8080, this makes sense since this port is used by osmc already
so try running

java -Dairsonic.home=/var/airsonic -Dserver.port=8081 -jar airsonic.war

You should be able to go to htttp://your.local.ip:8081/airsonic and see this

Just one problem now, if your raspi reboots, you have to run this command every time to start airsonic, and that’s a pain

So let’s set it up as a systemd service:

wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/airsonic/airsonic/master/contrib/airsonic.service -O /etc/systemd/system/airsonic.service
sudo mkdir /etc/sysconfig/
wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/airsonic/airsonic/master/contrib/airsonic-systemd-env -O /etc/sysconfig/airsonic
Now let’s permantly edit that port
sudo nano /etc/sysconfig/airsonic
Remove the # in that line and choose the port to your liking
Eg:

5 .Final commands

systemctl daemon-reload
systemctl start airsonic.service
systemctl enable airsonic.service

In osmc go to Power>Reboot

And there it should be working, you’ll have access htttp://your.local.ip:8081/airsonic
username: admin
password: admin

6 .Final thoughts

(too tired will edit)
tl;dr version soon, can’t post this in the HowTo category

[adamhsparks]

I followed the example that airsonic has for installing on a Raspberry Pi. Well, I followed and edited it and submitted a PR with the edits.

However, what I found was that it was rather simple to use Tomcat8 rather than the standalone.

I can still access the Chorus interface at http://local.ip/ (port 80) but the airsonic is at http://local.ip:8080/airsonic for me.

My notes are here: https://github.com/adamhsparks/documentation/blob/master/install/example/raspberrypi.md

cheers!
Adam

[adamhsparks]

My pull request was merged, my example is now in the official airsonic documentation.

Airsonic

[bacitoto]

Nice, real cool it’s on the official documentation now!

There’s only one problem with that method, you can’t get java on osmc that way, at least I haven’t been able to.
That’s because it’s not available in the osmc apt repository, there was one more reason but I forgot

Couldn’t we just use openjdk instead?

[adamhsparks]

Ooops! It seems that I skipped a step for OSMC, adding a repository for the Oracle Java.

I’ll amend mine with that step and see if they maintainers want to merge that with the official documentation.

Thanks for pointing that out! I worked through the documentation they had and found some errors, not surprised I included one as well…

As the note says, you can’t use OpenJDK, if you look at the Issue on GitHub, you’ll see that it really doesn’t work. I was having the same problem until I found it and installed Oracle’s Java, OpenJDK and ARM issues · Issue #283 · airsonic/airsonic · GitHub.

[adamhsparks]

Is this more useful, https://github.com/adamhsparks/documentation/blob/master/install/example/raspberrypi.md? I’ve updated the front matter to address installing Oracle’s Java version, or at least say you might need to look up how to do it if it’s not included.

[bacitoto]

Cool and thanks for your effort, I’ll test this later and edit/re-do my tutorial

[adamhsparks]

For the record, I used How To Add Launchpad PPAs In Debian Via `add-apt-repository` Command ~ Web Upd8: Ubuntu / Linux blog to install Oracle’s JDK but figure it’s safer to just suggest finding your own method since there are many ways to do it including downloading directly from Oracle.