@sam_nazarko
I understand that the Vero 4K has reached end-of-life. I’ve repurposed mine as an AirPlay gateway for Bluetooth speakers — essentially exposing inexpensive BT speakers over AirPlay so the household can easily target them without having to pair with each one individually. I’m running the last available Vero 4K build and have disabled OSMC and the other UI-related services. It works well for this purpose.
My question is: Is there a way to run Armbian or another more up-to-date Linux distribution on this hardware, so I can take advantage of a newer kernel — particularly to enable building BlueALSA with aptX support? as well supporting future hardware upgrade like a longer range BT module.
Found this.. any thoughts on it ?
Never mind there are a few solutions out there.
Avoid installing to eMMC if you plan to move back to OSMC in the future.
Be aware that Armbian causes bootloader changes which can stop you booting OSMC in the future without restoring things.
Sam
Thanks for that advice.
I was able to compile what I needed and didn’t need a newer kernel, I needed to compile bluealsa with aptX support which is all sorted now. So sticking with osmc image, with the media stuff turned off, so its acting as a airplay gateway for 2 bluetooth spearks, 2 instances of shairport-sync running inside dockers on their own IPs. So looks like the vero will live on some more time!
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We can probably enable apt-x when we next visit bluez-alsa.
Will be nice to have I think for devices that support that. I cant’ tell the difference audibly , nice to know its being used .. one of those kinds of things..