Team, Thank you for the project. Everything went exceptionally well with setting up the account, installing the image, and getting the RaspberryPi’s on to the Balena Dashboard. My only problem is that I have set up two speakers, can connect to their Bluetooth’s (both will play the audio regardles…

Rahul-Thakoor, Thank you. I thought when you connected to one it became the master server. How do I set it as the master? Thank you, Sam

Hello Sam, Any device on the fleet that starts streaming will broadcast itself as the new master and replace the previous one.

Hi there, there is a known issue with all variants of the Raspberry Pi 3 where Bluetooth and WiFi interfere with each other. This will only impact the performance of balenaSound if you use a Pi 3 as the master server to do multi-room bluetooth streaming, resulting in stuttering audio (Airplay and Sp…

Ok, so I don’t need to reconfigure anything there. It auto does that for me. Right?

Ok, that make sense. Is there anyway just to broadcast through IP to the PI’s and skip Bluetooth all together?

Hi there, to switch off on-board BT on RPi3 you can use the dtoverlay=pi3-disable-bt overlay, below are some helpful links: https://www.balena.io/docs/reference/OS/advanced/ https://www.raspberrypi.org/documentation/configuration/uart.md https://blog.sleeplessbeastie.eu/2018/12/31/how-to-disable-…

Why you don’t use SnapCast and define one pi3 with master for IP address and connect the another with SnapCast client with the IP of master.

Everyone, Thank you for the support and suggestions. What about taking another PI3 disable WIFI? Then leave Bluetooth on and physically connect the PI to the LAN? Wouldn’t that take care of the PI3 issue? Does someone know the command for disabling the WIFI? Thank you, DW

Hi Sam, I think this should work, I believe you should be able to disable the wifi from the balenaOS console using nmcli radio wifi off which should disable the radios. If that doesn’t have the desired effect you might want also try disable the wifi using the config.txt setting dtoverlay=disable-wif…

[image] fabiojrsantos: SnapCast Thank you, I will try that this weekend and let you all know. Appreciate all the assistance!

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Thanks for the update, please let us know your results of testing with Bluetooth disabled on those devices.

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