Author Topic: HOw do I get audio out from my Ras pi 3 running FPP to use both Audio and Seq  (Read 623 times)

Offline kryptic

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Hello all Noob here what I have is a pi 3 b running FPP and a F4v3 controller, I want to also seq with the mp3s and run show from the Pi how do i get the audio out to the yard. I live very close to a correctional facility and therefore if I run a Fm transmitter it would need to use a very weak powered one as to not interfere with the fm communication that law enforcement would be using. Or go the small speaker route. Anyone have some input on how to do this and what else I may need beyond the Pi and Falcon.

Thanks in advance

Offline Gilrock

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If you run the FPP software on the Pi then you will upload the MP3's to the Pi and create playlists that associate the MP3's with each sequence.  Then it's up to you how you want to route the audio out of the Pi.  Mine leaves the Pi and then goes to an EDM transmitter which has coax out to a homemade PVC dipole antenna out in the yard.  Then inside the house I have a stereo amplifier which picks up my own FM broadcast and then routes it out speaker wire to rock speakers from Best Buy out in the yard.  I like the setup because when I hear my speakers in the yard I know my FM broadcast is working.  Well not 100%.  I did have one time when I forgot to attach the coax to the antenna and the speakers were playing just fine.  Turns out the coax laying in the yard was enough of an antenna to reach the amplifier but wasn't working in the cars.  It took a friend driving by to alert me to the problem.