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Banana Pi Cookbook

By : Ryad El-Dajani
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Banana Pi Cookbook

By: Ryad El-Dajani

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Banana Pi Cookbook
Ryad El-Dajani
Jun, 2015 | 200 pages
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Table of Contents (13 chapters)
Banana Pi Cookbook
Banana Pi Cookbook
Credits
Credits
About the Author
About the Author
About the Reviewers
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Preface
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1
Installation and Setup
Installation and Setup
Introduction
Downloading an operating system for the Banana Pi
Setting up the SD card on Windows
Setting up the SD card on Linux
Booting up and shutting down the Banana Pi
2
Administration
Administration
Introduction
Determining the IP address and hostname
Connecting via SSH on Windows using PuTTY
Connecting via SSH on Unix-like systems
User maintenance
Searching, installing, and removing the software
Updating the operating system
Wireless network on the Banana Pro
3
External Disks
External Disks
Introduction
Mounting a USB drive
Mounting an SSD or HDD via SATA
Mounting via fstab
Booting from an external disk
4
Networking
Networking
Introduction
Sharing files over the network via Samba
Setting up a web application
Securing the Nginx web server using SSL
Synchronizing files over the Internet
Controlling the desktop remotely using VNC
Securing SSH using SSH keys
Setting up a UPnP media server
5
Using the GPIO Pins
Using the GPIO Pins
Introduction
Lighting up an LED using the gpio command
Programming the LED
Using the GPIO input with a pushbutton
6
Multimedia
Multimedia
Introduction
Configuring the audio device
Getting accelerated video playback
Setting up Kodi
Setting up an infrared remote control using LIRC
Index
Index

Configuring the audio device

There are two common ways to output audio on Banana Pi. You can pass-through the digital audio signal via HDMI to your television or audio/video receiver, or you can output the signal via the analog line out.

Getting ready

The following ingredients are required to handle audio on Banana Pi:

  • A Linux system on Banana Pi

  • Access to the shell

  • Either an HDMI connection to your TV, audio/video receiver, or…

  • A set of stereo headphones or stereo jack cable to any analog audio receiving device with 3.5 mm jack

How to do it…

We are configuring both the HDMI pass-through and the analog audio output in this recipe. In both cases, we have to configure the audio output via the system configuration file /etc/asound.conf (also called asoundrc).

Configuring HDMI pass-through

The following steps explain how to enable the HDMI pass-through of the digital sound signal:

  1. Open a shell.

  2. With an editor such as nano, edit or create the system configuration file called /etc/asound.conf:

    $ sudo nano...
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