Raspberry Pi 5 as network storage, music server, and player - PART 4b

4b. INSTALLATION - INITIAL CONFIGURATION

Finally, remove the microSD card and plug it into your rPi.  Connect the rPi to your home router with an ethernet cable, then apply 5V power to the rPi.

After pCP is fully booted up, in a web browser go to -

http://pcp.local

You will be presented with the piCorePlayer configuration interface.

You are first prompted to set a system password.

Save. Continue.

"Check for update" - this will probalby fail since, by default, the piCorePlayer partition size is not large enough.  We will fix that later.

"Accept default hostname" - pCP (or choose a different hostname if you wish)

"Enable SSH" - YES

"Enable NTP" - if you select "Leave Default" pCP will attempt to get time information from your router.

I prefer to manually enter "pool.ntp.org", or for region-specific server such as Australia - "au.pool.ntp.org"

then "Set and Enable"

pCP will reboot, then continue guided setup -

"Are you going to be using this pCP device to be a Lyrion Server?" - Yes.

Light or Dark theme.

"pCP Repo" - the default pCP EU Repo should be fine. Next.

"Audio Detection" - go ahead and configure if a USB DAC is already connected.  If not, set this up later on the Squeezelite configuration page.

"Resize SD card" - Resize > drop-down menu - 15154 MB SD Card (or Whole SD Card) > Resize. Wait patiently!

After an automatic reboot you will be returned to the Main Page of the pCP configuration.


STATIC IP ADDRESS (optional)

Main page > Additional Functions > Static IP

Static IP address - typically 192.168.x.x

Netmask - typically 255.255.255.0

Broadcast - typically 192.168.x.255

Gateway - typically 192.168.x.1

Nameserver 1 - typically 192.168.x.1

NEXT - 4c. INSTALLATION - FORMAT & MOUNT NVME DRIVE

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