Making Phoniebox a Bluetooth Receiver

Related issue: Wireless Audio Receiver #179

Read this page carefully before you start.
Backup your Phoniebox before you start (Otherwise make sure you can effort a reinstallation)

Functional overview

This setup adds the functionality to your Phoniebox to play audio or music from a bluetooth device like a smartphone without interactions on the Phoniebox for pairing.

The Phoniebox will play the audio or music from the smartphone and the volume can be controlled from the smartphone.

Security

This makes your Phoniebox available over bluetooth without authentication. This can be something you don't want, because it can lead to misuse.

Setup overview

Use the installer from the separate repository Raspberry Pi Audio Receiver and install the bluetooth receiver only.

Setup instructions

1. Follow the installation instructions of the debian-10 branch of Raspberry Pi Audio Receiver
2. (optional) reboot

Issues using Raspberry Pi Audio Receiver together with Phoniebox

Generally pose your issues at the used repository if they are not related to Phoniebox together with Raspberry Pi Audio Receiver.

Package upgrade

Attention: The installer of the Raspberry Pi Audio Receiver will upgrade all packages. One might to remove that line from the installer. This can be done after downloading and extracting the installation scripts on your Phoniebox and before starting the scripts.

OS version (Buster, not yet Bullseye)

The Phoniebox currently uses Raspberry Pi OS (Legacy). (Double check that and perhaps create an issue to update this page)

The bluetooth part of Raspberry Pi Audio Receiver works with the Phoniebox current master branch, when the debian-10 branch of the Raspberry Pi Audio Receiver is used.

GPG error during installation

In case there is an error for a missing GPG key like this during installation:

W: GPG error: https://apt.mopidy.com buster InRelease: The following signatures couldn't be verified because the public key is not available: NO_PUBKEY 78FD980E271D2943
E: The repository 'https://apt.mopidy.com buster InRelease' is not signed.
N: Updating from such a repository can't be done securely, and is therefore disabled by default.
N: See apt-secure(8) manpage for repository creation and user configuration details.

one can install the missing GPG key as mentioned in the install description of that repo.

Note: This is already fixed in newer Phoniebox versions

Volume control

The volume controls on the Phoniebox are still active and act additionally to the smartphones volume control. This is not a problem the volume on the Phoniebox just has to be set at a desired level.