Pulseaudio/other stream audio to android?

phillyjill · December 11, 2017 at 5:13 PM

Hello everyone,

I'm a bit of a n00b with linux bits, but am more or less competent at figuring most things out.

I cannot for the life of me find the solution to, using an android mobile phone as a portable speaker (headphones) for my rpi3 / libreelec / kodi17, much like they have on the remote for nvidia shields etc. Using bluetooth headphones is an option, but I dont have a pair so would ideally like to avoid having to buy more 'stuff'.

I've tried to look into Soundwire, however the server-side installation I have no idea how to do (the site has a tar file however no instructions on how to install it for us n00bs...). I've also looked at Pulseaudio, however from what I can find, nobody has a straightforward solution for Android to play pulseaudio streams as an input..

Any help at all would be greatly appreciated,

Thank you

**chewitt** · December 12, 2017 at 4:51 AM Official Post

Unless you want to start writing code, buying a pair of BT headphones is the way forward.

phillyjill · December 12, 2017 at 9:00 AM

Argh! I feared as much... I suppose it's not a very common problem in the end..

Thanks for the input Chewitt, much appreciated

**lrusak** · December 13, 2017 at 1:11 AM Official Post

With pulseaudio you can play from your phone to your device but not from your device to your phone.

phillyjill · December 14, 2017 at 6:18 PM

Thanks for the reply Irusak.

Ah that's disappointing, I see it can be done in XMBC quite easily, shame that Libreelec doesn't allow it.. Ah well.

**lrusak** · December 15, 2017 at 1:55 AM Official Post

Quote from phillyjill

Thanks for the reply Irusak.

Ah that's disappointing, I see it can be done in XMBC quite easily, shame that Libreelec doesn't allow it.. Ah well.

I'm not sure what you mean. What do you mean by "I see it can be done in XMBC quite easily" ???

Your best bet would be to use some UPNP player (or kodi) on android and just push content to it via UPNP.