Posts by Gauner

Hey,

I'm trying for days something similar:

I want to run squeezelite and kodi in parallel in Libreelec on a Raspberry Pi 3b+, sharing the same hardware output.

As far as I understood, there are two ways to achieve that:

1. both using an alsa dmix output

(that's how You try). My /storage/.config/asound.conf looks very similar to Yours:

pcm.dmixer {
    type dmix
    ipc_key 1024
    slave {
        pcm "hw:1,0"
    }
    bindings {
        0 0
        1 1
    }
}

ctl.dmixer { 
  type hw 
  card 1 
}


pcm.!default { 
  type plug 
  slave.pcm "dmixer" 
}

Neither aplay -L nor squeezelite -l show the dmixer output. But still squeezelite -o dmixer works!

But I can't get Kodi to also use alsa-dmixer. Any suggestions how to achieve that? Kodi always seems to go on PulseAudio which blocks the alsa hardware device. In xbian it works like described. There I have the dmixer-Alsa-Output in Kodi available and I can play sound on Kodi and squeezelite simultaneously.

2. use pulseaudio

I made an entry in /storage/.config/asound.conf:

pcm.pulse {
type pulse
}

and tried to start squeezelite -o pulse. It complains about the device not being available.

So, any suggestions how to achive that?

I managed to make it work with Kodi and Squeezelite running inside raspbian in the "pulse way". But there Kodi is somehow unstable, so I'd like to go back to LibreElec, which I have been running for years on that Raspberry Pi 3 b+.