balena-rpiplay

Turn a Raspberry Pi into an Airplay server using RPiPlay to enable screen mirroring on tvs, monitors and projectors.

This project essentially creates a docker image wrapping RPiPlay and making it easily deployable to balena fleets.

Note:

• Currently, the image does not include the gstreamer renderer
• This project aims to build a very minimal image. The binary has been dockerized and it is based on busybox. The image size is ~14 MB.

Setup and Deployment

1. You can simply join the balenaHub openFleet.

   • You don't need to signup for a balenaCloud account
   • Your device will keep running the latest releases
   • No control over configurations

2. If you want to manage your own device and fleet, you can run this app is as simple as deploying it to a balenaCloud fleet.

   • You need to signup for a balenaCloud account
   • You manage your fleet and releases
   • You have total control over configurations

   You can do it in just one click by using the button below:

   

Configuration

The following Device Variables might be required for proper scaling and resolutions:

Name	Supported Values	Default	Description
AIRPIPLAY_NAME	Text	Air-Pi-Play@<hostname>	Specify the network name of the AirPlay server
AIRPIPLAY_AUDIO_OUT	hdmi or analog or off	hdmi	Set audio output device
AIRPIPLAY_BACKGROUND	on or auto or off	auto	Show black background always, only during active connection, or never
AIRPIPLAY_LATENCY_MODE	1 or 0	1	Enables low-latency mode. Low-latency mode reduces latency by effectively rendering audio and video frames as soon as they are received, ignoring the associated timestamps. As a side effect, playback will be choppy and audio-video sync will be noticably off
AIRPIPLAY_ROTATION	90 or 180 or 270	not set	Specify image rotation in multiples of 90 degrees
AIRPIPLAY_FLIP	horiz or vert or both	not set	Specify image flipping

Attribution

• RpiPlay
• Dockerize