The Natural Philosopher wrote, on 24-01-2019 10:45:
> 1/. Is 512MB RAM enough to run the most minimal of web servers headless?
> I did run apache on 384M on *86, but I sometimes went into swap...
> 2/. Should I use apache or run on something smaller?
> 3/. Is a Pi Zero/W man enough to stream audio without stuttering (it
> surely must be?).
> 4/. In order to bootstrap the install without a monitor or keyboard (I
> COULD use Ethernet, for initial booting), I would like feedback on
> whether the following method would work to get 'up and running'?
>      (a) format and install raspian on an SD card using
>      SD USB adapter on host computer
>      (b) Whilst still attached to the host computer, edit the
>      config files to set up ssh access, wirless networking
>          and a fixed IP address.
>      That is, enough to get an accessible bootable headless pi
>       on the network in a 'well known' place?

This works fine on a 1B or ZeroW, with Lighttpd or even Apache:
https://github.com/ednl/piradio (not much setup documentation, sorry).

My idea was to make an internet radio player, so only tailored to play
streams not local files. Could easily extend but I haven't bothered. I
never used mpg123 so I can't compare but mpd is great and controlling it
with mpc over the (local) network is also great. This is without a DAC,
just directly plugged in to an AV receiver via hdmi, because also
occasionally used to play videos on the attached TV.

This is way out of date, I'm afraid, especially the AirTunes section, I
think: https://dronkert.nl/rpi/setup2.html This is my mini-mini setup
directions text file for the Pi:

/boot/config.txt
 disable_overscan=1
 hdmi_force_hotplug=1
 hdmi_ignore_edid=0xa5000080
 hdmi_group=1
 hdmi_mode=31
 hdmi_drive=2
 dtparam=i2c_arm=on
 dtparam=spi=on
 dtparam=audio=on
 dtoverlay=pi3-disable-bt
 audio_pwm_mode=2
apt-get install
 mpc mpd shairport-sync omxplayer mplayer2 youtube-dl streamripper
alsa-tools
 lighttpd php7.0-cgi apache2-utils
 at bc imagemagick ffmpeg
/usr/local/bin
 https://github.com/ednl/shellscripts/blob/master/fip
 https://github.com/ednl/shellscripts/blob/master/fwupd
 https://github.com/ednl/piradio/blob/master/piradio
 https://github.com/ednl/python/blob/master/radiocontrols.py
 https://github.com/ednl/shellscripts/blob/master/rec
 https://github.com/ednl/piradio/blob/master/snooze
 https://github.com/ednl/piradio/blob/master/station
 https://github.com/ednl/shellscripts/blob/master/update
 https://github.com/ednl/shellscripts/blob/master/vol
/etc/rc.local
 radiocontrols.py &
/var/www/html
 https://github.com/ednl/piradio
sudo visudo
 www-data ALL=(ALL) NOPASSWD: /usr/bin/at, /usr/bin/amixer, /sbin/shutdown
sudo adduser mpd audio
sudo adduser www-data audio
/etc/mpd.conf
 music_directory  "/home/pi/Music"
 user    "mpd"
 group                          "audio"
 bind_to_address  "any"
 zeroconf_enabled  "yes"
 zeroconf_name   "MPD RPi"
/home/pi
 https://github.com/ednl/piradio/blob/master/radio.txt

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