u/Complex_Ask5877

Plexamp and plexserver on Pi4+

I have a Yamaha receiver to which I am intending to connect a Raspberry pi 4b with a HiFiberry digi+ hat via an optical cable.

My initial intention was to have both the plexamp and server on the same Pi but I am now thinking of putting the Plexserver on an Orange Pi5 I have spare and running the Plexamp on the Raspberry pi using RoPieee XL as the OS.

This means that I will have a more efficient server as it is connected to a Buffalo Link station so will do the uplift from there.

The Orange Pi5 is more than capable providing they I can get it all working

The only question in my mind is that it seems a little overcomplicated for the end result that I am looking for and ongoing maintenance will involve looking after two different hardware solutions.

I could of course simply install Volumio on the Raspberry pi and have a much simpler solution but, it wouldn't have all the functionality that the Plexamp solution has.

Had anyone else gone down a similar route and what would be your advice?

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u/Complex_Ask5877 — 6 days ago