Sonos is an audio gear producer that focuses on music streaming and wi-fi syncing of a number of speaker techniques. However their merchandise are a bit expensive and that price isn’t very interesting in case you simply wish to play native media or use a streaming service. If, nonetheless, you might have an outdated Nintendo Wii gathering mud, Brad McGowan has a tutorial that can allow you to flip it right into a Sonos-style music streamer.
Each console producer makes an attempt to lock down their techniques to forestall piracy, dishonest, and basic misuse. However modders are artful and at all times appear to seek out methods to bypass producer safety. They cracked the unique Nintendo Wii way back, which allowed for homebrew (and pirated) recreation play. However to not fear in case you prefer to comply with the principles; nothing in McGowan’s tutorial requires piracy or something unlawful.
For this undertaking to work, you’ll want a Nintendo Wii with a mannequin quantity appropriate with Boot2. It is best to look yours up to make sure, however most North American Wii fashions in white (the unique launch) will work. You may then comply with McGowan’s directions to carry out the homebrew mod to get BootMii working. That may allow you to boot from an SD card, which helps you to set up Linux on the Wii.
It is best to now have a Wii working Linux, which is fairly cool all by itself. From there, you possibly can configure the Linux OS for distant entry via SSH and that can allow you to join from a pc (or smartphone) on the identical community.
The ultimate step is to put in and arrange Mopidy, which is a really versatile open-source music server written in Python. Mopidy will allow you to do all types of enjoyable stuff, together with replicating most of the options supplied by Sonos. You may play native music, stream music from providers like Spotify, play web radio, and extra. As soon as setup, you possibly can management your music utilizing a consumer app to your smartphone, consumer program in your pc, or an online interface accessed over the native community.
We might usually counsel that you just preserve your Wii for taking part in video games, however that is an fascinating use for a Wii that may in any other case go unused.
