android-usb-pi

A collection of scripts to allow a Raspberry Pi running a Raspbian-like OS to stream audio and control media from of Android 4.x device over USB.

• Credit to Jacek Fedoryński's blog post for the basics on AOA 2.0 audio communications with Raspberry Pi.

Prerequisites

1. Raspbian-based OS
2. pulseaudio
3. pyusb

Installation

TODOs

• write proper installation instructions
• write installer script that will just do it for you
• write update instructions
• format this document more nicely

Instructions

1. clone this code so that it resides in ~/android-usb-pi/
2. dock.rules goes into your /etc/udev/rules.d/
3. create a named pipe at ~/android-usb-pi/android_control_pipe
4. customize your pulseaudio setup if you have to, defaults should work.

Usage

Startup

Just plug in your android device, wait a few seconds, and trying playing some audio on it.

Operation

To control audio, send to the named pipe the following:

• a for previous track
• s for play/pause
• d for next track