I have a Raspberry Pi set up as a Music player using Volumio and while this is excellent when I’m sat at my laptop – probably writing another Arduino book! – I can’t play my music from my tablet ot phone while elsewhere in the house. My original plan was to install MStream but thanks to the way that Volumio takes over the Pi, I was unable to install the MStream dependencies, nodejs and npm to that was a bummer straight away. However, this turned out to be quite simple to fix, although I had to kisss MStream goodbye at this point.

I first installed Bubble UPNP, from the Google Play Store, onto my phone and tablet. This app comes highly recommended. There is a free – with ads – version and a £3.99 pay for version. Being Scottish and living in Yorkshire, I have two reputations for meanness to live down to, so I went for the free version. This is especially handy as I’m using Pi Hole to block ads anyway.

After installing BubBle UPNP, I opened it, and opened the Local and Cloud option and set up a pair of servers, Volumio One and Volumio Two – meaningful names eh? These were configured as SMB (Samba) server types and mapped to the two large USB thumb drives I’m using on the Raspberry Pi to hold my music.

Now I can stream music from my Volumio server to my devices. Easy!

I could have just set up a single Volumio server and left the optional folder blank, but then I’d have had to navigate to USB then to one or other of the devices – and they have very unmeaningful names – so I preferred to do it as described above. I simply open one or other server and pick a folder to play. Job done.