Sonos is an audio tools producer that focuses on music streaming and wi-fi syncing of a number of speaker programs. However their merchandise are a bit dear and that price isn’t very interesting in the event you simply need to play native media or use a streaming service. If, nonetheless, you have got an previous Nintendo Wii amassing mud, Brad McGowan has a tutorial that can make it easier to flip it right into a Sonos-style music streamer.
Each console producer makes an attempt to lock down their programs to stop piracy, dishonest, and basic misuse. However modders are artful and all the time appear to search out methods to avoid producer safety. They cracked the unique Nintendo Wii way back, which allowed for homebrew (and pirated) sport play. However to not fear in the event you prefer to observe the principles; nothing in McGowan’s tutorial requires piracy or something unlawful.
For this mission to work, you’ll want a Nintendo Wii with a mannequin quantity appropriate with Boot2. It’s best to look yours up to make certain, however most North American Wii fashions in white (the unique launch) will work. You may then observe 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’s best to now have a Wii operating Linux, which is fairly cool all by itself. From there, you may 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 every kind of enjoyable stuff, together with replicating most of the options provided by Sonos. You may play native music, stream music from providers like Spotify, play web radio, and extra. As soon as setup, you may management your music utilizing a shopper app to your smartphone, shopper program in your pc, or an online interface accessed over the native community.
We’d usually counsel that you just maintain your Wii for enjoying video games, however that is an fascinating use for a Wii that might in any other case go unused.