B&O PentaPi volumio streamer

B&O Penta Pi

Hi, I want to share my lates Volumio build. B&O Penta was originally made both as Passive and active. The active had a 150 Watt amplifier and a display that show the playing source and volume level. BeoLab Penta Active Loudspeakers

This is a passive B&O Penta so I gave it a Raspberry Pi3+ Digi+ amp and a Pydpiper LCD and an Apple Remote. Close to the original setup, just moved 30 years forward in the streaming days.

Inside the B&O Penta runs 6 wires that I use for the IR and LCD.
LCD: GitHub - dhrone/pydPiper: A general purpose program to display song metadata on LCD and OLED devices

IR: [PLUGIN] IR Remote Controller feedback thread - #278 by ashthespy
Only changes to the apple lirc are a change to volume plus and volume minus, as this was not in the lirc config

Final Mount
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Raspberry PI is mounted on the bottom for now by cardboard, but I will 3D print a Pentagram for it another day.

Black masking to make a frame.

Mounted and working


All can be reversed. No harm to the original speaker.

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Hi
My name is Sanjay and I am from India - Would it be possible for you to make 2 Displays for me that I could just plug in …. How much would it cost me ? I use my Pentas thru the line input of an Apple AirPort Express that is connected to a Beosound 9000 thru the Aux Port and stream Music via iMac. I would be eternally grateful. Is it possible to have a Black Screen with Red LED readouts ( Purely Asthetics ) My email is ssthakran@gmail.com
Warm Regards
Sanjay