• Essentially we are using NETCAT to pipe audio from a mic input on one computer to the audio output of another computer.
• It appears that ssh adds a lot of latency around 1-2 secs which is not acceptable more most instances
• Netcat on the receiver need to starts before the transmitter starts to send otherwise the transmitter script will exit with a connection refused.

• Alsa needs to be working on both computers and alsa-utils should be installed to save mixer settings
• aplay/arecord also need to be installed along with netcat. In most distributions they are installed as base packages
• Obviously some sort of tcp/ip must be running to for the netcat communication to work.

/etc/network/interfaces

...
auto wlan0
iface wlan0 inet dhcp
        wpa-ssid ssid
        wpa-psk ####
 
...

wifi_audio_recv.sh

#!/bin/sh
 
PORT="8080"
RATE="2"
BUFFER="10"
FORMAT="cd"
 
while [ true ]
do
        netcat -l -p ${PORT} | aplay -B ${BUFFER} -r ${RATE} -f ${FORMAT}
done

• RECV_ADDR will need to changed to something valid like a ip address or a hostname/fqdn.

wifi_audo_send.sh

#!/bin/sh
 
PORT="8080"
RATE="2"
BUFFER="10"
FORMAT="cd"
 
RECV_ADDR="<IP>"
RECV_PORT="8080"
 
arecord -B ${BUFFER} -r ${RATE} -f ${FORMAT} | netcat ${RECV_ADDR} ${RECV_PORT}

Price List

• Arm Computer
• Wifi Adapter
• Audio Adapter
• Power Supply
• Flash Card (Storage)

• I get this error whenever I try to change either the buffer size, buffer time, or interrupt period on both the R Pi 1 and R Pi 2

  aplay: set_params:1305: Can't use period equal to buffer size (256 == 256)

• I'm going to try to use a USB Audio adapter to bypass the issue. Without changing this parameter the audio delay is just too high to be practical.
• I picked up a C-Media CM108 Chipset usb audio adapter and it fixed the problem. I able to adjust the sample and buffer size

• The “Chip” microcomputer looks really promising it includes storage, wifi, and audio all on board and is selling for $9. Their website says they will be shipping in June 2016 http://getchip.com/