[ale] SemiOT: musicians colaboration software.

[Boris Borisov]

Seems to be usb image designed specifically for raspberry pi. With all
necessary client server apps. I may have to get me raspi 3 or 4.

On Sat, Oct 11, 2025, 15:51 William Wylde via Ale <ale at ale.org> wrote:

> Expand on this "Jambox".   Info?  "HOWTO"s?  Is it available for Debian
> 12+ in the repository, or the snap repository, or will it have to be
> installed from source or an outside package?
>
> On Fri, Oct 10, 2025 at 10:41 AM Neal Rhodes via Ale <ale at ale.org> wrote:
>
>> So, you have some latency within the desktop sound pathway.
>>
>> I'm thinking that Sonobus on Jambox uses Jack as transport "out of the
>> box".
>>
>> I will also note that a PI using Jambox can be configured to "just
>> work".   Meaning I can give one to a non-technical person, and just say
>> "plug this in at 7pm".   And it comes up and auto-connects.
>>
>> On 2025-10-09 18:42, Boris Borisov via Ale wrote:
>>
>> For now I just installed the Sonobus client on my Desktop linux which is
>> pretty old PC by nowadays. Is fun to listen to other people jamming. But I
>> have problem with sound like the sound buffer cannot be filled up fast
>> enough. I'm using ALSA for now perhaps Jack would have better results.
>>
>> On Wed, Oct 8, 2025 at 8:58 PM Neal Rhodes via Ale <ale at ale.org> wrote:
>>
>> ooooh.  OOOOOH.   Might have been me.
>>
>>
>> My bluegrass gospel type group used the Jambox boot on a PI4 with
>> HiFiBerry HAT cards for ... near simultaneous audio within the Lilburn
>> area.    Back in the pandemic.
>>
>> The HAT card gets you minimal latency inside the PI box.
>>
>> Jambox runs Jamulus, which at the time needed a Jamulus server which we
>> placed at church on a Comcast business internet.  The Jamulus server we
>> stood up on a Dell optiplex running Ubuntu.   Modestly straightforward to
>> setup.   There are also some local public Jamulus servers you could play
>> with initially.
>>
>> It worked .... pretty well.   some of us were on AT&T, some were on
>> Comcast, and my understanding is that those two providers connect to each
>> other in Marietta, so maybe 20ms of latency between the two.
>>
>> So, kinda depends on the music.   And the latency between each.  I
>> wouldn't put rhythm instruments in two separate homes; 20ms of latency just
>> doesn't work.
>>
>> It does require CAT5 connection to your internet router; WIFI latency is
>> bleah.
>>
>>
>> We initially tried JackTrip, and found Jamulus was easier.
>>
>> getting the Jambox ISO, and burning to a microSD and booting up was
>> fairly straightforward.
>>
>>
>> For our Oktoberfest we used the same Jambox, which includes Sonobus to
>> run Sonobus from the stage in the tent in the back field to the Nurse/First
>> Aid station in the church building over WIFI.  Worked great;  Sonobus
>> connections will recognize lost packets and just delay the playback so that
>> there are no dropouts.   Of course that is a one-way street.
>>
>> We've also swapped out the HiFiBerry HAT cards for some cheap USB
>> dongles.
>>
>> As you can tell, I could talk about that for a long long time.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> On 2025-10-08 17:41, Boris Borisov via Ale wrote:
>>
>> Someone posted here information about software that allows musicians to
>> play together from home as they are together in same studio.
>>
>> If I recall was done with rasPI or I can be totally off.
>>
>> Do you recall that.
>>
>> I found one open source project called sonobus.net with clients for many
>> platforms.
>>
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