Abandon Squeezebox or not?

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Do you mean using the Cubietruck as your media server, or just as networked player connecting to LMS on your desktop? I'm not aware of images that have been specifically created for this task as they have for the RPi. But if you start from a Debian based image you should be able to install LMS and/or squeezelite on it without a problem. The quickest route would be to use a pre-built image, say one of those listed on the cubieforums:

http://www.cubieforums.com/index.php?board=32.0

The "wheezy server" or "cubieez" images look like good starting points. Otherwise there's cubian : http://cubian.org/tutorials/

It so happens the "Community Squeeze" project is begining to look beyond the Wandboard, and the Cubietruck has attracted their attention.

Just wanted to update this thread and say that I ordered a Cubietruck today and should get it within the next week or two. I also investigated the Community Squeeze project and it looks like they are hard at work on rolling out a version for the Cubietruck. They have a beta image that seems to work fine so hopefully there will be an "actual" image very soon. I will update here once I have either succeeded or failed miserably in my attempt to turn a Cubietruck into a squeezebox.

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Well, I hesitated to mention the existence of CSOS beta image for the Cubietruck as it is just that - Beta with no support.

I don't have a Cubietruck, but it's possible to boot the images using QEMU which emulates a sub-set of the type of hardware found on the Cubietruck and other ARM boards, and do some testing. In order to administer the Cubietruck remotely from your Windows 7 desktop you can use putty to make a ssh connection to get to the Cubietruck command line, and once a vncserver is running on the Cubietruck, use a vncviewer to view the Cubietruck desktop remotely.


Anyway, these screenshots should wet your appetite:

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For the record, in the screenshots Windows 7 is running in VirtualBox and the beta image CSOS-Cubietruck-F20-BETA2-20140422-1.img is runningl in QEMU, all in a Linux environment.

The Cubietruck ip is 192.168.0.204 in my example and a vncserver has been sarted on the cubietruck with these commands:

sudo systemctl enable vncserver@:10.service
sudo systemctl start vncserver@:10.service

The in-built vncserver on the CSOS image has a password of "fedora" as does the user fedora. The vncviewer is pointed to "<cubietruck ip>:5910" , the vnc port is 5900+10. The vnc connection is insecure, but Ok for an internal Lan behind a domestic router firewall. For the paranoid use ssh forwarding.