Sonos is an audio gear 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 when you simply need to play native media or use a streaming service. If, nonetheless, you have got an outdated Nintendo Wii accumulating mud, Brad McGowan has a tutorial that can enable you flip it right into a Sonos-style music streamer.

Each console producer makes an attempt to lock down their programs to forestall piracy, dishonest, and basic misuse. However modders are artful and at all times appear to seek out methods to bypass producer safety. They cracked the unique Nintendo Wii way back, which allowed for homebrew (and pirated) sport play. However to not fear when you prefer to comply with the foundations; 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 is best to look yours up to make sure, however most North American Wii fashions in white (the unique launch) will work. You possibly can then comply with McGowan’s directions to carry out the homebrew mod to get BootMii working. That can allow you to boot from an SD card, which helps you to set up Linux on the Wii.

It is best to now have a Wii working Linux, which is fairly cool all by itself. From there, you possibly can configure the Linux OS for distant entry by means of 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 all types of enjoyable stuff, together with replicating most of the options provided by Sonos. You possibly can play native music, stream music from companies like Spotify, play web radio, and extra. As soon as setup, you possibly can management your music utilizing a consumer app on your smartphone, consumer program in your laptop, or an internet interface accessed over the native community.