Pyrate 5 software IMG instructions
Disclaimer
This is an advanced experimenters machine IMG with powerful pre configured software, with the potential to generate a lot of bandwidth traffic when exposed to external internet and publish content to public mount points including LIVE radio and TV transmitters. Default Administrative passwords are all enabled. Recommend separating and isolating this behind a firewall until you are 100% confident what it is doing.
*** Using this software and IMG is 100% at your own risk ***
https://support.openbroadcaster.com/pyrate for updated manuals and video tutorials.
IMG Notes
– Supports Raspberry Pi Ver 4 -5
– Based on Ubuntu 24.04.1-LTS Desktop with OBPlayer Ver 5.3-develop running as a headless process.
– Support for Pipewire with Interpipe
– Support for POLLY voices in Alert player
– Updates working through dashboard
– Possible to be managed and adopted by virtual OBServer or Pyrate 4
– Not tested at this time for anything other than generating an audio stream with CAP Alerting to Icecast server.
Crypto Mining Malware
Raspberry Pi are vulnerable to this kind of malware. We have removed default user “pi” among other measures and use /home/obsuser.
Technical Operation
Attach Monitor, Keyboard and Network cable. Pop in SD card with the Pyrate5 software IMG and boot.
First run will come up at a default login prompt. user = obsuser pass = test1234.
Everything is now accessed through a browser and services will automatically restart when the unit is plugged in.
Sample audio programming is already onboard and scheduled, so you only need to plug in headphones to listen.
OB Media Server
Find Pyrate ip and access via a browser on a different machine as a regular web site. Login screen will appear on port 80. There are several sample accounts with different permissions already created
user = admin pass = test1234
user = basic pass = test1234
user = manager pass = test1234
Server Updates
From a browser while logged in as real admin user <IP_OF_SERVER>/updates
OBPlayer Dash Board
Find its ip and access via login with web browser Chrome, Firefox or Safari with “localhost:23233” or from another machine on same network using the default port “23233” http://<IP_ADDRESS>:23233
user = admin pass = admin (Displays a RED message to remind you to change)
Icecast Media Server
http://<IP_ADDRESS>:8000
Icecast Passwords
Edit the file directly in Terminal and change passwords.
sudo /etc/icecast2/icecast.xml
Here are the default passwords that are already set in your image for testing. Recommended that these be changed, otherwise you will get your stream\system hacked.
ICECAST_ADMIN_PASS=”1c3c4stP4ssw0rD” to access the administration panel
ICECAST_SOURCE_PASS=”1c3c4stS0uRc3″ to allow incoming streams to create a mount point
Networking
How do I find the IP of player?
Default setup is to receive automatic DHCP address when plugged into a router.
There are a couple of ways to find its IP address
1) from the terminal on boot screen, “ip addr show” will display the DHCP address assigned to player box.
2) login to your router and show DHCP tables of devices with auto IP address. our Player device hostname is “raspberrypi” or “obplayer” and its IP will be displayed
Set a static IP address
Substituting your own IP, gateway and DNS is easily done through Ubuntu Control Panel
Sound Cards
Additional control of soundcard using Pulse is to go into Terminal and type “pulsemixer” Pipewire is default sound system with Pulse. To see Pipewire managing audio from terminal “pactl info”
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