Dante network

Similar to ndi, Hackeriet has a lot of audio based use cases and art installations.

The only way we have to do audio routing and streaming today, is:

• RCA cables
• A Chromecast (with associated caveats)

Wiring all of these up is a painstaking effort:

• Long distances of cabling
• Low port capacity on both inputs and outputs on mixers and devices
• Audio input on certain devices requires extra hardware
• Rerouting signals and otherwise extracting the data in various settings like LedFX, oscilloscope, livestreaming etc. requires adding yet another analog audio device

Having a good solution for running Dante both across permanent audio installations, towards other areas of Hausmania, and for explicit use in art installations would make us more flexible down the line.

• We do not have any Dante devices.
• A member has gratiously borrowed us a stereo pair Dante receiver, explicitly for use in the audio rack wired to channel 3 and 4.
  • This receiver must not be removed.
  • Anyone can route audio towards this receiver, as an alternative to the Chromecast in the audio rack

• As mentioned on the Wishlist page, a lot of modern audio equipment supports Dante. It would be wise to consider upgrading to a modern mixer.
• Running Dante receivers/transmitters on RPis would align perfectly with usecases like art installations
  • An open source Dante implementation called inferno exists
    • It does look very promising, with full pipewire integration, CLI pipe usage (e.g. ffmpeg) and more
    • We haven't gotten it to pair with the Dante AVIO dongles