Raspberry-UDP_audio_receiver

🎶 Network Audio Receiver (UDP) and Sender

⚡ Ultra-low latency audio streaming for Raspberry Pi

Experience near real-time audio with sub-7 ms latency over your network.

👉 Download Latest Release

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🚀 Why this project?

• 🎧 Real-time audio over UDP (RTP compatible)
• ⚡ Extremely low latency (< 7 ms total)
• 🔊 Uncompressed audio – maximum quality
• 🔌 ALSA-based output (PipeWire compatible)
• 🧩 Optimized for Raspberry Pi performance

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🌍 Network Compatibility

Works out of the box in almost every local network thanks to multicast support.

• 📡 Multicast enabled by default for simple local network streaming
• 🎯 Unicast / singlecast mode also supported for direct one-to-one connections
• 🔧 Flexible network settings for different environments and setups

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📦 Easy Installation

Both sender and receiver are available as simple Debian packages.

• 📥 Ready-to-install .deb packages
• ⚡ Quick setup on Raspberry Pi and Debian systems
• 🧩 Separate packages for sender and receiver included in the release
• 🚀 Start streaming within minutes without manual compilation

⚡ Ultra-Low Latency

• 🚀 Sender: ~3.9 ms
• 🌐 Network: ~0.5 ms
• 🎧 Receiver: ~2.5 ms

👉 Comparable to standing just ~2.5 meters away from a speaker

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🎯 Perfect for

• Live audio monitoring
• Low-latency streaming setups
• Raspberry Pi audio systems
• Networked audio routing
• Prototyping real-time audio applications

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🔥 Key Advantage

👉 No codec
👉 No compression
👉 No unnecessary processing

Just pure, real-time audio streaming

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🌐 Built for

• Raspberry Pi 4 / 5
• Raspberry Pi 3 (unverified, should work)
• Debian Bookworm & Trixie
• Optimized for real-time audio on Linux

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