Would I be able use an Audio IN device? Trying to build a live streamer

[Jonelli]

Hi All, 
I stumbled on this group after finding Rocket Streaming Audio Server that is either Windows or Linux. 
My application desire is to use a cheap Android TV box and connect a USB audio input device, and stream it live to a weblink. 

So, being completely new to this group (not new to AndroidTV boxes), would Armbian running on a cheap TV box support a USB on-the-go audio device?  Or any reason it would or wouldn't?  
Then, next, I haven't read every piece of info on how to convert the boxes, but I read some general info on other sites.  Is the mod terribly difficult?  Do they all require physical mods? 
THANK YOU!

[laibsch]

I believe you are likely going to struggle with that approach. 

 

But I think before you ask us maybe you should say first why you chose the platform that you are considering.  If it is "that is the cheapest I could find" then you might have heard about the saying "buy cheap, buy twice".

 

[SteeMan]

6 hours ago, Jonelli said:

So, being completely new to this group (not new to AndroidTV boxes), would Armbian running on a cheap TV box support a USB on-the-go audio device?  Or any reason it would or wouldn't?  
Then, next, I haven't read every piece of info on how to convert the boxes, but I read some general info on other sites.  Is the mod terribly difficult?  Do they all require physical mods? 
THANK YOU!

I would first suggest that you read this post: 

That may give you lots of reasons why you shouldn't depending on what your goals are.

 

Installing armbian on a TV Box depends on the TV Box.  Each CPU has differing levels of support (from none to fairly well supported in mainline linux).  And then given there are hundreds of different TV Boxes, each will have different sets of working/non-working features depending on a variety of factors.

 

As far as supporting a USB audio device, it shouldn't be any different than support for the device on any other linux platform/distribution.  On Armbian you may need to install the linux-firmware-full package to get the driver support as by default Armbian ships with a slimed down set of firmware support.