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balena-sound
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Camper Touchscreen Audio Setup
Have a look at the Balena Sound project on Github here and other possible options would be Volumino or RuneAudio - they are not up to professional multi-room sound systems but may give you some of the functionality you want.
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Ubuntu Core 22 is now available โ optimised for IoT and embedded devices
First 10 devices on balena are free, its used by many thousands of hobbyists.
For example balenaSound is very popular, for multi-room audio with rapsberry pi's https://sound.balenalabs.io/
There is also balenaHub, which hosts many community projects and introduces the concept of "open fleets", bring your device and join the fleet, instead of managing it yourself https://hub.balena.io/fleets
Disclosure: I am an engineer at balena.
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Balena-sound: open-source multi-room home audio streaming using a Raspberry Pi
Regarding cloud sign-up: there's some potentially relevant commentary at https://github.com/balenalabs/balena-sound/issues/558
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Music Hub
but https://github.com/badaix/snapcast, https://sound.balenalabs.io/, https://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/PulseAudio/ and https://github.com/mopidy/mopidy should give a good basic frame... i only need to find out how to puzzle or combine them to make them work. Thank you!
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Use Raspberry Pi as Airplay server to screen mirror on TVs, monitors, projectors
Not quite Chromecast functionality, but there is a similar project from Balena that adds Spotify Connect, Airplay, and Bluetooth to a speaker using a Raspberry Pi
- DIY WiFi wireless speakers
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Looking for a central music player
Balena is designed to handle the multi room playback, but I haven't used it.
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Airplay on Homebridge?
https://github.com/balenalabs/balena-sound https://github.com/mikebrady/shairport-sync
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PiHole is on the etcher flashing screen!
balenaSound
owntone-server
- Spotify/Youtube Music alternative?
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Bose SoundTouch WiFi Audio Streaming
There are a few dockers that seem to be able to do what you want. Some can stream local audio to airplay devices what might work with a bit of scripting for your white noise and others might work as a Chromecast to Airplay bridge https://github.com/philippe44/AirConnect https://github.com/1activegeek/docker-airconnect
- How do I use Server as Speakers?
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Forte - An open-source, self-hosted music platform with lots of features!
Check it out; https://github.com/owntone/owntone-server
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Need help setting up local network only MPD server.
Check out Owntone, it supports MPD. https://owntone.github.io/owntone-server/
- Selfhosted Spotify / YouTube Music alternative.
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Spotifyd
I used something different. Basic details for your entertainment/edification/comedy source material follow mostly so you can shortcut a comparison if you're building something at your place.
1) Pi-zero running shairport-sync (couldn't get them, got orange-pi zero 2 which works great) https://github.com/mikebrady/shairporait-sync. I have a few of these.
2) Class D amp, Aiyima, Fosi, Loxjie etc Aliexpress is one place to get these. I've used and like Aiyima A03 and their ali store delivers fast.
3) Some nice, high-quality, 2nd hand speakers you like. Wharfedale, JBL, B&W, Acoustic Research, Yamaha. (Or get some active speakers you like and skip #2, eg B&O beolab 6000)
4) owntone (formerly known as forked-daapd) https://owntone.github.io/owntone-server/
5) configure owntone with your spotify premium, takes less than a minute. (And with your music that you own - takes longer because you take more care).
You now have a multiroom setup with fantastic sound that you can control with http://owntone.local:3689/ including with your phone. And/or you can use the "Retune" app on droid and apple's "itunes remote" app on ios. Better sound than most alternatives for less dollars.
All integrates well with Homeasistant because of course it does.
I really like how mine turned out. Having half a dozen sets of speakers all playing the same music in perfect sync as you move from one room to another while doing chores on the weekend fills me with more joy that I would have guessed. YMMV.
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Modernizing my 1980s sound system
Which is especially nice if you install Owntone ( https://github.com/owntone/owntone-server/ ) -- now you have a nice web interface for playing music to any or all of your systems.
Yes, you wouldn't get this running on an existing smart speaker (without first rooting it and some serious hacking).
If you'r in the Apple ecosystem and are using AirPlay with your smart speaker(s), it's however possible to also play synchronized audio across to your own DIY speaker setup, using another open source project.
https://github.com/mikebrady/shairport-sync
Or you could of course choose to only use your old dumb speakers with this, and they will pop up as easily selectable sound output devices on all Apple devices connected to your network.
Or combine it (and librespot[2], owntone[3]...) with Snapcast to create a virtual speaker for your whole house that shows up everywhere.
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Record player to HomePod
I have a working setup using an USB audio grabber and a Raspberry Pi running OwnTone (for AirPlay output) and cpiped (for automatic playback).
What are some alternatives?
Snapcast - Synchronous multiroom audio player
RPiPlay - An open-source AirPlay mirroring server for the Raspberry Pi. Supports iOS 9 and up.
mpd - Music Player Daemon
shairport-sync - AirPlay and AirPlay 2 audio player
ChromeCast-Desktop-Audio-Streamer - Stream the sound of your desktop to your Chromecast Audio device
forked-daapd - OwnTone is forked-daapd's new name! Linux/FreeBSD DAAP (iTunes) and MPD media server with support for AirPlay devices (multiroom), Apple Remote (and compatibles), Chromecast, Spotify and internet radio. [Moved to: https://github.com/owntone/owntone-server]
LMS - Lightweight Music Server. Access your self-hosted music using a web interface.
ESP32_ESP8266_WiFi_Speaker_OLED - A MP3 streaming WiFi speaker for ESP8266 & ESP32 chips
Navidrome Music Server - ๐งโ๏ธ Modern Music Server and Streamer compatible with Subsonic/Airsonic