Iris VS rpi-audio-receiver

I use ncmpcpp to control it on the terminal, but it has a web interface Iris: https://github.com/jaedb/Iris

For multi-room-audio, I use Iris+Mopidy+Snapcast [2] alternative frontend to my Funkwhale library.

[1]: https://funkwhale.audio/

[2]: https://github.com/jaedb/Iris

Right now I'm reading about mopidy and iris (I have a server with some docker services and it would be nice using it as a Spotify connect device), I think this setup could be extended with extra algorithms, maybe they already exist as modipy extensions. I've never gone into detail about these but I'll do it!

Hi, I'm kind of newbie to self-hosting things, however i know how to work with docker. What I actually don't get is how to setup this https://github.com/jaedb/Iris ...

My Server runs Proxmox; I have several Unprivileged LXC Container which run individual Docker Systems inside (another blog post on this); one such is the Iris/Mopidy Container that acts like a "audio-gateway" in my setup. My iris container is based off the official docker-compose.yml. If not playing multi-room audio, I do prefer Funkwhale - I have my own private Funkwhale instance, that plays local mp3 files (mounted read-only). Iris/Mopidy connect via API to my Funkwhale and I can search my audio collection from Iris, too (I had to create a inherited docker container from the Iris one)

Snapcast is awesome, especially when bundled together with Iris and Mopidy [1], which included links to Youtube, Soundcloud, Funkwhale, podcasts, streams (etc). I wrote a blog post on how to build a small Raspi Zero Image for Snapcast [2] that directly connects to the Snapserver included in (e.g.) the Iris Docker [3]. I added a modified Docker Image for Iris that includes the Funkwhale extension here [4]. Works flawlessly since 2 years, almost zero maintenance and great music experience. My synchronized Snapcast extents through several rooms and two houses (120km apart), through IPSEC with a very small bandwidth (5000kbit up). Many thanks to all the maintainers of this stunning stack of OSS.

[1]: https://github.com/jaedb/Iris

You can connect Iris to Funkwhale - I prefer the Funkwhale app, but added Iris to my stack because other can easily play music on my Sound system.

I use Iris which has a pretty awesome integration w/ Spotify. There's a TIDAL integration with Mopidy but it doesn't integrate with Iris and is completely hacky.

I once installed raspberry pi’s with a Bluetooth audio receiver config. These got installed in a professional football club with each receiver having a name like ‘changing room’ , ‘bar’, ‘manager’. They gave an open connection without PIN codes and lost the active connection as soon as the current device went out of range. We tried a number of ‘real’ Bluetooth devices from Denon and similar but none offered the configurable parts of the raspberrypi’s.

Check this out, it may help you - seems to be describing close to what you're after

When I play a song on my phone/computer that is played on my speaker via bluetooth, I want the lights to be synced to music, where the ceiling and wall lights will each have different effects. I’m thinking of installing LedFx on a Raspberry Pi 4 for music syncing. Do I need https://github.com/nicokaiser/rpi-audio-receiver for this?

This may be linked to be an ongoing conflict between WiFi and Bluetooth. I bought a Hifiberry amp to explore turning a raspberry pi into a receiver, and this GitHub project is amazing for that purpose, but suggests that the RasPi's onboard bluetooth and wifi interfere with each other. I'm intending to try a USB bluetooth dongle to see if it will fix but I'm encouraged by u/AlienMajik 's post above.

Not sure if this works for you https://github.com/nicokaiser/rpi-audio-receiver

I've seen https://github.com/nicokaiser/rpi-audio-receiver but not sure how to get the input from airplay and have it pair and output to the speaker.

I do this currently with spotify, as the rpi runs rpi-audio-receiver with the spotifyd daemon. I like this because from any spotify app I can switch the device over to the rpi and the music comes out of the speakers. I don't need to access any web server running on the pi or have a separate app for playing the music there.