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  • Mopidy MusicBox

    Web Client for Mopidy Music Server and the Pi MusicBox

  • I saw something here on reddit where people were taking the little $5 raspberry pi zero's and basically building their own chromecast audios with them. I am not sure this is the same thing I saw but I found this on google. https://www.pimusicbox.com/

  • Snapcast

    Synchronous multiroom audio player

  • It's all done with Mopidy + Snapcast. Mopidy has various frontends, but the Iris web frontend supports Snapcast and can be controlled from any web-capable device; it can be used to assign/change device groups, assign certain streams to certain groups (you can have multiple sources playing on multiple devices/groups and control them from there), etc. I also used the Snapdroid app, which will allow you to adjust things like latency, individual device volumes and stream volumes, etc on your phone or tablet. Beyond that, you can integrate Home Assistant and pretty much get it to act however you want, including being fully controlled via voice on both Google and Amazon (and ultimately Cortana, ick) platforms. Of course that takes some setting up that some wouldn't consider "easy", so YMMV.

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  • Mopidy

    Mopidy is an extensible music server written in Python

  • It's all done with Mopidy + Snapcast. Mopidy has various frontends, but the Iris web frontend supports Snapcast and can be controlled from any web-capable device; it can be used to assign/change device groups, assign certain streams to certain groups (you can have multiple sources playing on multiple devices/groups and control them from there), etc. I also used the Snapdroid app, which will allow you to adjust things like latency, individual device volumes and stream volumes, etc on your phone or tablet. Beyond that, you can integrate Home Assistant and pretty much get it to act however you want, including being fully controlled via voice on both Google and Amazon (and ultimately Cortana, ick) platforms. Of course that takes some setting up that some wouldn't consider "easy", so YMMV.

  • snapdroid

    Snapcast client for Android

  • It's all done with Mopidy + Snapcast. Mopidy has various frontends, but the Iris web frontend supports Snapcast and can be controlled from any web-capable device; it can be used to assign/change device groups, assign certain streams to certain groups (you can have multiple sources playing on multiple devices/groups and control them from there), etc. I also used the Snapdroid app, which will allow you to adjust things like latency, individual device volumes and stream volumes, etc on your phone or tablet. Beyond that, you can integrate Home Assistant and pretty much get it to act however you want, including being fully controlled via voice on both Google and Amazon (and ultimately Cortana, ick) platforms. Of course that takes some setting up that some wouldn't consider "easy", so YMMV.

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