I’m looking to integrate “dumb” speakers into HA, and I came across these AudioCast devices on Aliexpress: https://www.aliexpress.com/item/1005003331228026.html

It says it’s DLNA and Airplay compatible, so I’m assuming it should work with HA. Anyone tried that before?

  • sylverstream@lemmy.nzOPEnglish
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    1 year ago

    I was planning to do it via Music Assistant, so it would be HA => MA => AudioCast => Speaker

    • phx@lemmy.caEnglish
      1·
      1 year ago

      I haven’t tried MA yet. I was thinking of tying mine into mpd

      • sylverstream@lemmy.nzOPEnglish
        1·
        1 year ago

        I’ve tried MA, and it worked well, but I don’t have smart speakers. Tried to cast it to a tablet where I installed a DLNA enabled app, but was very unreliable.

        • phx@lemmy.caEnglish
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          1 year ago

          I have a stereo hooked up to my server via optical and use MPD, just haven’t hooked it into HA.

          I was considering a similar setup with some small Pi devices around the house and streaming via PulseAudio either to attached amps or just bluey speakers