I have tried most of the above.
For original poster I would recommend rasplex. It will give you the nicest looking interface of them all on your android or iOS device. Then you just flick your audio to whichever rasplex device you choose…multiroom
Added bonus… U can use openhab plex binding to see what is playing and where in your main house openhab controls
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Can you give me a link to the android interface? There is nothing in playstore?!
Not only is it OK, we are thrilled when reps from systems like Max2Play show up on the forum. Thanks for posting!
It should be just the Plex app. https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.plexapp.android
Can you do the same audio in multiple rooms at the same time, syncronized? That seems to be the big gotcha with setups I’ve seen.
At the moment mopidy doesn’t support daapd. It uses mpd as remote control protocol
Apparently chrome cast audio will play nicely synced audio to grouped rooms. I like plex interface and u can plex app to send to multiple cca s
I have not done the above. The last time I did multiple room synced audio I used airplay to cast to multiple pi’s with dac hats. BUT this only works from Mac computers and not iphone or iPad… silly apple people… now they are promising but not delivering airplay 2.
Once airplay 2 has been delivered I’m sure it won’t take long before we can run it on pi’s
I do know about that, but I was wondering if rasplex supports that, which was your original suggestion.
I have a feeling not with rasplex… my mistake… I spent along time on this as it used to be a trade off between useability and multi room. Like I said… I used airplay and shairport for a while and it’s solid for multi room but requires osx.
Chrome cast was not available in its current form and I now use a system where class d amps serve individual rooms and I use relays to enable them as I need… but this only allows for one source at a time which meets my needs.
I will probably be doing this again soon in another house, in which case I will investigate Chromecast… or even better… I cross my fingers regarding airplay 2
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1+ for info or links on synchronization of multiple Rasplex players (using HiFiBerry Amp+ and BOSS DAC’s). Heard that such is possible but cannot find link / info anywhere.
Hi everyone,
I wanted to post this here, too, to inform anybody interested in Max2Play/Raspi + openHAB.
We created a beta for an openHAB plugin for Max2Play and would appreciate any feedback, the beta plugin as well as the image download are free.
Here’s the announcement thread.
And this the install link for the plugin.
Let me know if you have any questions or feedback.
Hi guys,
Another quick update, we now added a plugin that dynamically creates some example commands around Max2Play’s main features (Squeezebox, Kodi, etc.)
Hi guys,
I wanted to update you on another feature we have been working on in conjunction with the openHAB server installer.
Our API-Examples plugin has just been added to all Max2Play systems with the new version 2.47 of Max2Play!
You can find it in all Max2Play systems with the update. It’s a free plugin and can be added in the Settings/Reboot menu from the available plugins section.
It dynamically creates a list of HTTP-Get and CLI commands to be copied and pasted into your openHAB solutions.
Commands like Play, Pause, Next Song but also commands like shutdown of the device or starting specific plugins like the Jivelite GUI or Kodi.
It also creates a more detailed API doc for the equalizer and other features we can add by request.
This is the ideal plugin to quickly find and add the functionalities you need for the multiroom audio to be added to your openHAB.
We would really appreciate feedback on this new plugin.
Here’s a screenshot:
2nd that. LM|S on Ubuntu and piCorePlayer on the Pi3b / Hifi|Berry Amp2 kits. Controlled via Squeezer on Android. Wonderful sound and very easy to manage and control. Also sync’d with Squeeze Player Android and Squeezelite-X on Windows10.
No Max2Play here.
AN old thread but I also have a long standing setup with LM|S on Buster and piCorePlayer on the Pi3b / Hifi|Berry Amp2 kits. Controlled via Squeezer on Android. Now I’m trying to understand how the LMS binding works so that I can get TTS messages across to my LMS server so that it can stream them across my house. Anyone managed this?
Hello. I might be able to help if I have understood your question.
I have a similar setup (including hifiberry) and using LMS with openhab is pretty straightforward (even for a non programmer like me)
You just need to install squeezebox binding and the bridge and the players will be autodiscovered
If you use any of the openhab TTS motors you just need to to Audio page in Settings/System Services and select the default sink for the TTS messages.
