homeassistant

11878 readers

1 users here now

Home Assistant is open source home automation that puts local control and privacy first. Powered by a worldwide community of tinkerers and DIY enthusiasts. Perfect to run on a Raspberry Pi or a local server. Available for free at home-assistant.io

founded 1 year ago

MODERATORS

[email protected]

Anyone has experience integrating "AudioCast" devices into Home Assistant? (lemmy.nz)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

9 comments fedilink hide all child comments

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?

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

How exactly are you planning to integrate? Have a playlist on your HASS host that plays to the device, or stream from device->HASS->speaker?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 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