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?

  • phx@lemmy.caEnglish
    2·
    1 year ago

    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?

    • sylverstream@lemmy.nzOPEnglish
      2·
      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
            1·
            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