Home Assistant Multi room audio setup
https://www.thouters.be/HassMultiRoomAudio.html
Adding sound to a smart home used to be a thing of fancy smart-home solutions sold with their own audio server modules that are wired up to multi-room speaker set-ups. Nowadays modular cloud connected voice assistants bring music and notifications to peoples homes.
If you can live without the fancy voice control and enjoy setting up some Linux services, then adding some of the more classic audio features is a doable task, soon to become easier due to a home assistant add-on.
During 2020's work-from-home regime I discovered radio, I listen extensively to radio and Spotify when I'm at home. I wanted to mix in audio notifications like the door bell and a garden gate sensor. This turned out to be easily mixed together using Snapcast.
To listen to music in the rooms next to our living room with an amp/speaker setup, I bought a Bluetooth speaker, figuring I could feed it music via a raspberry pi while at home, and still use it with my phone when in the garden or on the road.
https://www.thouters.be/HassMultiRoomAudio.html
Adding sound to a smart home used to be a thing of fancy smart-home solutions sold with their own audio server modules that are wired up to multi-room speaker set-ups. Nowadays modular cloud connected voice assistants bring music and notifications to peoples homes.
If you can live without the fancy voice control and enjoy setting up some Linux services, then adding some of the more classic audio features is a doable task, soon to become easier due to a home assistant add-on.
During 2020's work-from-home regime I discovered radio, I listen extensively to radio and Spotify when I'm at home. I wanted to mix in audio notifications like the door bell and a garden gate sensor. This turned out to be easily mixed together using Snapcast.
To listen to music in the rooms next to our living room with an amp/speaker setup, I bought a Bluetooth speaker, figuring I could feed it music via a raspberry pi while at home, and still use it with my phone when in the garden or on the road.
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