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?

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      1 year ago

      Sorry yes, found that topic, but it doesn’t say that it works. Only people asking if it works by the looks of it.

      It says it works with Spotify but I only have Deezer.

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    1 year ago

    I’ve purchased a stereoboomm speaker for cheaper and it has an audio out jack. Very happy with it.

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    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?

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      1 year ago

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

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        1 year ago

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

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          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.

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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