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Cheap Multiroom Speaker-System
Hi,
I am looking for a cheap multiroom speaker system that is compatible with Homey (or will be in the future). While browsing this and other forums I only found systems like Sonos, Denon or Harman Kardon where each speaker costs >200€.
For my needs it would be fine if there is one speaker in three different rooms. The quality should be ok, and appropriate to the price that I am willing to spend: 200€-300€ in total.
This stated Emile this January:
I found "Bluetooth Splitter" that could be plugged into Homeys Line-out and stream simultanious to two bluetooth speakers. I guess that would be the cheapest solution but not the most reliable.
I also found the PEAQ Munet series, but it seems that this system is everywhere out of stock. It was described as the cheap twin of sonos because one speaker costs 99€. It was only sold by Mediamarkt / Saturn in germany. But I doubt that Homey would support it.
Now my questions:
Are there any other cheap solutions that I haven't thought of? Or has somebody experiences with one of the previous mentioned solutions?
I am looking for a cheap multiroom speaker system that is compatible with Homey (or will be in the future). While browsing this and other forums I only found systems like Sonos, Denon or Harman Kardon where each speaker costs >200€.
For my needs it would be fine if there is one speaker in three different rooms. The quality should be ok, and appropriate to the price that I am willing to spend: 200€-300€ in total.
This stated Emile this January:
One solution could be simple Bluetooth speakers, but I bet that Homey can only stream to one speaker at a time.Emile said:Homey will eventually support:
- Internal speaker
- Line-out
- Bluetooth
- Wi-Fi streaming
- AirPlay (we have to figure out the licenses though)
- Google Cast (we have to figure out the licenses though)
- SONOS
- Denon Heos
- ... any speaker that can play a radio stream programmatically
I found "Bluetooth Splitter" that could be plugged into Homeys Line-out and stream simultanious to two bluetooth speakers. I guess that would be the cheapest solution but not the most reliable.
I also found the PEAQ Munet series, but it seems that this system is everywhere out of stock. It was described as the cheap twin of sonos because one speaker costs 99€. It was only sold by Mediamarkt / Saturn in germany. But I doubt that Homey would support it.
Now my questions:
Are there any other cheap solutions that I haven't thought of? Or has somebody experiences with one of the previous mentioned solutions?
Comments
Already an app for in the Homey app store.
http://www.coolsound.nl/lg-np8540-multiroom-speaker/P56273?gclid=Cj0KEQjw_qW9BRCcv-Xc5Jn-26gBEiQAM-iJhbXXWvscPbsgAkIegVQheRF7Fc07F88un6bclESgjmQaAtrR8P8HAQ
Advantage of the chromecast is that you can use any active speaker.
Don't know about the voice though...
They have a track record since years and apparantly no Airplay nor Spotify license issues. Airfoil can be used as an audio destination from e.g. a local computer/mac/linux audio source or from a smart device, Airfoil 'broadcasts' to multiple airplay receivers at the same time. I have e.g. Spotify to play music from a PC, use Airfoil as destination which redistributes the Spotify music source to in my case max. 5 different Airplay receivers. They have support for several linux distributions.
Sadly the link https://rogueamoeba.com/airfoil/ let not download airfoil properly with FF, Chrome and IE.
When I try it with IE I see a strange thing. The source and destination drive are switched.
Then I can understand the notice that I have no rights to do it.
Is there maybe an other link to download airfoil to try it?
For example, Sonos does that well, these are designed to be used together (ofcourse separately is also possible), but if you try to do the same with speaker systems that are not meant to be accessed together you might experience timing differences between 2 speakers/rooms.
Sonos is quite expensive but I really like them! And I have no doubt that they will be controlled well by an app on Homey soon.
But I wonder.. how to connect that device? Is there an app for connecting? Or is this a out of the box Homey function?
I hope that Homey will support it's speech Output via the multiroom chromecast Audio.
What speakers are you using it with?
2x https://www.amazon.de/gp/product/B004OARYYW/ref=oh_aui_detailpage_o01_s01?ie=UTF8&psc=1 (22€ Speaker for Kitchen and Bedroom, They are pretty good for their pricetag!)
Gr. Remco
However he's (seemingly) not actively developing anymore.
Hope he open sources his code so I can continue it...
UPDATE: Now available in alpha, awaiting approval on the app store.
https://forum.athom.com/discussion/1424/in-progress-squeezebox-app#latest
39€ Audiocast iEAST AudioCast WLAN Music Adapter (Streaming Dienste, Internet-Radio) schwarz https://www.amazon.de/dp/B01BMKSI32/
Works great and can Play Multiroom.
Comparison and Website:
http://audiocast.io/
but i have no App for homey ...
http://www.ibood.com/electronics-nl/nl/product-specs/26704/71096/bluwall-direct-multiroom-speaker.html?utm_source=email&utm_medium=newsletter&utm_campaign=NL_template_1&emh=d03a377adbdd4d2b5c56f664446cc9b3
1) look at this hardware, the same build etc => http://item.jd.com/1550590.html (I found this URL on LinkPlay.com)
2) the lay-out off the app is extremely similar as the Cobblestone and also Energy Sistem apps.
so if you own a Otone BlueWall I'm sure you can combine it with e.g. Muzo Cobblestone (see Amazon.de)