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New Article - Whole Home Audio with SnapCast (www.pragmaticcoding.ca)
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For the past few years I’ve been building and maintaining website/blog at www.pragmaticcoding.ca. It has mostly about programming, and more specifically it’s ended up having a lot of content about JavaFX with Kotlin.

Lately, I’ve been spending all of my time building out my own homelab and self-hosting the services that I need. I’ve got a little stack of M910Q’s running in a Proxmox cluster with an HP T740 running OPNSense.

One of my big successes so far has been to replace my Google Home devices streaming music all over the house with a SnapCast network using RaspberryPi Zeros as the streaming clients. I've been working on documenting how to do this, and the result is a three part series that explains what SnapCast is, how it works and how to combine it with Mopidy to stream music around the house.

I have to admit that this one got away from me. It was all one article until I noticed that Jekyll was estimating it at oven 1/2 hour to read, which is way, way too long. So it became three parts, which also gives me the opportunity to release it over time, and make sure that each part is nice and clean before I post it live. Part I is an introduction to SnapCast and explains how it works and how to set up a SnapCast server in Proxmox.

If you're interested, take a read and let me know what you think.

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[–] Cyber@feddit.uk 1 points 1 day ago (5 children)

Thanks for sharing.

I'll take a proper read if it later, but how well do your Pi0's stay on the wifi?

I have 4 around my home acting as bluetooth trackers for Home Assistant, but they fall off the wifi often (signal strength / noise isn't the issue)

It's only for a few seconds, which is ok for BT tracking, but that would be terrible for audio.

[–] mhzawadi@lemmy.horwood.cloud 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Did you I know music assistant can use snapcast as media device and so can announce and play music?

[–] HamsterRage@lemmy.ca 1 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

Not specifically, but SnapCast will accept a range of input methods and should be capable of taking output from virtually anything that plays sound.

[–] mhzawadi@lemmy.horwood.cloud 1 points 17 hours ago

if you run home assistant, you can setup music assistant that has snapcast builtin

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