AirConnect: Send audio to UPnP/Sonos/Chromecast players using AirPlay

[pieterv1]

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yes, but that's a totally different thing... That's to start streaming from LMS to a Chromecast or Google home speaker.

This doesn't make the Raspberry Pi itself show up as a Chromecast target on your phone or tablet.

 

[Burnside]

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Is that not the opposite of what we’re discussing which is airplay etc reception?

 

[jfbuk]

I have yet to find a RBPi Streaming OS with Chromecast support.

apologies, I was responding to the quoted statement and neglecting the context of the thread

 

[Dennis from Venice]

Chromecast is not mentioned anywhere. I have yet to find a RBPi Streaming OS with Chromecast support.

You're right.....My bad (I was thinking Squeezelite)

 

[jeffme]

This is great work and I'm grateful for what @philippe44 has shared with the world.

That said, can anyone comment on the limitations of this support? E.g., it is Airplay and not Airplay 2, correct? And, how does the max bitrate for this compare to Airplay 2?

 

[Burnside]

This is great work and I'm grateful for what @philippe44 has shared with the world.

That said, can anyone comment on the limitations of this support? E.g., it is Airplay and not Airplay 2, correct? And, how does the max bitrate for this compare to Airplay 2?

As in the opening post, this is airplay 1 and like airplay 2 can support up to lossless 24/48 but it doesn’t suffer the downsampling to 256kbps aac for Apple Music. It can’t be grouped with other airplay devices either

 

[Zrgwa]

This is excellent! Thanks a lot.

 

[pieterv1]

If you have a Raspberry Pi 4 laying around, you can get a "hat" to output to a Coax and use free software such as Ropieee to receieve both Airplay 1, 2 Plexamp, Chromecast, and more.

Still, I went ahead and installed Ropieee .

Seems like a great no-nonsense OS to use the rbpi purely as a music streaming endpoint, without a built-in library.

 

[Hiphiman]

I may be under thinking this, but AirConnect/ShairTunes got me wondering if a Raspberry Pi with PiCorePlayer and LMS - which can effectively AirPlay Cast to multiple endpoints in sync - could feasibly have an plugin to receive a cast from a WiiM device, maybe from Chromecast or DLNA.
Humour me if I am completely deluded.

 

[Dennis from Venice]

I may be under thinking this, but AirConnect/ShairTunes got me wondering if a Raspberry Pi with PiCorePlayer and LMS - which can effectively AirPlay Cast to multiple endpoints in sync - could feasibly have an plugin to receive a cast from a WiiM device, maybe from Chromecast or DLNA.
Humour me if I am completely deluded.

A Raspi with Ropieee can feed a WiiM with Airplay, and many others if it has a “hat” to output via optical or coax.

Update: Whoops…I misread…you want to cast FROM the WiiM. I was casting to the WiiM

 

[Burnside]

I may be under thinking this, but AirConnect/ShairTunes got me wondering if a Raspberry Pi with PiCorePlayer and LMS - which can effectively AirPlay Cast to multiple endpoints in sync - could feasibly have an plugin to receive a cast from a WiiM device, maybe from Chromecast or DLNA.
Humour me if I am completely deluded.

Currently WiiM devices can’t cast with the exception of the upcoming DLNA cast feature (or Bluetooth) nor am I sure that you can send audio to an LMS server