Cast and play

[ZJACKSON]

Can you cast and play local media at the same time? Or do you have to be around the device? Had an issue recently

 

[castalla]

Can you cast and play local media at the same time? Or do you have to be around the device? Had an issue recently

Try rephrasing your question because it doesn't make any sense

 

[ZJACKSON]

Can I cast to one wiim and play local media stored on phone to other wiim?

 

[Aquaman]

Can I cast to one wiim and play local media stored on phone to other wiim?

From the same phone? Play to another WiiM via what?

I have tested UPnP casting two different files from one phone with two different apps to two different WiiMs. This works.
UPnP Casting to one WiiM and playing Bluetooth to another, even with another app, did not work.

 

[hgo58]

Can I cast to one wiim and play local media stored on phone to other wiim?

If you by casting mean e.g. Spotify Connect, then yes.

Playing local media to a WiiM is what I would call casting.

 

[Aquaman]

This will most certainly develop into a discussion on terminology.

 

[hgo58]

This will most certainly develop into a discussion on terminology.

Just trying to understand the question

 

[Aquaman]

Just trying to understand the question

Me too.

 

[ZJACKSON]

So even more detailed. I played local media on my phone to a wiim mini and casted mixcloud mix to a wiim pro after that. But the local music apparently stopped which was in another room but same wifi

 

[Aquaman]

So even more detailed. I played local media on my phone to a wiim mini and casted mixcloud mix to a wiim pro after that. But the local music apparently stopped which was in another room but same wifi

How did you cast the mixcloud? Via bluetooth or UPnP?
But regardless, the thing is that your phone reckognized two media instances, which it will not handle simultaniously. One was the music coming from its local file system and the other the casting app.
If you were streaming (thus only controlling but not actally playing from the phone) it would work.

 

[harkpabst]

So even more detailed. I played local media on my phone to a wiim mini and casted mixcloud mix to a wiim pro after that. But the local music apparently stopped which was in another room but same wifi

The WiiM Home App shows one "tile" per WiiM device and allows you to control them independently, of course. You need to make sure to select the appropriate tile on the "Devices" tab before streaming to the WiiM device in question.

So, generally speaking you can play totally different content to each WiiM device. Select the device on the devices tab, start music playback, select the other device, start music playback. For streaming services the WHA is just a kind of fancy remote. The music stream does not pass through your smartphone, but is requested directly by the WiiM device from the streaming server.

Limitations may come into play when your smartphone is the actual data source.

Since Mixcloud is not a music service integrated into the WiiM Home App and this thread is tagged Chromecast I assume that you're using Google Cast to stream Mixcloud to the WiiM Pro. This shouldn't affect the WiiM Home App streaming local files to the WiiM Mini at all.

To be on the safe side, you could pick the WiiM Pro tile before starting the Google Cast streaming, but this shouldn't be necessary, as you select the target WiiM for Mixcloud from its Google Cast target selector.

You can even play different local files to the different WiiM devices from the same instance of the WiiM Home App.

 

[ZJACKSON]

How did you cast the mixcloud? Via bluetooth or UPnP?
But regardless, the thing is that your phone reckognized two media instances, which it will not handle simultaniously. One was the music coming from its local file system and the other the casting app.
If you were streaming (thus only controlling but not actally playing from the phone) it would work.

Just via the cast icon in the app