Starling Hub and AirPlay

[NateMeriwether]

I bought a Starling Hub to incorporate my Nest Thermostats and Nest Smoke Detectors into Apple Homekit.

I discovered that it also added my Wiim Ultra as an Apple AirPlay end point. This might be a solution for anyone who really wants or needs to use Apple AirPlay with their Wiim Ultra.

 

[Burnside]

I bought a Starling Hub to incorporate my Nest Thermostats and Nest Smoke Detectors into Apple Homekit.

I discovered that it also added my Wiim Ultra as an Apple AirPlay end point. This might be a solution for anyone who really wants or needs to use Apple AirPlay with their Wiim Ultra.

Sounds like they’re using code similar to Airconnect to present Chromecast or UPNP endpoints as airplay 1 targets.

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

Aug 30, 2024

Didn't quite know which subforum to post this in, so general thoughts it is...

AirConnect is a package developed by philippe44 who is pretty well known in LMS circles for his 'bridge' plugins which allow the transfer of audio between different protocols. This particular bridge allows UPnP devices (like WiiM devices) to appear as Airplay 1 endpoints so may be of interest to those who want lossless CD quality transmission from Apple Music, or indeed for those who want a certain recent WiiM device (I'll let you guess which one ) to appear as an Airplay target. Note that as it's only...

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