WiiM Home app for Windows PC ?

[GaryA26]

Okay all you WiiM users, please help me out here.

I have a WiiM Pro streamer. I currently am using Tidal for my streaming. I have both the Tidal mobile
app and the Tidal app for Windows on my laptop. When using my laptop Tidal app from the laptop, which
is almost always, I can connect to my WiiM Pro through Tidal Connect and then use the Tidal app interface
on my laptop.

So no problem there.

What I would like to do is connect the sound output from my laptop to my WiiM Pro via WiFi since both my
WiiM Pro and laptop are connected to the same WiFi Network. That way I could listen to YouTube music videos
through my home audio system by routing my laptop's output to my WiiM Pro.

The problem is that I can't figure out how to connect my laptop's output to my WiiM Pro via the WiFi connection.
I know I could try to use Bluetooth, but I also have issues with that and that's a completely different kettle of fish.

I have read online that I could connect my laptop's output by downloading the WiiM Home app for Windows
to my laptop.

But I can't find where that app is in order to download it. On WiiM's main download page it seems to only have
the download for the mobile app.

Has anyone here connected your Windows laptop or PC to your WiiM streamer ? And if so, what process did you
undertake to bring that to a success ?

Thanks !

 

[s3igell]

I hope a decent Windows app version is released as soon as possible, because the current one isn't.

(Not to sound like "if xxx jumps off a bridge, would you do the same??" But...)

Many of WiiM's competitors also lack Windows PC Apps for their Streaming Platforms:
Yamaha MusicCast - no native PC app
Denon HEOS - no native PC app
Eversolo - no native PC app
Topping, Ifi, Schiit (not strong in Streaming products) - no native PC app

Desktop PC Apps are obviously not where these large participants see the current (and future) market.
Reasons?? (hard to say from the outside looking in...)
Traditional market is the Living (Listening/TV) Room where these products supplant larger Receiver/AVR Systems as an alternative to Soundbars?? PCs not usually present at Listening Position in these scenarios, but 10+ button remote fails to provide access to all WiiM Features, hence Mobile Device support/focus??
Windows PC / MacOS development and distribution systems are different from the App Store controlled environment for iOS and Android and TVs. The less restrictive Windows / MacOS / Linux world has led to proliferation of 3rd-party Capture/Redirection/Redistribution software that is antithetical to most of the Streaming Content Providers who would provide much of the "missing piece" for a "full-parity" Windows / MacOS WiiM Home App.
In case these Streaming Platforms still allow reasonably robust inclusion in a WiiM Home App for Windows/ MacOS, it still requires the coincidence of usable APIs and SDKs for the Dev Environment that WiiM has chosen, and Cross-Corporation cooperation, and amenable licensing restrictions for each platform, and... and... and...

In any case, WiiM has evidenced some willingness and intent to proceed with their Windows PC / MacOS products. If at a slow Beta App speed...

 

[Burnside]

I've always had the impression the WiiM desktop app was one of their programmer's side or personal projects I.e. one to work on when they're not supporting the mobile apps.

 

[cc_rider]

Okay all you WiiM users, please help me out here.

I have a WiiM Pro streamer. I currently am using Tidal for my streaming. I have both the Tidal mobile
app and the Tidal app for Windows on my laptop. When using my laptop Tidal app from the laptop, which
is almost always, I can connect to my WiiM Pro through Tidal Connect and then use the Tidal app interface
on my laptop.

So no problem there.

What I would like to do is connect the sound output from my laptop to my WiiM Pro via WiFi since both my
WiiM Pro and laptop are connected to the same WiFi Network. That way I could listen to YouTube music videos
through my home audio system by routing my laptop's output to my WiiM Pro.

The problem is that I can't figure out how to connect my laptop's output to my WiiM Pro via the WiFi connection.
I know I could try to use Bluetooth, but I also have issues with that and that's a completely different kettle of fish.

I have read online that I could connect my laptop's output by downloading the WiiM Home app for Windows
to my laptop.

But I can't find where that app is in order to download it. On WiiM's main download page it seems to only have
the download for the mobile app.

Has anyone here connected your Windows laptop or PC to your WiiM streamer ? And if so, what process did you
undertake to bring that to a success ?

Thanks !

Use an external DAC that auto-switches between the USB/Coax/Optical inputs. I have my PC connected via USB to my RME ADI-2 DAC fs, the WiiM connected to the DAC's Optical input, and another device to the Coaxial input. Switching between the sources is automatic if the optical and coaxial sources switch their signal off when not playing (in WiiM's case, 30 seconds after stop).

There are MANY great DACs in the $100 range, just be sure it auto-switches sources, or you'll have to use its remote every time, which gets to be a PITA.

 

[s3igell]

Okay all you WiiM users, please help me out here.

I have read online that I could connect my laptop's output by downloading the WiiM Home app for Windows
to my laptop.

But I can't find where that app is in order to download it. On WiiM's main download page it seems to only have
the download for the mobile app.

Has anyone here connected your Windows laptop or PC to your WiiM streamer ? And if so, what process did you
undertake to bring that to a success ?

Thanks !

The Windows PC (still a Beta) App is downloaded on the same page as you find the Mobile Apps (click the "Windows PC" App).

I have read online that I could connect my laptop's output by downloading the WiiM Home app for Windows
to my laptop.

Inaccurate - the WiiM Home Windows PC App can output any media files residing on the Laptop to any of the WiiM Devices (and also most any other device that is a DLNA Player) as a DLNA Server. It can also access any DLNA or SMB Audio Server on the same network as the Laptop in the same fashion. And it can control Qobuz and Radio Paradise Streaming to any WiiM Devices. But it cannot capture and stream Audio Output directly from the Laptop.

Success - YES, as long as serving as used within its DLNA Server and (limited set of) Streaming Services.

 

[Saponetto]

I've always had the impression the WiiM desktop app was one of their programmer's side or personal projects I.e. one to work on when they're not supporting the mobile apps.

Perhaps it's true, but imho it's a bummer.