Another MultiRoom Audio With Up2Stream Amp 2

mistrovly · January 9, 2021, 6:55pm

Hey a couple years ago I had setup a multiroom audio in my house with Volumio and Raspberry PI’s. But due to some issues that I encountered with the system due MicroSD cards kept on failing; I’ve decided to re-evaluate that setup. Throughout that journey, I’ve discovered these all in one audio modules(Up2Stream Amp 2). After, setting them up and have running for about 2 months now; i’ve decided to share with the community.

Setup:

On a side note, All my rooms speaker are wired back to a smart panel and I was able to integrate them into HA using this component:
LinkPlay Integration

Things To Do:

TTS
Group join and unjoin using automation.

vincen · January 9, 2021, 7:10pm

Thanks for the share Are you using the LinkPlay Integration to control the Up2Stream Amp 2 ? As I have some of these but never found how to integrate them with HA and really be able to use them

mistrovly · January 9, 2021, 7:15pm

Yes I use LinkPlay integration and so far I’m able to see them in HA. You can check this for more info

nickrout · January 9, 2021, 10:06pm

There wss some discussions of the arylic boards here. Should I go there? Whole house audio and then some

mistrovly · January 9, 2021, 10:07pm

Yes I would

Walletje-w · January 10, 2021, 12:00am

Very interesting setup you have but it is not completely clear to me how it is performing.

Why do you have the POE adapters? It seems you are still using the normal DC power plugs to power the Up2Stream Amp 2.

And how is the performance? If you play a YouTube video is audio then in synch with the video? No lipsync issues?

And how stable is the setup, did you have any performance issues?

Other than that this looks like a really flexible and cost effective multi room setup!

nickrout · January 10, 2021, 12:09am

The POE is split out of ethernet to supply 12v to the up2stream. The up2stream does not itself support POE (as far as I can tell) - it is just a convenient way to get power to the device (via the splitter).

mistrovly · January 10, 2021, 12:14am

Yes sir the poe split

mistrovly · January 10, 2021, 12:16am

I’ve got an 8 ports poe switch that provides power to all of them via this poe adapter

nickrout · January 10, 2021, 12:20am

What are you referring to. This is an audio system.

Walletje-w · January 10, 2021, 12:22am

Thanks for the quick reply. I see now what the benefit is. If it is indeed performing on 12V it might be interesting to see if sound quality improves if it is run at 24V. That is at least based on the information I found.

I will have a look at these Arylic devices and test them myself as well for some time before installing them in my (new to build) home. Thanks for this tip!

Walletje-w · January 10, 2021, 12:25am

If you would play a concert using YouTube (or any other service) is music in sync with the video?

For example if you would play a YouTube video on your tablet but want the music to stream over your home speakers.

mistrovly · January 10, 2021, 12:32am

So far i have not experienced any out of sync between the players. Also, if music is playing in one room, i’m able to sync the same music in another room via the up2stream mobile app by dragging and dropping.

nickrout · January 10, 2021, 12:41am

Do you use mini-media-player? It has speaker grouping built in.

mistrovly · January 10, 2021, 12:42am

i haven’t tried mini player grouping with this system yet

vincen · January 10, 2021, 12:01pm

Thanks for link Got boards out of my closet and setup, and configured in HA (unhappy only one of them is supported, both Arylic boards are one year old but one is not viewed by HA Second point is that it’s only usable for Internet radio as I have no way to use with my music server that is the boring Plex

mistrovly · January 10, 2021, 12:10pm

I believe that you can play music from a NAS. Check this out

Also for the one that’s not supported; do you know what firmware version it is running. If you are running firmware version lower than v4.2.8020. “You can connect to multirooms only in wifi-direct mode. Firmware version number can be seen in device attributes. If the user has a mix of players running old and new firmware, autodetection can be overriden with option multiroom_wifidirect: True , and is needed only for units with newer versions, to force them down to wifi-direct multiroom”

vincen · January 13, 2021, 3:00pm

Yep I know but unhappy for the moment my NAS is not in same LAN as my HA (remote location) so will have to wait to get my Plex NAS server back at my place to be able to do something with it out of Internet radio

I’m investigating with Arylic as debugging with Linkplay developers concluded that the unit has a problem (even reset didn’t resolve the issue…

s-e-t-h · January 21, 2022, 1:06am

Are you using a POE Switch?

nickrout · January 21, 2022, 6:25am

I am not using this setup at all, but I believe @mistrovly is using a POE switch, because he said so Another MultiRoom Audio With Up2Stream Amp 2 - #9 by mistrovly