Hi there, I need some help to figure out how to configure a totally integrated music service in HA.
Currently my music setup in HA is like this:
- all my music is on a Synology NAS;
- there are some Sonos speakers around my home;
- Sonos app on iPhone indexes all music in Syno;
- using that app I can play every single file and manage groups of speakers, plus connect with 3rd party services (Bandcamp, Apple, Amazon, …);
- NAS is running its proprietary music app called Audio Station; using that (and only that) I can edit m3u playlists;
- in HA I find the content I favorited in the Sonos iOS app in the source menù of the Sonos speakers; from HA I can’t do or play anything else, just the favorites.
This was starting to annoying me, so I decided to look further and to try to implement a more integrated solution. But, after trying some combinations of multimedia server/clients and their integrations/addons, I came to the conclusion there isn’t such a solution that let me do all the above in a single place, featuring a nice interface embedded in HA. It can also be a https iframe panel in Lovelace (like Iris for Mopidy, but on https).
Summarizing, my question for you is:
Have I missed something? Is there a service or combination of services that can:
- browse my collection and play a specific file using an interface embedded in HA so I don’t need a client app on every device (like Plex);
- source the db from NAS via NFS (or SMB);
- play lossless files;
- play m3u playlist;
- play through remote speakers, not the server built in audio out;
- is automatable and generates events;
- bonus: control speakers group (like Snapcast);
- bonus: is a HA addon (like Mopidy);
- bonus: connect to 3rd part services (like Sonos);
- bonus: directly edit m3u playlists?
Thank you very much in advance!
R.