Hey guys I have been looking for a way to integrate my echo device with my chromecast audio devices. THis way is far from perfect but it seems pretty consistent
Essentially I am just streaming the Line out of the echo to a Line In on my macbook (this is for testing ill be using a differnet computer or my hypervisor)
I have an icecast server setup which was very very easy and I use the application called Butt on my macbook.
So I now have a stream that is always on and I turn on that stream to my speakers when I want to hear audio. This way I can still use the chromecast multi room features.
Unfortunately there are two things I need to work out.
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need to split the audio from the output of the echo dot to the Line In port AND a small speaker because once you have it connected to the line out port you cant use the built in speakers.
In the same sense ill have to figure out a way to disable the audio once it is playing from the chromecast audio speakers. -
Unfortunately the echo dot devices dont actually see each other or talk to each other since they are two completely seperate devices. This makes it difficult to start a different stream from the other echo device. Ill probably need to bridge these sources together somehow possibly through a mixer.
