Icecast2 on Hassio

[GACHAPO (Glenn Chapman)]

Will icecast2 work on Hassio?

[Zox (Zoran)]

Also (very) interested in the answer.

[geoffrey]

I have described an approach I’m taking in combining Icecast2 and Mopidy on hass.io.

Automation to play radio station on Sonos One

Sure. I am building a new local hass.io addon best on BestLibre’s Mopidy addon which adds Icecast during the installation along with a few extra Mopidy extensions like MQTT control. When you start playing music on Mopidy, the output is sent to Icecast which outputs the audio to a local stream on your hass.io installation. E.g. http://hassio.local:8000/mopidy This local stream can be sent to Sonos using the media_player integration of your Sonos by adding it to the media_content_id parameter o…

[Zox (Zoran)]

In theory your addon should work with any media player, not only sonos? just passing url of icecast to the media player in question?
Specifically I have in mind google cast devices like google home speakers, chromecast, etc.

[geoffrey]

I think so yes.

Currently I have been playing the stream on a Sonos, on VLC, on the new MacOS Catalina Music app (iTunes predecessor), in a browser using the Mopidy Iris webclient and streaming it to that tab, in a browser tab just by opening the stream, in the TuneIn app on iOS, etc.

[RichieRich69 (Richard Plaatjes)]

Hi, Any luck with this? I’ve tried to install your Mopidy hassio-addon but no way to configure port 8000. Still not able to access Icecast