Hey guys, for the past few I had been working on a multi room audio system with “volumio”. Now I come to the point where I can share that with you all. Some of you already have that or better system than that; but I thought I’d share it anyway. My system is composed of 6 RPi B+, 8 ports gig port switch and 6 Hifiberry AMP2 routed back to a cabinet. I also have a 7’ touchscreen display to controller audio in different rooms throughout my house. I did want to spend a lot of money into sonos or some cheap wireless speakers; so I decided to go this route instead.
That is a fantastic project, one which I was planning to do for some time.
Would you mind sharing a how to with links to the parts and details on software setup please
This is really awesome! didnt know about Volumio until this post. Would love to see a demo of this in action… how well does HASS intigrate into Volumio?
Yes all of my speakers are wired back to a cabinet where the box is located. Also there’s a logitech media server module on it too; but I have not yet been able to make the sync work properly.
sorry to bring this thread back … this seems awesome man … is there a more detailed way on how did you wired the psu to provide power to everything ?? I am planning on making this for my whole house audio very soon and would like some input on this
One last thing, you can do it this way and centralise everything and run wires for speakers. Or you can put the pi or similar device in each room and reach each by wired/wireless network, Up to you, I do the latter. Sometimes wifi is easier to reach a particular place. If you’re starting with the board off the walls and are absolutely sure where you want every speaker, the approach in this thread is very viable.
Thanks for the reply … i saw the video and no way i can do that by myself i can’t solder for shit i’ll keep looking online for a better solution … is either that or the monoprice 6 Zone amp and a couple of this since i have an odd 9 Zones that i want to use for multi room audio.
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