If you can tap off the power there then a raspberry pi running picoreplayer and plugged into that (if it can take a direct input) would be one solution. Alternatively there are esp solutions like this https://www.tindie.com/products/sonocotta/louder-esp32/
Yep both rpi and esp32 work well with poe and can act as speakers.
Does it also import all items from Jellyfin or does it just query Jellyfin if needed. Seems a bit of a waste to have 2 seperate music databases. My music database is about 600MB with 378 artists and multiple recordings for many of them.
Using Jellyfin integration I can play single songs via BrowseMedia but not a whole album which seems possible from MA.
So my solution at the moment is to have a seperate jellyfin page as a webpage-card where I can cast directly to the speakers.
Support is provided for Plex, Opensonic and Jellyfin just to facilitate people who want both for some particular reason. Ideally you would cut out the middleman and use the MA file system provider. It will be faster and you dont have any limitations that may exist with the other providers.
Edit: specifically answering your question it pulls all data from the provider and then initiates playback through the provider as necessary.
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I haven’t bought the POE speakers actually, that’s why i asked here first…
I was interested due to it’s cabling simplicity and i happen to have some spare ports in my poe switch…
cmiiw, but with rpi / esp32 wouldn’t that mean i will need one each for each speakers, like this :
esp32 + poe speakers 1
esp32 + poe speakers 2,
how would i connect the ethernet to the esp32 then?
and if it needs additional power cable i would lose the simplicity of poe cabling…
might as well use passive speakers then ?
Amazon is the first company to adopt the new “Matter Casting” (a.k.a. MatterCast) audio/music and video player (streaming reciever) for new/upcoming video and music cast standard protocol, so Music Assistant would need to support that in the future.
See this feature request for having support for that in Music Assistant here::
I also posted a feature request asking for a Home Assistant integration component too:
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This is great. I had to use spotcast+Spotify integration to trick Spotify into adding my esp32-s2-box2 as a player. It was a pain, and I kept forgetting how I got it to add.
This is so much easier. MA just recognizes them with no tricks needed.
Great news! I think it’s easier to request something here than to request it from Amazon.
Please, Music Assistant DEV, see if you can adopt “Matter Casting”
I think it would save a lot of people!!!
I looked through the description there. However, doesn’t look like I have the same problem. It appears that any song plays exactly for 90 seconds before the audio disappears.
You can try streaming a radio station to see if that is a problem. You could share some of your music directly with MA thus bypassing Jellyfin and see what effect that has. You can also try the Snapcast provider if you don’t have any other player providers to try. In summary, experiment to try and work out what is causing the problem.
Isn’t it possible use the ONVIF backchannel for this speaker?
it might require some fiddling around:
where you substitute ‘cam’ to ‘tonmind’
Hi,
I know there is no lovelace card for that and the work around is using iframe. but on my home assistant companion app on my iphone the iframe is loading but never showing ( it work on web browser )
I had it with this address : https://MY-HA.COM/d5369777_music_assistant/ingress
yes i get that, i’m suggesting a way to make it a supported (HA) player by using WebRTC as done in the linked post
@checking12 Someone would have to come along and do the work.
@Thib5 You are missing the port number
@OzGav Thanks for trying but no… i’m using cloudflare with a redirection on port 80 so i don’t have to put my port number.
For exemple if i need to open my serveur on a web browser i need to type : https://MYDOMAINNAME.com
Thanks for fixing the startup going to settings page issue. It looks great now on all my devices.
Question: Is there a way, or is there a way planned so that on my Android device, I can just click an icon and open MA rather than having to open HA and then select MA?
I have snapcast with a bluetooth speaker for my bathroom i have a pi zero 2 connected to it in a other room.
Only need to set the additional delay.
@Thib5 not sure then sorry as I don’t do this.
@harryfine you should be able to save the ingress url or URL with port 8095 as a shortcut?
I will give that a try, thank you.