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Build a single or multi-room streamer for an existing audio device using a Raspberry Pi! Supports Bluetooth, Airplay and Spotify Connect
https://balena.io/blog/turn-your-old-speakers-or-hi-fi-into-bluetooth-receivers-using-only-a-raspberry-pi/
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Balena Sound as a Sonos controller #378

Closed alex4buba closed 3 years ago

alex4buba commented 3 years ago

Can this be a replacement as a SONOS music controller for KDE Plasma? If so, how?

Thanks Alex

shawaj commented 3 years ago

@alex4buba do you mean that you have Sonos devices you want to control from your desktop / laptop computer?

If you could provide a bit more detail about what you're trying to achieve that would be great.

alex4buba commented 3 years ago

Hello Aaron Well, I have the Sonos system installed with 6 devices for the past 5 years. I started it then with a Windows base PC and the company provides the software controller for it. Some 8 months ago, I had enough of Windows and switched to Linux. I tried first Ubuntu 20.05 LTS, went through several other distros and settled on using now KDE Neon Plasma 5.20.4 I am using an app called NOSON, it kind of works.... Not sure what other information I need to provide. I am looking for an app to work on my current Linux / KDE desktop - to be able to control those Sonos units CheersAlex On Thu, 2020-12-24 at 17:29 -0800, Aaron Shaw wrote:

@alex4buba do you mean that you have Sonos devices you want to control from your desktop / laptop computer? If you could provide a bit more detail about what you're trying to achieve that would be great.

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shawaj commented 3 years ago

@alex4buba you could maybe try looking at https://roonlabs.com/

Basically balenaSound is a replacement for Sonos using speakers that are not internet connected directly. It allows you to use a Raspberry Pi to upgrade your "dumb" speakers to bring "smart"

Having said that, you could set this up to bypass / work concurrently with your Sonos system by adding a Raspberry Pi to the aux input of each Sonos speaker that you have.

Hope that makes sense.

alex4buba commented 3 years ago

Hello again,

No, not clear. I have no idea what is a Raspberry pi?

Thanks again Alex

On Fri, 25 Dec 2020, 19:41 Aaron Shaw, notifications@github.com wrote:

@alex4buba https://github.com/alex4buba you could maybe try looking at https://roonlabs.com/

Basically balenaSound is a replacement for Sonos using speakers that are not internet connected directly. It allows you to use a Raspberry Pi to upgrade your "dumb" speakers to bring "smart"

Having said that, you could set this up to bypass / work concurrently with your Sonos system by adding a Raspberry Pi to the aux input of each Sonos speaker that you have.

Hope that makes sense.

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shawaj commented 3 years ago

@alex4buba a Raspberry Pi is a computer that runs a version of Linux. balenaSound is designed to work with Raspberry Pi.

You can read more about how balenaSound works and what it is used for here https://sound.balenalabs.io/docs

This would bypass the Sonos control system and allow balenaSound to output music directly to your Sonos speakers via the aux inputs on each speaker.

AlexProgrammerDE commented 3 years ago

Balenasound is intended as a complete replacement for sonos. It also has multi-room capabilities. Im gonna close this issue for now.