ruebenramirez
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9 years ago bonus points: [ ] looking for a way to manage spotify playing throughout the house.
started looking for a raspberry pi project to allow for multi-room / multi-zone sync'ed audio playback and found squeezeplug
It looks like it works in conjunction with Logitech's open source media server (when squeezeboxes were still around) - http://www.mysqueezebox.com/download
Maybe all I really need is xbmc and the airplay plugin enabled? - http://kodi.wiki/view/AirPlay
- I think this would require me to have a spotify service running on a box on my internal network and have slave audio nodes read from that stream
- what about hubot?
[x] Is there a spotify plugin for hubot yet?
https://github.com/davidvanleeuwen/hubot-spotify
- annoying...think it needs hubot to be running on a mac?
Would also be cool to control amp volume per zone via API call: Sample scenarios:
- play music in the (living room/bedroom/office/whole house)
- mute (individual rooms/whole house...maybe better as a stop)
- turn up/down volume in (individual rooms/whole house)
[ ] could cloudbit help with this? [ ] how hard would it be to expose this stuff to IFTTT?
I bought a pair of Logitech Z263 THX 2.1 speakers some 3 years ago, and they finally gave out on me today.
Monoprice
I've bought all kinds of cables from Monoprice for a long time now. I still haven't tried out any other products they sell though. Before spending money on their $250 5.1 surround sound system, I figured I would run a cheap experiment and replace my office speakers that just died.
I decided to kick things off with the 8" 3-way bookshelf speakers:
https://www.monoprice.com/Product?c_id=109&cp_id=10904&cs_id=1090407&p_id=8251&seq=1&format=2
I've heard great things about these little amps:
http://www.amazon.com/Lepai-LP-2020A-Tripath-Class-T-Amplifier/dp/B0049P6OTI/ref=sr_1_1?s=electronics&ie=UTF8&qid=1414904333&sr=1-1&keywords=Lepai
Don't forget the wires! Don't do what I did and forget to buy the speaker wire...