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Looking for a self-hosted home audio system, something like Sonos where you can play music in different zones/rooms and control it from a phone or tablet. Not sure on speakers, maybe something running off of raspberry pi's or just standalone speakers if that would work. Anyone doing something like this?

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[–] easeKItMAn@lemmy.world 5 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children)

I can recommend mopidy and snapcast.
This will allow for a Sonos like setup you are looking for.

[–] tofubl@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Snapcast works incredibly well for multi-device audio.

Has anyone tried setting up multiple zones with it that can play different things at the same time? I imagine you would need one snapcast server per zone? And is there an easy way to assign the clients to one of the servers?

[–] easeKItMAn@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago

You can configure multiple zones on a server snap with multiple hosts
A client can assign to one host only.

[–] Limit@lemm.ee 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

This looks really cool. Any recommendations on clients(speakers)? I have a couple of older raspberry pies I could use if as remote speakers, but I'd need a few more.

[–] easeKItMAn@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago

Personally I use Raspi 2 and Zero for that purpose. HATS for digital connection or if you want connecting speakers directly consider AMP2 HAT.
Homeassistant controls grouping, volume etc.