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Comment by globular-toast

24 days ago

I don't see any mention of UPnP. Is anyone using a set up where they have some kind of headless device plugged in to a hi-fi amp and just want to control it from their phone without switching on another screen?

The combination of OwnTone running on your server and a Wiim Mini (or any of the other Wiim products) is great for this:

OwnTone is a media server that lets you play audio sources such as local files, Spotify, pipe input or internet radio to AirPlay 1 and 2 receivers, Chromecast receivers, Roku Soundbridge, a browser or the server’s own sound system. Or you can listen to your music via any client that supports mp3 streaming.

You control the server via a web interface, Apple Remote, an Android remote (e.g. Retune), an MPD client, json API or DACP.

OwnTone also serves local files via the Digital Audio Access Protocol (DAAP) to iTunes (Windows), Apple Music (macOS) and Rhythmbox (Linux), and via the Roku Server Protocol (RSP) to Roku devices.

Runs on Linux, BSD and macOS

Raspberry Pi Zero 2W running Moode Audio. It's perfect. I have an old iPad running a kiosk-like browser to control but the norm is via web UI remotely.