Home Automation

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Home automation is the residential extension of building automation.

It is automation of the home, housework or household activity.

Home automation may include centralized control of lighting, HVAC (heating, ventilation and air conditioning), appliances, security locks of gates and doors and other systems, to provide improved convenience, comfort, energy efficiency and security.

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Distributed audio for existing speaker systems? Like Chromecast Audio (alien.top)

submitted 10 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I'm wondering if there are any solutions to add distributed audio to existing speakers. I remember that Google used to sell an audio-only Chromecast with 3.5mm out. I think they got into a pissing match with Sonos and lost so they killed it. Is there something else I can look at to add audio to my existing bookshelf speakers and sound bars? Is there a cost-effective audio extractor of I wanted to just use some video Chromecast or something?

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

I'm building out a system to sync music between my multiple bookshelf systems using snapcast on rPi /hi berry DAC running Mopidy music players. Should be able to plug into any device depending on the DAC you choose. Control from my phone. Choose which snapcast /combo of snapcast clients to sync to. All without having to run multichannel audio to every room