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We hardwired our Sonoses to speakers when we installed them in 2006 — the whole wireless thing was irrelevant. We got them purely for the convenience of the wir
by wrs 7y ago
We hardwired our Sonoses to speakers when we installed them in 2006 — the whole wireless thing was irrelevant. We got them purely for the convenience of the wireless controller for playing music from the file server in the basement and the occasional internet stream. There wasn’t anything else like that at the time at a reasonable price.
This is an opportunity to revisit that decision. In 2020, what should I replace them with that’s equally convenient (including for visitors), letting you control all the rooms from anywhere on your phone, can handle all the random streaming services, and can still play my library from the basement?
- givinguflac 7y agoThere really isn’t anything in the market that does everything you listed well except Sonos.
- zaroth 7y agoOnce you can AirPlay to your amp, you can do everything wrs wants. Any streaming service on your phone (or guests phone) will just AirPlay to the amp. To play music off the file server, I’ve heard Roon app is pretty good. If you want different music per zone, you can just setup multiple Raspberry Pis connected to different inputs on the amp and give them different AirPlay names.
- givinguflac 7y agoThat’s an awful experience. With Sonos it doesn’t matter what kind of connection my phone has to the network, and music won’t stutter or stop depending on where the phone is. I say again, there is nothing that offers the same experience. Good luck supporting a non-techie with an RPi setup
- wrs 7y agoI’m ashamed to admit that not all of my visitors have iPhones.