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It turns your good old hifi system into smart speakers: When listening to music on your phone, you can choose to listen via Ottercast. Then the music will come
by borlox 3y ago
It turns your good old hifi system into smart speakers:
When listening to music on your phone, you can choose to listen via Ottercast. Then the music will come out of the hifi system connected to the ottercast.
It does this via Wifi and the protocols Airplay, Pulseaudio, Spotify Connect and Snapcast.
- reedlaw 3y agoHow would I do the reverse? That is, turn smart speakers into regular speakers. I have a Sonos Move but it can't play audio from my desktop PC with no bluetooth. I could buy a bluetooth dongle, but honestly I find wired connections easier to manage than pairing bluetooth devices, especially when you need to switch paired devices. I was hoping this OtterCast would have both bluetooth and line-in so I could do this (connect the bluetooth to the Sonos and the line-in to a desktop or other device).
- traverseda 3y agoPresuming you're using linux you can use one of the ottercast devices as a pulseaudio network sinc. It should just show up in your list of audio devices, although I admit I've never actually used a network pulseaudio sinc. If you wanted fancier multi-room audio you could install snapcast on your computer.
- q87b 3y agoOh nice, thank you!