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Easiest way to create player targets for Music Assistant to connect to an active speaker via SPDIF for <$30 ? Squeezelite seems like a good candidate, but unsure how to connect to SPDIF (self.homeassistant)

submitted 6 months ago by sylverstream to c/homeassistant@lemmy.world

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I'm struggling to find the easiest solution to connect a set of active speakers that have BT/Optical (Toslink)/Coax. I currently use a tablet to stream Deezer via BT, but I want to be able to use them in Music Assistant. I tried Bubblepnp on the tablet, but it's too slow for that, it wasn't reliable.

I don't want to spend 100s of dollars on e.g. Sonos stuff. I see Squeezelite as a good option, but I'm unsure how to connect an SPDIF speaker. The docs say you can connect to one of the pins. Do I just cut the plug of an SPDIF cable and then connect to it?

I don't have a 3D printer, ideally I want a box around it.

Ideally there's an out-of-the-box solution. Any tips or help appreciated.

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[–] sylverstream 4 points 6 months ago (1 children)

MA and HA are hosted on a RPi4 in the garage, not near the speakers.

[–] Tolookah@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

Squeezelite with a USB spdif out might work? (I'm unsure myself, I have my squeeze server able to connect to my casting devices)

Bonus: a USB spdif out isn't pricey says a very quick search

Edit: I'm dumb. https://github.com/sle118/squeezelite-esp32?tab=readme-ov-file#spdif

So they suggest either a specialized chip, which will likely need more hardware, or this little circuit. (See link) I would say if you had an extra coax cable, to cut an end and solder away, but that's assuming a lot.

Second edit: they can connect to Bluetooth as well.

[–] sylverstream 3 points 6 months ago

Thanks mate, much appreciated. That's what I mean, it's complicated... I have no idea what extra hardware I'd need. I just want to connect it via Coaxial and the only thing I can find is very complicated docs like you found :)

BT is not an option as I'd like to keep using the tablet directly to BT in case MA/HA is down.