markbrauer wrote: > An update as of Saturday morning. > > I did activate squeeze2upnp and indeed, as CommanderROR's research > predicted, the Chromecast is not found as a DLNA device. So, at least > for now, the dream of an inexpensive "real" Squeezebox is not > happening. > > Casting from separate Android apps is very unsatisfying. Really makes > one miss the unified interface the Squeezebox system provides. > > Most promising is using Squeeze Player to cast from a phone (post #39). > But doing this last night took my phone battery from near-fully-charged > to nearly-dead in about two hours. Never had a phone lose charge so > fast. Evidently casting takes juice! But, if one was willing to get a > cheap cast-capable Android (locally MetroPCS offers a no contract LG > Leon LTE running 5.0 Lollipop for $29) and dedicate it to music player > duties, one could put together an "almost-a-real-Squeezebox" device. > Lets see - $35 for the Chromecast Audio - $29 for the phone - Squeeze > Player is free - that's $64 total. Both the phone and Chromecast would > need constant power, but the so does a Touch. Use another phone as > controller, or any other Squeezebox control. Could work.
.... or just get a Rocki which works with upnpbridge ? Touch - Muse M50 EX TPA3123 T-Amp Mini - Acoustics Q10 speakers Logitech Radio Logitech UE Radio Raspberry Pi + Squeezeplug LMS + Squeezelite Cubieboard + Debian 7 + LMS 7.8.1 + Squeezelite - Soundwave SW100 bluetooth speaker O2 Joggler + SqpOS + Aune X2 T-amp + Mordaunt Short ms-3.40 speakers IBOX + Debian 7 + LMS 7.8.1 + Squeezelite - Soundwave SW100 bluetooth speaker UPnPBridge - O2 Joggler - 2 paired Sonos Play1 speakers UPnPBridge - Rocki - Sony SRS-BTM8 speaker Pure One Flow ------------------------------------------------------------------------ castalla's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=15624 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=104383 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
