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• realcaseyrollins ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  To be fair, they're quite convenient. I had one when I was living with my parents.

  That said, they're not so convenient that I died when I stopped using them after moving out. The only thing I miss now is having a device to cast Spotify to. I wish they made a House Thing.

  • HeadfullofSoup@kbin.earth ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Nothing a normal wireless speaker won’t do ( the spotify part not the spying on you part )

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    • mrmanager@lemmy.today ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      I have a friend who uses Home Assistant for everything, with a huge devops lab at home connected to various sensors. Seemed very professional.

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  • ThePantser@sh.itjust.works ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    The Home Assistant community is working to build the local assistant which includes audio output. You can then play music from Music Assistant which allows connection to other streaming platforms.

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    • realcaseyrollins ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      That would be perfect! Is the project called Home Assistant?

      • ThePantser@sh.itjust.works ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        Yea you can run Music Assistant without HA but then you might as well get the home automation benefits.

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  • atomicbocks@sh.itjust.works ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    There are AirPlay and Chromecast devices you can get that will do that part. I have castable speakers in every room and not one of them also has a microphone or requires an app.

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    • realcaseyrollins ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Do they connect to the internet as well so that they can be independent speakers that your Spotify account can cast to?

      • atomicbocks@sh.itjust.works ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        I’m not exactly sure what you are asking, it sounds like you want to be able to play music to a speaker or group of speakers without being in the same location, but then you wouldn’t be able to hear it. I think maybe Sonos stuff can be controlled like that but I am not sure. Otherwise why would you need the device itself to connect to the Internet and not the device initiating the casting? (Though in some cases they, especially the chromecast, will hand the stream to the casted to device rather than streaming it from the initiating device across your local network but I don’t think that’s what you are asking about either.) AirPlay for instance will just play whatever audio is currently playing on the casting device no different than if they were headphones. You can also set up AirPlay receiving on things like a Raspberry Pi if you want to try it out before buying dedicated hardware.

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