They have Family accounts but they're completely broken in multi-zone setups.Update – Serviio version 2.0 is a new major version, so existing Serviio 1.x licences will not unlock the Pro features without a fresh licence purchase.
Multi-stream subscriptions for Spotify and Google Music. There's a guide to multi-room audio with snapcast, mopidy and HomeAssistant on the HA site. The August PCR450 RF remotes are awesome (never going back to IR!) though hard to use in the dark. Snapdroid is the official snapclient for Android. (We're basically exploiting the analogue hole to get multi-zone Chromecast audio on everything!). We use the HA component for volume control but the group support needs work.Ī Chromecast Audio is connected to a USB sound card on the server and sent via cpiped to the Snapcast server. The sync, even with a mixture of wifi and a hard-wired devices is amazing. Provides Mopidy, Airplay, Spotify and Chromecast streams. Snapcast server does multi-zone, multi-stream synchronized audio.
#SERVIIO VS TWONKY ANDROID#
Plex provides DLNA (used by Volumio and android DLNA apps) - but you could try some others like mediatomb or minidlna instead. Iris web front-end to Mopidy integrates with Snapcast (including volume control - the only web front-end I know that does so) Mopidy provides MPD ( HA component), Spotify and TuneIn. (NFS would be much faster, but doesn't support our particular permissions structure) Google Home (integrated with HA) plays from Spotify (and Google Music) and casts to the server-side Chromecast Audio. Hi-Fi Cast is one of the few good DLNA clients on Android. Two Onkyo TX-NR636 amps (with Spotify integration we don't use) integrated with HA (beware the remote control protocol is very buggy on older Onkyos). Volumio runs on music-only players (RPis), integrates with HA and consumes media from DLNA (from Plex), Spotify (librespot), Snapcast (client and server), Airplay (shairport-sync) and web radio (TuneIn and Shoutcast). Reads media from autofs-mounted Samba/CIFS. HA integration including auto-dimming while playing media. Integrates Snapcast and Airplay ( shairport-sync). Kodi still runs (on RPis) in rooms with displays. The aim is to support multi-stream, multi-zone audio from any device and integrate it with HA. So now we've moved to a heterogeneous system where essentially anyone can use whatever they prefer to play media. So that got ruled out as an all-in-one solution. Its ability for clients and servers to find each other (and sometimes even themselves!) was outrageously unreliable. Tried Plex but its dynamic discovery is a total misfeature. It's still the single most reliable and manageable media system we have.
Yatse is an excellent Android remote but the iOS remotes were sorely lacking. That worked well for many years - long before HA came along. We started off with Kodi (or XBMC as it was) as the front-end everywhere, using it on RPis (via OSMC) in rooms with displays (TVs or projectors), and on Android tablets (a batch of Kindle Fire 7s) in other rooms (kitchen, library, bedrooms). Tl dr: Separate servers, players and controllers FTW! Kodi still rocks. There's just so much going on in this space and there's no complete solution so I hope you'll forgive this rather long description of what we've ended up with.
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