![]() ![]() …at what point do the uPNP commands enter the balena system? On arrival at the media sharing server? So in this model, which bit has authority to commands which bit? The uPNP client on the phone has authority to issue uPNP commands to the media sharing server, through the uPNP server on the playback device… So the uPNP server sits on the playback device not the media-sharing-server. So uPNP is a server/client model too… …not peer to peer. So in my situation where I have 3 devices, a control client, a media sharing server, and a playback client, I can use uPNP. I would set up Balena Sound on the rpi on the kitchen hifi and once plumbed it to the server, it would instruction the server play whatever is sent from the server to the rpi…? So I am using 3 physical devices and a different program on each, and due to the magic on upnp this all just works. The server would rung Madsonic/subsonic/?emby/?plex and would follow instruction from the UPNP app on the phone to play sound. Just so I get this right: I would Try bubbleUPNP/equivalent on our android phones, and connect it to the server. I can’t convince her the apple price tag is worth it, new to a macbook myself. If the songs were already appearing in an app, that would mean she could more easily use the music she has accumulated over the years rather than just be another google data point and listening to whatever they suggest. My wife uses YouTube because it is easier than navigating a network aware file browser app to the server and playing through that. It’s an open standard, and you should be able to find other apps that work for you as well.Īhh that’s amazing thanks for such quick and complete reply, There’s lots I don’t know but that really connected the dots for me. You can use something like Bubble UPnP on Android, or JuP&P on iOS - to control the source (your server) and the destination (balenaSound on a Pi) - as well as the music related controls. About your music on the server - you can use UPnP.This is limited to iOS devices of course - but for other devices, you have bluetooth - also supported by balenaSound. That way she controls the music from her phone, but the sound is output on the speakers connected to the Pi. If your wife is playing music over YouTube, and is using an iOS device, she could change the speaker to point to the AirPlay part of balenaSound.The communication between multiple raspberry pis is local to your network.So the music doesn’t go through our servers. ![]() The data that is being generated or consumed by your application isn’t related to balenaCloud. So we help with getting an application on the device, and monitoring it. balena is a platform for managing your fleet.If so would this still use Balena cloud? and why? Can the phone app mount a shared network drive, or play from a media server software to a Balena sound rpi? Looking at all the Balena sound tutorials, it looks like the music has to be on the phone. I want the control app on the phone to show the album art when she uses the phone, the server to send the music to an rpi in the kitchen, driving the dumb hifi. I think balena fit in here but I am not sure. She won’t use any new screen I add to the hifi. I am setting this up for my wife, as she likes her music in the kitchen when she cooks (I prefer silence - can’t focus on the recipe otherwise) She like to just stream her music from YouTube over her crap phone speakers, but we have all her CD music on the server, and a nice hifi there in the kitchen. I have all the music on a server, and I want to stream it to the dumb kitchen hifi. ![]() I cannot tell if balena sound is talking to the local raspberry pies only or talking to the cloud? Does music go from the phone to the master rpi? or through a Balena cloud server? From what I have read, I cannot fully grok the working model for Balena Sound. Few “silly questions” if you wouldn’t mind advising a new starter. ![]()
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