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HifiBerrys for a 6k sq. house - help requested

Hannes Nussmüller

June 15, 2020 19:20

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Hi all,

I'm looking for a way to handle the following use cases and came across the HifiBerry products. Any way to handle them? What do you suggest?

1. every Bathroom: 2x speakers (each 70/120 watts (RMS/Max.), 8 Ohms, recomm. amplifier out 20 - 140 watts) => use-case: connect Echo (Alexa) via Bluetooth and Smartphone to play music; additionally the bathrooms have TVs, output of TVs should come from the speakers. The speakers are a little bit special and require 4 cables each (2x +; 2x -)
   
   
2. Kitchen: 2x speakers (each 80/140 watts (RMS/Max.), 8 Ohms, recomm. amplifier out 20 - 160 watts) => use-case: connect Echo (Alexa) via Bluetooth and Smartphone to play music; additionally the kitchen has a TV, output of TV should come from the speakers
   
   
3. every Bedroom: 4x speakers (each 80/140 watts (RMS/Max.), 8 Ohms, recomm. amplifier out 20 - 160 watts) => use-case: connect Echo (Alexa) via Bluetooth and Smartphone to play music; additionally the bedrooms have TVs, output of TVs should come from the speakers

I'm grateful for every help you can provide to find the best set-up.
The hifi cables end up in a huge flush-mounted distributor (central aggregation of the cables) but this can be easily changed to having everything end up in each room separately.

Thank you,
Daniel

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  HiFiBerry team June 16, 2020 06:52

  The only product that can do this is the Beocreate-channel amplifier, if your TVs have Stereo TOSLink outputs. The TOSLink output from your TV has to be connected to the Beocreate optical input.

  With HiFiBerryOS (https://www.hifiberry.com/os)you can select the TOSLink input or have it activated automatically.

  I recommend the decentralized installation with Pi/amplifier in each room.
  
  I don't have any experience with BT/Echo connectivity. I would strongly recommend to test this first to check if this works stable. Even with network connectivity echo devices sometimes loose connectivity and needs to be rebooted. This might also happen with Bluetooth. Therefore, I recommend to first test if this works stable.

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  Hannes Nussmüller June 16, 2020 19:31

  Ok thank you. Then I'll get one Beocreate first to see if it fully satifies the needs. Will report how that goes.