Hello,
Please could you confirm for me the functionality of Airplay on HifiberryOS with multiple devices.
I currently have a pi4 and DAC HD and airplay works well from my iphone with spotify and others.
I want to get another pi4 and Dac setup in another room. If i do will i be able to play to both of these devices at the same time via my iphone, or will it just be one at a time? Plus can I adjust volume independently to each pi4?
Thanks
This would require Airplay 2. Today, there are no fully working Open Source Airplay 2 implementations, therefore: No, at least not today. Might this come at some point? Maybe.
Thanks
Ok, so I fully understand, if i had 2 x pi4/DAC running HifiberryOS I can only play to one device at once from my iphone.
Can I then play to the other pi4 with another phone (i.e. my wives)?
Is there a way to use another setup or software control solution(with the pis) to then have the same content in both rooms / systems?
Thank you
This has nothing to do with HiFiBerryOS, but with the Airplay implementation on the iPhone that doesn't support multiroom audio without Airplay 2.
There are lots of multiroom audio systems, most popular are
- Logitech Media Server
- Roon
These are designed for synchronized playback on multiple devices.
There is a solution to this. As the HiFiBerry team pointed out this is a limitation of iOS. If you are having a Mac you can use a software called Airfoil from Rogue Amoeba.
With this solution you can stream from your iPhone to Airfoil and Airfoil transmits then to every Airplay receiver which is available on your network. I'm using Airfoil since many years and can confirm that this solution works.
Am I missing something? I have 2 HiFiBerry units and can use airplay to send to both of them at the same timeframe my iPhone. I just press the AirPlay icon and select both units. The sound plays on both. Based on what I read here this shouldn’t work.
In the latest release Airplay2 has been included that allows streaming to multiple endpoints