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Beocreate board - 2 Zone / TV Audio

Richard Garrard

November 28, 2021 10:55

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I current have a HiFi Berry AMP setup for garden speakers, it works great but im looking at adding a set of speakers inside my garden lodge that the garden speakers are on.

I would like to be able to use the audio from a TV I have in there too. I was looking at Bluetooth but I am worried about audio delay.

I came onto HiFi Berry today to get a second AMP setup for a set of speakers inside my lodge but saw the Beocreate board and wondered if it would be a better option for me.

Can anyone tell me if I could use this to power the inside speakers and outside speakers (with separate volume controls), also have the option to output the audio from my TV via optical into the Beocreate board?

I current use HiFiBerry OS and would like to stay with this if I can.

I have looked at all the info I can find on the Becreate board but I have not found a simple answer.

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  HiFiBerry team November 28, 2021 13:56

  Beocreate is not designed for 2 independent zones. 
  
  You can output the TV output connected to TOSLink. Make sure, your TV can output plain Stereo, as the Beocreate can't decode any compressed audio over TOSLink.

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  Richard Garrard November 28, 2021 14:33

  The 2 zones would never be used for different sources at the same time.
  Maybe the outside pair would be on with the inside off or the other way round.
  They are to close together to be different sources.
  So this may be the drop in replacement I’m looking for.

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  HiFiBerry team November 28, 2021 14:42

  Even turning on/off a pair is something that's not really easy do to. You would have to change the speaker configuration for this. It's possible, but I would not say that's user friendly.