New Multiroom solution for Fibaro

[Guest Roman]

Hi, all Fibaro users.

 

We are smart home company from Ukraine. For a long time we are try to find audio multiroom solution. Sonos speakers are quite expensive, so we wanted to use something cheaper.

So we found great product called iEAST:

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It has fancy phone application which allows to do everything with it. Let me provide main advantages:

- playback from different online services

- playback from SD card

- multiroom (possibility to group several players into one zone).

- IR remote control

- Stereo 3.5mm analog output and SPDIF optical

- Great sound quality

- Wi-Fi and wired connection

 

But unfornunately there is no API in order to connect it to Fibaro.

And we spent some time to investigate requests from these devices and developed our own plugin for HC2.

At this moment plugin (virtual device) allows to do almost same as native application provided with device.

 

Please check our demo:

 

And short video how this device looks:

 

This post addressed to Fibaro developers. What do you think about this device?

Do you want to help to imporove this plugin?

 

P.S. If I'm not wrong we have only Sonos Multiroom devices which works with Fibaro?

 

Latest code with documentation located here:

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Edited April 24, 2017 by Roman

[Kage 37]

Like the "sound" of it

[viperlodz 36]

It looks great. I made somethink like this on raspberry pi with mopidy.

[Soft 17]

Personly I want something like this, but with a built in speaker amp.

All this items requiers you to have a speaker systems that is in need of power, and you don't want to install power to all speaker locations.

[Guest Roman]

Our company cooperates with this manufacturer.

They have big plans and going to develop several similar products like speakers and players and so on.

We use such products for Fibaro Smart home.

[julexmon 21]

Looks nice. But I think myrocki is cheaper.

[Guest Roman]

Does myrocki support multiroom?

(possibility to play same stream synchronously)

[cford67 0]

I have one of these units, is the code available i'd like to try it?

thanks.

[dhanjel 7]

Looks nice. But I think myrocki is cheaper.

I had problems getting rocki to work reliable.

Now I use Chromecast instead and some scripts on a raspberry pi to help communicate

[julexmon 21]

I don't know if rocki supports multiroom, at least they wanted too. I am using logitech media server and squeezeplayers on severall raspberry pi's some with DAC some without. Easy to install. Works perfekt.

[Guest Roman]

I don't know if rocki supports multiroom, at least they wanted too. I am using logitech media server and squeezeplayers on severall raspberry pi's some with DAC some without. Easy to install. Works perfekt.

 

Could you share more info about you implementation?

Do you have plugin for Fibaro which works with it?

[Guest Roman]

I have one of these units, is the code available i'd like to try it?

thanks.

Yes, sure I will provide this code.

[Alex 31]

Like the "sound" of it

Because of the sound in the first movie you are not able to play it regularly in Germany

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[julexmon 21]

Could you share more info about you implementation?

Do you have plugin for Fibaro which works with it?

 

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[Hoggle 1]

It looks great. I made somethink like this on raspberry pi with mopidy.

Do you control the Raspberry from your HC2?

[viperlodz 36]

Do you control the Raspberry from your HC2?

Yes I control mopidy by HC2.

[Hoggle 1]

Do you usw GET/PUT codes or curl?

Via LUA-scence or VD?

[Guest Roman]

Thank you for inputs!

We are improving Virtual Device for controlling iEAST and soon will be able to provide it.

 

I think all smart home installers are interested in such devices:

- in should be a box, which ready for usage without additional hardware development.

- good audio quality

- multi-room support

- there is no need to maintain additional media server (linux or windows).

- user friendly design

 

As I can see, there is only Sonos (but it's very expensive). So iEAST if very good replacement IMHO.

[viperlodz 36]

There are more than Sonos.

There is also NuVo and Heos (Denon) and with max 3 rooms you can use Denon amplituner.

With denon amplituner you have the best quality.

[Guest Roman]

Could you provide approx prices for NuVo and Denon Heos?