Home Built a $35 RPi-based AirPlay receiver (replacing a dead Airport Express) - Works great!

[ErikGrim]

AirFly works the opposite way, getting audio out of the device to bluetooth headphones. This sends audio wirelessly into the device.

I'm flabbergasted no one has created an AirFly like device for AirPlay 2 yet. So many turntables out there that could be connected to AP speakers and HomePods.

 

[Cndnmax]

Throw Home Assistant on a Pi and you can also make all your non-HomeKit smart devices HomeKit compatible in addition to making an Airplay receiver.

 

[dirkthedaring83]

I've deployed Max2Play with Justboom digi hats. The multi-room support is from running a Squeeze Server which was originally put out by Logitech which is included in Max2Play. https://www.max2play.com https://www.justboom.com

 

[mannyvel]

I keep a stash of AEs because they have digital out (via mini toslink). I just set one up an hour ago. They're sweet little audio distribution points. The optical out means the systems they're attached to can sleep and wake up when there's a signal, which usually doesn't happen with analog inputs.

 

[mk313]

Interesting post. I was looking to do something similar this weekend, but before I saw this post. We ended up using an old Apple TV (gen 2) and hooking it up to our receiver via a digital audio cable (according to a CNET article I read, they do sell a pretty inexpensive digital audio to analog converter) and it works great.