Phone audio as source

[Dejv311]

I would really appreciate being able to connect my phone/pc to home assistant like a source (not over spotify/miracast, but like a bluetooth speaker).

The idea is, that there is no easy way to stream local phone music/pc game sounds/smart tv audio to HA, thus all the products need a separate playback system.

Please vote, if this is something you would like to see too...

[erkr]

Thanks for your request

[Torrax]

I really like this idea. Would it be possible to implement a music provider that sources from a local soundcard on the running system? I have an external bluetooth receiver with a button so people can quickly connect. It would be awesome to stream that audio though a sound card to the music assistant.

This would also allow us to connect things like projectors to your outdoor speakers, turn your home speakers into a PA system for events. Play from a record player to different zones all around your house. I think there are a bunch of great opportunities here. I'm going to try to take a shot at it myself but might need to pick some brains.

[OzGav]

Saw your Discord post as well. There has also been related discussion here https://github.com/orgs/music-assistant/discussions/1169#discussioncomment-5793412

[arretx]

This can be done, but it requires a few things. You can use two of the Dante AVIO adapters to accomplish this goal. They have a Bluetooth receiver that you connect your mobile device to, and then it connects to your network switch. Then, you use a Dante Analog output to send that network based audio to an analog amplifier, like a whole house audio amplifier. Use Music Assistant to select the media player (for example, the Monoprice 6-channel amp creates 6 media players) and then adjust the source for that media-player to be the analog input that the Dante AVIO analog is connected to. Voila! You have networked audio. And, with Dante Virtual Sound Card, any of your computers (hard-wired ethernet) can transmit audio to the Dante network which the AVIO can convert to analog.

[OzGav]

The docs describe a way to stream to MA https://music-assistant.io/faq/stream-to/

[Hedda]

FYI, for reference, I have previously used the open-source ”Vinyl Cast” app on an Android phone/tablet with a USB Audio Device adapter (Behringer UCA202) for casting analog input from a vinyl record player / LP turntable to Chromecast Audio dongle using Google Cast but it has been very buggy.

https://vinylcast.schober.tech/

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=tech.schober.vinylcast.playstore

https://github.com/aschober/vinyl-cast

https://youtu.be/HBDkxEvCcHQ

PS: The initial release of the Vinyl Cast app also included using Audio ACR to detect the song being played, but unfortunately this feature relied on was discontinued in third-party library/service so the feature was removed.