Guide: Stream Audio to Airplay (Sonos, Homepod, etc.)

[pomartel]

My Thinkpad speakers sound awful and I wanted to be able to stream audio to my Sonos This is supported out of the box with Spotify but I wanted to make it work for default audio output too (watching Youtube is good use case).

I found this procedure on the ArchWiki and it worked very well so I wanted to share it with others.

1. Install the pipewire-zeroconf package

It enables automatic discovery and connection of audio and video devices on a local network using Zeroconf protocols.

sudo pacman -S pipewire-zeroconf

2. Load the RAOP Discover module

Copy this to /etc/pipewire/pipewire.conf.d/raop-discover.conf or ~/.config/pipewire/pipewire.conf.d/raop-discover.conf:

context.modules = [
   {
       name = libpipewire-module-raop-discover
       args = { }
   }
]

3. For Sonos devices, open up ports 6001 and 6002 for incoming UDP traffic.

sudo ufw allow 6001/udp comment "Stream to Airplay"
sudo ufw allow 6002/udp comment "Stream to Airplay"

4. Restart pipewire

omarchy-restart-pipewire

Now when you click the speaker icon in the waybar and go to the Output Devices tab of wiremix, you should see your Ariplay speakers listed there.

@dhh I could turn this into a PR but I think you ditched your Sonos. And it does require opening up some firewall ports.

[Carson-Bay]

What speakers are supported by this, any "Airplay enabled systems"?

Also curious about the performance, how quick can you switch between the speakers?

[Carson-Bay]

Also, will this config be overwritten by Omarchy updates?

[pomartel]

No that should not get overwritten. I only have Sonos speakers and they all work with this setup. It should work with any device that supports Airplay. Performance wise, it's a little slow to start and stop (1-2 seconds delay). But once started, the sound is well synced with the image if watching a video.

[Carson-Bay]

Incredible, i'm excited to try it, seems like an awesome integration