Thanks, someone else linked this too: https://github.com/rgerganov/shanocast

I’ve thought about running wires too but I don’t always want it playing in every room, and the convenience of "cast to [group A] [group B] etc is too convenient for my family to give up.

That makes sense but I just wanted to check. Someone else linked this to me but it appears at least one other open source project works with it https://github.com/rgerganov/shanocast

Now that’s interesting! Thanks

The cast button works with Apple Airplay and Sonos devices yeah? I also believe it works with (some) Wiim devices.

Dang OK thanks yeah we need all apps (Tidal, BandCamp, Pocketcasts etc) not just Spotify.

Music assistant is indeed cool and can do multi-room, but you have to go to it specifically first.

Snapcast allows me to use the “chromecast” button inside the spotify app?

Won’t work with multiroom unfortunately.

I have a home server, I just need the little parts that plug into the speaker.

I actually looked into Wiim and it’s really great, but you need to open the music in their app in order to do mutiroom. You can’t just “cast” from Spotify or whatever.

EDIT: Some Wiim devices have chromecast built in

Yep that’s exactly what I did. The bulbs flashed and appeared to be reset. Like I said the official Hue app can’t even detect them without the serial method.

I am going to figure out Zigbee2Mqtt and see if that works, but it feels weird to install a new addon and migrate everything over when Home Assistant has that functionality baked in. Also like I said even the official Hue App and Bridge can’t detect the bulbs, I need to enter the serial. I was hoping ZHA or MQTT had an “enter serial” method.

Thanks I’ll give it a shot. I was trying to avoid more add-ons and the rest of my network is already configured with ZHA. But like I said even the official Hue Bridge/app can’t discover these bulbs without the serial number method.

ZHA

This is what I did and ZHA couldn’t find it.

Thanks, but I don’t think that’s it. I rebooted and also tried adding a new container to NGINX with a DuckDNS url and it won’t load on the local network.

Well like I said DuckDNS is working

Hm, pinging works and shows my (external) IP. But no device I’ve tested can load the duckdns URL.

EDIT: Two of the URLS show the local IP replying when pinged. Not configured any differently so I’m not sure what’s going on there. This was a PiHole thing apparently

Yes and DuckDNS is working flawlessly everywhere except that the network the server is also connected to.

Arris G36 but I don’t believe that’s the issue as it was working for years before now and on a different router too.

Thanks for the response but restarting the modem/router didn’t change anything, nor did creating a new container/NGINX config.