This is a little daemon that can retrieve an audio stream via TCP socket or from a Alsa Loopback device and stream it to Airplay/Airtunes compatible receivers. Via Web UI or MQTT you can control the receivers volume and enable/disable the receivers.
npm install airtunes2mqtt
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> Multi-Room Audio based on Airplay/Airtunes with MQTT support 🔈
This is a little daemon that can retrieve an audio stream via TCP socket or from a Alsa Loopback device and stream it
to one or more Airplay/Airtunes compatible receivers. Via its Web UI or MQTT you can control the receivers volume and enable/disable the
receivers. I'm using it in conjunction with Mopidy to create a Multiroom Smart Home integrated
audio playback system with several Airplay Speakers.
Based on lperrins node_airtunes - all credits
belong to him. Also thanks to Adam Duncan for creating a
fork that works with recent versions of Node.js.
Prerequisite: Node.js >= 6
``
$ sudo npm install -g airtunes2mqtt
$ airtunes2mqtt --help
I suggest to use pm2 to manage the airtunes2mqtt process (start on system boot, manage log
files, ...).
`
Usage: airtunes2mqtt [options]
Options:
--disable-web disable web server
--web-port web server listening port [default: 8096]
--version Show version number [boolean]
-h, --help Show help [boolean]
-u, --mqtt-url mqtt broker url. May contain user/password
[default: "mqtt://127.0.0.1"]
-s, --speaker name:host:port or name:host:portStart:portEnd of speaker. May
be repeated. [required]
-n, --name instance name. used as mqtt client id and as prefix for
connected topic [default: "airtunes"]
-v, --verbosity possible values: "error", "warn", "info", "debug"
[default: "info"]
-p, --port TCP Listen port for audio reception [default: 12346]
-l, --loopback Use Alsa loopback device instead of TCP listener [boolean]
-d, --device Alsa loopback device [default: "hw:Loopback,1"]
`
`
$ airtunes2mqtt -s LivingRoom:192.168.2.100:5000 Kitchen:192.168.2.103:5000 -s SoundFly:192.168.2.105:1024:1032 -v debug
`
[audio]
output = audioconvert ! audio/x-raw,format=S16LE,rate=44100,channels=2,layout=interleaved ! tcpclientsink host=127.0.0.1 port=12346
Airtunes2mqtt offers a simple user interface (web app capable) to enable/disable speakers and adjust volume:
I just added the airtunes2mqtt ui into the frontend of my mopidy server ("musicbox webclient") by removing the original
volume slider and adding an iframe:
!musicbox
/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/mopidy_musicbox_webclient/static/index.html
`diff`
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+
* airtunes/set/ - Enable or disable a speaker (payload can be true, false, 0 or 1)airtunes/set/
* - Disable a speaker (payload is irrelevant)airtunes/set/
* - Set a speakers volume (payload has to be a number between 0 and 100)
* airtunes/connected - Publishes 1 after airtunes2mqtt started, 2 when a client is connected via tcp socket 0
respectively when the alsa loopback device is connected and as last will.airtunes/status/activeSpeakers
* - Number of currently enables speakers.airtunes/status/speaker/enable
* - Actual speaker state.airtunes/status/speaker/volume` - Actual speaker volume.
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MIT Copyright (c) 2015-2018 Sebastian 'hobbyquaker' Raff
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