First of all, I’m super happy with having found a multiroom solution at last for music streaming. But always looking for the perfect solution I have the following “issue”;
At times I want to play music in multiple rooms at the same time, but at times my girlfriend would like to listen to certain music in let’s say the living room as I am listening to different music in let’s say the bedroom.
Is there a more elegant way to achieve this than going into the settings and adding or removing the DISABLE_MULTI_ROOM command every time I would like to switch between local and multiroom playback?
Hey there, I don’t think we have a better solution for that, but I will open an issue in the repo and we can decide whether it is something we want to work on. If you have anything in mind on how to solve it, feel free to open a PR Here is the issue, feel free to add any suggestions or details there: https://github.com/balenalabs/balena-sound/issues/181
Just a follow up note here changing device mode (MULTI_ROOM; STANDALONE) is now possible via the “secret” UI at http://<DEVICE_IP>:3000/secret. For now this is experimental, meaning that we don’t advertise it too much as it still needs polishing and more features will be added.
I tried to change the device mode using the secret UI. In the log I see that the applicable multiroom services are exited, but I get no sound output from the device, I can chose it as an speaker in Spotify/airplay but there is no sound, in default multiroom mode I got sound. Any ideas what’s wrong?
Here is the issue, feel free to add any suggestions or details there: