# Indoor/outdoor home audio help **URL:** \ **Category:** Projects & Stories\ **Tags:** project\_av\ **Created:** [July 31, 2016, 1:30pm UTC](https://community.smartthings.com/t/indoor-outdoor-home-audio-help/53995 "2016-07-31T13:30:15Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![egobuster1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a4c791/32.png) [@egobuster1](https://community.smartthings.com/u/egobuster1)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2016, 6:40pm UTC](https://community.smartthings.com/t/indoor-outdoor-home-audio-help/53995/21 "2016-08-01T18:40:52Z")
well looks like i have a couple options. 2 zone receivers with 1 zone running 5.1 and zone 2 running outdoor speakers. or a 2 zone receivers with zone 1 running 5.1 and zone 2 going to a speaker selector to control audio throughout the house and could possibly use harmony hub to control speaker selector. or get a standalone amplifier and hook it up to a set of outdoor speakers with apple airport express and stream off my iPhone. i guess it just depend on what all i want and how much i wanna spend at this point lol ---
**Author:** ![michaelahess](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/smartthings/user_avatar/community.smartthings.com/michaelahess/32/27733_2.png) [@michaelahess](https://community.smartthings.com/u/michaelahess)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2016, 7:20pm UTC](https://community.smartthings.com/t/indoor-outdoor-home-audio-help/53995/22 "2016-08-01T19:20:36Z")
Harmony and a speaker selector that’s IR, that’s a good compromise. Make sure it’s ohm matching! The Harmony adds so much more flexibility in my opinion, even though it has it’s occasional faults. ---
**Author:** ![egobuster1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a4c791/32.png) [@egobuster1](https://community.smartthings.com/u/egobuster1)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2016, 7:44pm UTC](https://community.smartthings.com/t/indoor-outdoor-home-audio-help/53995/23 "2016-08-01T19:44:12Z")
yeah the Harmony hub is something I’ve wanted to add for a little while now also. i don’t know thought still not sure exactly what i wanna do with everything. what do you mean by OHM matching thought?? ---
**Author:** ![michaelahess](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/smartthings/user_avatar/community.smartthings.com/michaelahess/32/27733_2.png) [@michaelahess](https://community.smartthings.com/u/michaelahess)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2016, 10:35pm UTC](https://community.smartthings.com/t/indoor-outdoor-home-audio-help/53995/24 "2016-08-01T22:35:44Z")
Receivers usually assume a speaker load of 6-8 Ohms, if you have more than one per channel, which can happen with switches, you could pull that down to 2 or 4 and burn up the amps in the receiver. Assuming you do a one for one switching scheme, this won’t be a problem, but if you want a switch that will allow more than one pair, say front and back deck sets of speakers, you’d need a switch that will Ohm match. ---
**Author:** ![egobuster1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a4c791/32.png) [@egobuster1](https://community.smartthings.com/u/egobuster1)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2016, 11:44pm UTC](https://community.smartthings.com/t/indoor-outdoor-home-audio-help/53995/25 "2016-08-01T23:44:00Z")
hmm that seems over my head lol. I’m thinking of just getting the Denon AVR-S710W and using zone 2 to run a set of stern speakers on the back deck and i can control it from the denon remote iOS app and use airplay from my phone to stream ---
**Author:** ![Nate\_Hales](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/smartthings/user_avatar/community.smartthings.com/nate_hales/32/89487_2.png) [@Nate\_Hales](https://community.smartthings.com/u/Nate_Hales)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2017, 7:17am UTC](https://community.smartthings.com/t/indoor-outdoor-home-audio-help/53995/26 "2017-10-08T07:17:41Z")
This is what I used for my audio indoor and out door. Also I have a video controlling monoprice with smartthings on my channel. [Previous page](https://community.smartthings.com/t/indoor-outdoor-home-audio-help/53995.md?page=1)