RELEASE Generic Media Renderer (DLNA Speakers). Cheap Sonos Alternative (Update V2)

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Hi, you can send audio even to airplay devices from foobar2000

[RELEASE] Airplay and Bluetooth Speakers Working from PC server

This is an extension from Generic Media Renderer app, the goal is to use a PC like server to send the music, tracks and message to yours airplay speakers or bluetooth speakers. SmartThings can not process and streaming audio to airplay or bluetooth , that why we need a computer to process and streaming the audio, I have use a Foobar2000 program. The idea is, control Foobar2000 like an DLNA MediaRenderer device and drives the audio output to an airplay or bluetooth speaker. Foobar2000 (image 1) is an open source windows player, very light and very versatile, you can install one for each speaker you have, I suggest you to install the portable mode, and first, start with just 1 speaker, after all working you can repeat the process to each speaker you have The program foobar2000 have the a…

the problem with foobar2000 and others dlna software is they change parameters each time they are restarted, the DLNA connect app search new changes every 3 minutes.

If you turn off your computer or the program is relaunched, smartthings will not find the device, “No present”, in maximum 3 minutes the connect app find and update the device parameters. Smartthings do not have access to dlna player until 3 minutes maximum.

I have a media server all time turned on , I have foobar2000 working all time and I have not problems, its very stable