Solutions for whole house audio (voice alerts / information)

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Sat Sep 02, 2017 7:51 am
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Re: Solutions for whole house audio (voice alerts / informat

That is what I tried but the chromecast speakers keep dropping off line - trying to disconnect them and reconnect them for each announcement causes a long delay - wonder why your are working so good?

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Sat Sep 02, 2017 8:28 am
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Re: Solutions for whole house audio (voice alerts / informat

The fundamental fixes for Airplay proved to be these for me:

• Apple ONLY Airplay receivers. Low end AirPlay compatible stuff proved very unreliable. Connected by Ethernet when possible. (No experience with high-end AirPlay compatible devices, like stereo receivers.)
• Replace my Airport-based WiFi with a UniFi WiFi AP. While the quality of the equipment might be the same, the UniFi stuff has much more power. (Bonus: there's the UniFi plugin for Indigo.)

Since I've done these things, AirPlay troubleshooting has dropped from something I had to mess with every week to something that happens about once a quarter.

SmartThings refugee, so happy to be on Indigo. Monterey on a base M1 Mini w/Harmony Hub, Hue, DomoPad, Dynamic URL, Device Extensions, HomeKitLink, Grafana, Plex, uniFAP, Fantastic Weather, Nanoleaf, LED Simple Effects, Bond Home, Camect.

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