There are a few options available to you. Some already outlined. It all depends on how much you like to play and also whether you have decent wifi signal outside.
If you've got decent wifi outside then quite simply a SB Radio with battery... still available to purchase second hand, with or without battery, batteries can also be purchased. This is how my sister gets her sounds out further into her garden, I'd already fitted a wifi access point to improve the reception at the rear of their house and so far it's providing a good enough signal that she can un-plug her kitchen SB Radio and take it out into the garden with her. She also has a SqueezeAmp that feeds wired speakers out to their patio seating area, the SqueezeAmp lives on top of her kitchen cabinets, the speakers are mounted on the external side of the wall with wires going straight through the external wall. I went down this route for her because it's very reliable, the bluetooth option from the SqueezeAMP can be a bit more fiddly and less reliable. Unfortunately SqueezeAMPs have sold out so not really an option unless you are prepared to build one yourself or maybe buy an A1S (see below) Bluetooth speaker options... this is what I use, but it's a tinkerer's world, I have a SqueezeESP32 based setup (AI Thinker A1S Audio developer board at £13) and a £20 (on offer) Anker Bluetooth speaker. The A1S has SqueezeESP32 loaded and is configured to connect to my Anker speaker. The A1S lives inside my workshop and I can get decent and pretty reliable bluetooth signal up to about 50 feet away. I could also use a SqueezeAMP for this, but for me the A1S is not quite as precious as one of my SqueezeAMPs and also has the advantage that it can be powered by a USB power socket. (It also lives, rather stylishly I think, in an old plastic oxo cube box re-purposed with a push to play/pause and volume control knob fitted), I mean c'mon who else has a player called SqueezeOXO :D I previously mentioned this being fiddly and unreliable... fiddly in that you have to power on the speaker, wait a minute and then power on the A1S and then leave for a minute or so before playing... for me if you try and do it all too quickly then it will invariably either not connect, connect but not play or connect and play but broken up play. Once in one of these states you have to turn off both devices and wait for the player to disappear from LMS, then power up again with patience :) On very rare occasions after listening for a few hours it just stops playing and you have to power off player and speaker and start again. I believe, but have not tried it, you can also use a Raspberry Pi and pCP Squeezelite setup to connect to and play through bluetooth speakers. And then you have Bluetooth transmitters/receivers, feed the wired audio output from your duet receiver into one of these and bluetooth connect the transmitter/receiver to a speaker. As for syncing, I remember testing syncing on my sister's SqueezeAMP before I fitted in place, but I would guess that was using wired speakers. Can't say for sure if I've ever test how reliably you can sync players when Bluetooth is involved, but if the bluetooth delay is reliable/fairly constant then you should be able to adjust the player audio delay to match in LMS Kev ------------------------------------------------------------------------ KeBul's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=32883 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=115126
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