Hello!
I am using mainly Apple devices (Mac Pro, Macbook Pro, iPhone, iPad) and I also have since two years a Raspberry Pi with piCorePlayer and LMS running. I am managing the music for LMS on my Mac with Music (before with iTunes), then I copy the library 1:1 to the LMS SSD and attach it to the Pi 4 with LMS (it is mounted read-only as the SSD has a HFS+ filesystem). Also I have a Pi4 with my smarthome solution named Home Assistant. I have chosen this because I used Homekit with Homebridge before but it has too many problems, is running in the cloud and there is no backup of the automations possible. So I searched for a local solution and found it in Home Assistant which has much more possibilites, is local and creates backups automatically each day which are working. With Home Assistant I have the possibility to control LMS for every LMS client, but I am not really using it. What I use to control LMS is Material Skin as a saved Webapp on all the macOS/iOS/iPadOS devices because it looks like a real app and is fast as hell. I have a few Amazon Fire HD tablets (8" and 10") that I am also using for LMS. There I am using the Material Skin App which can be active directly in lockscreen and uses the hardware volume buttons to control LMS. What I am not using is Siri as I did not find it of any use to make things easier. But I am sure that it is possible to export the controls from LMS inside Home Assistant to Homekit to let them be controlled by Siri. I am not using Apple Music, as I have my music local and Homepods are also of no really use as they can not play from the local library directly, only through Airplay. And therefore I had to use an external device to stream it to the speakers. For me LMS is the right solution and Apple is on the wrong way for me regarding handling of music. I am telling that although I am using only Macs at home since 1994 or so. When I am not at home I hear the music with my iPhone, but this is also local on the iPhone which is synced with Music on my Mac. And to be clear I am not using Apple headphones but Sennheiser In-Ears (because I am buying locally :-) not it's because they sound much better). pi4 4gb picoreplayer with lms and squeezelite for usb inside an argon one case pi3b+ (7\" display, hifiberry dac+ pro) picoreplayer with squeezlite/jivelite for hifiberry and bluetooth headphone inside a smartipi touch case two airport express ikea symfonisk ------------------------------------------------------------------------ carsten_h's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=69113 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=113721 _______________________________________________ plugins mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/plugins
