Noel Hibbard wrote: > Correct.. you would start a stream to one AirPlay target and then use > another app (I use iPeng) to sync other players to the player that is > outputting the AirPlay stream. The problem with AirPlay sync is only the > iPad and iTunes are capable of outputting to multiple targets. If you > want to go that route then you might as well skip LMS altogether and > just use shairport-sync on it's own. > > I think what you have in mind is more of an LMS "output" plugin. Where > LMS can output content in sync to multiple AirPlay devices. Right now > this plugin is an AirPlay "input". It's just a way to get input from an > iOS device so it can proxy it back out to a Squeeze player. It just > doesn't support LMS "sync groups" for some reason. > > When I have some time I want to look at some other plugins that do > support sync groups and see if I can patch this plugin to support them. > But as of now I have no experience with LMS plugins and Perl isn't my > primary language so the learning curve will be steep.
Thinking more about this. I can use my phone to stream to one SqueezePlayer and then use my wife's phone to stream to another and they both play fine. You just can't play one stream to one target and then use LMS to group them. But... and this is probably what you were thinking and went right over my head... if you swapped out the current build of shairport and replaced it with shairport-sync then you could probably use iTunes or an iPad to output to several AirPlay targets and LMS wouldn't even need to be aware that you're sending the same stream to all of them. But I have a feeling the output still wouldn't be in sync because LMS isn't aware that it needs to be in sync. Have you tried syncing to multiple targets from an iPad or iTunes in the current plugin? I may try this over the weekend if I remember. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Noel Hibbard's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=62950 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=103783 _______________________________________________ plugins mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/plugins
