Add Local Headphone Output as Player

[justynbell]

So forgive me if:

1. This has already been discussed (I've been skimming, but it's late and I haven't dug into every discussion)
2. This is outside of the scope of MA, and more of an HA feature that MA could possibly take advantage of
3. It's a narrow use case

but
I have a HA Yellow sitting in my networking/AV rack right next to two Monoprice 6-zone amps. It would be awesome if the local headphone jack could be a player so that the input to the amps could come straight from the Yellow. Right now, I'm using a Raspberry Pi with piCorePlayer and the SlimProto integration in HA, but cutting out the extra HW, the channel between the two, and extra integration would be really cool for users whose Pis/Servers/Yellow that host HA are located physically close to their whole home audio setups.

If there's already a way to do this, I would love to know.

[marcelveldt]

@erkr you discovered some HA add-on right which hosts a local squeezelite player for exactly this use case ?

[justynbell]

Oh sweet. That's awesome. In all my time searching - even outside the context of MA - the best I found for playing media locally was this post, which I didn't really like that solution.

I'll try it out!

[justynbell]

@erkr Since it sounds like you know a little bit about this, the only downside for the local Squeezelite player (which is actually a pretty decent solution, imo) is that you can't install the SlimProto integration in HA to also play announcements/media from HA because they both are listening on the same port.

I don't suppose you know of a configuration I'm missing, or is this just how it is?

[OzGav]

Currently this is how it is. Investigation into whether it is possible to make this configurable is ongoing.

[justynbell]

I know this is an old thread, but I erroneously thought the Squeezelite addon you linked and SlimProto integration were contending over that port, but I was wrong. I only discovered tonight after playing with MA it's the SlimProto HA integration and MA.

Which for the record, I don't give a shit about the SlimProto HA integration given the progress on MA: this is going to be the one-stop-shop for all media on my HA server. I won't have a need for the SlimProto integration. Also, given the paradigm that "HA is not a media player", using MA and the squeezelite addon is actually a pretty good solution that applies to all setups. Adding a headphone jack as a media player doesn't make much sense.

Super kudos on the progress of this platform. It's really really good and it's getting better every day.

[marcelveldt]

Thanks!