Multiroom

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Hello all,

Really enjoying my 2 volumio2 raspberry pi with DAC players. Noticed the multiroom addition in the main screen, but not sure how it is meant to work: is this only so you can switch within 1 webpage to the other player and manage it, or is it meant as a multiroom that syncs the same audio played to more then 1 player?
Logged in with ssh and noticed the snapserver and snapclient binaries and also the mpd entry for the /tmp/snapfifo audio_output, so I would guess it should be possible to sync the audio output to both players somehow.
I do not understand how to switch from standalone to the multiplayer mode though: do I need to start the snapserver and snapclient myself, and do i need to change the configuration somewhere?

Hope someone can help or give me some guidance.

Regards!

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At present “multiroom” refers to controlling all your Volumio devices from a single IP address. Multiroom sync is coming (hopefully soon, because it’s something I’m really excited about :smiley: ) via snapcast, as you pointed out above.

You can do it manually if you’re that way inclined (search for ‘snapcast’), and I can say that it works remarkably well.

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Hi chsims1,

Thx for your reply. Clear then. On the manually: I tried to start snapcast and snapclient (on diff devices ofcourse) but the client gives me chunk errors. Not been able to figure out what causes this yet…

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Have you checked out that thread: multiroom-audio-output-from-volumio-with-snapcast-t3217-10.html

There seems to be some modifications to improve snapcast… (have not tested multiroom yet)