mtjj 31 Posted November 13, 2020 Share Posted November 13, 2020 Can anyone recommend (reasonably) cheap wifi connected speakers that I can reliably "Play To" from emby? I want to connect to Emby either from the emby app or the web client, and play to the speaker, I don't want the hassle of connecting to the speaker with some proprietary app with a different UI and *playing from* the server, if that makes sense. I believe it needs to be a DLNA DMR product, but that's probably old terminology since the only search results I can find date back at least 2 years.... This seems to be to be a fairly simple request, but judging by lack of search requests everyone else is doing it differently :-) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luke 37064 Posted November 13, 2020 Share Posted November 13, 2020 Hi, what about sonos? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mtjj 31 Posted November 13, 2020 Author Share Posted November 13, 2020 Friends of mine have Sonos, but they seem to require the sonos app? You can't just share directly and connect to them from emby? Or have I got that wrong? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luke 37064 Posted November 13, 2020 Share Posted November 13, 2020 Hi, yes Sonos supports Dlna, and we also have a server plugin for Sonos as well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mtjj 31 Posted November 13, 2020 Author Share Posted November 13, 2020 Cheers, I'll check them out. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
canada99 9 Posted November 23, 2020 Share Posted November 23, 2020 This is interesting to me, dlna speakers would that get rid of the sound delay bluetooth speakers have second or longer out of sync Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Solution mtjj 31 Posted January 4, 2021 Author Solution Share Posted January 4, 2021 ... I picked up a Sonos One SL (the one without the microphone, for the paranoid) and it works really well with the DLNA plugin. Exactly what I was looking for, playing from my Emby library without the hassle of another app - I needed the Sonos app for setup, but I can play from the Emby web app or android app. However, it seems from other discussion threads the Sonos plugin only works if Emby server is running on Windows though? Not really an issue for me since the DLNA plugin seems to work fine anyway, but I'm updating this thread for reference in case anyone else finds it in a search. @canada99I'm not sure about delay, I mean I'm not sure how to measure whether the delay is better or worse than bluetooth. If you have anything you want me to test, I can try. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
canada99 9 Posted January 5, 2021 Share Posted January 5, 2021 I ended up buying a mini pc i5 and use SPDIF plugged into it and works great @mtjj Now I can get rid of my computer tower burning 1200watts of power 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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