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It is cool to walk from the living room to the kitchen, where you pull out your smartphone and switch off the TV in the living room, select your favorite song from the media server in the basement and play it on the media renderer in the kitchen.The plugin is working very well with my Xiaoai speakers, but everytime I try to switch "output to" my PC, Musicbee crashes. The power of the environment is, that they work together on an open standard UPnP/DLNA that makes it flexible and easy scalable. These are all pretty simple, independent and lean applications that make them less error prone. I don't have an iphone so I cannot help to find a control point for it. When sitting on my Linux PC I use Upplay. Search for droidupnp 2.4.1 in the internet browser of your Android smartphone and download it from one of the sources. It's just a control point without other overhead which makes it lean and stable. For Android smartphones I use and recommend DroidUPnP. But its not their main focus and its mostly not very stable and they have a lot of other things I don't need. You will find many apps that can connect to a media server and use a media renderer. I want to have it in my pocket, so only an app for my smartphone is possible. I haven't looked if one is available for a Raspberry Pi.

the control point is used to control all of it.

Look at Howto install UPnP/DLNA media renderer. it will receive the media from the media server and output it to the configured sinks. If this is working then you can install gmediarender, also available from the default repository.

For my power audio in the living room the RasPi has a high quality JustBoom-DAC HAT, connected to a 150 W amplifier with big speaker boxes (the neigbors have already rung the door bell :-), the RasPi in the bathroom just uses the built-in audio jack. For example it must play music to its speakers.

The first step to setup it is, that you have to ensure it is playing the media as expected.

the media renderer will get the media from the server and output it to its sinks, like connected speakers.

To use it look at Howto install UPnP/DLNA media server. You can use minidlna that is available on the default Raspberry Pi OS repository and explicitly supporting armhf for Raspberry Pi. It only has to stream the media from its storage so focus should be on a performant network connection.

the media server should run on a recent Raspberry Pi.

WLAN is OK for showing pictures and stream audio files, but for video streaming it is limited, so you may consider to use wired connections for higher resolutions.Īs already noted in the question you have three components: Of course you must have a local network to which all RasPis are connected.