While the interface is atrocious, it works very well and was simple to setup :)

Folders are by band, indexed by jellyfin, but managed and tagged manually with mediamonkey accessing the files via SMB.

It’s not that it’s hard to install, it’s that it’s another running part. I have some pretty low end hardware, I’d much rather have a solution that doesn’t need a redundant server.

But I’d need to pay an extra 10€ to take the train to our Ikea and back ;)

It would work, but it’s a bit like bringing a airplane carrier to go fishing with your dad, if you would set it up just for that.

Argh. Now I‘m on your side here, and think the ban was neither justified nor was their policy of “Everyone STFU this thread is now locked, you are all dumb” in any way something that makes me think communities should be hosted on lemmy.world. But calling it “saying I don’t like ads” is utterly ridiculous.

Alexa? :D

Like for example i have about a dozen family members using my server remotely

Yeah, completely different situation. My wife and I use it to watch TV, that’s it. There’s a maximum of one single stream, so it doesn’t matter much if transcoding happens, as the server can easily manage.

You are probably joking, but yes. Someone else using curl also got redirected to a Rick Roll YT video, apparently the creator of the malware had some fun with it before they shut it down, their “Look I’m on TV moment” ;)

nearer the coordinator, twice for the far one.

Heh, there’s the special case of the kitchen ones. My kitchen is some kind of pseudo-Faraday cage. Wi-Fi gets blocked almost completely (I have a cabled repeater in the kitchen just for reliable Wi-Fi in there …), Zigbee does slightly better (probably because there’s a Zigbee light just outside the kitchen, but it depends on the position, so my first few tries seemed to work without an issue, but the battery just dropped, after 1 year it went through two batteries. I found a different spot for it, and now it works normally :D

edit: I should also mention that I have 2 ZigBee routers in the kitchen, which seem to just work normally. I honestly just gave up wondering about WTF my kitchen does to signals.

Thanks, so it looks like it does need LMS. Which is just a huge amount of complexity for a single speaker. I don’t need multi-room audio or even multiple speakers. It’s literally one speaker in the kitchen, and I do have a media server set up.

I don’t really mind either way, but I feel like you and sibling commenter are thinking of something obvious that is eluding me: What speaker do I get?

But wouldn’t that bring me back to my question of what speaker to use?

Thanks, I’ll have a look at it.

you need an account for plugin

What exactly does that mean? Registering and logging in once to install the plugin would be acceptable, having to have further internet access on the device would not be.

Media servers can be pretty demanding particularly when doing on the fly transcoding.

Only if you need something like multiple 4k streams. Even older CPUs have hardware decoding and can easily handle transcoding a single 4k stream. I have a 40€ used J4105 thinclient that manages.

You misunderstand. I don’t want my voice for music selection anymore ;) All I want is for HA to be able to mute the speaker when I want to use my voice for something different. Bluetooth is not even a preference, that would only be the worst case of streaming from my phone instead of Jellyfin.

FWIW, I bought my first Aqara temperature & humidity sensors 4 years ago, and I only changed the battery twice despite getting cheap bulk Varta (0.7-0.8€ each) from Amazon.

Thanks, is my understanding correct, that I’d need an extra server, though? And it can’t just support Jellyfin as streaming source (e.g. via DLNA)?

I was just pointed to this https://kb.mozillazine.org/Network.IDN.whitelist.* URL, FF has a limited whitelist of TLDs where they allow IDNs. It just seems that .info happens to be one of them.

The one problem with Aqara devices is they don’t properly follow the Zigbee standard, and don’t play well with some other brands, leading to constant disconnections.

What do you mean? I’m having no issues and as mentioned in my comment I have a lot of different brands together with 10 Aqara sensors.