I really like PlexAmp (as a player) and like having my music playlists and play history centralised on Plex, but I do have lots of other devices / speakers in my house that I cannot normally use with PlexAmp. I have installed PlexAmp (on Volumio) for my RaspberryPI which works pretty well) but I also have a Wiim Mini Streamer and I also have a Denon Heos Receiver.
Both of these devices provide excellent audio and have support as DLNA ‘servers’ - so using their own native Apps I can see Plex and browse down through the DLNA hierarchy of menus to get to my music on Plex. But I would 100% rather use PlexAmp, so I noticed a project on GitHub which mostly solves this problem wonderful well.
Note: This is not my work but I would love something like this embraced by the Plex Team as it really allows PlexAmp to be the central Music playing app in a very connected home. The original project is here:
but then someone else has added a bunch of nice fixes and even support for the peculiarities of Denon / Heos DLNA, here (so I am using their patches):
What this does when its run is find existing DLNA renderers on your network (I have 3 different ones - the Wiim Mini Streamer, a Belkin Sound speaker and a Denon AVR receiver) each can then be ‘linked’ to Plex and then they appear as Plex ‘Players’ within PlexAmp. It works pretty well (Only running it for a day or so) and I love the flexibility of having lots of players in all the rooms in my house available via a single PlexAmp App on my phone (rather than multiple apps for different devices).
So I would love if the Plexamp Team could look at these little extensions to Plex and somehow incorporate them into the product as I think its a super enhancement to Plex and Plexamp.
I just got a Wiim Mini and I’m looking for a similar solution. I’d love to be able to cast to the Wiim from the Plex and Plexamp apps ( in android and Windows). I can see the Wiim device in Spotify and Amazon Music, but not Plexamp. Using the DLNA server function, I can find and play my local music, but don’t get any of the Plexamp goodness.
I’ll try the above solutions, but including the capability within Plexamp would be much better.
Yes I think it would be a good enhancement to Plex/PlexAmp to ‘include’ DLNA speakers when looking for devices to cast too.
When I get time I plan to look at those GitHub projects again and see can I tidy them up - specifically I believe I know the major problem with the code of the PlexDlnaPlayer so I believe it can be made much more reliable
In the meantime I was able to install the plugin with docker, but it’s far from perfect. It does manage to find DLNA players in my network, but playback was buggy… Not allowing me to skip (through) tracks and stuff.
I just stumbled across this post. This type of integration is exactly what I was looking for. I have a house full of Denon HEOS speakers and would love to be able to cast from plexamp directly to the speakers. HEOS is dlna capable, and I can use the dlna feature in the HEOS app, but it is sllooooowwwww to load artists and albums. Using plexamp is what my family is used to and comfortable with.
I would far prefer this to be a native feature built into plexamp. I don’t have the time or energy to fiddle with 3rd party band aids.
Hi,
Yes I have a mostly working solution that allows PlexAmp to see my Denon Heos - just need some time to work on the bugs - it still has a bug which somehow plexamp disconnects from Heos but Heos keeps playing the queued playlist (it might not sound like much but its annoying and I will attempt to fix it). Hopefully I will get the time in the next few weeks.
