Plex Connect now available in Music Assistant 2.7.0 BETA 16 and up.
This allows to configure all Music Assistant Players as headless Plexamp receivers. Also Sonos. Skips the needed authentication between Sonos and Plex.
PR: https://github.com/music-assistant/server/pull/2608
Release notes: https://github.com/music-assistant/server/releases/tag/2.7.0b16
Oh this is interesting. Casting from plexamp to sonos is a pain in the backside so this is a nice workaround for that. Very cool.
This looks promising - I have pretty much given up on both the Plex for Sonos integration and casting to Sonos through Plexamp due to unreliability. Now it sounds like I could just ditch these completely and use this instead?
Jep, just did exactly that. I’m not the author/contributor btw, but I’m still awaiting an external server error issue when connecting plex to sonos, having issues for more than 18 months and suggested this Music Assistant feature earlier this year. Got picked up by the guy that implemented it now. The legend.
As long as the Plex API and Plex Amp features work correctly, yeah. What’s really amazing here is that it’s using the foundation and open-source, breaking the Plex Walled-Garden that seems to plague PlexAmp. I understand what Elan is going for, making PlexAmp and its protocols more streamlined, unified, but erm… it still remains a PITA in a multi-ecosystem with other hardware. Until PlexAmp works flawlessly with other speaker and hardware devices, such as Onkyo home theater audio systems, integration with Home Assistant becomes the go-around hack we all will have to use, and I invite this to be embraced.
oops somehow deleted my reply!
Do you know if this beta can be installed alongside (or does it simply install over the regular version) of music assistant? would be cool to give this a try!
Within Home Assistent OS you can install the beta alongside (but can’t run both at the same time), but there isn’t a ‘easy’ official way to migrate the old data. If you run Music Assistant as a standalone container you can map the correct config folder in docker. Just be sure to backup.
Oh, so could I install it on another machine entirely? I have it installed currently on my rpi as a home assistant add-on but could I install it totally separately on my Mac mini instead?
Cheers
Sure you could, but installing the beta and deactivating the stable on the same machine would also be fine since both are their own containers managed by hassos.
oh yeah thats easier - thanks!
well it only blooming works 
I was so thrilled when I saw this function. Flawless.
Wow, this works great with my Chromecast Audio. Incredible!
