I am planning to build a home theatre over the next couple months and would like to be able to stream high quality audio to the receiver using a mobile device as the “controller”. I would not like to have to open the Plex/Plexamp client app on the TV and use a TV/Video controller to manage playback…

[image] racefacexc: Ideally I would like to be able to play music from my NAS server Plex library with only using a mobile device as the “controller”. Yes, you can use Plexamp headless for this - Basically its plexamp running on a Pi connected to your receiver/AMP via say SPDIF, analogue audi…

Thanks for the reply. So I would get a suitable Raspberry Pi, install Linux of some flavor and then Plexamp, connect to my Plex server and connect the R Pi to the receiver with wifi (or a cable?) Can other OS besides Linux run on R Pi? Are there receivers that would support Plexamp natively?

You can connect the Pi, depending on version, either wirelessly or wired to your network. The Pi will run Linux OS. No receivers support Plexamp natively (ie built in) This may help you if your new to Pis - Plexamp Pi With a Desktop - Setup Guide for Plexamp on the Raspberry Pi I suggest you ins…

I pointed Plex to my audio library and have been familiarizing myself with Plexamp for the last day or so. I’m going for full audio geekery here, within reason, so I’ll probably go with a dedicated Pi audio board of some type. I’ve bookmarked this thread so I can revisit when I am ready to acquire…

Here are some more variants/options for the setup. [image] GitHub - odinb/bash-plexamp-installer: PlexAmp-installer for Raspberry Pi... PlexAmp-installer for Raspberry Pi with ARM64 HW. Headless music-player controlled from any other Plexamp client. - GitHub - odinb/bash-plexamp-installe…

[image] racefacexc: Are there receivers that would support Plexamp natively? RopieeXL is another OS that you can install that has Plexamp as a service built in. RopieeeXL offers other services to stream to other devices. So if you need more ways to stream from device to device RoPIeeeXL is …

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Yes, you can use Plexamp headless for this - Basically its plexamp running on a Pi connected to your receiver/AMP via say SPDIF, analogue audio etc. and plexamp on your mobile is then used to control playback - Plexamp on the Raspberry Pi

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