Alexa Media Player (Echo devices)

How to? Create a multiroom audio system using echo devices that takes input from my home theater system. I am in the process of moving everything over to home assistant and and am currently working on my home theater setup. I have Sonos or Bose wireless system on my short list of things to buy, but I already have so many devices and wanted to see if I could get something to work in the meantime. I currently have HA running on a NUC, an Nvidia Shield, an LGC1 oled tv, a PS5, and a Samsung Q950A soundbar system in my livingroom. Q950A is pretty decent and connected to the tv via eARC, so any …

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Hi @alitheg, Technically Spotcast is only compatible for Chromecast and Spotify Connect Devices. Echoes are not compatible, it might work in some edge cases, but very unstable and untested. I'm going to close this ticket as this is a duplicate of #403 which we are already tracking. I'm hoping someone with an echo will submit a PR, but in the meantime, I personnaly cannot solve this as I do not own any echo devices.

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