I use a Raspberry Pi to drive two sets of speakers using Snapcast. To maximize the range of my Bluetooth speaker, I bought a Realtek RTL8761B-based USB Bluetooth dongle with a large antenna.
To get the Bluetooth dongle to work with the latest kernel drivers and bluez-alsa, I had to abandon Raspbian Linux and use the latest Debian Linux instead.
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I was able to cook up a fun audio setup controlled and automated with Home Assistant! It features
In my setup, a docker container running on the Home Assistant machine takes care of retrieving audio from Spotify, internet radio streams and local storage.
Physical devices like raspberry pi's or an Android phone/tablet use a snapcast client to use drive speakers.
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I've been running network services on embedded arm platforms for for more than 8 years now, and when things go wrong, had to drag around HDMI monitors to hook up. For the last years I had a pi connected to the serial console to avoid that.
I have been mounting all my networking and smarthome devices on a DIN rail, and I had some small 2.2" TFT displays around for a different project.
I thought it would be nice to create a raspberry pi enclosure that included such a display so there's a real video console on the device that can also be used as status display.
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When a friend of mine showed the awesome little wooden Jukebox he made for his kids, I loved the idea, and knew I could make a similar contraption by recycling an old Raspberry Pi 1 I had on a shelve.
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My 2017 Christmas present was a voucher for the local electronics shop. I spent it on an 'official 7" raspberry pi touch screen display', which is a nice capacitive touchscreen that you can hook up to a raspberry pi.
I 3d-printed an enclosure from Thingiverse for it, and fitted an RGB LED string around the edges as an extra.
Initially I created an AppDaemon HAdashboard configuration to control my Home Assistant instance with it.
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