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Free Airplay Support for Sonos Network
Using airconnect, we can instantly convert your Sonos Network into airplay supported network — oh did I mention also that it is entirely free?
Motivation
I own one Sonos Play:1 speaker. It sounds great and I loved that it is one of the cheaper Sonos speakers that still sounded really good. Recently, I was considering getting a second speaker and learnt that the Sonos One supported Airplay. Also, I found out I could potentially convert my Sonos Network by adding a Sonos One onto my network. Most importantly, they had a new Sonos One SL, which was exactly the same but without the microphone.
Circling back, the downside then became the price. The Sonos One SL, was slightly more expensive than the Sonos Play:1 speaker and the only value it provided was adding AirPlay to the Sonos Network.
Fortunately, I chanced onto this open-source project “airconnect”. It allowed current Sonos network to get free airplay support. I tested and it works great. Let’s see how to set this up.
As an aside, this small setup project will also let you play with macOS LaunchAgents and Linux systemd. So, here we go.
Airconnect
So, before we start, here is the github page to Airconnect. To get this to work, it is really simple, we just…
