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Wow, thanks for the detailed information! Hopefully you can get some direction that helps with your solution. For me, it's starting to sound like OpenBalena might work. I've got an old PC running Proxmox for my services with HAOS in a VM and working great. If you go with that, you'll just have to configure USB pass through for a ZigBee receiver and any other hardware.
Nice. I don't have much experience with VMs yet. Is USB pass-through easily configured?
The Acrylic device also seems pretty nice - I'll dig a little deeper on that one as well. The rabbit hole becomes ever deeper.... :)
I don't think the hole ever has a bottom ๐. USB pass through is relatively straightforward, just took some searching as I was very new at Proxmox and most things Linux.
The Arylic stuff looks promising if it can be local-only. It seems there's a proprietary app, but I'll continue to research that as well.
Ok, a bit more digging and here's what I've found. It seems perhaps I can be of assistance.
Either way, looks like LinkPlay or Music Assistant can do the work of Snapcast or balenaSound, but within HA, so no additional containers needed. Likely can avoid the Arylic app that way too if you go with those devices.
My wife says no more toys at the moment, but if I were to implement this, I'd probably pick up one of those Up2Streams for each room and try out the LinkPlay integration.
Hm, the Music Assistant at least does not quite accomplish what I hope and it seems to rely on services such as Spotify or YT Music to be integrated. I couldn't quite evaluate the LinkPlay-solution, but his comment on SD card corruption with RPis made me a bit worried for the balenaSound approach. I guess there's a lot of write operations in such a setup, that can easily corrupt the SD cards. I wonder how often they kept failing for him - maybe it'll end up being some sort of a "subscription fee" ๐
Then you have something to put on your list for Christmas, if that is something you celebrate :)