Easiest way to get radio into Devialet?

[Hifi_swlon]

Brian, the CTO of RoonLabs posted this on their forum too, re their (planned, future) support of the device streaming locally….

can the Chromecast be used to stream on an internal network?

Think of Chromecast as more like the iPhone than an AirPlay device. When you cast to it, it downloads a little app on the fly (implemented using web technologies like HTML/JS) and then runs it on the Chrome engine in the device. It's basically showing you a web page on the TV (or running a headless version of Chrome with no display on audio-only cast devices, but using the same web app).

Netflix's app embeds a video player and points it at their servers to grab the movie you're watching. Our app would start audio streaming and fetch data from a machine on your LAN.

There are plenty of apps out there today that grab data over the local network. We use Videostream in our house to drive the TVs--it plays .mkv/.avi off of the NAS.

Roon's app could work the same way.

The big question about ChromeCast (for me) is: can we do zone synchronization with RAAT? And that I don't know the answer to yet. It's going to be a complex set of technical/effort tradeoffs once we get into the work.