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Devialet UPnP App - What can we do to convince Devialet to enter the field?
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(20-Nov-2019, 17:38)seb Wrote: As we are now approaching the DOS2 "age", I was wondering if Devialet has any plans to provide us with a UPnP player (better even OpenHome) solution for HiRes music streaming? I know many people crave for RAAT but not everyone buys into the Roon universe.

Actually, it feels a bit "strange" to use Linn Kazoo on my Mac and Kazoo and Lumin on my iOS devices to manage my Devialet Phantoms Music experience. In a way I am happy now, because it is responsive and offers more features. Still ...

I guess Devialet not even has to reinvent the wheel and possibly could license or use OpenSource code. It could even put Dialog to use again as a streaming server. Maybe they could also include Webradio apart from the streaming providers. Even if they would not decide to create a server app (there are plenty available and "backend" anyway"), a nice looking multi-platform front end app would be highly appreciated by me. What do you think?

Agree with the previous posters that this is the last thing I would personally want Devialet to do.  However neither do I think it is at all consistent with their strategy.  

Devialet developed their own protocol (AIR) to address the shortcomings of UPnP from an overall user experience perspective, but that was only implemented in the Expert range which targets a different demographic to the Phantom Premier and Reactor ranges.  

For Phantom my guess is that UPnP support is really a tick-in-the-box item that buys them interoperability with a broad range of streaming systems, however I don't expect Devialet to invest anything in UPnP beyond that.  It conveniently provides support for hi rez PCM, although that also seems to be pretty marginal from an overall market share perspective.  Bluetooth and AirPlay seem to be Devialet's main priorities (clearly they see a huge part of their market being mobile clients), and I am one of the many Roon users who are hoping that they add RAAT to the list soon (it is already supported, albeit with some niggles, under DOS 2 on the Expert line).
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RE: Devialet UPnP App - What can we do to convince Devialet to enter the field? - by struts - 26-Nov-2019, 18:07

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