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Pine64's PineVox smart speaker is a hacker-friendly smart speaker with a microphone kill switch (under development)

liliputing.com Pine64's PineVox smart speaker is a hacker-friendly smart speaker with a microphone kill switch (under development) - Liliputing

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Pine64 has been relatively successful in coalescencing a developer community around its products. I really hope this succeeds!
Is that a render of what they're planning? That mic button doesn't look like a switch. It looks like a momentary button. I'd want something that has two distinct positions to confirm it is physically disconnecting some wire, as opposed to a button that may control an electronic relay.
Nice. Though i was hoping it would double as a speaker.

I use snapcast extensively, and love the open source multiroom audio. This would have been brilliant!
- Do you have any resources for reading or recommendations on multi room audio?
  
  I had a room mate with the Bose system and it was pretty sick, but I've not found any thing open source that contends
  
  The trouble is hardware. I use rpi 0's to 3's with snapclient installed, and an audio hat, either a quality DAC or an Amp. This then feeds your amp or speaker.
  
  I run snapserver on my computer in the common area, and it has Spotify, as well as any other audio source (YouTube, mp3's, streaming radio, etc).
  
  I like it, I even built a portable speaker that takes a ryobi power tool 18v battery
  
  There is a delay between the server and the sound, but all clients are synced.
  
  It is a bit of a process, but the software is on github.
  
  I too would like to know of any multi room audio setups that aren't absurdly expensive for a speaker.
- was hoping it would double as a speaker.
  
  What do you mean? This is a speaker. How would it double as one?

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