NOnotaurus·Nov 10, 2025
Somebody wrote a tool for pushing Apple airplay to chromecast [1]. There might be a way to push arbitrary streams?
[1] https://github.com/philippe44/AirConnect
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9 sourcesThis one: https://github.com/philippe44/AirConnect
And here's a containerized version that works with the Pi: https://github.com/1activegeek/docker-airconnect
In Ask HN: What's on your home server?Heh, I'm doing a similar thing with a random cheap internet radio and Apple AirPlay: My Rasbperry Pi is running AirConnect in a Docker container and converts all UPnP devices to AirPlay recipients.
https://github.com/philippe44/AirConnect
In Making an old USB printer support Apple AirPrint using a Raspberry PiAirConnect – Send Audio to Google Home Using AirPlay
2 points · Open discussionFor airplay on my old ones i run
https://github.com/philippe44/AirConnect
on a raspberry pi, works great
In Sonos smart speaker controller API and CLI written in RustSome examples, including both software and dedicated hardware options:
https://www.makeuseof.com/tag/4-airplay-receivers-that-are-c...
https://github.com/philippe44/AirConnect
https://www.airserver.com/
In Hacking the Sonos IKEA Symfonisk into a High Quality Speaker AmpMine is running Hypriot OS (https://blog.hypriot.com): Everything on it is dockerized.
The coolest application: An Airconnect container (https://github.com/philippe44/AirConnect) which upgrades my mediocre Internet radio device with AirPlay.
In Ask HN: What do you do with your Raspberry Pi?You can use mkchromecast for that: https://mkchromecast.com/#installation
Also you can go further with it and cast from airplay devices: https://github.com/philippe44/AirConnect
I have airconnect on a raspberrypi so I don't have to keep my laptop on and I can play songs from my iphone that way, just stream to chromecast audio. It's also worth mentioning it works a bit better than mkchromecast but it depends on your wifi.
In Google cans the Chromecast AudioAt the risk of being a bit off topic … A lot of people interested in Airplay will be looking at this post wondering how to use AirPlay with UPnP or ChromeCast devices. shairport-sync [1] (used in the article) only works directly with audio hardware, so won't work with Chromecast or UPnP compatible systems. I've tried many many different open-source bridges and finally found AirConnect [2] which is by far the most reliable, active and well-maintained bridge. philippe44 responds to every issue filed (as far as I can tell). Works great with my Sonos PLAY:1 & XBox.
[1] https://github.com/mikebrady/shairport-sync
[2] https://github.com/philippe44/AirConnect
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