Media VLC-TELNET in Music Assistant

[brunoblazer]

I installed the music assistant addon and it correctly found my google speakers, what it didn't find was the speaker that is connected via bluetooth via VLC media player via Telnet.
What is the way to bring it to the music assistant list?

[OzGav]

It has to be a supported player provider. Connect the speaker to a picoreplayer would be one way...? What is VLC running on?

[brunoblazer]

I'm using a device that passes the sound from the 3.5 jack to Bluetooth which spreads across two speakers so I didn't want to add any more equipment. i use VLC medua player via Telnet but I can use anything else as long as it transmits the sound to my bluetooth speakers

[OzGav]

Raspberry Pi running picoreplayer can output audio over Bluetooth https://www.picoreplayer.org/landingzone_features.html#:~:text=Stream%20from%20piCorePlayer%20to%20your%20Bluetooth%20speaker%20or%20headset.,on%20the%20piCorePlayer%20web%20interface.

[brunoblazer]

but does it require me to have an rpi dedicated to this or can I attach an integration to the HA?

[OzGav]

You could also use the squeeze lite add on for HA.

[erkr]

You could also use the squeeze lite add on for HA.

This solution doesn't require another PI. Just install the add on and MA can use it for the local audio. Don't install the LMS part! See https://github.com/orgs/music-assistant/discussions/1123 for the details

[brunoblazer]

Hi, I installed the music assistant, it's definitely nice but it has a big problem, it detected all the TV media or Google speakers but the output via VLC AUX for Bluetooth was not detected.