Hi, I bought an MNCast in addition to the RaspiRadio I have. Want to obviously integrate this one into home assistant for use with music assistant, would you recommend to go for the ESPHOME firmware or to use the Squeezelite in combination with an LMS server?
If you are using the MN cast only for music I recommend Squeezelite as I have the feeling (can’t explain ti) that the sound quality is better.
Thanks i initially had the same feeling with the radio but recent updates showed a remarkable improvement.
Do you sense the same difference when using spdif output? The dac is not doing anything in that case right?
correct with spdif the Mn Cast DAC is not doing anything, so this is just relying the other system used to convert that signal into sound
Hi, I posted question about the mncast but it seems nobody can help me and i was wondering if you have any knowledge about the board itself and its connections for the microphone?
Its odd that there is a firmware available to use the box for voice assistant but no doc’s are available how to connect a microphone to the box. am i missing something?
Thanks
Hi sorry we have recently added the Microphone support in Home Assistant this is it is not yet documented it plugs like this:
But you can buy it here:
But it is also compatible with this ![]()
Thanks for the info, is this Spare microphone for MnCast / Mic+ – RASPIAUDIO plug and play or do i have to buy a microphone and if so what is the best to use?
this things is the microphone itself, an I2S digital microphone
Ok thanks for the info, i does not look like it so that is why i asked.
