I asked the other day about home audio setups under £250. Sonos was the most popular answer but it seems to be out my budget (4 rooms).
Google mini’s are £22 each. I could get one in every room, plus bathrooms, & still have money left over.
All I need is to play audio, mostly Spotify, from my TV, phone & desktop. Pretty sure this’ll do that.
For my TV, (By chance, I’ve gotten a Google Chromecast), which I think could link to these but I need to research that more.
Am I missing anything or would this be a good setup for me?
Depends on how deep your into the google ecosystem. They used to work for audio from video, now it’s just audio sources. -For me they no longer show up when casting a video source, just pure audio sources. This might sound trivial, until you try listen to music from Youtube instead of YouTubeMusic. …or try casting audio from most tv’s.
If you use same network for IoT as regular wifi stuff, google’s multicast might mess with ESP32’s or similar. My powermeter-to-homeserver device gets interupted when used on same network as 6 minis and 3 chromecasts. I don’t even have to have an active cast going.