Guide

Play your streaming services on your stereo

Home Assistant Connect AUX-2 turns a stereo, AV receiver, or active speakers you already own into a player for Music Assistant.

Read the AUX-2 docs

Music Assistant

Music Assistant plays from streaming services as well as your own music files. See the list of music sources in the Music Assistant documentation. Music Assistant can also group speakers so they play in sync, including AirPlay and some Sonos speakers. See Groups.

Connect AUX-2 plays audio from Music Assistant through Sendspin, which is on by default.

Set it up

  1. Connect the 3.5 mm audio output to your audio equipment. See Connect the audio output.

  2. Install Music Assistant.

  3. Music Assistant discovers Connect AUX-2 automatically as a Sendspin player. Play something on it from Music Assistant.

The audio output of Connect AUX-2 connected to RCA inputs or a 3.5 mm AUX input.
Common connections are a pair of RCA inputs, white for left and red for right, often labeled AUDIO IN, or a 3.5 mm input labeled AUX.

Warning: connect audio equipment to the 3.5 mm audio output only, never to RS-232 Port 1 or Port 2. See the port warning in Ports and controls.

To name the player and group it with other speakers, see Streaming audio with Sendspin.