The internal zones are set up using sound cards, then you can use logitech music server to add physical external zones such as real squeezebox players or raspberry pi players etc, or depending on which plugin you add to the logitech music server, you can then add other external hardware players such as upnp (sonos, demon etc) and apple speakers. once you have linux and musicserver installed on a machine, all the rest of the configuration is done via a web browser either through the musicserver4lox interface or the logitech media server interface. You can do it with windows but the whole point of the musicserver4lox software is that it does it all for you using ordinary sound cards. Muicserver4lox will do the downmixing automatically and gives you equalization on a per zone basis so you tweak each zones sound to suit. connect one of the music server line outputs into one of the matrix inputs (if it has an audio only input) and use the matrix remote to select the audio source (loxone music server) use a. There are a wide range of controls for lms available already in loxone config via network controls, but the musicserver4lox adds an additional layer of controls for things like text to speech, and some feedback elements back to loxone config, such as player status, whats currently playing, current volume There is some grouping facility coming or already there in musicserver4lox, but its probably best done through the logitech interface, and once set up its quite rare to change sync groups You could embed the link to the spotify app into your loxone interface to make it a little easier Ive bought a number of the logitech duet devices from ebay, which gives a physical candy bar remote for logitech with a touch screen colour screen and a full spotify interface - we tend to use that for complex music selection, and use wall buttons for play/pause/vol/favourites Spotify works by using a plugin for lms, which appears on the lms interface/remotes/wide range of remote control apps of logitech but not loxone Logitech server is gpl and well maintained by a development group
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