Music streaming - what works good with homey

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I’m looking to replace my old radios with a new system that can play internet radio, spotify, and chromecast. It would be good if this was a multi-room system althoigh we’re used to working with multiple radios so this isn’t a must.
What I find more important is that it are WiFi speakers and multiple speakers that can be combined in one room. (One room is over 80 square meters)
And I would love a system where I don’t need to grab my phone to switch it on/off or change channels.

Regarding the last point, a few weeks ago I accidently stumbled upon a post of a tablet like control center that was compatible with homey that you could use to control lights and music. But I didn’t save it and don’t find it anymore.

For the music system, I was first looking at the Wiim ultra but if I look at WiFi speakers all seem to be smart so I wonder what the advantage of the Wiim is. It seems a bit strange to combine a Wiim with eg. Sonos speakers when you can also use the Sonos speakers standalone and have the same functionalities.

Sorry for this newbie questions. I’m coming from a classic receiver setup, this is all new to me.

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Yamaha MusicCast could be a brand. It has multi room options and via Homey you can control a lot including merge or disconnect speakers.
I have a Yamaha receiver for cinema sound. There is a Yamaha app for setup that does look a bit outdated. And setup via HDMI on TV screen is possible (simple text screen). Don’t know if newer models have better TV setup screen.

The (my) Homey app supports all kinds of input controls and it’s showing updates in realtime.

Perhaps someone using Yamaha multi room can comment the possibilities.

And Sonos is another big brand. I think you will get comments about that, too.

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Thanks for pointing out Yamaha, looks promising indeed, especially since it has a classic interface with buttons :-). Sonos I did indeed already find, seems very popular.

The control center I mentioned in my original post is this one: Easy touch marmitek
But it looks like it’s not available anymore.
Will have a look at this thread: Dedicated display per room to control smart devices - #35 by Frank_Donato