WiiM Mini Streamer

[Krusty09]

I doubt it's possible, as that port is probably just for power - unlikely it's able to pass data as well and even if it could, they would need to be able to build in driver support for those adapters.

Understood. Just a thought.

 

[TimW]

I doubt it's possible, as that port is probably just for power - unlikely it's able to pass data as well and even if it could, they would need to be able to build in driver support for those adapters.

That's how ethernet adapters worked with the Chromecast, so it's not out of the realm of possibility.

 

[Glades]

An update re. my stutter/jitter issues. Contacted WiiM support and they send me an OTA (test) update last night. These guys take it serious. No issues anymore with drop-outs (for me). Solved in one day, credits to WiiM.

 

[Krusty09]

When you say ota test do you mean this?

OTA testing measures the antenna radiated performance and signal path in a simulated environment to ensure devices perform as intended on the live network by end users

 

[Ralph_Cramden]

When you say ota test do you mean this?

OTA testing measures the antenna radiated performance and signal path in a simulated environment to ensure devices perform as intended on the live network by end users

It means a firmware update was pushed to his device Over The Air (via the internet).

 

[Glades]

When you say ota test do you mean this?

OTA testing measures the antenna radiated performance and signal path in a simulated environment to ensure devices perform as intended on the live network by end users

'Over The Air' or something alike . Quote from WiiM: "We will whitelist your device to OTA the new version (4.6.413635) and your device will update it automatically".

 

[Krusty09]

Copy. Thanks

 

[Brantome]

'Over The Air' or something alike . Quote from WiiM: "We will whitelist your device to OTA the new version (4.6.413635) and your device will update it automatically".

They seem to whitelist by release - when I asked to join the beta programme for the 24/192 output, I got the beta firmware, but after that I’ve reverted to general releases

 

[Ralph_Cramden]

'Over The Air' or something alike . Quote from WiiM: "We will whitelist your device to OTA the new version (4.6.413635) and your device will update it automatically".

Is it this release, with the bit depth and sample rate display?

 

[Brantome]

Is it this release, with the bit depth and sample rate display?

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Some of that looks like an app update rather than a firmware update - they’re related but separate updates I’d say. Keep an eye out in the App Store over the coming days/ week.

 

[Witterings]

Can you multi room Spotify with these, I can see each of the individual units from the Spotify App but not how to put 2 or more of them into a group?

 

[Dumdum]

I presume you use each WiiM as a streamer and pick which one you send the audio to

 

[Brantome]

Can you multi room Spotify with these, I can see each of the individual units from the Spotify App but not how to put 2 or more of them into a group?

If you want to sidestep the WiiM app for this, given that you can add WiiM minis to an echo multi room music group, you could group them in the Alexa app and then play on that group from the Spotify app.

**edit: you might need to link your Spotify account to Alexa as well and ask “alexa, Spotify connect group-name” for the group to be visible to the Spotify app. After that, you can ignore Alexa.

 

[jae]

Hans Beekhuyzen did measure a fault - a sudden peak of + 0,6 dB in the treble area from the analog out of the WiiM . If that was a hardware fault its not curable with new software. But who knows? I wonder how good the toslink output is.

Hans measures equipment?

 

[Witterings]

I presume you use each WiiM as a streamer and pick which one you send the audio to

Yes .... but if I' casting from Amazon Music it sees groups so I can play it in multizones I've created so am looking to do the same with Spotify which only sees the individual WiiM's and there's no option in the Spotify App to create a group for them.

 

[Witterings]

If you want to sidestep the WiiM app for this, given that you can add WiiM minis to an echo multi room music group, you could group them in the Alexa app and then play on that group from the Spotify app.

**edit: you might need to link your Spotify account to Alexa as well and ask “alexa, Spotify connect group-name” for the group to be visible to the Spotify app. After that, you can ignore Alexa.

Cheers ... I'll take a look at that although I have one group set up on Alexa called both and it doesn't show in Spotify BUT my Chromecast groups do.

 

[Brantome]

Cheers ... I'll take a look at that although I have one group set up on Alexa called both and it doesn't show in Spotify BUT my Chromecast groups do.

That’s why I added the Alexa request above - echo multi room groups often don’t show up in Spotify until you’ve asked that and/or asked Alexa to play something on the group. After that, hopefully it’ll pop up in the Spotify app as a target ’device’ in the same manner as the ‘everywhere’ or other named multi room music groups.

 

[mateolo2]

@WiiM Support idea:

When using optical out/fixed volume can you add option to use -/+ buttons as next track/previous track. It should be super easy for you to add that but many people think it coukd be super coooool! Thx

 

[Smitty2k1]

@WiiM Support idea:

When using optical out/fixed volume can you add option to use -/+ buttons as next track/previous track. It should be super easy for you to add that but many people think it coukd be super coooool! Thx

This is a great idea. If nothing else disable them when using fixed output. If you touch one it temporarily mutes/pauses the audio as it "adjusts" volume, which doesn't make sense because there is no volume to adjust.

 

[Witterings]

If you want to sidestep the WiiM app for this, given that you can add WiiM minis to an echo multi room music group, you could group them in the Alexa app and then play on that group from the Spotify app.

**edit: you might need to link your Spotify account to Alexa as well and ask “alexa, Spotify connect group-name” for the group to be visible to the Spotify app. After that, you can ignore Alexa.

That's brilliant thank you .... came up as soon as I enabled it as a skill and linked the account!!