Dashboard audio available as audio stream

Dashboard
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Im completely new to all things raspberry, home automation, node red, all ideas I have for our house about to be build are completely based on theory.

I’d like to know if node red dashboard audio is available as a live stream I can connect a client to, like a Yamaha musiccast system?

Idea is to have node red say something, or play back a doorbell sound and have a musiccast device switching to node reds audio live stream to hear it.

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I've written a node set for Musiccast: node-red-contrib-musiccast. What you're asking for is one of the main reasons I created it. Right now it's just providing the ability to control and pull status of Musiccast devices but I will be adding what I call a "List" node in the next couple of days.

Basically, it will allow you to play any Musiccast preset based on an incoming message or other trigger. For example, I have a small USB thumb drive plugged into my main receiver containing all the various sound effect files and then save them as presets which can then be played back nearly instantly.

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Sounds interesting. Please keep us informed! Thanks for your work!

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No problem. And actually, the functionality is already there in the current version, I just forgot that I added it. Use the "recallPreset" command on the Input node to play back any set USB/streaming/tuner presets. Give it a try! Personally, I save the presets using the Musiccast app and then recall them using Node-RED. At this point, it's the easiest method.

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