I have my headphone setup in my room. I want to add a second setup in my living room for stereo speakers.
Current setup:
Roon Nucleus as Roon Core
Gaming PC Running HQPlayer
Pi4 as NAA for HQPlayer
DAC connected to Pi4 directly through USB
In HQPlayer settings I have network control enabled and my backend as NAA and device as the pi4.
If I want to have an HQPlayer instance running for my speaker setup in my living room would i just get another pi4 acting as an NAA and buy another license key of HQPlayer?
I could use docker to make a docker network on my gaming PC, pull the HQPlayer image, create two instances, then run both instances? Then i can could use localhost with the ports for each instance to edit the HQPlayer settings?
Maybe I am overthinking this and I should just use the same HQPlayer instance and switch the Device in HQPlayer depending on if im listening to the speakers or my headphones? This route, I would need to edit the HQPlayer settings each time I switch between speakers and headphone setups though right?
Anyways, looking for advice on how to set this up properly in an efficient way. Cheers and thank you in advance
You can use the “combo” setup/configuration for HQPlayer/NAA as described in this page … at the end of the page
This is a multiroom setup therefore all endpoints will play the same thing, of course
Other option, I would just setup NAA for a second rig. So you will have two NAA’s - one for headphones one for speakers. When you want to use one of these you just point HQPlayer to the right output NAA and may need to adjust parameters while switching between two systems (like output rate, etc…). I have several NAA’s and one HQPlayer server. (At this point in time I din’t need my NAA’s playing simultaneously).
You can create a profile for each naa and switch them using the client software. I do this for three different naa with different filters for each. I use the desktop hqplayer.
Yes, two config profiles is the way to deal with two NAAs that may use different output settings. This is supported on both Desktop and Embedded.
Combo interface gives simultaneous output on multiple devices, but in this case all endpoints output same format using same settings (apart from possibly different DAC correction).
