how do you control MA on iPhone?

[Yumega]

since there isn't IOS app available for MA.

owntone server + rigelian ios app is nice
but owntone isn't as strong as MA.

[arctixdev]

Until the official Music Assistant mobile app gets released, you can probably install the webapp as a PWA

Edit: To clarify that will only allow you to control MA, not stream music to the phone

[Hedda]

Edit: To clarify that will only allow you to control MA, not stream music to the phone

Yeah I would also like to stream music and playback on our iPhones and Android mobile phones

[jschenke488]

How much effort would it take to bundle a Squeezebox and/or Snapcast client in the mobile app? As a temporary solution, I use Snapdroid combined with the Home Assistant app. If you install MA as an add-on, you can add the webapp to the sidebar in Home Assistant.

[Hedda]

Until the official Music Assistant mobile app gets released …

How much effort would it take to bundle a Squeezebox and/or Snapcast client in the mobile app?

I have no idea how much ”effort” it would be to add local playback to mobile companion apps but read a recent comment from this companion app’s lead developer that he is away from this project for the next year or so, meaning its not something that he would have time to work on, but that other contributors are more than welcome to work on this. So seems like ”someone else” needs to take on coding tasks like those and contribute that code to this project.

I did not either see anything related to companion app listed on the MA developers backlog, however guess that list is more like MA servers and add-on developers own wishlist if time permits:

https://github.com/orgs/music-assistant/projects/2/views/1

Regardless, you still have to remember that this is a free and open-source hobby project that is only developed in developers spare time for fun or as a challange to themselves, as such they are not getting paid to work on anything related to Music Assassint. What drives development is the personal interest and pride of developers, and only as time permits as most probably also have full-timw school and/or jobs outside working on these hobby projects.

[arctixdev]

How much effort would it take to bundle a Squeezebox and/or Snapcast client in the mobile app? As a temporary solution, I use Snapdroid combined with the Home Assistant app. If you install MA as an add-on, you can add the webapp to the sidebar in Home Assistant.

Android probably wouldn't be that much work. Don't know about IOS.

[arctixdev]

Until the official Music Assistant mobile app gets released …

How much effort would it take to bundle a Squeezebox and/or Snapcast client in the mobile app?

I have no idea how much ”effort” it would be to add local playback to mobile companion apps but read a recent comment from this companion app’s lead developer that he is away from this project for the next year or so, meaning its not something that he would have time to work on, but that other contributors are more than welcome to work on this. So seems like ”someone else” needs to take on coding tasks like those and contribute that code to this project.

I did not either see anything related to companion app listed on the MA developers backlog, however guess that list is more like MA servers and add-on developers own wishlist if time permits:

https://github.com/orgs/music-assistant/projects/2/views/1

Regardless, you still have to remember that this is a free and open-source hobby project that is only developed in developers spare time for fun or as a challange to themselves, as such they are not getting paid to work on anything related to Music Assassint. What drives development is the personal interest and pride of developers, and only as time permits as most probably also have full-timw school and/or jobs outside working on these hobby projects.

Yes, that is all exactly correct! Thank you 🙏