How to sync AirPlay 2 and squeezelite players?

[maisun]

Hi all:

would like to ask if there is a way to sync playback between an AirPlay 2 (HomePod) player and squeezelite (PiCorePlayer) player? When I send tts to both players squzzelite is always 2-4 seconds ahead of AirPlay.
Also I can’t seem to create a player group for different providers. Is there any other ways to make them playing the same music without delay?
Thanks!🙏

[OzGav]

Turn on Shairport on the Picoreplayer and sync via AirPlay

[maisun]

Turn on Shairport on the Picoreplayer and sync via AirPlay

Thanks - I can’t seem to get shairport work with Bluetooth speaker with picoreplayer for some reason. I think by default it exposes the BT speaker as squeezelit player - enable shairplayer which doesn’t create mdns entry.

[maisun]

I have reported issue: https://forums.lyrion.org/forum/user-forums/linux-unix/1809985-picoreplayer-11-on-rpi-zero-2w-mdns-stops-when-bt-installed
Looks like PiCorePlayer can't work as AirPlay target when BT is enabled, Moode Player seems to work althought it has problem binding to my particular BT speaker.

[maisun]

Ok, looks like PiCorePlayer doesn't support this use-case. Do you know anything else could work? Thanks!

[OzGav]

Keep an eye out as the bridges to sendspin are added to each protocol.