My use case for whole home audio is to play audio of a sports game that’s playing on TV in the living room.
500ms of latency is far too much. Even Sonos suffers from this with port/connect
500ms of latency is far too much. Even Sonos suffers from this with port/connect
The problem that I’d see is that you probably don’t have this setup all the time, so switching your TV back and forth for an audio delay would be annoying. That and 500 ms might be more of a delay than your TV can handle.
Receiver runs Linux and I did get a shell on it, but to be honest this is something I would rather just pay for. I don’t want to risk bricking it.
A modern networked AV receiver is sort of analogous to a managed switch, there's a fairly generic CPU running a general purpose OS presenting the user-facing interfaces, managing configuration, and handling some housekeeping tasks, then there's specialized hardware that actually deals with the signals and does the real heavy lifting after being set up by the general purpose processor..