Airplay Receiver -> Optical Out streamer

[jiesteve]

I'm looking for a device that will receive airplay and send output to an optical (toslink) output to feed an external DAC that I have.

Anything that can work better than an old airport express/apple tv 3?


Thanks

 

[cbautis2]

Airplay is proprietary IIRC so you're stuck with airport express

 

[netnewswireuser]

Rasberry Pi with shairport-sync installed can do the trick too.

 

[Marco Klobas]

I know, I'm late.

Anyway, here's a list by Apple of HomeKit/AirPlay compatible devices. Jump to the AirPlay 2–Enabled Receivers section.

An interesting device, IMO, is the Bluesound NODE 2i. It seems that B&W will announce soon an AirPlay 2 receiver too, as mentioned in the list.

 

[Arthur75]

looking for the same, there is this one :

Adaptateur audio avec AirPlay 2, optique et 3,5 mm | Belkin | Belkin FR

L’adaptateur audio avec AirPlay 2 de Belkin est un accessoire Plug-and-Play qui vous permet de diffuser sans fil un contenu en streaming depuis votre appareil iOS sur une enceinte dotée d’une entrée optique ou 3,5 mm. En savoir plus.

www.belkin.com

but apparently not broadly available, not sure why ...