ShieldTV + HomePod?

by LiterallyPutin

Hey guys!

I have a shield tv and a friend got me a homepod for my birthday.

Trying to figure out if I can watch Plex through my Shield (connect to a projector with no WiFi) and run the audio through the homepod.

z0mghii

Nope, there's no input into the homepod besides airplay, and even if you did, you might get audio sync issues

fraseyboo

Gotta agree with the other guy, HomePods are pretty useless at playing audio using anything other than Airplay 2. I have an AppleTV 4K and even the setup with that is super janky. I ended up selling mine & getting a SONOS system (forewarning that it's a pretty pricey alternative)

If you're really dedicated you could buy a Raspberry Pi and install BabelPod & Airtunes but even that's a crazy workaround that has some pretty gnarly latency, it's probably correctable in software but IMO sounded pretty terrible when I tried it.