Source suggestions for HAI Hi-Fi 2 system

[Desert_AIP]

I am starting to install my Hi-Fi 2 8x8 system and am wondering what others are using for sources.
Looking for suggestions.

It appears the Music Gateway has been discontinued.
I have iPods, Squeezebox, etc. Omni voice will be source 8.
I would like access to my MP3 library and internet radio stations.
My Thecus NAS has an iTunes server on it, but I don't know how to interface it with the Hi-Fi 2.
May be no reason for over the air AM/FM tuner(s) as I orignially thought of.
Is there a panel mount solution like the Music Gateway from another manufacturer?
Anything with working transport controls?

I realize some of that can be played locally via the RIMs, but what do you all have hooked up to the sources themselves?

Thanks

 

[picta]

Here using iTunes on Mac that also runs HaikuHelper, to navigate the library we use an app called Remote from the iPhones/pads. You can also get an iPod dock as a source, then the metadata will be passed to Haiku and omnitouch screens. Third channel is served by a squeezebox. Also, still using media player from a Homeseer computer. This gives us 3 independent music channels. One source is connected to a Denon amplifier to distribute voice from the home theater, and another to the voice output from HAI. The remaining sources are connected to local input modules.

 

[Desert_AIP]

Is the iPod Dock the only thing that uses the transport controls from the RSCs? (and 5.7e)

Do the bluetooth RIMs pass the transport controls to the device via bluetooth?
I have a couple bluetooth devices; speakers, head phones, that have transport controls passed through to the device, I'm wondering if the RIMs operate similarly.

 

[neillt]

Get a Raspberry Pi, run Squeezelite on it so it looks like a Squeezebox.  Then use iPeng on your phone, or HaikuHelper to send commands from Omni events.

 

[Desert_AIP]

That's the second time today Raspberry Pi has come up.
I guess I need to do some research.

 

[Desert_AIP]

Is a stand alone AM/FM tuner too old school?

 

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