Hi there, I am thinking of buying a Fairphone 6 with e/os. I wondered if anyone knows if this will work with Google speakers which I have from before my degoogling days. I use Qobuz or Tidal for music streaming and I assume they use Google Cast to cast to the speakers and therefore will not work with e/os although they use ‘connect’ which I think means the phone app fetches music from the server so that the phone is more a remote control than a casting device possibly, unless I misunderstand. I have posted this on the e/os community forum but got no reply. I have also looked at posts here from before but they are a bit old or mixed in suggestions. Thanks for any advice!
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For anyone else looking for a solution to using google speakers on e/os: the app BubbleUPnP seems to be a solution. It can find the speakers and play from Qobuz to them without google play services. I don’t yet have an e/os phone but have tried this solution on stock android with google play services turned off and it works. I saw an e/os user reporting it as a solution too. I realise I could just not have google speakers but I have 3 from the past and it is too expensive for me to replace them right now. So in the meantime, it looks like this may work for anyone else in the same position.
I should have said about the BubbleUPnP solution above that it only works if you use Qobuz and Tidal which the app is set up for. I don’t think it will work for other streaming services. However, I have now found that you can turn a Google speaker into a bluetooth speaker just by saying ‘hey Google, activate bluetooth’ and then you can use it without Google Cast on a degoogled phone. This will mean having Google Home at some point in order to use the voice activation but then I assume you can go ahead using it with bluetooth without Google Home. The sound quality will, I assume, not be as good as with Google Cast via Wifi but it works very reasonably and there is an option for toggling on high quality audio in the settings. I’m surprised this solution is not available very widely in online discussions of degoogling phones.
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