AirPlay stream via AirCast to Chromecast Audio and Google Home speakers from Yamaha MusicCast VINYL 500 turntable or other Yamaha MusicCast products?

[Hedda]

Crossposting as dedicted thread of post in the long community thread https://community.home-assistant.io/t/home-assistant-community-add-on-aircast/36742/140

Has anyone tested using this AirCast addon for Home Assistant to get an AirPlay stream from the Yamaha MusicCast VINYL 500 turntable or any other Yamaha MusicCast products?

I am thinking about buying a turntable (vinyl record player) and by some means get that working as a network streamer but before I buy I would like to find a solution or a product that is able to stream the audio from that turntable to our existing Chromecast Audio devices and Google Home / Google Nest speakers that we have.

The problem with this is that I can not seem to find any network streamers or vinyl record players that are sold today that can stream audio to receivers using Chromecast (Google Cast protocol) such as Chromecast Audio and Google Home / Google Nest speaker, but there looks to be several network streamer products out there that can stream audio to AirPlay receivers, so I am thinking that a workaround is to instead get network streamer with AirPlay support such as the WiiM Pro or Teufel Streamer and better yet a WiFi enabled vinyl record player like the Yamaha MusicCast VINYL 500 Wi-Fi turntable, and have that stream AirPlay via AirCast to Chromecast Audio and Google Home speakers indirectly?

As such, wondering if the Yamaha MusicCast VINYL 500 turntable in combination with AirCast could work as a solution for that scenario?

Alternatively using the WiiM Pro with any other dumb record player? ...though personally prefer the idea of an all-in-one product like the Yamaha MusicCast VINYL 500 turntable if possible as thiking that would be less clutter.

When looking at the e Yamaha MusicCast VINYL 500 turntable I found an article that said Yamaha released a firmware upgrade for its Yamaha MusicCast VINYL 500 turntable or some other Yamaha MusicCast products that added AirPlay support.

It is however unclear from the product descriptions if that means that the Yamaha MusicCast VINYL 500 can transmit its audio to AirPlay or if it can only act as a AirPlay rreceiver

It is also unclear if the Yamaha MusicCast VINYL 500 turntable supports AirPlay v1 audio receivers or if it only support AirPlay 2.

https://usa.yamaha.com/products/audio_visual/hifi_components/musiccast_vinyl_500/index.html

See references:

https://hub.yamaha.com/audio/a-how-to/how-to-use-airplay-2-with-musiccast/

PS: Also found the discontinued Teufel Connector (and previous model Raumfeld Connector) which did support streaming to Chromecast but those are no longer sold or supported.

[Hedda]

I have been doing some more searching online and found at least an answer to one of my questions;

Yamaha Vinyl 500 turntable and all other of Yamaha's "MusicCast" enabled products that state they support AirPlay can only act as AirPlay reviewers, apparently, none of them has AirPlay casting/cast support (which their marketing could do a better job at clarifying as one would think that a vinal record player should have output support) -> https://discussions.apple.com/thread/253097445

So the question remaining from me is if the AirCast addon can receive an AirPlay stream from the WiiM Pro? FAQ for the WiiM Pro mention AirPlay and AirPlay 2 enabled speakers -> https://faq.wiimhome.com/support/solutions/articles/72000608452-how-to-airplay-2-cast-on-wiim-pro-to-homepod-sonos-and-other-airplay-and-airplay-2-enabled-speakers

https://faq.wiimhome.com/support/solutions/articles/72000608452-how-to-airplay-2-cast-on-wiim-pro-to-homepod-sonos-and-other-airplay-and-airplay-2-enabled-speakers