bommerts/audio-hero-companion

Audio Hero Companion is a small Windows app that turns a spare PC into a helper device for a larger app called Audio Hero. Instead of installing the full Audio Hero app on every computer in your house, you can install this lighter companion app on an extra Windows machine you already have lying around, and it will stream audio for you. The README describes it plainly: it streams web music services like YouTube Music and Apple Music, as well as audio playing locally on the PC itself, out to HEOS-compatible speakers. HEOS is a speaker system, so this tool is meant for people who already own that kind of speaker setup and want another way to get audio playing on it from a spare computer. The app can also act as a bridge for Alexa, letting it connect into the same setup, though the README does not go into detail on exactly how that bridging works. To use it, you need a 64-bit Windows 10 or 11 computer connected to the same local network as your main Audio Hero PC. It also requires the Microsoft Edge WebView2 Runtime, which is already installed on most Windows 11 machines, and the installer will offer to add it automatically if it is missing. Once installed, the app does not need administrator rights to run, sits quietly in the system tray in the background, and updates itself automatically by checking the project's Releases page. You get it by downloading the latest installer file directly from that Releases page, with the version number included in the file name.