How to use existing ceiling speakers in a new house
Pre-installed speakers typically feed back to a single wire box in a closet, leaving new owners with no clue how to operate them beyond the power button. While people want to hook them up as individual Sendspin devices to control which room gets which sound, they get stuck figuring out the actual mechanics of wiring the necessary amps and clients.
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- People have been saying this in most months since September 2026.
What people tried
Every workaround mentioned in the threads below. We haven’t tested any of them — and nobody here is claiming they worked.
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How to use existing ceiling speakers in a new house
- 1Using Google Lens on the equipment to find the owner's manualDid this help you?
- 2Buying a premium commercial multi-zone amplifierDid this help you?
- 3Building a custom ESP32 and relay board to do room switching from a single ampDid this help you?
- 4Setting up a separate receiver or amplifier for every single roomDid this help you?
In their words
Unedited, grouped by where they were said, most upvoted first within each place, each linked to the thread it came from.
“Just bought a house, and there are ceiling mounted speakers in many rooms as well as on the patios. I believe they all feed back to a single wire box in a closet.”source ↗
“But I want to hook them up as individual Sendspin devices so I can control which room gets which sound. How do I do that?”source ↗
“I’m assuming you could just get a thin client , wire like eight amps up to it, and just set up a send spin server for each one. I’m just not sure the actual mechanics.”source ↗
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