You can also just buy an old Airport Express base station and repurpose it for AirPlay. The old 802.11g ones can be found for about $10 or so and even have an optical audio out.
I went this route. Nightmare. The installer software has been removed for Mac and isn't available anywhere. Had to find a laptop running Windows 7 to get it up and running. It also won't be compatible with modern routers. 1/10 can not recommend.
Yep. I was fortunate to have an old iLamp that can't handle the current version of the Airport Utility software, which doesn't support the older Airport Express (Mine are branded "AirMac," because I bought them in Japan) base stations.
You can get Airport Expresses on Goodwill for $5 to $10, but you need an old machine to set it up.
The current version of Airport Utility will see them in an extended network, and plot them on the network graph, but can't be used for configuration.
There is (was?) a workaround to get the old Airport Utility management software to still work. But in the end I gave I and just replaced that old one with one of the more recent ones. (If anyone in Sydney .au wants the old one, shout out...)
What do you mean by "won't be compatible with modern routers"? Are you referring to the 802.11g? These devices had an ethernet port, IIRC. I'm sure I remember plugging mine into my network and not using its built-in wifi.
Yes, they have an ethernet port, but the goal of such a device (for me, where I don't have ethernet running to my speakers) is to stream music over wifi.
