Haha, well you have to set up multicast in your LAN like a good plumber, then fight context.exec and context.modules - also "just works" means in my case setting up a systemd After=network-watchdog in pulseaudios override that checks whether network is up in userspace.

But Poettering Software (systemd/pulseaudio) is quite composable so even though there is a learning curve the alternative are 20k config file monoliths.

Still this even turns rooted LG TVs and cheap raspi picos into sinks.

The only latency i now have is the bass traveling slower than the trebles lol