I have iOS 11.4 on an iPhone 7 and iPhone 5S, an Apple TV 3d Gen and an Airport Express 2nd Gen. There’s no way to use Airplay 2 for me? Not even between the two iPhones for example? Nothin?
The Apple TV and Airport Express are in generations from just 6 years ago and they still work fine. Why would apple not support these? 😟
The Apple TV requires TVOS, which the 3rd gen doesn't support. You can connect a speaker to the airport express to make it airplay compliant, and it will work the same way it always has. Airplay 2 just allows for streaming to multiple speakers.
The 3rd Gen hardware doesn't support it, so yes that is the issue.
The express should work
Get a synology nas drive. Transfer your music onto it. Then use their DS Audio app. They’ve had multi room audio available for years.
What do you mean by "using Airplay 2"
"Airplay 1" still works so you're not missing anything, except for the new Airplay 2 features.
It makes some sense that Apple does not implement new features on hardware "from just 6 years ago" since that requires additional development effort and probably additional hardware.
It's good that this hardware still works and is still (in a way) supported.
By "using Airplay 2" I mean having multispeaker support.
I can stream music to multiple speakers at the same time using iTunes and I can do this using third party software (Airfoil) on my mac. So clearly, the Apple TV 3d Gen andAirport Express 2nd Gen are not the problem ...
Airplay 2 using Apple TV 3
