>/dev/null

Haha I get it, something something doing it because we could,… But never ask if we should. But it’s a fun trick with haproxys features, you could probably also do something with acls and or lua too if you wanted to be fancy

You can serve static pages by using the error page config line with monitor uri

listen static-file bind :80 monitor-uri / errorfile 200 /usr/local/etc/haproxy/errors/200.http

I also just use acme certbot (setup via puppet letsencrypt module) to do the certs and there’s a restart haproxy post script on cert update

Have you looked at lyron? (lyrion.org),it works on multiple platforms and has mutiroom support. I use it with my old squeeze box and can stream from my desktop