2nd
Finally over the holiday got live audio streaming over my local area network. Now I have to make it available to the world. Got the delay down to 6 seconds, hope it stays that close to real time.
3rd
Audio is working consistently but with the delay of up to 10 seconds it throws the whole experience off. I read an Icecast server has less delay and I am looking into what it takes to set it up.
5th
Looking into LiveKit because RTC (real time communication) is what I need. A real newby when it comes to writing code of any sort. The free tier is more than enough for what I am doing. WebRTC has a "code lab".