Sonocotta

Smart Home and DIY Electronics

Author: Andriy

  • Louder Raspberry Hats are now available at Elecrow

    Louder Raspberry Hats are now available at Elecrow

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    Both variants for Louder Raspberry Hat Plus – 2.0 and 2.1 are now available at Elecrow, my official production and fulfillment partner This would be especially useful to folks in the US, since delivery from the EU is now really expensive with UPS – not only do they charge $40 for shipping, but also an…

  • Amped-ESP32-Plus and Loud-ESP32-Plus are now available at Lectronz

    Amped-ESP32-Plus and Loud-ESP32-Plus are now available at Lectronz

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    Full-size batch of Amped-ESP32-Plus boards finally came from the factory, and they look really nice and sound great. The main goal for this board to pop-up is to combine the PCM5122 DAC with the TPA3128 amplifier, both being the top-of-the-range models I’m currently using. PCM5122 is a DSP-enabled version of my favourite PCM5100 DAC, so…

  • Esparagus ESPHome Integration

    Esparagus ESPHome Integration

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    This is a copy of a post prepared for the Esparagus Audio Brick Crowd Supply campaign. Introduction The Esparagus Audio Brick was created specifically with the smart home in mind, and although there are a number of alternatives on the market, I think the most popular one is Home Assistant. And the most popular (and easy)…

  • Updated Sendspin configs for ESP32 devices

    Updated Sendspin configs for ESP32 devices

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    Small update on the ESPHome configs for Sendspin media players. Until now, existing configs worked relatively well on the ESP32-S3-based devices – I guess Sendspin developers used them mainly, so it was working quite well from the start, and recent releases had nothing to wish for – they just work flawlessly. It was a different…

  • Infineon MA12070P DAC support

    Infineon MA12070P DAC support

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    I finally found some time to work on the Loud-ESP32-Plus boards, which have been lying on the desk since January. While hardware was not a big issue, software support turned out to be a bit more complex. Snapclient support My first take was to use the snapclient component, which supposedly existed already. As it turned…

  • Amped-ESP32-Plus is now available at Elecrow

    Amped-ESP32-Plus is now available at Elecrow

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    Hey folks. Amped-ESP32-Plus is finally available. Exclusively at Elecrow at the moment, but another package is heading to Europe as well, so sales via Lectronz/Tindie will follow right after. While the first prototypes were based on the TPA3128 amp, this batch is based on the TPA3110 amp. The reason for this change is not the…

  • One-command install script for Raspberry

    One-command install script for Raspberry

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    The TAS58XX drive on Raspbian is both beautiful and problematic at the same time. It is one of the few drivers that allow on-the-fly DSP configuration, and it gets stored and re-applied on restart completely effort-less. And you have both UI and command line ways to change all the settings, isn’t that great? But there…

  • Start of sales on Lectronz

    Start of sales on Lectronz

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    Due to the Tindie outage, I’m moving my shop to Lectronz. I’m planning to open sales at Sonocotta.com as well (where I had to spend 2 days moving everything to new hosting), but it would take some time to configure everything from scratch and do a full stock revision. Most of the ESP32 boards are…

  • Sendspin updated configs

    Sendspin updated configs

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    Hey folks. I updated sendspin configs for the Sonocotta boards to use the latest stable code in this PR. Hope that might help with testing it. Updated configs are for Esparagus boards, ESP32 audio boards, and Esparagus echo.  My own observations: S3-based boards work really smoothly, really nothing to complain about. Classic ESP32 is quite…