Category: Software updates
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Esparagus working with Snapclient
This is a copy of a post prepared for the Esparagus Audio Brick Crowd Supply campaign. After achieving multi-room sync with Sendspin, squeezelite-esp32, and Airplay-2, it is time to look at snapclient, which was, until recently, the only solution. Snapclient is an open-source remote audio playback protocol with a specific focus on near-perfect sync. Normally, you need to have…
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Esparagus with AirPlay-2
This is a copy of a post prepared for the Esparagus Audio Brick Crowd Supply campaign. In the last update, we used Squeezelite-ESP32 firmware to play audio via the AirPlay protocol. It is a great way to listen to music over wireless, with the possibility to play directly on Apple devices or integrate with Music Assistant. The…
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Using Squeezelite with Esparagus boards
This is a copy of a post prepared for the Esparagus Audio Brick Crowd Supply campaign. Introduction I think it is safe to say Squeezelite-ESP32 is the second most popular option when it comes to connecting ESP32 and audio. But not so long ago, LMS (Logitech Media Server) ruled the hacker’s audio world for years, offering a powerful…
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Esparagus Audio Brick Voice Assist
This is a copy of a post prepared for the Esparagus Audio Brick Crowd Supply campaign. One of the reasons to make an ESP32-S3 version of the board is the more advanced architecture of that chip, which allows for on-chip wake word detection. Similar to the Home Assistant Home device, the Esparagus Audio Brick can…
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Voice-Assist + Sendspin ESPHome configs
A person from the community reached out recently asking if it is possible to add Sendspin configuration for voice-assist config. Esparagus Echo, or any other ESP32-S3 board that supports voice-assist. After some poking, it turned out that it is possible, and two experimental features work surprisingly well together. Wake-word detection works, TTS works, and audio…
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Esparagus ESPHome Integration
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)…
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Updated Sendspin configs for ESP32 devices
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…
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One-command install script for Raspberry
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…
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Sendspin updated configs
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…