Tag: Home Assistant
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Preview: Esparagus Solo C1, a drop-in Home Assistant board for the IKEA KALLSUP
I’ve been working on something a bit different for the Esparagus Echo line: Solo C1, a replacement PCB for the small IKEA KALLSUP Bluetooth speaker. You open the speaker, swap the original board for this one, and it becomes a Home Assistant voice assistant and multi-room speaker that still looks like the same little cube.…
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Color display-enabled configs for Esparagus boards
The latest update to the esparagus firmware installer brings a nice change for the TFT-equipped boards: a new “now playing” screen and no dependency on the weather configuration in Home Assistant. New “now playing” screen activates whenever the player is part of the active speaker group that is playing audio at the moment, and apart…
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Ethernet-enabled Sendspin configs on the web installer
Both esp32-audio-dock firmware web installer and esparagus boards web installer got a slightly controversial update today: Ethernet-enabled configs. Let’s start from the basics. The factory image right now is three images for almost every board: (1) default image that relies on WiFi, (2) same but with OLED screen enabled, and (3) Ethernet-enabled image that has…
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Screen-enabled Sendspin factory images
Until recently, all Sendspin factory images available at the web installer for Esparagus boards and ESP32 development boards had a single Sendspin image with both Ethernet and OLED/TFT screen disabled by default, since most of the customers don’t have those options installed, and configuring them in that case would create pointless overhead of trying to…
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New onboarding experience for ESP32 audio boards
Following last week’s update, ESP32-based audio development boards receive a new firmware web installer It works in a very similar way; you get Sendspin firmware as a default recommended choice, but both 16-bit and 32-bit squeezelite-esp32 variants are available as well. Speaking of Sendspin, once you have firmware installed, you’ll onboard wifi using the same…
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ESPHome component for HUSB238A PD-trigger chip
I just published a custom ESPHome component for a Hynetek HUSB238A USB-PD trigger chip, which is part of the 55-mm version of the Louder-ESP32-Mini board. Originally, when I prepared a design for this board, I selected this chip to support both “dumb” mode, where it would simply request the required power profile on boot, and “smart” I2C-controlled…
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New onboarding experience for Esparagus boards
A new and updated web installer is now available on GitHub Pages for Esparagus devices. What is new The above approach was shamelessly copied from the voice-pe repository and replicated for each supported board. As a small bonus, you can also find links to the Airplay and Snapclient web-installers, in case that is what you’re looking…
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New Amped Esparagus is here
I’m genuinely excited; I really am. Here is the new Amped Esparagus It doesn’t look that much different from the old one, apart from the TFT screen, which is hard to miss. So what’s so important? I had a mental splinter with ‘old’ Esparagus devices pretty much since I created the first one – I…
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Esparagus Echo available at Elecrow
Due to issues with shipping to the US from the EU introduced by the latest tariff changes, I’m aiming to make all products available from the official partner, Elecrow. Today’s addition is an Esparagus Echo, Duo version only. I’m reviewing the Solo design at the moment, considering the idea of hosting it in the IKEA…
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Louder-ESP32 video review
Nice video review of the Louder-ESP32-based project performed by tmuWolverine