After having demonstrated how to implement a DLNA Media Renderer in the last blog, I show that it is equally simple to define a DLNA media server. Here is the outline of a basic sketch: The logic for setting up and starting a server is basically the same like the one for the Media Renderer just using the DLNAMediaServer class: The key for this scenario however are two callbacks: one for preparing and the other Read more
I was searching for the most efficient generic way to process the whole SD directory tree in Arduino: this can be helpful if you want to search for files or if you want to store the whole file system in a tree in RAM. The Standard SD API Way When using the API provided by the SD library, we need to open each file/directory to find it’s children. So to process all files in the Read more
Im my last blog I was describing the DLNA Architecture. So we are ready now to dig into my first Arduino DLNA Sketch. By combining my arduino-dlna with the arduino-audio-tools library it is quite easy to build a Network Audio Renderer that can e.g. be controlled via an Android Application: I can recommend Hi-Fi-Cast that let’s you select the Music Sources and Playback Devices. When running this sketch you should find and entry named __ArduinoMediaRenderer__ Read more
The major advantage of the DLNA architecture is it’s clear separation of concerns. This split into specialized roles allows developers to create focused, efficient devices that, when combined, form a sophisticated whole-house audio system. The architecture is built around three core components: Media Servers, which store and distribute (e.g. audio) content; Media Renderers, which receive and play that audio; and Control Points, which act as the intelligent conductors, discovering devices and orchestrating playback between them. Read more
Introduction Last year, I started to work on a DLNA library for Arduino. There are some existing implementations, but they only implement “Control Points”, but no “Devices”. Now that the weather is getting colder, I decided to give this topic some more “love”. The Digital Living Network Alliance (DLNA) aimed to establish interoperability among PCs, consumer appliances, and mobile devices across wired and wireless networks. The goal was to provide a common solution for sharing Read more
Yesterday I was ask to extend my Arduino AudioTools library to support RTTTL. To be honest, I had no clue what this is, so I had to look it up: RTTTL stands for Ring Tone Text Transfer Language and was developed by Nokia to transfer ringtones to cellphones. It basically descibes the notes and durations in simple text form. My library supports different sound generators and also provides the frequencies of all notes: so all Read more
In my last Arduino AudioTools Release I have integrated a RTSP server and client. The server was using RTOS tasks for the session management und a timer for timing the audio data. I decided to make things more flexible by providing different implementations for the Server and Streamer. Here is the overview of all available classes. I added a taskless server, so that we can use it w/o RTOS. Apart from the timer based standard Read more
October 2025 I’m excited to share some significant updates to the Arduino Emulator project that make it more robust, easier to use, and better aligned with official Arduino standards. These changes represent a major step forward in cross-platform Arduino development. 🔄 Arduino Core as Official Submodule The most significant architectural change is migrating to the official Arduino Core API as a git submodule. Previously, we maintained our own fork of the Arduino Core, but now Read more
Introduction Last week, I was asking myself the question how easy or difficult it would be to publish mp3 files via a RTSP server. Quite some time ago, I have extended the Mico-RTSP-Audio project to be integrated with the AudioTools, so all I theoretically needed to do was using an AudioPlayer to send mp3 files to the server. The RTSP Server I havent looked at this functionality for years, so the first thing was Read more
I was always unhappy that just importing my Arduino Audio Tools library was using quite some PROGMEM and RAM even with an empty sketch: Sketch uses 888547 bytes (67%) of program storage space. Maximum is 1310720 bytes. Global variables use 43352 bytes (13%) of dynamic memory, leaving 284328 bytes for local variables. Maximum is 327680 bytes. The root cause for this was that I considered networking to be part of the core functionality that should Read more