IEEE 802.15.4 is a technical standard defining the Physical and Media Access Control layers for Low-Rate Wireless Personal Area Networks. It enables low-power, low-data-rate wireless connectivity for IoT, smart home, and industrial sensors, allowing devices to operate on batteries for years. Here in Europe it uses the Primary Sub-GHz Band: 868.0–868.6 Read more
Recently I found the ESP32‐S3 AI Smart Speaker Development Board on Aliexpress for around 15 USD. It has quite some interesting functionality: ES8311 Codec DAC Chip ES7210 Codec ADC Chip with stereo microphones SD Card 6 Neopixel Multicolor LEDs A PCF85063A Real Time Clock 3 User Definable Keys GPIO interface Read more
In my last blogs, I was showing how to create DLNA devices. In my final blog about this topic I will demonstrate how to create a DLNA Control Point (=Client) which uses the functionality of these devices. I will demo a simple Control Point for a Media Renderer which will Read more
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 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 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: 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) 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 Read more
Yesterday I was asked 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 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 Read more