Comment on New Article - Whole Home Audio with SnapCast
HamsterRage@lemmy.ca 4 weeks agoI’ll wait to see.
Apparently you can run SnapCast on an ESP32 also. For me, the Pi0’s cost about $20 CDN, and the DAC card about the same, and the delivery from PiShop.ca was about 3 days. ESP32 would have cost less, but then require some kind of housing because of the two components flopping around. The Pi DAC’s slip onto the GPIO pins and the pair are essentially 1 thing at that point. Mine are just tucked away behind whatever the amps are.
I point out in Part II or III that these are essentially appliances once they’re set up. As long as they do the job, I don’t expect to upgrading them on a regular basis or anything like that. SendSpin looks cool because it does other stuff besides just stream music, but I’m not looking for that. From what I can see, SendSpin runs on Pi’s too, so it should be fairly simple to add that to the Pi0’s in the future if that’s what I want.
You can buy ESP32 boards with built in DACs, just FYI.
Also there's a handful of Pi Zero shaped ESP3 boards as well, which you could use with the existing DACs.
But again my point was that Sendspin requires even less hardware than Snapcast (and while technically you can indeed run Snapcast on an ESP32, last I checked it uses up a lot of resources, making the ESPHome given extras like BT proxy and usage in real time BT based location, unusable).
paperd@lemmy.zip 4 weeks ago
Check out www.crowdsupply.com/…/esparagus-audio-brick