Finally, the long announced Tonuino-PCB for Wemos' Lolin32 is there. It can (optionally) be used alongside with a headphone-pcb. As µC-develboard a Lolin32 is used and it's (optionally) battery-powered. Peripherals (Neopixel, RFID, headphone-pcb and MAX98357a) are driven at 3.3V solely.
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- 11.07.2020: Added support for reversed Neopixel addressing.
- 09.10.2020: mqttUser / mqttPassword can now be configured via webgui.
- 16.10.2020: Added English as supported lanuage.
- 01.11.2020: Added directive
SD_NOT_MANDATORY_ENABLE
: for debugging puposes SD can be bypassed at boot. - 17.11.2020: Introduced a distinct volume for headphone for optional headphone-PCB.
- 20.11.2020: Added directive
MEASURE_BATTERY_VOLTAGE
: monitoring battery's voltage is now supported. - 25.11.2020: WiFi can now be enabled/disabled instantly by pressing two buttons.
- 28.11.2020: Battery's voltage can now be visualized by Neopixel by short-press of rotary encoder's button.
- 28.11.2020: Added directive
PLAY_LAST_RFID_AFTER_REBOOT
: Tonuino will recall the last RFID played after reboot. - 05.12.2020: Added filebrowser to webgui (thanks @mariolukas for contribution!)
- 05.12.2020: Moved all user-relevant settings to src/settings.h
- 06.12.2020: Added PCB for Wemos Lolin32
- 08.12.2020: Reworked MQTT-timeout-Management
- 09.12.2020: mDNS-feature added. If tonuino's name is "tonuino", you can use
tonuino.local
instead it's of IP-address. - 11.12.2020: Revised GUI-design (thanks @mariolukas for contribution!) + (untested) PCB added for Wemos Lolin D32 + gerberfiles for headphone-PCB
- 18.12.2020: Added SD-MMC 1 Bit-mode (
SD_MMC_1BIT_MODE
). This mode needs one GPIO less and provides almost doubled speed (compared to SPI) for FTP-transfers (thanks @tueddy for contribution!) - 18.12.2020: Added support for RFID-reader PN5180 (
RFID_READER_TYPE_PN5180
). PN5180 has better RFID-range/sensitivity and can read ISO-15693 / iCode SLIX2-tags aka 'Tonies' (thanks @tueddy for contribution!) - 20.12.2020: Due to memory-issues with webstreams, FTP needs to be activated by pressing pause+next-button now
More to come... - 23.12.2020: User-config is now split into general part (settings.h) and develboard-specific part (e.g. settings-lolin32.h)
- 13.01.2020: Added fileexlorer to webgui (thanks @grch87 for contribution!). Now files and directories can be renamed, uploaded and deleted via webgui.
- 17.01.2020: Added directive
STATIC_IP_ENABLE
: (optional) static IPv4-configuration
- Some webstreams don't run. Guess it's a combination of saturated connection-pool and lack of heap-memory. Works probably better if ESP32-WROVER (e.g. Lolin D32 pro) is used, as this chip has PSRAM. Advice: Don't enable modules (e.g. MQTT) if you don't need them as this could save memory (and trouble).
- English translation for webgui is currently outdated. This will be fixed soon when i18n-support will be integrated.
This is a fork of the popular Tonuino-project which means, that it only shares the basic concept of controlling a music-player by RFID-tags and buttons. Said this I want to rule out, that the code-basis is completely different and developed by myself + contributors. So there might be features, that are supported by my fork whereas others are missing or implemented differently. For sure both share that it's non-profit, DIY and developed on Arduino.
The original project makes use of microcontrollers (µC) like Arduino nano (which is the Microchip AVR-platform behind the scenes). Music-decoding is done in hardware using DFPlayer mini which offers an uSD-card-slot and an integrated amp as well. Control of this unit is done by a serial-interconnect with a µC using the API provided.
The core of my implementation is based on the popular ESP32 by Espressif. Having WiFi-support out-of-the-box makes it possible to provide further features like an integrated FTP-server (to feed the player with music), smarthome-integration via MQTT, webradio and administration via webgui. However, my primary focus was to port the project to a modular base. Said this mp3-decoding is done in software with a dedicated uSD-card-slot and music-output is done via I2S-protocol. I did all my tests on Adafruit's MAX98357A, UDA1334 and headphone-pcb. Hopefully, not only in theory, other DACs that support I2S can be used as well.
The basic idea of Tonuino is to provide a way, to use the Arduino-platform for a music-control-concept that supports locally stored music-files without DRM-restrictions. This basically means that RFID-tags are used to direct a music-player. Even for kids this concept is simple: place an RFID-object (card, character) on top of a box and the music starts to play. Place another RFID-object on it and anything else is played. Simple as that.
The heart of my project is an ESP32 on a Wemos Lolin32 development-board. If ordered in China (Aliexpress, eBay e.g.) it's pretty cheap (around 4€) but even in Europe it's only around 8€. Make sure to install the drivers for the USB/Serial-chip (CP2102 e.g.). But probably it's better to use it's successor (which has battery-measurement already included): Wemos Lolin D32. Or, if you're planning to hear webstreams regularly, Wemos Lolin D32 pro might be a good decision. It comes with uSD-slot onboard and because of its ESP32-WROVER-B has PSRAM included. PSRAM is used as webstream-cache and might be used more intensively in future.
- MAX98357A (like Adafruit's)
- uSD-card-reader; 3.3V only; supports SPI + SD-MMC or cheaper
- RFID-reader RC-522
- RFID-reader PN5180
- RFID-tags
- Neopixel-ring
- Rotary Encoder
- Buttons
- Speaker
- uSD-card: doesn't have to be a super-fast one; µC is limiting the throughput. Tested 32GB without any problems.
- uSD in SD-MMC (1 Bit) mode: Several devkits with onboard SD slot have support for this mode, e.g.: (https://de.aliexpress.com/item/4001229463219.html)
- optional replace the RFID-reader with a the better one: PN5180 comes with better RFID-range, less power-consumption and support for ISO-15693 / iCode SLIX2 tags (https://www.bing.com/shop?q=pn5180&FORM=SHOPTB)
- Arduino-IDE can be used but you need to satisfy dependencies for all the libraries listed in
platformio.ini
manually. - Instead I recommend to install Microsoft's Visual Studio Code. This is a popular and powerful IDE that gives you the ability to install tons of (well-supported) plugins.
- Install Platformio Plugin into Visual Studio Code and make sure to have a look at the documentation. Step-by-step-manual is available here
- Install Git and make a copy ("clone") my repository to your local computer using
git clone https://github.com/biologist79/Tonuino-ESP32-I2S.git
. Using git you can keep your local repository easily up to date without doing copy'n'paste. To keep it up to date rungit pull origin master
. Further infos [here}(https://stackoverflow.com/questions/1443210/updating-a-local-repository-with-changes-from-a-github-repository). - (Optional) Install Gitlens as plugin (to have advanced Git-support).
- Now, that the git-repository is saved locally, import this folder into Platformio as a project.
- There's a file called
platformio.ini
, that contains the configuration for different develboards (e.g. env:lolin32). Platformio supports hundrets of boards out of the box. So probably you need to change/extend that configuration. Guess Lolin32 is described in platformio.ini but you need Lolin D32, then lookup Platformio's documentation to know what to change. - Depending on your operating system (Windows, Mac OS, Linux), you probably need to change
upload_port
andmonitor_port
as well. - Edit
src/settings.h
according your needs. Especially don't forget to setHAL
depending on your develboard. - Edit board-specific (
HAL
) config-file (e.g.settings-lolin32.h
for Lolin32 orsettings-lolin_d32.h
for Lolin D32). If you're running a board that is not listed there: start withsettings-lolin32.h
. Specific means: it was successfully tested or is at least supposed to be working. Said this I want to outline in many casessettings-lolin32.h
can be used with other boards as well (with no or just a few tweaks). - Connect your develboard via USB, click the alien-head to the left and run
Upload and Monitor
. All libraries necessary should be fetched in background now followed by code-compilation. After that, your ESP32 is flashed with the firmware. Depending on your develboard it might me necessary to push a button in order to allow ESP32 to enter flashmode (not necessary für Lolin32, D32 und D32 pro). - Now have a look at the serial-output at the bottom of Visual Studio Code's windows. At the first run there might appear a few error-messages (related to missing entries in NVS). Don't worry, this is just normal. However, make sure SD is running as this is mandatory!
- If everything ran fine, at the first run, Tonuino should open an access-point with the name "Tonuino". Join this WiFi with your computer (or mobile) and enter
192.168.4.1
to your webbrowser. Enter WiFi-credentials and the hostname. After saving the configuraton, restart Tonuino. Hint: I tried to connect this access-point via Android mobile. Basically that's no problem, but as my mobile detected there'd be no internet-connection, it keept LTE-connection open and prevented me from connecting to192.168.4.1
. So if in doubts use a computer. - After reboot Tonuino tries to join your WiFi (with the credentials previously entered). If that was successful, an IP is shown in the serial-console of Visual Studio Code. You can call Tonuino's GUI using a webbrowser via this IP; make sure to allow Javascript. If mDNS-feature is active in
src/settings.h
, you can use the hostname configured extended by .local instead the IP. So if you configuredtonuino
as hostname, you can usetonuino.local
for webgui and FTP. - Via FTP you can upload data (but don't expect it to be super fast). It's round about 185 kb/s if SD is in SPI-mode and 310 kB/s if SD is in MMC-mode.
- FTP needs to be activated after boot by pressing
PAUSE
+NEXT
-buttons (in parallel) first! Neopixel flashes green (1x) if enabling was successful. It'll be disabled automatically after next reboot. Means: you have to enable it every time you need it (if reboot was in between). Sounds annoying and maybe it is, but's running this way in order to have more heap-memory available (for webstream) if FTP isn't running. - Via webbrowser you can configure various settings and pair RFID-tags with actions. If MQTT/FTp-support was not compiled, their config-tabs won't appear.
- Open settings.h
- choose if optional modules (e.g. MQTT, FTP, Neopixel) should be compiled/enabled
- For debugging-purposes serialDebug can be set to ERROR, NOTICE, INFO or DEBUG.
- If MQTT=yes, set the IP or hostname of the MQTT-server accordingly and check the MQTT-topics (states and commands)
- Advice: don't enable MQTT if there's no broker around because network-timeouts can really be a PITA.
- If Neopixel enabled: set NUM_LEDS to the LED-number of your Neopixel-ring and define the Neopixel-type using
#define CHIPSET
- If you're using Arduino-IDE please make sure to change ESP32's partition-layout to
No OTA (2MB APP/2MB Spiffs)
as otherwise the sketch won't fit into the flash-memory. - Open board-specific config-file and edit according your needs.
- If you want to monitor battery's voltage, make sure to enable
MEASURE_BATTERY_VOLTAGE
. Use a voltage-divider as voltage of a LiPo is way too high for ESP32 (only 3.3V supported!). For my tests I connected VBat with a serial connection of 130k + 390k resistors (VBat(+)--130k--X--390k--VBat(-)). X is the measure-point where to connect the GPIO to. If using Lolin D32 or Lolin D32 pro, make sure to leave both resistor-values unchanged at 100k. Same for GPIO: unchanged at 35. Please note: via GUI upper and lower voltage cut-offs for visualisation of battery-voltage (Neopixel) is available. Additional GUI-configurable values are interval (in minutes) for checking battery voltage and the cut off-voltage below whose a warning is shown via Neopixel. - If you're using a headphone-pcb with a headphone jack that has a pin to indicate if there's a plug, you can use this signal along with the feature
HEADPHONE_ADJUST_ENABLE
to limit the maximum headphone-voltage automatically. As per default you have to invert this signal (with a P-channel MOSFET) and connect it to GPIO22. - Enabling
SHUTDOWN_IF_SD_BOOT_FAILS
is really recommended if you run your Tonuino in battery-mode without having a restart-button exposed to the outside of Tonuino's enclosure. Because otherwise there's no way to restart your Tonuino and the error-state will remain until battery is empty (or you open the enclosure, hehe). - Enabling
PLAY_LAST_RFID_AFTER_REBOOT
will tell Tonuino to remember the last RFID-tag played after next reboot. So rebooting Tonuino will end up in autoplay. I don't really recommend this feature because if you use it along with a webstream, in case of streaming-issues this might end up in an infinite loop.
Having SD working is mandatory. However, there are two modes available to access SD-cards: SPI and SD-MMC (1 bit).
Advantages SD-MMC (1 bit) over SPI:
- Needs only three GPIOs (instead of four)
- It is almost 70% faster when it comes to FTP-transfer
So why using SPI if SD-MMC seems to be better? The primary problem of SD-MMC is: you cannot choose different GPIOs. That doesn't sound bad but this can (depending on the uSD-card-reader-module) be a problem because maybe GPIO2 is pulled HIGH to 3.3V by a 10k-resistor. For example this is the case when using the reader-module named above in hardware-setup. It's a problem because if GPIO2 is pulled high at boot, ESP32 doesn't enter flash-mode. As soon as flash-mode is entered, it's no longer a problem. However, this behaviour can be an issue if ESP32 is deeply "burried" in Tonuino's enclosure and you want to update its firmware. But fortunately there's a way to bypass this problem: remove the pullup-resistor shown in the picture. It can be removed safely because if MMC-mode is set, pullup is done in software usingpinMode(2, INPUT_PULLUP);
.
RC522 is so to say the Tonuino-standard. It's cheap and works, but RFID-tag has to be placed near the reader. PN5180 instead has better RFID range/sensitivity and can read ISO-15693 / iCode SLIX2-tags aka 'Tonies' (you need a password to read Tonies). Disadvantages: is a bit more expensive and needs more GPIOs (6/7 instead of 4). Refer PN5180's wire-section below for further informations. Hint: if using 3.3V make sure to connect PN5180 to +5V AND 3.3V. Sounds weird but it's necessary.
- Why 3.3V? Because: if you plan to use battery-mode with a LiPo, there's no 5 V available (unless USB is connected). That's why my design's focus is 3.3 V. If you want to use 5 V - do so, but be advised it's not compatible with LiPo-battery-mode. The Mosfet-circuit for saving power in deepsleep (see Lolin32-schematics as reference) works as well for 5 V.
- MAX98357a: provides more power at 5 V but also runs at 3.3 V. Anyway: it's still loud enough (in my opinion).
- Neopixel: specification says it needs 5 V but also runs at 3.3 V.
- RC522: needs 3.3 V (don't power with 5 V!)
- PN5180: at 3.3 V make sure to connect both 5 V and 3.3 V-pins to 3.3 V.
- SD: needs 3.3 V but if voltage-regulator is onboard, it can be connected to 5 V as well
- Rotary encoder: 3.3 V (don't power with 5 V! Encoder doens't care if connected to 3.3 or 5 V, but GPIOs of ESP32 do!)
Depending on the develboard you're using and the needs you have, there are different options available.
A lot of wiring is necessary to get ESP32-Tonuino working. After my first experiments on a breadboard I soldered all the stuff onto a PCB in order to avoid wild-west-cabling. Especially for the interconnect between µC and uSD-card-reader make sure to use short wires (like 10cm or so)! As of my experience with a breadbord, male/male-connectors are better than female/female-connectors. Important: you can easily connect another I2S-DACs by just connecting them in parallel to the I2S-pins (DIN, BCLK, LRC). This is true for example if you plan to integrate a line/headphone-pcb. In general, this runs fine. But unfortunately especially this board lacks of a headphone jack, that takes note if a plug is inserted or not. Best way is to use a headphone jack that has a pin that is pulled to GND, if there's no plug and vice versa. Using for example a MOSFET-circuit, this GND-signal can be inverted in a way, that MAX98357.SD is pulled down to GND if there's a plug. Doing that will mute MAX98537a and so turn off the speaker immediately if there's a plug and vice versa. Have a look at the PCB-folder in order to view the detailed solution. Here's an example for such a headphone-pcb that makes use of GND.
Have a look at the PCB-folder. I provided PCBs for a number of develboards. Probably this makes things easier for you.
Uses two SPI-instances. The first one for the RFID-reader and the second for SD-card-reader. This is also the setup, I personally use.
ESP32 (GPIO) | Hardware | Pin | Comment |
---|---|---|---|
3.3 (5) V | SD-reader | VCC | Connect to p-channel MOSFET for power-saving when µC is off |
GND | SD-reader | GND | |
15 | SD-reader | CS | |
13 | SD-reader | MOSI | |
16 | SD-reader | MISO | |
14 | SD-reader | SCK | |
3.3 V | RFID-reader | 3.3V | (Connect directly to GPIO 17 for power-saving when µC is off) |
GND | RFID-reader | GND | |
21 | RFID-reader | CS/SDA | |
23 | RFID-reader | MOSI | |
19 | RFID-reader | MISO | |
18 | RFID-reader | SCK | |
5 / 3.3 V | MAX98357 | VIN | Connect to p-channel MOSFET for power-saving when µC is off |
GND | MAX98357 | GND | |
25 | MAX98357 | DIN | |
27 | MAX98357 | BCLK | |
26 | MAX98357 | LRC | |
--- | MAX98357 | SD | Info: if pulled down to GND amp will turn off |
34 | Rotary encoder | CLK | Change CLK with DT if you want to change the direction of RE |
35 | Rotary encoder | DT | Change CLK with DT if you want to change the direction of RE |
32 | Rotary encoder | BUTTON | |
3.3 V | Rotary encoder | + | |
GND | Rotary encoder | GND | |
4 | Button (next) | ||
GND | Button (next) | ||
2 | Button (previous) | ||
GND | Button (previous) | ||
5 | Button (pause/play) | ||
GND | Button (pause/play) | ||
3.3 V | Neopixel | V | Connect to p-channel MOSFET for power-saving when µC is off |
GND | Neopixel | G | |
12 | Neopixel | DI | |
17 | N-channel Mosfet | Gate | |
33 | Voltage-divider / BAT | Optional: voltage-divider to monitor battery-voltage | |
22 | Headphone jack | Optional: if pulled to ground, headphone-volume is set |
Optionally, GPIO 17 can be used to drive a Mosfet-circuit in order to switch off peripherals (SD, Neopixel, RFID and MAX98357a) if ESP32 is in deepsleep. Please refer the schematics for my Lolin32-PCB for further informations. If you need further informations on transistor-circuits visit this website.
In general I recommend using a uSD-card-reader that can be run solely with 3.3V (doesn't have a voltage-regulator). This is because if 3.3V go through the voltage regulator a small voltage-drop will be introduced, which may lead to SD-malfunction as the resulting voltage is a bit too low. Vice versa if you want to connect your reader solely to 5V, make sure to have one WITH a voltage regulator :-). And by the way: when LiPo-battery is connected, there's no 5V. That's why I designed my Lolin-PCBs with 3.3V only.
ESP32 (GPIO) | Hardware | Pin | Comment |
---|---|---|---|
-- | SD-reader | CS | no CS required |
15 | SD-reader | MOSI | |
2 | SD-reader | MISO | make sure there's no hardware-pullup for MISO |
14 | SD-reader | SCK |
Make sure to enable SD_MMC_1BIT_MODE
if you want to use this feature. Don't(!) enable SINGLE_SPI_ENABLE
. SD-MMC-mode requires these fixed PINs listed above. You can find a good comparison of different SD-card-modes here: (https://www.instructables.com/Select-SD-Interface-for-ESP32/).
Advice: Double check that above PINs are not used elsewhere (e.g. GPIO2 is used as PREVIOUS_BUTTON as per default in settings.h).
Basically the same as using 2 SPI-instances but... In this case RFID-reader + SD-reader share SPI's SCK, MISO and MOSI. But make sure to use different CS-pins. Have to admit I had some problems to get this running. Seems to be connected properly, but nothing happens when an RFID-tag is applied. Maybe anybody else wants to point out :-)
ESP32 (GPIO) | Hardware | Pin | Comment |
---|---|---|---|
3.3 (5) V | SD-reader | VCC | Connect to p-channel MOSFET for power-saving when µC is off |
GND | SD-reader | GND | |
15 | SD-reader | CS | Don't share with RFID! |
3.3 V | RFID-reader | 3.3V | Connect directly to GPIO 17 for power-saving when µC is off |
GND | RFID-reader | GND | |
21 | RFID-reader | CS/SDA | Don't share with SD! |
23 | RFID+SD-reader | MOSI | |
19 | RFID+SD-reader | MISO | |
18 | RFID+SD-reader | SCK | |
5 / 3.3 V | MAX98357 | VIN | Connect to p-channel MOSFET for power-saving when µC is off |
GND | MAX98357 | GND | |
25 | MAX98357 | DIN | |
27 | MAX98357 | BCLK | |
26 | MAX98357 | LRC | |
--- | MAX98357 | SD | Info: if pulled down to GND amp will turn off |
34 | Rotary encoder | CLK | Change CLK with DT if you want to change the direction of RE |
35 | Rotary encoder | DT | Change CLK with DT if you want to change the direction of RE |
32 | Rotary encoder | BUTTON | |
3.3 V | Rotary encoder | + | |
GND | Rotary encoder | GND | |
4 | Button (next) | ||
GND | Button (next) | ||
2 | Button (previous) | ||
GND | Button (previous) | ||
5 | Button (pause/play) | ||
GND | Button (pause/play) | ||
5 / 3.3 V | Neopixel | V | Connect to p-channel MOSFET for power-saving when µC is off |
GND | Neopixel | G | |
12 | Neopixel | DI | |
17 | N-channel Mosfet | Gate | |
33 | Voltage-divider / BAT | Optional: voltage-divider to monitor battery-voltage | |
22 | Headphone jack | Optional: if pulled to ground, headphone-volume is set |
PN5180 reader needs two more pins, RESET and BUSY. Double check pin-conflicts! RFID_READER_TYPE_PN5180
needs to be enabled to use this feature. Make sure to disable RFID_READER_TYPE_MFRC522
if doing so!
ESP32 (GPIO) | Hardware | Pin | Comment |
---|---|---|---|
3.3 V | PN5180 RFID-reader | 3.3V | Connect directly to GPIO 17 for power-saving when µC is off |
5 / 3.3 V | PN5180 RFID-reader | 5V | Don't forget to connect this pin the same way as 3.3V |
GND | PN5180 RFID-reader | GND | |
21 | PN5180 RFID-reader | CS/SDA | Same as MFRC522. Don't share with SD! |
23 | PN5180 RFID-reader | MOSI | Same as MFRC522 |
19 | PN5180 RFID-reader | MISO | Same as MFRC522 |
18 | PN5180 RFID-reader | SCK | Same as MFRC522 |
16 | PN5180 RFID-reader | BUSY | be aware of SD MISO if running in SPI mode |
22 | PN5180 RFID-reader | RST | be aware of Headphone jack PIN |
When using a develboard with SD-card-reader already integrated (Lolin D32 Pro, several TTGO-boards), the pinouts described above my not fit. Feel free to change them according your needs. Additionaly some boards may use one or some of the GPIOs I used for their internal purposes and that reason for are maybe not exposed via pin-headers. However, having them exposed doesn't mean they can be used without limits. This is because some GPIOs have to be logical LOW or HIGH at start/boot for example and this is probably not the case when connecting stuff to it. Feel free to adjust the GPIOs proposed by me (but be adviced it could take a while to get it running). If you encounter problems please refer the board's manual first.
Here I described a solution for a board with many GPIOs used internally and a very limited number of GPIOs exposed. That's why I had to use different SPI-GPIOs for RFID as well. Please note I used a slightly modified RFID-lib there. Please note: the code-basis is outdated. Will need to re-integrate it into my master-branch...
WiFi is mandatory for webgui, FTP and MQTT. However, WiFi can be temporarily or permanently disabled. There are two ways to do that:
- Use a special modification-card that can be configured via webgui
- Press previous-key (and keep it pressed) + press next-button in parallel shortly. Now release both. This toggles the current WiFi-status: if it's currently enabled, it will be disabled instantly and vice versa. Please note: this WiFi-status will remain until you change it again, which means, that Tonuino will remember this state after the next reboot. Having Wifi enabled is indicated in idle-mode (no playlist active) with four white slow rotating LEDs whereas disabled WiFi is represented by those ones coloured blue.
After bringing Tonuino part of your LAN/WiFi, the 'regular' webgui is available at the IP assigned by your router (or the configured hostname). Using this GUI, you can configure:
- WiFi
- Binding between RFID-tag, file/directory/URL and playMode
- Binding between RFID-tag and a modification-type
- MQTT
- FTP
- Initial volume, maximum volume (speaker / headphone), brightness of Neopixel (nightmode / default) and inactivity-time
Please note: as you apply a RFID-tag to the RFID-reader, the corresponding ID is pushed to the GUI. So there's no need to enter such IDs manually (unless you want to). Filepath can be filled out by selecting a file/directory in the tree. IMPORTANT: Every time you add, delete or rename stuff on the SD-card, it's necessary to rebuild the json-indexfile. Simply click on the refresh-button below the filetree and wait until it's done. This is because all operations of the filebrowser rely on this file in order to provide a fast way to access all the files and directories.
It's not just simply playing music; different playmodes are supported:
single track
=> plays one track one timesingle track (loop)
=> plays one track foreveraudiobook
=> single file or playlist/folder; last play-position (file and playlist) is saved (when pushing pause or moving to another track) and re-used next timeaudiobook
(loop) => same as audiobook but loops foreverfolder/playlist (alph. sorted)
=> plays all tracks in alph. order from a folder one timefolder/playlist (random order)
=> plays all tracks in random order from a folder one timefolder/playlist (alph. sorted)
=> plays all tracks in alph. order from a folder foreverfolder/playlist (random order)
=> plays all tracks in random order from a folder foreverwebradio
=> always only one "track": plays a webstream
There are special RFID-tags, that don't start music by themself but can modify things. If applied a second time, it's previous action/modification will be reversed. Please note: all sleep-modes do dimming (Neopixel) automatically because it's supposed to be used in the evening when going to bed. Well, at least that's my children's indication :-) So first make sure to start the music then use a modification-card in order to apply your desired modification:
- lock/unlock all buttons
- sleep after 5/30/60/120 minutes
- sleep after end of current track
- sleep after end of playlist
- sleep after five tracks
- dimm neopixel
- current track in loop-mode (is "stronger" than playlist-loop but doesn't overwrite it!)
- playlist in loop-mode
- track und playlist loop-mode can both be activated at the same time, but unless track-loop isn't deactivated, playlist-loop won't be effective
- Toggle WiFi (enable/disable) => disabling WiFi while webstream is active will stop the webstream instantly!
Indicates different things. Don't forget configuration of number of LEDs via #define NUM_LEDS
- While booting: every second LED (rotating orange)
- Unable to mount SD: LEDs flashing red (will remain forever unless SD-card is available or
SHUTDOWN_IF_SD_BOOT_FAILS
is active) - IDLE: four LEDs slow rotating (white if WiFi enabled; blue if WiFi disabled)
- ERROR: all LEDs flashing red (1x) if an action was not accepted
- OK: all LEDs flashing green (1x) if an action was accepted
- BUSY: violet; four fast rotating LEDs when generating a playlist. Duration depends on the number of files in your playlist.
- track-progress: rainbow; number of LEDs relative to play-progress
- playlist-progress: blue; appears only shortly in playlist-mode with the beginning every new track; number of LEDs relative to progress
- webstream: two slow rotating LEDs that change their colours rainbow-wise as the stream proceeds
- volume: green => red-gradient; number of LEDs relative from current to max volume
- switching off: red-circle that grows until long-press-time is reached
- buttons locked: track-progress-LEDs coloured red
- paused: track-progress-LEDs coloured orange
- rewind: if single-track-loop is activated a LED-rewind is performed when restarting the given track
- (Optional) Undervoltage: flashes three times red if battery-voltage is too low. This voltage-level can be configured via GUI.
- (Optional) Short press of rotary encoder's button provides battery-voltage visualisation via Neopixel. Upper und lower voltage cut-offs can be adjusted via GUI. So for example if lower voltage is set to 3.2 V and upper voltage to 4.2 V, 50% of the LEDs indicate a voltage of 3.7 V.
Please note: some Neopixels use a reversed addressing which leads to the 'problem', that all effects are shown
counter clockwise. If you want to change that behaviour, just enable NEOPIXEL_REVERSE_ROTATION
.
Some buttons have different actions if pressed long or short. Minimum duration for long press in ms is defined by intervalToLongPress
.
- previous (short): previous track / beginning of the first track if pressed while first track is playing
- previous (long): first track of playlist
- next (short): next track of playlist
- next (long): last track of playlist
- pause/play (short/long): pause/play
- rotary encoder (turning): vol +/-
- rotary encoder (button long): switch off (only when on)
- rotary encoder (button short): switch on (when switched off)
- rotary encoder (button short): show battery-voltage via Neopixel (when switched on and
MEASURE_BATTERY_VOLTAGE
is active) - previous (long; keep pressed) + next (short) + release (both): toggle WiFi enabled/disabled
- Music starts to play right after a valid RFID-tag was applied
- If
PLAY_LAST_RFID_AFTER_REBOOT
is active, Tonuino will remember the last RFID applied => music-autoplay (if in doubts don't use this feature). - If a folder should be played that contains many mp3s, the playlist generation can take a few seconds. Please note that a file's name including path cannot exceed 255 characters.
- While playlist is generated Neopixel indicates BUSY-mode.
- After last track was played, Neopixel indicates IDLE-mode.
- In audiobook-mode, last play-position is remembered (position in actual file and number of track, respectively) when a new track begins of if pause-button was hit.
- In webstream-mode the stream will instantly stop if WiFi-status is toggled to disabled. Tonuino will return to idle-mode and wait for new RFID-tag.
This mode is different from the other ones because the last playposition is saved. Playposition is saved when...
- next track starts.
- first/previous/last track requested by button.
- pause was pressed.
- playlist is over (playposition is set back to the first track and file-position 0).
- Please note: last playposition is not saved when applying a new RFID-tag. This is intended because otherwise you woldn't have a possibility to not save it.
After having Tonuino running on your ESP32 in your local WiFi, the webinterface-configuration is accessable. Using this GUI you can configure:
- Wifi-configuration (Wifi-SSID, Wifi-password, Tonuino's name (for nameserver))
- Link between RFID-tag and corresponding action
- (optional) MQTT-configuration (broker's IP)
- (optional) FTP-configuration (username and password)
- General-configuration (volume (speaker + headphone), neopixel-brightness (night-mode + initial), sleep after inactivity)
- FTP needs to be activated after boot by pressing
PAUSE
+NEXT
-buttons (in parallel) first! Neopixel flashes green (1x) if enabling was successful. It'll be disabled automatically after next reboot. Means: you have to enable it every time you need it (if reboot was in between). Sounds annoying and maybe it is, but's running this way in order to have more heap-memory available (for webstream) if FTP isn't running. - In order to avoid exposing uSD-card or disassembling Tonuino all the time for adding new music, it's possible to transfer music to the uSD-card using FTP.
- Default-user and password are set to
esp32
/esp32
but can be changed later via GUI. - Make sure to set the max. number of parallel connections to ONE in your FTP-client and the charset to ISO8859-1.
- Secured FTP is not available. So make sure to disable SSL/TLS.
- Software: my recommendation is Filezilla as it's free and available for multiple platforms.
- Don't expect a super fast data-transfer; it's around 185 kB/s (SPI-mode) and 310 kB/s (MMC-mode).
- Please note: if music is played in parallel, this rate decrases dramatically! So better stop playback when doing a FTP-transfer.
As already described in the modify-section, there are different sleepmodes available. Additionaly µC will be put into deepsleep after 10 minutes of inactivity (configurable my maxInactivityTime) unless Tonuino doesn't play music, has a FTP-client connected and any input via buttons. Every button-interaction resets the counter.
Everything that can be controlled via RFID-tags and buttons, can also be controlled via MQTT (excepting toggling WiFi-status as this doesn't make sense). All manual interactions (buttons, RFID-tags) are also sent to MQTT in parallel, so everything is always in-sync (unless Wifi/MQTT-connection is broken). In my home-setup I'm using openHAB to "encapsulate" MQTT into a nice GUI, that's accessible via APP + web. I described a sample-config for openHAB2. However, meanwhile openHAb3 is available and all the stuff described can also be configured via GUI. Be advised that openHAB is pretty complex and you have to spend some time to get familiar with it.
Please refer ESP32-audioI2S, as this is the library I used for music-decoding. Make sure to update especially this library regularly as it's development is still in progress.
As all assignments between RFID-IDs and actions (playmode, file to play...) is saved in ESP's NVS, the problem is that it's all gone when the ESP is broken. So that's where a backup comes into play. So every time you change or add a new assignment between a RFID-tag and an action via GUI, a backup-file is saved on the uSD-card. The file's name can be changed via backupFile
. So better don't delete it! Using the webgui you can use the upload-form to import such a file. To be honest: Sometimes I had some issues with Firefox doing this whereas Safari turned out to do it right. Don't know why :-(.
As already described, MQTT is supported. In order to use it it's necessary to run a MQTT-broker; Mosquitto for instance. After connecting to it, Tonuino subscribes to all command-topics. State-topics are used to push states to the broker in order to inform others if anything changed (change of volume, new playlist, new track... name it). Others, like openHAB, subscribe to state-topics end send commands via command-topics. So it's not just limited to openHAB. It's just necessary to use a platform, that supports MQTT. For further informations (and pictures) refer the subfolder.
Feel free to use your own smarthome-environments (instead of openHAB). The MQTT-topics available are described as follows. Please note: if you want to send a command to Tonuino, you have to use a cmnd-topic whereas Tonuino pushes its states back via state-topics. So guess you want to change the volume to 8 you have to send this number via topic-variable topicLoudnessCmnd
. Immediately after doing to, Tonuino sends a conformation of this command using topicLoudnessState
. To get hands on MQTT I recommend this one as introducton (covers more than you need for Tonuino).
topic-variable | range | meaning |
---|---|---|
topicSleepCmnd | 0 or OFF | Power off Tonuino immediately |
topicSleepState | ON or OFF | Sends Tonuino's current/last state |
topicRfidCmnd | 12 digits | Set number of RFID-tag which 'emulates' an RFID-tag (e.g. 123789456089 ) |
topicRfidState | 12 digits | ID of current RFID-tag (if not a modification-card) |
topicTrackState | String | Sends current track number, total number of tracks and full path of curren track. E.g. "(2/10) /mp3/kinderlieder/Ri ra rutsch.mp3" |
topicTrackControlCmnd | 1 -> 7 | 1 =stop; 2 =unused!; 3 =play/pause; 4 =next; 5 =prev; 6 =first; 7 =last |
topicLoudnessCmnd | 0 -> 21 | Set loudness (depends on minVolume / maxVolume) |
topicLoudnessState | 0 -> 21 | Sends loudness (depends on minVolume / maxVolume |
topicSleepTimerCmnd | EOP | Power off after end to playlist |
EOT | Power off after end of track | |
EO5T | Power off after end of five tracks | |
1 -> 2^32 | Duration in minutes to power off | |
0 | Deactivate timer (if active) | |
topicSleepTimerState | various | Sends active timer (EOP , EOT , EO5T , 0 , ...) |
topicState | Online, Offline | Online when powering on, Offline when powering off |
topicCurrentIPv4IP | IPv4-string | Sends Tonuino's IP-address (e.g. 192.168.2.78 ) |
topicLockControlsCmnd | ON, OFF | Set if controls (buttons, rotary encoder) should be locked |
topicLockControlsState | ON, OFF | Sends if controls (buttons, rotary encoder) are locked |
topicPlaymodeState | 0 - 10 | Sends current playmode (single track, audiobook...; see playmodes) |
topicRepeatModeCmnd | 0 - 3 | Set repeat-mode: 0 =no; 1 =track; 2 =playlist; 3 =both |
topicRepeatModeState | 0 - 3 | Sends repeat-mode |
topicLedBrightnessCmnd | 0 - 255 | Set brightness of Neopixel |
topicLedBrightnessState | 0 - 255 | Sends brightness of Neopixel |
topicBatteryVoltage | float | Voltage (e.g. 3.81) |