squeezelite-esp32

Getting pre-compiled binaries

An automated build was configured to produce binaries on a regular basis, from common templates that are the most typical. They can be downloaded from :

https://github.com/sle118/squeezelite-esp32/releases

Configuration

1/ setup WiFi

• Boot the esp, look for a new wifi access point showing up and connect to it. Default build ssid and passwords are "squeezelite"/"squeezelite".
• Once connected, navigate to 192.168.4.1
• Wait for the list of access points visible from the device to populate in the web page.
• Choose an access point and enter any credential as needed
• Once connection is established, note down the address the device received; this is the address you will use to configure it going forward

2/ setup squeezelite command line (optional)

At this point, the device should have disabled its built-in access point and should be connected to a known WiFi network.

• navigate to the address that was noted in step #1
• Using the list of predefined options, hoose the mode in which you want squeezelite to start
• Generate the command
• Add or change any additional command line option (for example player name, etc)
• Activate squeezelite execution: this tells the device to automatiaclly run the command at start
• Update the configuration
• Reboot

3/ set bluetooth & airplaysink name (if you want something other than default)

this will eventually be moved to the web configuration

you need to be connected to the device using a usb to serial adapter, with a terminal program (for example putty) opened on that serial port.

• To setup the bluetooth sink name, enter the following command

nvs_set bt_sink_name str -v "your_bt_name_here"

• To setup the airplay sink name, enter the following command

nvs_set airplay_sink_name str -v "your_airplay_name_here"

Additional command line notes

The squeezelite options are very similar to the regular Linux ones. Differences are :

- the output is -o [\"BT -n <sinkname>\"] | [I2S]

- if you've compiled with RESAMPLE option, normal soxr options are available using -R [-u <options>]. Note that anything above LQ or MQ will overload the CPU

- if you've used RESAMPLE16, <options> are (b|l|m)[:i], with b = basic linear interpolation, l = 13 taps, m = 21 taps, i = interpolate filter coefficients

To add options that require quotes ("), escape them with \". For example, so use a BT speaker named MySpeaker and resample everything to 44100 (which is needed with Bluetooth) and use 16 bits resample with medium quality, the command line is:

nvs_set autoexec1 str -v "squeezelite -o \"BT -n 'MySpeaker'\" -b 500:2000 -R -u m -Z 192000 -r \"44100-44100\""

Building Squeezelite-esp32

MOST IMPORTANT: create the right default config file

make defconfig

Then adapt the config file to your wifi/BT/I2C device (can alos be done on the command line)

make menuconfig

Then you will need to build the recovery binary and squeezelite binary:

# Build recovery.bin, bootloader.bin, ota_data_initial.bin, partitions.bin  
PROJECT_NAME="recovery" make -j4 all EXTRA_CPPFLAGS='-DRECOVERY_APPLICATION=1'
# Now force a rebuild by touching all the files which may have a RECOVERY_APPLICATION specific source compile logic
find . \( -name "*.cpp" -o -name "*.c" -o -name "*.h" \) -type f -print0 | xargs -0 grep -l "RECOVERY_APPLICATION" | xargs touch
# Build squeezelite.bin
PROJECT_NAME="squeezelite" make -j4 app EXTRA_CPPFLAGS='-DRECOVERY_APPLICATION=0'

make flash monitor

Once the application is running, under monitor, you can monitor the system activity.

• for all libraries, add -mlongcalls.
• audio libraries are complicated to rebuild, open an issue if you really want to
• libmad, libflac (no esp's version), libvorbis (tremor - not esp's version), alac work
• libfaad does not really support real time, but if you want to try
  • -O3 -DFIXED_POINT -DSMALL_STACK
  • change ac_link in configure and case ac_files, remove ''
  • compiler but in cfft.c and cffti1, must disable optimization using #pragma GCC push_options #pragma GCC optimize ("O0") #pragma GCC pop_options
• opus & opusfile
  • for opus, the ESP-provided library seems to work, but opusfile is still needed
  • per mad & few others, edit configure and change $ac_link to add -c (faking link)
  • change ac_files to remove ''
  • add DEPS_CFLAGS and DEPS_LIBS to avoid pkg-config to be required
• better use helixaac
  
• set IDF_PATH=/home/esp-idf
• set ESPPORT=COM9
• update flash partition size
• other compiler #define
  • use no resampling or set RESAMPLE (soxr) or set RESAMPLE16 for fast fixed 16 bits resampling
  • use LOOPBACK (mandatory)
  • use BYTES_PER_FRAME=4 (8 is not fully functionnal)
  • LINKALL (mandatory)
  • NO_FAAD unless you want to us faad, which currently overloads the CPU
  • TREMOR_ONLY (mandatory)