Tindie

A compact and flexible module - my plan is to use it in a portable speaker

Anyone installed a display and rotary encoder? If so, model/connection info?

Miguel | Oct. 30, 2024

Excellent quality module

First of all, I have to thank the seller for the excellent communication.
Regarding the Louder ESP S3 module, the build quality is very good, the sound is excellent.
I'm using it as a media player in Home Assistant with the Esphome firmware and my expectations were far exceeded.
I highly recommend it.

Baddtaste | Oct. 6, 2024

Fun easy project

For Play ESP DIY Kit

Picked one of these up to build was my son. It was really fun. Not too hard. The soldering was easy to do even for a novice. Really good product. Would recommend for anybody into video games and trying to learn how to solder and build using small components.

Hugo | Sept. 27, 2024

Simple development board for a reasonable price, works well!

For ATtiny1616 Development Board

Just as expected, a simple and easy-to-use development board around the ATTiny1616 processor. I needed to test this chip for a product that I am designing, and I am sure that this development board will work just fine for that. The only downside is that my board (REV. C) has no serial port because the UART converter is used for UPDI programming. Suggestion for designer: maybe use a switch (with two signals/channels) for switching between programming mode and serial mode. I cannot say anything about the communication since this sale was made without prior contact. Documentation has everything you might need.

Fabian | Sept. 11, 2024

Great device with perfect functionality

Starting from shipping, to installation and configuration. This device works flawlessly and allows easy setup of multiroom audio with LMS. The audio output volumes are sufficient even with 12V power supply. It is possible to add a rotary encoder and Wi-Fi coverage is very good, thanks to the included antenna.

Erik | Aug. 13, 2024

Bought one for music player for in the toilet

It took a while to figure out how to configure it
bud now it works like a charm
used a ols raspbery housing to fit the print

Cyrus | Aug. 11, 2024

great product, works perfectly

For HiFi Raspberry Pi Media Center

This solved several of my issues with speakers around my house, will be buying more of these down the road

Ton | July 14, 2024

Very nice little clock!

I really like this little clock. It was fun assembling the kit, rather easy too, but the real fun came afterwards, when I placed the clock in a prominent place in the living room. Each time I see it, I can't suppress a smile.
We have many clocks in our house, old and new, analog and digital, but this one really catches the eye. And it is functioning as a reference too, because of the synchronisation with an nntp server.
At the next sale I might be tempted to order one or two additional kits, just for the fun of it.

Matthew | July 10, 2024

Great product and excellent seller support and communication

For Louder Raspberry Pi Media Center

I encountered some issues with the product shortly after purchasing it, but the seller's support was absolutely exceptional. I'm impressed with their level of service and would highly recommend purchasing from this seller.

Jason | May 25, 2024

Very Happy Customer

For ESP Audio Dock

I bought some of the Solo audio to test using it with Home Assistant. I am a novice and the help I received was amazing and lightning fast. Thank you ! I will definitely buy again. Goods also came to Australia in very quick time.

Adrian | April 28, 2024

Excellent Squeezelite/Spotify client

For Esparagus HiFi MediaLink

Exactly what I was looking for. Sounds great on my vintage amp. I can now cast directly to it. Everything seems to be running flawlessly. I have run it for hours with no hangups. Very solid and well done!

Allard | March 19, 2024

Great product and very enthusiastic designer

For Esparagus HiFi MediaLink

I ordered two of these some time ago to work in my living room with an home assistant system. One is directly connected to powered speakers and the other is connected to an amp. Both work very well, design is very well thought of and good documentation is available.

Adrian | March 13, 2024

Great product, shipped quickly. Performs flawlessly (so far)

Slightly dispapointed that a couple of pins on the Ethernet module were bent in transit. Although bagged, bubble wrapped and jiffy bagged, I can easily see how the items can be damaged.

On first power up (with a 12.6V battery pack), wifi hotspot quickly established and connected to, took a couple of goes to connect it to my home wifi, but once there, it is extremely stable, no stuttering. The sound out of my test speakers is great.

A couple of questions:

1. The board marking suggests a Vin of '5..26v'; is it safe to go to 24v?
2. What GPIO pins are available for connecting, for example, a small display, and/or a rotary encoder for volume control?

Response from Sonocotta | March 13, 2024

Hey Adrian. Sorry about the damaged pins. Hope you were able to use it despite the damage.

1. Voltage is limited by the DAC, 26V is the recommended maximum voltage, absolute maximum is 30V. 24V is well within recommended range.
2. List of pins in use is here https://github.com/sonocotta/esp32-audio-dock?tab=readme-ov-file#louder-esp You can use any of the remaining pins.

Lonja | Feb. 22, 2024

Love the Esparagus

For Esparagus HiFi MediaLink

Simple to use, with minimal set up (I opted for the pre-flashed version).
It has worked great so far!

Dustin | Jan. 31, 2024

Awesome device for LMS!

This product is a cost effective amp+dac+squeezelite combo to easily expand your LMS wireless audio setup. It works and sounds amazing. My only suggestion would be to add a 3.5mm line out (if you want to use your own powered speakers), and add pins for adding physical volume (up/down), play/pause, and a power button. Keep up the good work, really well designed!

Maickel | Dec. 30, 2023

Squeezelite-ESP32 works with Ethernet but stutters with Wifi

I bought the Louder ESP32 with the Ethernet module and pre-installed firmware for Squeezelite-ESP32. The Louder ESP stutters a lot when set to WiFi. It works well when the Ethernet module is used. I hope the seller can help with a solution for the problem with WiFi

Response from Sonocotta | Jan. 1, 2024

Hey Maickel. I’m working on the version of the board with onboard esp32 module and external antenna to address wifi issues. Right now those are of-the-shelf esp32 modules and I cannot make wifi perception better

Erwin | Dec. 27, 2023

Nice simple kit

For Play ESP DIY Kit

Received this promply and everything is nicely packed. Assembled in few minutes and works ok (except some offset in the screen). The design could be improved to not have the battery holder on top of screws and pins. Documentation is somehow lacking, it is a simple device, but it will be instantly abandoned if is not well documented (as is now).

Peter | Sept. 13, 2023

Perfect little Tamogotchi!

For ESP8266 Tamagotchi DIY Kit

Came programmed, easy to put together, quality little board. Has a clock and remembers your progress when you change the batteries. I cut the pins flush with the board after soldering and hit them again with the iron so it wasn't pokey. The ESP had a couple rough edges but a little touch with sand paper made it nice. Well worth the price.

Robert | June 8, 2023

Mouse Whisperer is awesome!

The Mouse Whisperer is a really cool mouse jiggler. It operates exactly as it was described. The build quality is very good, the touch control is a nice feature, and the overall size is fairly small. I would recommend it as well as buy one again. Thank you!

Dean | April 26, 2023

I can't find the clock on my network

I followed the setup instructions and can't find the clock on my network.
Is there any way to start over at the beginning ?

Response from Sonocotta | April 26, 2023

Hi Dean. As soon as you configured WiFi it is stored internally, but clock will only go online once per day to sync the clock and stay offline the rest of the day. If WiFi credentials will not work, clock will go into AP mode, and you can configure them again. Easy way, just switch off your router for a moment. Hard way, ESP.eraseConfig() should do the trick. But you have to reflash the clock afterwards.

Chris | April 22, 2023

Works great

Works exactly as advertised. I gave it away as a gift and it was well received. It's intuitive to use and hassle free.

Gary | April 10, 2023

Very cute and useful project.

For ESP8266 Wireless Terminal DIY Kit

Very clean design, and nice project that is rather useful. Seller was very responsive. Low cost and quickly shipped.

Jim | March 20, 2023

Very good price for a nice 24 hour clock...

I've been looking for a clock for the ham shack for a while and this one caught my eye. It can be set for any time zone and connects to NTP servers periodically to stay accurate. It is easy to build with what would be the tough part (the surface mount chips and headers for the LEDs) already installed. I bought the kit without the remaining headers installed. It took me about 30 minutes from start to finish and less than 10 of that was with a solder iron (and the rest involved a lot of double checking I was doing things right). Not a lot of documentation on construction, but it is very straight forward an easy to figure out. The only downside to me was having to install yet another (I've lost count of how many I have installed) tool-chain to program the microcontroller. I don't use VScode, so I installed the CLI only on my main Linux box. I have a pitifully slow internet connection, so that took a few minutes. It is pretty easy to figure out which files you need to move to which directory. Then a './pio run -t upload' and things started. The first time, there was a lot of downloading and installing. (After all was said and done, the directory it creates and uses had 2.9 GB of 'stuff'...) But things uploaded. I connected to the serial port, rebooted it, and saw the WiFi come up. It was easy to build and easy to configure. I need to spend some time in the code because I'd rather just see the clock and not have the day of week and date appear periodically. This is a great kit and a great value for the money. The only two complaints I have are the new tools taking 2.9 GB on my machine that I'll probably never use for any other project and that the code doesn't seem to have all of the things you can configure (time zone, brightness settings, etc.) clumped together in one place for ease of use. But if you're a bit of a geek who has messed with Arduinos and other microcontrollers, those are just minor in the overall scheme of things. The result is a nice looking clock that will stay accurate.

Mathias | March 10, 2023

Nice kit - recommended!

Great seller, great product! Simple to configure and simple to use. Fast shipment and well packed. Recommended!

Mathias | March 10, 2023

Recommended!

For ESP8266 Wireless Terminal DIY Kit

Great seller, great product! Easy to build and configure and simple to use. Fast shipment and well packed. Recommended!

Mathias | March 10, 2023

Great kit, perfect communication and support from the seller. Fixed minor issues really fast and updated the firmware promptly.

Aaron | Feb. 20, 2023

It's neat.

So it does exactly what was described, just making lazy circles with the mouse. I especially like the activation mechanism with a little capacitive touch action on the end of the device.

It has also created a new game for me to play. See if I can do anything useful with the mouse while it's activated.

Scott | Feb. 6, 2023

Mouse whisperer works perfect

Works exactly as advertised. touch control is awesome. delivery was fairly fast. Overall a great experience for a first time buyer!

Vincent | Jan. 9, 2023

Plug&Play

Plug and Play on a Windows 10 Workstation, works as advertised, i'm now able to do coffee break at home without having to log in after 2 minutes being afk.

Petri | Dec. 29, 2022

All in all a nice watch, helps me keep track of time

Product arrived in good shape, well packaged
Quality of the custom pcb was fab.
It was nice to once again do some soldering, it has been way to long since last time

Richard | Dec. 9, 2022

Have not got it yet? Update

All received, built and working! Slow delivery was down to the British postal system.

Nice little kit. This kit could be assembled by beginners, but might need a little help with programming the device.

On the whole, good value for money and nice quality PCB.

Sorry I have to do it this way….

I tried to contact you via Tindie ‘contact store’ but get the message ‘user does not exist’.

Still waiting for my clock…. …all I know is that it has left Poland? Have been waiting 16 working days since ordering - delivery to UK.

Will update this review if and when it arrives.

Update

**Thank you for making contact via email - much appreciated and comforting. As you say, I will wait a little longer**

Response from Sonocotta | Dec. 9, 2022

Hi Richard, sorry to hear that. According to tracking information package left Poland 2022-11-22, I can only assume it being delayed at customs, you should expect some delay during holiday season unfortunately. If it will not arrive by 2022-12-19 (1 month since shipping) I will issue full refund.

Michael | Nov. 19, 2022

Great product!