This project aims to build a webradio based on the ESP8266. The goal is to make it controllable via touchscreen.
This respository and the entire project is very much work-in-progress…
The incoming encoded audio stream is buffered in an external SPI RAM. The ESP8266 has two hardware SPI controllers: SPI0 (aka SPI) and SPI1 (aka HSPI). The ESP-12F module that is used here uses SPI0 for accessing the SPI flash memory that holds the program data. Here, HSPI is used for accessing the SPI RAM. Since the pins that are regularly used for HSPI will be used for talking I2S to the audio DAC, SPI0 and HSPI are configured in overlap mode. That means, that they share the same pins (except for the CS line). There is an arbiter that selects which SPI controller gets to access the pins. The SPI RAM device here is a 23LC1024 which has a capacity of 1 Mbit. Both the ESP8266 and the 23LC1024 support Quad SPI where all data lines (SIO0..3) are bidirectional, so 4 bits are transferred in every clock cycle.
The audio DAC that is used here is the WM8731. The audio data is transferred using I2S via the I2S controller that is built into the ESP8266. The configuration of the DAC is performed via I2C. Even though the ESP8266 contains an I2C controller, it is not used here, because the pins were not available. Since the WM8731 comes with a microphone interface, it is included together with the reverse I2S direction.
The display that is used here, is a MI0283QT 240x320 color LCD. Infos about the adapter board that molds a touchscreen controller as well, can be found here. Both the LCD controller and the touchscreen controller are also sharing the same SPI pins as the SPI flash and the SPI RAM. Both are controlled by the HSPI controller. The LCD uses a hardware CS, but for the touchscreen controller, there was no more hardware CS available that is not used for anything else. Hence, GPIO16 is used as the CS line for the touchscreen controller.
- The SPI RAM is wired incorrectly: SIO2 and SIO3 should be swapped. This is fixed in software.
To build the software, follow the instructions in the
open-esp-webradio repository to
install the required toolchain. Then simply run make or make flash,
respectively, to compile or flash the image. The WiFi credentials should be
supplied via the file ./esp-open-rtos/include/private_ssid_config.h.
Inspired by ESP8266_MP3_DECODER, this project builds upon the following components:
This project is licensed under the terms of the GNU GPLv3, see LICENSE.md.