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nagyrobi / home-assistant-custom-components-linkplay

LinkPlay based media devices integration for Home Assistant. Supports multiroom, Media Browser, and snapshot and restore functionality for TTS. Compatible with Mini Media Player card.
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Slightly off-topic: Replacing the firmware of the Linkplay A31 module #142

Open hn opened 1 week ago

hn commented 1 week ago

It doesn't quite correspond to the aim of this project, but it may be of interest to someone: This project has some technical info about the Linkplay A31 and shows how to replace the firmware of the module with an open source solution (Linux/OpenWrt).

nagyrobi commented 1 week ago

Wonderful! Will try this on one of my Arylics!

hn commented 1 week ago

Thanks. A little warning: it works fine for me (Airplay and MPD service), but it's not necessarily a bulletproof thing. And it can't offer all the features of the original software (yet?).

nagyrobi commented 1 week ago

I once succeeded to enter the console shell of one of the devices, and I disliked that for some unknown reason it kept pinging a Chinese server. That's when I lost my confidence and interest, but this gives me hope.

nagyrobi commented 1 week ago

Recent ESPHome updates added support for host platform, meaning it's possible to run ESPHome on Linux too, not only on MCUs. There's even a PR to control UARTs under Linux.

This would open the path to nicely integrate Linkplay under ESPHome...