Media player with esp32 s3 N16R8 and max98357 with sendspin synchronized audio

RealDeco · December 19, 2025, 3:02pm

well is it related since it’s already supported in MA with sendspin and a alternative mediaplayer to esphome mediaplayers but merry xmas

edit: squeezelite players is also for esp32 but alternative standalone firmware, certaintly what i would have used to mod old radios so they have multiple usage

tmjpugh · December 19, 2025, 3:14pm

are you mixing two things.

squeezelite has been available long time. for reasons they decided it was better to create a completely new protocol Sendspin/resonate

Sendspin has been available in beta and in latest esphome/music assistant is now available to all. You must add the component to media device in esphome to use. HAVPE yaml was updated to add sendspin I believe.

squeezelite and sendspin are not same and completely separate. Sendspin isn’t using squeezlite or something similar. Not sure how MA handles synced audio if you try to play to both sendspin player and squeezelite or if its possible. It treats chromecast and other players as sendspin players I believe.

your post sounded like sendspin was squeezlite or some variation.

andrew_NH · December 19, 2025, 6:03pm

I have been using squeezelite for 15 year and it’s amazing. I often wondered if it would be possible to get squeezelite and ESPHome on the same ESP32 chip but it has never been possible.

sendspin will be able to do everything squeezelite did and a lot more with full ESPHome support.

I’m looking at this demo now to see if I can add it to a Wavershare screen I already have.

gist.github.com

https://gist.github.com/kahrendt/a86b20601f02df9f3861a48cedc98e17

esp32-s3-box-3-sendspin.yml

# This is minimal demonstration on how to obtain text metadata and album art from Sendspin and display it using LVGL on an ESP32-S3 Box 3.
# The track title is displayed below the cover art will scroll if too long for the screen.
# Touching the screen pops up controls for 5 seconds where you can pause/resume and go to the previous/next track
# Swiping left or right will go to a different page. It should show a picture of the artist (but there are some bugs on the MA side, so this doesn't work consistently)
# Uses the current Sendspin PR: https://github.com/esphome/esphome/pull/12284

substitutions:
  name: esp32-s3-box-3
  friendly_name: ESP32 S3 Box 3 Sendspin
  font_glyphsets: "GF_Latin_Core"

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If we could get ESPhome, sendspin and USB 2.0 audio devices to all work together I think we would have the holy grail of embedded computer audio!

I think we are close on that as well.

https://community.home-assistant.io/t/usb-audio-devices-on-esp32-p4-in-esphome

RealDeco · December 20, 2025, 6:04pm

i am not mixing anything up and i run latest beta myself with sendspin on voicePE and so on, it was for those that only want multisync and are not aware it’s been a option for a long time

mchk · December 25, 2025, 12:40pm

I switched my satellites to code with sendspin support (based on the alpha release for VPE) and have been testing it for a week now. There are some minor issues and occasional reboots, but overall it works well.

firmware

I think we should propose a new option for MA: sendspin players should be able to automatically restore their previous state upon initialization. This will allow playback to continue or return to the group upon reboot (planned or unexpected)

Arh · December 25, 2025, 2:04pm

I also have a few unplanned reboots.

You need to propose the change on the discord discussion.