iPod style wifi remote that uses ESPHome and Home Assistant to integrate with your smart home
- Controls music playback from Spotify and Sonos on local speakers
- Works as a remote for Roku TVs
- Toggles lights, runs custom scenes and scripts
- Shows the status of your smart home sensors
Supports many different hardware configurations:
- M5Stack Fire (no additional hardware)
- M5Stick C (no additional hardware)
- Lilygo T-Display T4 (no additional hardware, scrollwheel coming soon)
- Lilygo T-Display TTGO with Adafruit ANO Scrollwheel
- Get Started - Learn how to build your own remote
- Discord - support / chat with the community and the team
t-display demo | m5stack fire demo | lilygo T4 demo |
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- Scroll through list and press center to select
- With a scrollwheel the top button goes back
- On M5Stack going up past the top of the list will go back
- A scroll bar appears if list extends past the screen.
- Screen returns to now playing after display sleeps
- Display sleeps after 10s of idle. Device sleeps after 2h of idle 💤
- Font size and UI size is adjustable in yaml 🔨
- Simple yaml configuration. all of the complicated code is included in other files 🛠
- Header is always shown at the top with info about the current state
Play / pause, next track, previous track, toggle shuffle and mute | Scroll for volume (with scroll wheel) |
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Manage speaker group | Change source from Spotify playlists and Sonos Favorites |
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Remote directional buttons up, down, left, right, select (with scroll wheel)
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Scroll for volume (with scroll wheel)
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Power, back, home, pause in second menu
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Change source from tv source list
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Optional soundbar support
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Change current media player (tv or speaker) from home menu
- On boot the current media player is the first speaker found playing music or the tv
Toggle lights on and off | View sensors from Home Assistant | Run scenes and scripts |
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Lilygo T-Display Controls |
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- Scroll to navigate in list menus and for volume on Now Playing Menu
- Charges with usb-c
- 1100 mah battery
- On average 3 days of battery life depending on use
- Adafruit ANO Directional Navigation and Scroll Wheel Rotary Encoder https://www.adafruit.com/product/5001
- Adafruit ANO Rotary Navigation Encoder Breakout PCB https://www.adafruit.com/product/5221
- 1100mah lipo https://leeselectronic.com/en/product/88345-battery-rechargeable-li-poly-37v-1100mah-jst-zh.html
- https://www.mouser.ca/ProductDetail/M5Stack/K007-V26?qs=TCDPyi3sCW1MGXwu64XB7w%3D%3D
- Uses the 3 buttons for navigation
- Simpler UI
- Uses internal RGB light for booting sequence and while on
M5Stack Fire Controls | M5Stack Fire Boot sequence |
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- https://www.aliexpress.com/item/32854502767.html
- Uses the 3 buttons for navigation
- Simpler UI
- Scrollwheel and battery planned
Lilygo T4 Controls |
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- Hackaday https://hackaday.com/2022/09/08/scroll-through-esphome-with-ipod-style-click-wheel/
- Hackster https://www.hackster.io/news/ipod-style-esphome-remote-3ca38edab2b4
- Reddit post https://www.reddit.com/r/homeassistant/comments/x59dcp/i_built_an_ipod_style_esphome_remote_for_home/
- Self Hosted - Episode 80 - Solving Whole Home Audio (around 30:00) https://selfhosted.show/80
- esphome https://esphome.io/
- iosevka font https://github.com/be5invis/Iosevka
- @ssieb's IP5306 esphome component https://github.com/ssieb/custom_components/tree/master/components/ip5306
- playlist queue count
- sonos night sound / speech boost
- repeat/all/single/off
- light dimming
- weather screen
- home / room screen
- temp display
- rgb / temp lights
- media player
- hvac
- switches
- sliders
- settings menu
- esphome custom components
- display menu code
- rotary and button control code
- tdisplay battery / charging
- m5stack fire battery / charging
- case
- grid ui
- circuit diagram for tdisplay
- add sensors for player state
- current screen
- active player
- dark mode
- set state from service
- change player
- dark mode