Saturday, February 11, 2023

Adding MQTT to the Arylic DIY Amp with an ESP32

 

Arylic Up2Stream DIY Amp v4

The Arylic Up2Stream DIY Amp is a feature rich, great sounding amplifier that can be used to add all sorts of "smart" features to an old pair of speakers you have sitting in a closet or the attic.  By default, access to many of these features require that you install a mobile app and use a cloud server. But of course, as always, we want to focus on completely local control.  This article will cover using both local options via some of the features of the amp itself, but more importantly substantially expanding these options by using a connected ESP32 to provide MQTT access to nearly every option.