Vacation Jukebox Will get ESP32, House Assistant Help

If we’ve realized something over time, it’s that the one factor {hardware} hackers love greater than a tool festooned with buttons is one which’s lined in LEDs — so it’s no shock that this “Mr Christmas” jukebox caught the attention of [Roberts Retro]. However whereas the vacation gadget may need been mildly entertaining in its inventory configuration, he shortly realized that what it actually wanted was an ESP32 retrofit. In any case, what good are all these buttons and LEDs should you can’t bend them to your will?

For the primary half of the video, [Robert] treats us to an in depth teardown of the gadget, which as you may think, is basically hole inside. This gave him loads of room to graft in new {hardware}, which is basically the perfect reward any of us might hope to seek out beneath the tree. Along with the ESP32 improvement board, the jukebox additionally acquired plenty of WS2812B addressable RGB LEDs, and a DFPlayer module to deal with music playback.

With all of the buttons wired as much as inputs on the ESP32, [Robert] can reconfigure the jukebox to do just about no matter he needs with simply adjustments to the software program. Within the video, he demonstrates how the buttons can be utilized to set off the playback of particular person songs saved on the DFPlayer’s SD card, which primarily replicates it’s inventory performance. A number of strains of modified code later, those self same buttons can be utilized to manage gadgets through House Assistant.

To get into the vacation spirit, [Roberts Retro] reveals off the finished jukebox controlling his ESP-enabled LEGO practice set — one other of his festive upgrades that we lined again in 2022.