leosgonewild wrote:

Are you saying that a RP with a AE would be able to turn on my BV7 when it gets an audio stream? Could it also be controlled by a Essence Remote?

I am VERY interested! 😁

No, I am saying that the Raspberry can do everything at its own. Even the AirPlay part if you install the right software (e.g. shairport-sync). That is even cooler, cheaper and sounds better! 

The essence remote uses standard BLE HID protocol. So if you connect a BT 4.0 USB stick to the Raspberry that shouldn't be a big problem. Only some software would be required that maps the essence commands to the right ML commands.  

Great that you are interested!

I have been reading your dev thread with great interest. I am also VERY interested, so sign me up! :)

Regards

Espen

Could a raspberry pi have spotify running, and that way be controlled with the essence remote? And when pressing play on the remote it would act as an Beosound 3200, and the sound would come out from the speakers connected to my BV7?

I am highly interested at the PCB, I would take three.

leosgonewild wrote:

Could a raspberry pi have spotify running, and that way be controlled with the essence remote? And when pressing play on the remote it would act as an Beosound 3200, and the sound would come out from the speakers connected to my BV7?

Yes, one of the main goals of this project is that you can send and receive commands and inject audio to the ML system like with any other audio or video master. 
So in your case I would recommend running the Pi with one of the audio distributions (like runeaudio or volumio) available and throw in some software managing the connection to the essence remote and handling the ML commands. So yes, it should be possible then to press play on the essence or select AirPlay on your iDevice and the Pi will execute a given command on the ML and inject the audio. In your case turning on the BV7 and playing spotify.   
We might also provide a fork from e.g. volumio that contains the ML handling. But this is not the main focus at the moment and you should always keep in mind that you need to have fun at tinkering and some basic linux and programming knowledge. 

The next step in development is to manufacture maybe two or three prototype PCBs to validate the design.
If successful a larger production run will be made that will satisfy all the community orders.
At this stage we should also have some very basic sample applications and tutorials ready on how to use the ML interface.  

Thanks Espen and Alsfeld for your interest. You are both on the list. :-)

We need a nice name for this project. Any suggestions? Maybe "BeoPi HAT" or "ML-HAT" ? (H.A.T. is the official name for RPi add-on boards.)

Is there any interest in a data-only version without the audio part? 
So only controlling your ML setup without injection audio?

Would be the same PCB but without populated audio parts.
Good DACs are expensive and would save some money if you don't need it.  

leosgonewild wrote:

Could a raspberry pi have spotify running, and that way be controlled with the essence remote? And when pressing play on the remote it would act as an Beosound 3200, and the sound would come out from the speakers connected to my BV7?

I was half way through a long reply but BeoMotion beat me to it and said pretty much everything I was going to say 🙂