Quote from Zheng Han on July 20, 2018, 10:19 am

Just a quick note since some of you are asking about the Bluetooth Audio feature.

To enable the speaker on the Oboo for Bluetooth Audio use the following command:

gpioctl dirout-high 3

 

GPIO 3 on the Omega controls the amplifier on the Oboo by setting it high audio is enabled.

 

Check the folloing post to learn more about the audio subsystem

[Low level interaction with audio subsystem]

 

 

 

 

 

Quote from Zheng Han on July 24, 2018, 4:58 pm

Hi Oboo Makers,

Just curious if anyone tried the bluetooth audio and if so any feedbacks for us?

 

 

Quote from franko553 on July 24, 2018, 10:27 pm

I have it playing now!

The bluetooth pairing process was one of the fastest and simplest that I have every gone through.

My phone discovered the Oboo immediately and when I selected it, it took all of two seconds to start playing music.

 

Does enabling the amplifier all the time cause a performance or battery-life hit?

If not, I'll add an init.d entry to turn it on whenever the unit starts.

 

I was hoping to see events in the MQTT bus with track info, but no such luck.

Might that functionality be coming later with a music card?

 

The audio itself sounds OK.

The high end is crisp but there is almost no bass to speak of.

Is the bass channel on its own amplifier that needs a different GPIO to be enabled?

Or is there a software EQ that needs to be tuned?

 

It is LOUD!  It is on the other side of the room from me right now and and 20% volume is more than enough.

I can't wait for the alarm clock feature to be ready... there will be no sleeping through this.

Quote from Bruce Muff on July 25, 2018, 9:23 am

I have mine playing Spotify now. I agree, sounds great, no change running on battery vs. plugged in.

 

Quote from danielosser on July 30, 2018, 4:15 pm

Hi.

Would you please explain how you got BT to work? It's not enabled by default that I can see.

Thanks,

Daniel

Quote from franko553 on July 24, 2018, 10:27 pm

I have it playing now!

The bluetooth pairing process was one of the fastest and simplest that I have every gone through.

My phone discovered the Oboo immediately and when I selected it, it took all of two seconds to start playing music.

 

Quote from Zheng Han on July 30, 2018, 8:01 pm

@danielosser

Oboo Clock works like other Bluetooth devices. You need to use your smartphone to search for nearby bluetooth devices and find one called Oboo-Smart-Clock then connect to it. Once connected you can stream music from your phone to the Oboo Clock

Quote from pierrevz on July 30, 2018, 9:15 pm

I have enabled audio and paired my Oboo. Super easy.

One issue is that when I turn off the power, the audio is turned off too and I need to reset the gpio. Is there a way that I can add this to the boot script?

 

Quote from Zheng Han on July 30, 2018, 9:40 pm

@pierrevz

you can try adding the command gpioctl dirout-high 3 to /etc/rc.local

Quote from danielosser on July 31, 2018, 3:51 am

@zhonion-io

I’ve actually tried to find the device but neither iPhone or Mac find it. I haven’t tried android but it should work with any device?!

any other ideas? The bt module is loaded but using bt-tools no device is found.

Thanks in advance,

daniel

 

Quote from Zheng Han on July 31, 2018, 10:54 am

@danielosser

We have tested with both Android and iOS devices, Oboo works with both. The bluetooth module is a subsystem by itself and is controlled by the Omega2 core module over UART that is why bt-tools will not work.  Later I will create a post to show how to interact with the audio subsystem.