![]() ![]() ![]() Once of the thing you’ll want to do is to install EZcast app for Android, iOS or Windows/Mac. SoundMate WM201 Connected to an Onkyo AV Receiver, and EZCast App in Android. It does not make much sense to do so because TX-NR636 already support Wi-Fi conenctivity and DLNA, and can already do much of the added featues provided by WM201, but if you have an older amplifier / AV receiver without connectivity, WM201 can be a neat way to smarten your older AV receiver. ![]() I’ve connected WM201 to Onkyo TX-NR636 AV receiver with any SPDIF optcial audio cable. The Wi-Fi module is based on Realtek RTL8188ETV chip. Top of WM201 PCBA (Click to Enlarge)Īctions Semi AM8253 600 MHz is in the center of the board, and connects to Axeme H2A35121656BB6C 64MB DDR2 RAM, and Samsung K9F1G08U0E NAND flash (128MB). Not much to see here, except the MAC address that starts with 54E4BD and belongs to FN-Link Technology, which must be the company provided the Wi-Fi module for WM201. Take out of four sticky rubber pad on the bottom of the case, and loosen four screws to remove the bottom cover. Two LEDs are located on the front for power and connection, a micro SD slot can be found on the side, and the rear panel has most of the connection: micro USB port for power, reset pinhole, optical SPDIF, 3.5mm stereo jack, and USB 2.0 host for mass storage. ![]() Let’s have a closer look at the tiny box. The device comes with two audio cables, a micro USB to USB cable for power, and “SoundMate WiFi Music Streamer” user manual. ar7240_i2s kernel driver provides support for audio DAC that is connected over i2s bus to AR9331 SoC.Last year I reviewed SoundMate M2 Wi-Fi audio streamer, and Uyesee has sent me a sample of their new SoundMate WM201 powered by Actions Semi AM8253, and based on EZCast app for audio calld EZMusic (EZCast Music). updatefw is obviously firmware upgrade tool which look if new firmware is put on usb and then it updates current firmware. Rc.local script has few interesting thing, first part with if statement is to mount external usb devices. Mount -t exfat -o fmask=000,dmask=000,iocharset=utf8 /dev/$device /tmp/mnt/disk-$m Mount -o fmask=000,dmask=000,iocharset=utf8 /dev/$device /tmp/mnt/disk-$m Ntfs-3g -o nls=utf8 /dev/$device /tmp/mnt/disk-$m # Put your custom commands here that should be executed once I'm not sure what nsrender does, does it complement shairtunes or is it a separate tool. Wifi options need a bit more investigating.Ĥ32 root 1552 S /proc/cpuinfoġ660 root 1520 D sh -c ps -w |grep friendly-name | grep -v grep|wc -l It is strange to see eth0 port configured when this device is missing RJ45 connector. Listing of services shows that this device is using all Open source tools, main tool that enables music streaming is shairport which emulates Apple Airplay service. Overlayfs:/overlay 1.0M 64.0K 976.0K 6% /īy looking at free drive space we see that there is 976K of free space for any additional tools or scripts. So this device had 64Mb of ram, and more than half of it is free.įilesystem Size Used Available Use% Mounted on Telnet to device, and use "root" for username and "ifconfig" for password. Actually I'm puzzled how come we have just started to see consumer products use OpenWrt. OpenWrt is a not your average embedded OS, it is fully featured Linux with hundreds of packages which you can install with ease. In this article I'll do a bit of digging under the skin and do some reverse engineering of SoundMate M1 audio streaming device. ![]()
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