This post is obsolete as the Mn Cast is sucesfully launched and available on Amazon ! see here. thanks to all backers
A new one is the ESPmuse family : Mn Cast!
This is intended to plug on your old stereo system to add connectivity such as Bluetooth, Airplay, Local Streaming, Home Assistan support and much more.
Software wise it will come pre-loaded with Squeezelite and pre-configured.
Mn is the Chemical symbol for Manganese, 25th the periodic tables of element, just after Chrome number 24th :)))
Specification :
High quatily 32 bits 384kHz DAC
Analog jack output
Optical digital output (mini-TOSLINK)
1.3 inch monochrome Oled display
ESP32 Wrover based : 2.4GHz WiFi 802.11 b/g/n up to 150 Mbps
Bluetooth 4.2 LE
Rotary encoder with push button
Infrared receiver (to use it a remote control)
SD card
USB C
1 programmable RGB LED
A nice case
ON/OFF button
Possibility to plug an optional I2S microphone
Start shipping September 2022. Pre-book yours now and get a 10ā¬ off, and be the first to receive yours. [update 29/09/22: currently shipping the white one in Europe]
Shipping in Europe, UK and USA only.
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This so cool! Any chance to ship with eBay or Amazon? They handle VAT importing to Norway. If I buy like this I suspect I need to pay another 15EUR just in paperwork.
Pre-orders will be shipped thru Amazon multi-channel fulfiment in Europe, Uk or USA, it means that the expediter will be amazon, so if you are not in those countries you might be subject taxes. The next normal batch will go thru normal Amazon (in a couple of month I guess)
Bonjour,
Je souhaiterais acheter votre produit Mn cast pour l utiliser dans ma voiture comme un lecteur autonome ( branchement de la sortie jack vers l entree auxiliaire de l autoradio ) afin de lire mes mp3 ( disponible sur une carte sd ) ā¦
Est-il possible dāinteragir avec le Mn cast depuis mon smartphone pour le choix des chanssons ?
( Avec une appli comme squeezer ou squeeze controler par exemple )
Well the hardware is for sure compatible to do SD card reading of mp3 + some kind of bluetooth protocol to select songs from your phone. But at the moment there is no already made code to do this. We have some code to just read the mp3 when the sd card is inserted but nothong to control it from the smarthone. I donāt know if you can program using Arduino but this doable.
I have pre-loaded Squeezelite on it an pre-configured the screen, dac, toslink, encoder, IR. I have not configured the RGB led as I think it is not useful as we have a screen.
I have not tried yet to setup Home assistant.
On the PCB there is a connection to plug an I2S microphone for future use as a vocal assistant. But for privacy concern, no microphone on the board out of the box.
The 3d printed case look good but some tiny tolerence issues you will notice that the jack/mini toslink output is not perfectly alined with the case, but totaly usable.
You have the ususal Raspiaudio warranty for pre-order, 30 days to have a full refund if needed (unlikely i hope )
note the following GPIOs:
I2S : bck=5,ws=25,do=26,mute=33
Screen 128x64 : sda=18,scl=23
Rotary encoder : A=19,B=32,SW=0
Infra red receiver = 12
SPDIF digital output = 4
RGB led (WS2812) = 22
Great news!
And the priority to Norwegian backers is a good one I did receive a notification from Fed-Ex which might very well be it - due for delivery on Tuesday. I canāt wait to receive these and will keep you posted once tested
So Amazon is now blocking all Mn Cast, because they consider as dangerous material HAZMAT
I think this is because there is the word āManganeseā in the description so Iām now spending hours with the support to remove this ban, robots are already ruling this world
Incredible
At least mine (to Norway) is finally out for delivery today after being stuck for unknown reason in France for almost a week. Perhaps the same reason there?
Good news, IF you live in Europe AND you have ordered the White version, your order is being shipped. Check your emails for tracking. Indeed Amazon removed the ban on the White version.
For the Black/White version UK, Black version Europe, Amzon is stil trying to locate the goods in the warehouse. Keep you posted.
I from the EU(DE) and I ordered a white & black one, but didnāt received any email about the shipping of the white incl. tracking #. I checked my spam folder as well, but nothing!
Does this mean that I am unlucky and only get something when the blacks are shipped? If thatās the case, which I hope not, I absolutely lack understanding. Since the delivery costs per device are already included. That is, if I had made two separate orders, instead of both in one order, the price would not change at all.
BTW ā¦ I received account data with my order to login here. They never worked though. I have found until today nothing (except for the forum) where you can login at all. And for this I have now created a new account. Where I assume that the forum account has nothing to do with the store!?
But since I trust you Olivier, everything was ok until now. But slowly I get a strange feeling in the stomach area. I hope this is unfounded.
Hello Coolio,
Yes you are order #2772 and the white one was shipped today, you have received an email 4h ago, if not let me know. You will receive the black unit later once Amzon will find the black parcel in theire logistic center.
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I did receive a notification from Fed-Ex which might very well be it - due for delivery on Tuesday. I canāt wait to receive these and will keep you posted once tested 
so Iām now spending hours with the support to remove this ban, robots are already ruling this world
