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Hello guys. I am a newbie here and with esp8266, but I like the potential of it. I need your advise, please. I have a bluetooth speaker Bose Sound Link 3, and I am not 100% happy how it is controlled . However I am thinking to implement esp12 into it to control it from my phone. It has 6 buttons which I'd like to press remotely, as now I have to go to it and turn it on, volume up or down, change source of input. It has plenty of space inside for buck converter and esp12. Please advice me smartest way of achieving that. Or if someone did something similar could you please share it with me.

Thanks

P.S. Or maybe there is really advanced way of transforming to airplay without major exterior modifications.

I guess you have 2 options to interface to it

IR

If it has a IR remote, why not use the ESP8266 to emulate the IR signals, this will be a very clean wa of doing it as you will not have to open up the speaker. Something like

https://www.instructables.com/id/Univer ... ontrolled/

Direct

Alternatively, you could wire the IO from the ESP8266 to the buttons, via optoisolators, so when the output on the ESP8266 is set, the opto effectivley presses the button. This would need you to solder connections to the button contacts. Which is sort of what this project does:-

https://www.instructables.com/id/MP3-In ... -and-Easy/

Then you would need to have a webpage to control the IO, lots of guides, see here

https://tttapa.github.io/ESP8266/Chap10 ... erver.html