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The device comes with two audio cables, a micro USB to USB cable for power, and “SoundMate WiFi Music Streamer” user manual. Let’s have a closer look at the tiny box. 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.
Take out of four sticky rubber pad on the bottom of the case, and loosen four screws to remove the bottom cover. 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. 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). The Wi-Fi module is based on Realtek RTL8188ETV chip. I’ve connected WM201 to Onkyo TX-NR636 AV receiver with any SPDIF optcial audio cable. 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. SoundMate WM201 Connected to an Onkyo AV Receiver, and EZCast App in Android.
#Soundmate ezcast install
Once of the thing you’ll want to do is to install EZcast app for Android, iOS or Windows/Mac.
#Soundmate ezcast android
I’ve only installed EZCast android app on my Android smartphone for this review. The first time the app will look with an EZCast dongle, and detect a SoundMate-XXXXXX device to which you can connect to. The first time the connection can take a while, like over one minute. You can then access the Home screen with Music, Web, Cloud Storage, Comment, Update, AirDisk, and Radio options, as well as DLNA, AirSetup (for micro SD card / USB flash drive connected to WM201), and 3G/4G connectivity.
#Soundmate ezcast upgrade
Home Page and Settings (Click to Enlarge)ĪirSetup will let you choose the audio output (Stereo, SPDIF 5.1, …), set the equalizer, configure the connection, check for firmware upgrade and so on. Music, Video and Cloud Storage (Click to Enlarge) SOUNDMATE WM201 REVIEW UPGRADE The “Music” app will let you browse audio files on your smartphone and stream them to your speaker or AV receiver.
It works OK, but there’s no volume option here.
In theory, the Web option can let you stream audio from YouTube and other online service, but I could not make this work at all. EZCast / EZMusic Radio (Click to Enlarge) Cloud Storage will detect some cloud apps installed on your device (in my case Dropbox), and allow you to stream audio files from the cloud. The “Radio” app will list various online radio station from over the world.
#Soundmate ezcast update
SOUNDMATE WM201 REVIEW UPDATEĭLNA, Firmware Update and AirDisk (Click to Enlarge) It’s been a while since I’ve listened to radio, and the last time I did that was in France, but I could not find any famous radio on the list, except maybe “Oui FM”. “AirDisk” function should allow you to play music from a micro SD card or USB flash drive formatted to FAT32 connected to the device, but in my case it did not recognize my USB drive at all. It’s a LiveCD (with Ubuntu), so maybe that’s why. DLNA will simply redirect to launch one of your installed DLNA apps such as BubbleUPnP, and in my case it could also play m4a audio files, something that’s not supported by Onkyo TX-NR636 internal software.
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