You Can Now Connect ESP8266 Module to Your Color Television (Sort of)

You can do lots of things with ESP8266 WiFi modules, but CNLohr did something rather unexpected as he managed to use GPIO3/RX pin to broadcast NTSC signals first in black & white, and now in color, to his television’s channel 3.

ESP8266_Color_TV

On the hardware side, he did have to disconnect the WiFi antenna, and connected a wire antenna to GPIO3/RX pin. He then set I2S to run at 80 Mbps, and pushed data out using DMA buffers, so he could achieved the 61.25 MHz frequency required for NTSC luminance data, and the  color data, 3.579MHz higher up. Once the demo is running, you can alter it on the fly using a web neat interface. This is all explained on channel3’s github repository, as well as one a 15-minute video showing the capabilities and limitations, and explaining how you can play around with the parameters.

Via ESP8266COM’s Tweet.

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8 Replies to “You Can Now Connect ESP8266 Module to Your Color Television (Sort of)”

  1. @cnxsoft
    I see, that’s what I was not sure about. So instead of the Wifi signal he broadcasts the videosignal on channel 30 frequency and use aerial antenna on his TV for reception. That’s even more impressive.

  2. I’ve a naive question… what can we do with this ? any idea to make it useful in a project ?
    thanks

  3. @jl

    you can do an udp-tv message service for arounded tv’s as cheap fast info panels.

    😉

    hope charles goes PAL too.
    would start then “udp-tv-pair” with a second esp8266 as “tuner”-receiver 😉

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