AutoConnect VS ESP32-A2DP

And for Wifi management on ESP32, this awesome repo that "does it all": https://hieromon.github.io/AutoConnect/ -- this repo creates its own access point you can connect to with your phone to pop-up a "captive portal" (like you see at hotels or airports) to enter your own Wifi credentials -- this is only done once -- after that, the ESP32 will connect to the last known good Wifi network. If you don't want that, just use the built-in Wifi functions to create a local Wifi hotspot to connect to. Then creating web pages on the ESP32 is easy -- you can use the "PageBuilder" JSON syntax, or host regular HTML/JS/CSS files on the SPIFF/LittleFS partition and server those in response to incoming requests.

Or if you don't want to have a hardcoded ssid and password in your program, you can use the AutoConnect library

I want the device to be portable, so I want the esp32 to automatically reconnect to Wi-Fi every time I switch it off and back on. I have used this library, and it serves the exact purpose of what I want to do in my project : https://github.com/Hieromon/AutoConnect

I want to save power on a battery powered sensor but I also want to have AutoConnect set up to set up and configure the wifi. Since having the wi-fi running it can take up a lot of energy I would like to make sure that none of the battery is used during the programming set up. I was thinking that the AutoConnect would only run when it detects that it is plugged into a 5v usb port. I also want a switch so that the usb can power either the sensor (lower power) or the wifi configuration (high power) parts of the program. How would I best accomplish this?

It is this one right: https://github.com/Hieromon/AutoConnect ?

Whole thing is programmed using Arduino library in platformio and for a2dp sink im using pschatzmann library https://github.com/pschatzmann/ESP32-A2DP

The ESP8266 won’t work, since it doesn’t support Bluetooth. You’ll need an ESP32 and an I2S DAC. I built something similar based on this library: https://github.com/pschatzmann/ESP32-A2DP

I want to turn a USB computer keyboard into a musical instrument where i can press a key and a sound is played on my bluetooth speaker. I have played around with https://github.com/pschatzmann/ESP32-A2DP and managed to hardcode a little tune and play it on the speaker. Unfortunately that alone already uses 80% of the esp32 flash memory and I need some more space to read the keyboard input and do a little bit of sound design on top of that. I’m looking for suggestions on a controller (combination of controllers) would be best suited for the job, with the constraint that it should have low power consumption.

Check out arduino-audio-tools and other libraries it can make use of, such as ESP32-A2DP. It's tailored towards ESP32 devices, but also supports the RP2040 and others.

For all other i2s pinouts, I'm leaning on this GitHub-project: https://github.com/pschatzmann/ESP32-A2DP

You can use Bluetooth A2DP. This is the same standard used in Bluetooth headphones. Several implementations are available https://github.com/pschatzmann/ESP32-A2DP

A2DP library: https://github.com/pschatzmann/ESP32-A2DP

I recently discovered that the ESP32 could be used to receive audio via Bluetooth and since I'm using one as part of my build anyway (for controlling peripherals and LED outputs) I was thinking to just use the ESP32's onboard Bluetooth rather than a dedicated chip/module. After looking through some example code and the ESP32-A2DP library, I feel confident that this would work but is anyone able to see any caveats in doing this other than not being able to support aptx?