A children’s music speaker whose maker went out of business. This keeps it working, from a phone, for parents who are not technicians.
A replacement core on the device’s embedded Linux, over-the-air updates, Bluetooth, Spotify, a story studio, and a fresh SD-card image for a unit that no longer starts.
Abandoned hardware rescued end to end, and documented for people who will never read code. Part of the work of Guillain d’Erceville, forward deployed engineer.
Your child's Jooki 2 keeps working, and gets better, even though the Jooki company is gone. Free, made by a parent, not affiliated with Muuselabs / Jooki.
The Jooki's page on a phone · Jookistory, a story read by you · Settings
| Your situation | Go here |
|---|---|
| My Jooki works, but the app doesn't any more | Install OpenJooki · 15 min, from your phone |
| I have OpenJooki: playlists, tokens, bedtime, Bluetooth speaker… | Use it |
| My NFC stickers should pause like real tokens | A sticker becomes a Jooki token · Android phone, or an NFC app |
| I want to read a story myself | Jookistory: a story read by you |
| Grandma reads from far away, and the book gets its own token | From far away · Labels for the books |
| I use Spotify on my phone | Spotify on the Jooki |
| A new version is out | Update it · from the Jooki's page |
| My Jooki doesn't start any more | A new SD card · 10 min with a computer |
| No more room for music | A bigger SD card · with a computer |
| It lost its Wi-Fi (moved house, new box, new password) | Give it its Wi-Fi back · Android phone or computer |
| I want the original Jooki back | The original Jooki card |
| We're going away: holiday, car, no Wi-Fi | Away from home |
| The lights, the battery, the charger | What they mean |
| Anything else | Questions |
New in 2.4.7: a parent-code gesture that works, a clean shutdown before the battery runs flat, ±15 s for audiobooks, repeat this song. 2.4.6: an NFC sticker can become a real Jooki token, from an Android phone or an NFC app: it pauses when taken off and keeps its playlist. All the changes
How it works (for the curious and the technical): docs/ · Guillain d'Erceville, guillain@poulpe.us · MIT license. Built to be safe, but use it at your own risk.