TeddyCloud

Features

TeddyCloud is an alternative server for your Toniebox, allowing you to host the cloud services locally. This gives you the control about which data is sent to the original manufacturer's cloud and allows you to host your own figurine audio files on e.g. your NAS or any other server.

Currently implemented are:

• Provide audio content over the air
• Cache original tonie audio content
• Simulate live content (.live)
• Passthrough original tonie audio content
• Convert any audio file to a tonie audio file (web)
• On-the-fly convert audio streams via ffmpeg for webradio and streams
• Basic Web fronted
• Filter custom tags to prevent deletion (.nocloud)
• Configure maximum volume for speaker and headphones
• Configure LED
• Configure slapping
• Customize original box sounds (ex. jingle) over the air
• Extract/Inject certitifcates on a esp32 firmware dump
• Decode RTNL logs
• MQTT client
• Home Assistant integration (MQTT)
• Web frontend (full stack developers welcome)

Planned

• teddyBench integration
• Toniebox 2 support

Where to start?

If you want to get started, please follow our guide on our website.

Development and bulding

Please use the develop for your development and pull requests. Stable builds are available from the master branch. Don't forget to clone the submodules with --recurse-submodules. To catch sanitizer in you IDE set a breakpoint on __asan::ReportGenericError.

Local Development Sandbox

dev-sandbox/ – Run TeddyCloud locally with mock data (tonies, Toniebox, TAF) to try out features and see changes during development. Builds and runs a local image.

Details: dev-sandbox/README.md.

Build and Run in Editor (VS Code)

• Build once: Terminal (or F1) -> Run Task -> build (uses .vscode/tasks.json).
• Debug/run: open Run and Debug, select [linux] teddyCloud, press F5 (uses .vscode/launch.json).
• F5 runs the prelaunch build task automatically and starts bin/teddycloud with gdb.
• For web UI in devcontainer, open http://localhost:<port>/web on your forwarded HTTP port (You can find the port in F1 -> 'Ports: Focus on Ports view).

Contribution Workflow (teddycloud + teddycloud_web)

TeddyCloud consists of two repositories: the backend (teddycloud) and the web frontend (teddycloud_web) as a submodule. Built web files live in contrib/data/www/.

Workflow for contributors:

1. Backend-only changes: Open a PR against teddycloud – no submodule changes needed.
2. Frontend-only changes: Open a PR against teddycloud_web – no PR against teddycloud needed.
3. Changes in both repos: Create and merge both PRs separately (teddycloud_web first, then teddycloud). Do not commit submodule pointer changes in the teddycloud PR – a maintainer will handle that.

Build and publish workflows (GitHub Actions):

After merging: Once both PRs are merged, a maintainer runs the "Make web and commit" workflow. It builds the frontend from the current teddycloud_web state (same branch), commits the built files, and updates the submodule pointer if needed. The subsequent push triggers the Docker build automatically.

Attribution

The icons used are from here:

• img_empty.png: https://www.flaticon.com/free-icon/ask_1372671
• img_unknown.png: https://www.flaticon.com/free-icon/ask_1923795
• img_custom.png/favicon.ico: https://www.flaticon.com/free-icon/dog_2829818

Thanks for the original authors for these great icons.