# Internet radio question

**URL:** <https://forums.pimoroni.com/t/internet-radio-question/11368>\
**Category:** Support\
**Created:** [August 20, 2019, 4:59am UTC](https://forums.pimoroni.com/t/internet-radio-question/11368 "2019-08-20T04:59:09Z")\
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**Author:** ![ramapra](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/forums.pimoroni.com/ramapra/32/5781_2.png) [@ramapra](https://forums.pimoroni.com/u/ramapra)\
**Post date:** [August 20, 2019, 4:59am UTC](https://forums.pimoroni.com/t/internet-radio-question/11368/1 "2019-08-20T04:59:10Z")

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I’ve used this [https://learn.pimoroni.com/tutorial/sandyj/internet-radio-on-your-pirate-radio](https://learn.pimoroni.com/tutorial/sandyj/internet-radio-on-your-pirate-radio)  
I also got radio stations and am able to cycle through my stations . Thanks for providing this.  
Say I want to use the phat for something else, is there an official way to stop running vlcd.

```auto
curl https://get.pimoroni.com/vlcradio | bash

```

Seems that this is the script that installs vlc and adds vlcd to start.  
Can you point to the point where this can be undone? In other words which system files does it control to start vlcd automatically?  
Thanks

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**Author:** ![alphanumeric](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/forums.pimoroni.com/alphanumeric/32/2729_2.png) [@alphanumeric](https://forums.pimoroni.com/u/alphanumeric)\
**Post date:** [August 20, 2019, 10:19am UTC](https://forums.pimoroni.com/t/internet-radio-question/11368/2 "2019-08-20T10:19:04Z")

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@HeadLess Posted this in another thread. Its not a reminent stop of VLC radio though, just for that one session. On a reboot your back to your Pirate Radio.

> [@pHAT BEAT RGB on 100% randomly on powerup](https://forums.pimoroni.com/t/phat-beat-rgb-on-100-randomly-on-powerup/10924/10):
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> Final update: Got replacement (took me some time to send it out), After soldering the headers - only partial success: on boot occasionally some random LED (or three) will start on) pivumeter works great, test.sh, et all, python libraries - not so: After running hue-control.py or rainbow.py LEDs are going bezerk. Even after BTN\_ONOFF in hue-control while most of LEDs went dark, there were some still randomly blinking. Even after calling only phatbeat.set\_all(0,0,0,0,0) and show(). No madn…

One more thing:  
if I disable puleaudio (sudo service pulseaudio stop )  
Both pivumeter and python calls work OK.  
Not that it resolves the overall problem ;P

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**Author:** ![alphanumeric](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/forums.pimoroni.com/alphanumeric/32/2729_2.png) [@alphanumeric](https://forums.pimoroni.com/u/alphanumeric)\
**Post date:** [August 20, 2019, 10:22am UTC](https://forums.pimoroni.com/t/internet-radio-question/11368/3 "2019-08-20T10:22:19Z")

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One way to do it is to use two different SD cards. One for Pirate Radio and one for tinkering with the pHat Beat. Then just swap cards depending on what you want to do.

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**Author:** ![HeadLess](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/f0a364/32.png) [@HeadLess](https://forums.pimoroni.com/u/HeadLess)\
**Post date:** [August 20, 2019, 3:44pm UTC](https://forums.pimoroni.com/t/internet-radio-question/11368/4 "2019-08-20T15:44:49Z")

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Simpler way would be to simply disable service:  
sudo systemctl disable vlcd  
( I’m assuming its using similar script like [one here](https://github.com/pimoroni/phat-beat/blob/master/projects/vlc-radio/setup.sh) )

And enable when you would like it back ( sudo systemctl enable vlcd ).

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**Author:** ![ramapra](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/forums.pimoroni.com/ramapra/32/5781_2.png) [@ramapra](https://forums.pimoroni.com/u/ramapra)\
**Post date:** [August 20, 2019, 11:41pm UTC](https://forums.pimoroni.com/t/internet-radio-question/11368/5 "2019-08-20T23:41:28Z")

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Thanks! This command works as needed.