Bought one of these a while ago, finally got round to getting it working this weekend. Here are a few hints from the things I tripped up over.
If you have music files locally on the pi then you will find the “sudo mopidyctl local scan” command in the instructions will fail. Yhis is because the installer is missing a module, as highlighted here Pirate Radio/Mopidy setup issue post
need to do the following
sudo python3 -m pip install Mopidy-Local
In the config file you need to add
[local]
media_dir = /xxxxxx
where /xxxxxx is the location of your music files
If you get timeouts during the scan you could also add the following to increase the timeout
scan_timeout = 10000
You will then find the local music is added correctly.
To be able to use the web interface from another device (rather than just running the browser on the pi), you need to change the hostname in the [http] section to ::
If you have an Android device mopidy-mobile provides a much nicer interface than the web page. Install the modipy extension
sudo python3 -m pip install Mopidy-Mobile
and download the app Mopidy Mobile from the play store
By the way, connecting the speaker wires is a bit fiddly. Rather than connect the speakers directly I have connected some wires to a connector block so that I can add/remove the speakers without having to remove the HAT.
So far I am using it to play my music library and BBC radio stations. Have fun.