Hello folks, I’ve taken delivery of the spanky new Pirate Radio kit today along with a Pi Zero W and a Phatbeat module. I’ve built everything, downloaded the Volumio image (which required copying four .elf files from an existing Raspbian image for it to even boot). Firstly, the Volumio image does…

There was a thread on that very topic. I haven’t redone my pirate radio setup in ages, back then I did the following. Scott I believe posted this in that thread. It worked for me, just play around with the 131071.0f I think I settled on 90000.0f. Set the volume to what you usually use then tweak t…

without looking at your project in detail it is hard to tell what could be wrong - but if aplay works fine it is almost certain to have to do with the user context. Note that above post specifically was resolved by adding user mpd to group gpio, not user mopidy. Whichever is right (including, possi…

Hi again, I tried mopidy as suggested above by @gadgetoid (following the tutorial by @sandyjmacdonald on mopidy + spotify, i.e. spotipy script). I have managed to get mpd running and configured on a zero before (with phat dac), but am not able to get mopidy going… it seems. None of my mpd clients …

if the modipy server is running then the (audio) test cannot run. You must disable it using sudo systemctl disable mopidy (just stopping the service is not enough, IIRC). This will only tell you whether your soldering job is good though. I see at least one error in your config: hostname = 127.0.0.…

one way to debug your problem btw, is to ssh into the box and check the output of: sudo service mopidy status … it usually logs any important issues inline. If that does not reveal anything bizarre then check the log at /var/log/mopidy/mopidy-debug.log which should hopefully have more details tha…

About the ip adress in config, I consulted the Mopidy docs before leaving it at the default value: mpd/hostname Which address the MPD server should bind to. 127.0.0.1 Listens only on the IPv4 loopback interface I understood that leaving the adress at 127.0.0.1 would leav all IPv4 adresses open. I…

So, question: I’ve run the airdac installer but buttons on phatbeat aren’t working I’ve run test.sh and buttons are recognised, but there’s no phatbeatd service running and sudo service phatbeatd start throws up a ‘Failed to start / No such file’ error … help?

you are confusing 2 different scripts, airdac is a shairport-sync airplay daemon, it has no vocation to provide button support since you will be controlling playback from your phone or tablet. phatbeatd is a custom daemon specifically for the vlcradio project found in the phat-beat github repo, see…

OK, thanks - so I could write my own script to look out for the power button being pressed (only interested in being able to cause a safe shutdown)?

what are you trying to do? if you only want soft shutdown try: curl get.pimoroni.com/cleanshutdown | bash the pin to use is bcm12 so when prompted, type ‘12’.

Exactly what I was after, thanks!

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