I have the Pirate Audio pHat, and have worked out how to get it to display text and pictures, and how to use the audio side, without actually using the mopidy software. Mopidy is probably fine if it matches your project intentions, but that’s not what I want a display and speaker for - and I suspe…

Have a look see here and the manual build your own instructions. [image] pimoroni/pirate-audio Examples and documentation for the Pirate Audio range of Raspberry Pi add-ons - pimoroni/pirate-audio

Thanks - that neraly got me there! The instructions there miss out the need to enable SPI in raspi-config,but otherwise it all works!

Thats good to hear, the it all works part anyway. The one line installers turn that on for you, they must have missed that in the manual translation I guess. Anyway, now you get to have some fun taking it to the next step. Putting my own custom spin on something is one of the more rewarding aspects …

I’m currently just using the sox package to play sounds. My aim isn’t specifically to use this to play music. For where I got to (I’m gong to get back to it after Christmas!), see my script in this thread

I am also looking to just install the hardware with none of the packaged software. I would like to make use of the speakers and screen for outputing various things and use the buttons as inputs. Would anyone be able to help me install the hardware so it can be used in this manner? I am a near tot…

H - I am trying, without much sucess, to use the Pimoroni Audio board to play a local hospital radio station stream. I work for station in my spare time ( we are a charity station ) and we are trying to get some internet radios onto the wards for the patients to listen us. What I want to achieve is …

This is the guide I followed with my pHat Beat based Pirate Radio, for Internet Radio. My setup doesn’t have any LCD display though so I have no idea if that is supported. [image] pimoroni/phat-beat Python library for PHAT BEAT - A stereo DAC, AMP and VU for the Raspberry Pi - pimoroni/…

Thanks for the feedback but I think I may have confused matters. I am using the Pirate Audio boards with the Pi Zero W not the phat beat DAC from the Pirate Radio - any further ideas at all ?

Pirate Audio without mopidy?

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daldred April 24, 2020, 12:24pm 9

Can I suggest trying the steps and script I provided in this post - and see if that helps you both make the thing work and understand how to extend it further?

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