Pirate Radio - How to make changes

Discussion Raspberry Pi
1

Hello fellows.

I’ve just assembled my Pirate Radio and it’s working fine.
But now I want to get into it and make changes.
So do anyone now where the script / file is, that is handling the functions between phatbeat and vlcd?

I did find ~/Pimoroni/phatbeat/projects/vlc-radio/phatbeatd/usr/bin/phatbeatd
and did some changes but no change at all.
I.e i dont want it to pause the stream, but stop the stream when button is pushed.
So i changed:

@phatbeat.on(phatbeat.BTN_PLAYPAUSE)
def pb_play_pause(pin):
log(vlc.communicate(“pause”))
time.sleep(0.1)
phatbeat.clear()
phatbeat.show()

to:

@phatbeat.on(phatbeat.BTN_PLAYPAUSE)
def pb_play_pause(pin):
log(vlc.communicate(“stop”))
time.sleep(0.1)
phatbeat.clear()
phatbeat.show()

But it did not do any change to the behavior!?

Any help is appreciated.

2

Going by what I was told here, Use a media keyboard with your pHat Beat, can it be done? thats the correct file to edit. Although I was cautioned not to edit it. ;) Or at least to be very careful what I changed.
The commands are listed here, Use a media keyboard with your pHat Beat, can it be done? stop looks to be valid.
What doesn’t or does happen now?

3

Hello alphanumeric.

After edit and reboot:
it won’t stop the stream. It simply makes it pasue, so when pressed play again it starts from pause. I will use it as internet radio, so i want it to stop the stream and then starts again when pressed otherwise i’ll ends up with radio news and programs that are several hours old.

4

One option is to just turn the volume al the way down. Then back up when you want to listen to it again. I do that sometimes when I’m just taking a short break and don’t want to have to boot it up again in an hour or so.

5

Yes i do the same.
But then i don’t get the fun of changing the Python code.
The only reason i biught this was to fooling around with the code… :-)

6

Get another Pi to play with. ;)
I have two 3B+'s, two 3B’s, a 3A+, two A+'s and eight or more (lost count of how many) Zero W’s.
Some have Sense hats on them, some have explorer pHats. I learned a lot coding for them.
My Pirate Radio install is likely the only one I haven’t tweaked the code on. I did have a go at getting a remote control going on it but that didn’t end up working very well and I abandoned it. It’s pretty well stock software wise now. My only real modification was to add my own mini arcade buttons for the play pause etc. Mines in a wooden enclosure.