# Pirate radio to scroll phat hd

**URL:** <https://forums.pimoroni.com/t/pirate-radio-to-scroll-phat-hd/4374>\
**Category:** Support\
**Created:** [March 23, 2017, 11:54am UTC](https://forums.pimoroni.com/t/pirate-radio-to-scroll-phat-hd/4374 "2017-03-23T11:54:42Z")\
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**Author:** ![Mr-G](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/forums.pimoroni.com/mr-g/32/3107_2.png) [@Mr-G](https://forums.pimoroni.com/u/Mr-G)\
**Post date:** [March 23, 2017, 11:54am UTC](https://forums.pimoroni.com/t/pirate-radio-to-scroll-phat-hd/4374/1 "2017-03-23T11:54:42Z")

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has anyone had a go at scrolling track names from the pirate radio/mopidy to the scroll phat hd?

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**Author:** ![RogueM](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/forums.pimoroni.com/roguem/32/311_2.png) [@RogueM](https://forums.pimoroni.com/u/RogueM)\
**Post date:** [March 23, 2017, 4:25pm UTC](https://forums.pimoroni.com/t/pirate-radio-to-scroll-phat-hd/4374/2 "2017-03-23T16:25:40Z")

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using pivumeter is it not currently possible, but might be in the future. That said, there is no reason why someone/you get some homegrown solution off the ground!

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**Author:** ![Mr-G](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/forums.pimoroni.com/mr-g/32/3107_2.png) [@Mr-G](https://forums.pimoroni.com/u/Mr-G)\
**Post date:** [March 23, 2017, 4:35pm UTC](https://forums.pimoroni.com/t/pirate-radio-to-scroll-phat-hd/4374/3 "2017-03-23T16:35:57Z")

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what about with phat dac instead?

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**Author:** ![RogueM](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/forums.pimoroni.com/roguem/32/311_2.png) [@RogueM](https://forums.pimoroni.com/u/RogueM)\
**Post date:** [March 23, 2017, 5:19pm UTC](https://forums.pimoroni.com/t/pirate-radio-to-scroll-phat-hd/4374/4 "2017-03-23T17:19:06Z")

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hum, if I undertsand the question correctly, the DAC really has nothing to do with the hardware used for displaying data (audio-derived, or scrolling text).

… the VU meter, or rather FFT-based EQ in this case, is driven by `pivumeter`, which cannot (currently) switch to display audio and then magically let the python library (or anything else) display something else onto the hardware.

Like I said @gadgetoid has some plan to make that possible, in the future, but I can’t give you a timeline, or for that matter, whether his current direction of investigation can be guaranteed to provide what we are discussing here in the way discussed. Wait and see :)