I just bought a Pirate Audio 3W Stereo Amp for my Raspberry Pi Zero and I’ve set it up and of course it comes configured with Mopidy to play audio through Spotify, a local library of .mp3s, etc. But before this I had a Pirate Radio with pHAT BEAT that I could go into terminal and use sudo to config…

I would think that should be doable. Both are DAC’s and it’s just a custom VLC radio install. I have the phat Beat Pirate radio, setup to do just that. I think you’ll have some tinkering to do get the buttons to work on the Pirate Audio like they do on the pHat Beat version though. Some use the same…

I’ll give that a try and see what happens. I see what you mean, since both are DACs and both run on the Raspberry Pi Zero, I wonder if just setting it up as a Pirate Radio pHAT BEAT with a few changes to accommodate the pushbutton volume up/down (which would probably be easy to do just to find the …

The pinouts are here, [image] Pirate Audio Speaker at Raspberry Pi GPIO Pinout I2S digital audio to onboard speaker [image] pHAT BEAT at Raspberry Pi GPIO Pinout Stereo I2S DAC, AMP and VU meter I would follow the install in…

If you get a “OS not supported” error message when trying to install that custom VLC Radio let me know and I’ll post the fix.

I think I’m getting close. I got the audio driver to work so I know the DAC side of the equation is right, and I was able to load the http addresses of a station or two and they played just fine. I haven’t tried to map the buttons yet, but that should be an easy process I would think once I set my…

On the Pirate Audio it uses SPI0, CE1, and the backlight is GPIO 13 (physical pin 33) In the python example this “should” work port=0, cs=1, dc=9, backlight=13,

This is so frustrating because I feel that I’m so close to making this work for my needs. I’m now wondering if maybe I can use Mopidy (through Isis I suppose) and one if its extensions to link to online http:// addresses for the stations I want to listen to instead of actual music files. The dis…

You can replace the Pimoroni supplied playlist in VLC Radio with your own. It’s what I do. I just copy mine to the boot partition of the SD card. You can do this on a Windows PC, just ignore the “there is a problem with this media” message that pops up, do not let windows format it. When you boot t…

That sounds just like what I’m looking for, thanks. I’ll give it a try when I get home from work tonight.

Streaming audio from web links onto my Pirate Audio

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alphanumeric August 29, 2020, 8:53am 7

Maybe this will help, it’s the same display, just a few of the pins need to be changed in the examples to make it work on the Pirate Radio. The backlight for example.
Make sure SPI is enabled in Raspberry Pi Configuration.

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Streaming audio from web links onto my Pirate Audio

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