Internet Radio for Raspberry PI, with MPD / Adafruit LCD Plate / Python.
Based on this project from fizzPOP - Birmingham Hackspace
Modified to get BBC 6 Music straight on when raspberry pi turned on, and includes following radio station:
- BBC 1
- BBC 1 Extra
- BBC 2
- BBC 3
- BBC 4
- BBC 4 Extra
- BBC 5 Live
- BBC 5 Live Sports Extra
- BBC 6 Music
To start with setup Media Player (Mpd) with the following commands:
sudo apt-get install mpd mpc git
sudo service mpd start
Download the script and install it:
git clone https://github.com/florianmainguy/pi_radio.git
Install some other things:
sudo apt-get install python-smbus
sudo apt-get install python-serial python-imaging python-unidecode
sudo cp initradio.sh /etc/init.d/radio
sudo update-rc.d radio defaults service
We need to update the playlist address to do this:
sudo nano //etc/mpd.conf
playlist_directory "/var/lib/mpd/playlists”
To:
playlist_directory "/home/pi/radio/playlists”
Press Control O to save followed by Control X to exit.
sudo service radio start