This is the code for a screen-less music player for kids, powered by an Elgato Stream Deck connected to a Raspberry Pi or any other computer with Python 3.5+, a sound card and an USB port.
It features a simple web interface capable of mapping media URLs (Youtube and many others) to StreamDeck buttons:
Other features:
- Custom thumbnails
- Offline play (you only need to be online to download the media after adding them in the UI)
- Pagination
- Interrupt currently playing media by holding the page button for 3+ seconds
First, install VLC if for some reason you don't already have it.
Then clone this repository and run (ideally in a Python virtualenv):
$ brew install hidapi
$ make deps
$ make run
Clone this repository and run (ideally in a Python virtualenv):
$ apt-get install libhidapi-libusb0 libvlc5 vlc
$ make deps
$ make run
Then you have to run make linuxsetup to give unprivileged users access to raw USB commands needed for connecting to a streamdeck.
On Raspberry Pi, you have to make sure you are using the jack as audio output and not the HDMI audio out. See instructions at https://www.raspberrypi.org/documentation/configuration/audio-config.md
- Test other sources than YouTube
- Add a couple locks for playback
- More status in frontend: current playing, download status, cache size
- Reset cache button
- CLI args support
- Download thread
- Loading progress indicators
- Config minimum play time / restrictions
- prebuild rpi image / howto
- clean shutdown
- logs in frontend
- remote kill switch
- deck-less with web interface?
- frontend htaccess
- better defensive programming
- config via the frontend / storage of config
- time limits / screen time
- Better design
- Folders
- Start/Stop time offsets + edition
- Test small & xl streamdecks
- Fetch audio + metadata in single youtube-dl pass
- YT search in frontend?
- docker image
- linting
- publish on pypi?
- physical build tutorial & photos