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Notes on RPizeBox Display

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I’ve got a nice scrolling script and had to hack pylms to get it to cope with accents.

This meant uninstalling the pylms module and referencing it instead with

sys.path.append(‘/home/pi/PyLMS/’)
from pylms.server import Server # to talk to LMS server
from pylms.player import Player # to talk to LMS player

That meant I could hack away at the code and it would still work.

I kept trying to find a way to intialise the display on boot.  I had little success.  I even made a start/stop script at /etc/init.d/lms-display in the hope it would get the display restarting on boot, but no dice.  In the end I found that

@reboot root /etc/init.d/lms-display start

in crontab did the job.

Squeezebox Frustration prompts action…

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I sold my broken squeezebox on ebay.  It turns out it was just the power supply.  How incredibly frustrating.

So I decided to work on getting my RPi LMS a display.  Notes.

https://github.com/WiringPi/WiringPi2-Python to install wiringPi for my LCD display, but it wouldn’t compile. Neither would https://github.com/WiringPi/WiringPi-Python.

https://github.com/WiringPi/WiringPi-Python/issues/7 fixed this and I compiled WiringPi2.

I had much more success with this
http://pylms-python-logitech-media-server.readthedocs.org/en/latest/index.html
and could read what was playing on the SqueezeLite with no issues at all.

# Proof of concept - needs to be run as sudo
import wiringpi2 as wp

from pylms.server import Server
from pylms.player import Player

# set up the display
wp.wiringPiSetup();
lcd = wp.lcdInit (2, 16, 4,  11,10 , 0,1,2,3,0,0,0,0) ;from pylms.player import Player

# connect to the squeezebox
sc = Server(hostname="192.168.0.5", port=9090)
sc.connect()
sl = sc.get_player("b8:27:eb:eb:37:68")

#clear the lcd
wp.lcdClear(lcd)
wp.lcdPosition(lcd, 0, 0)
wp.lcdPuts(lcd,sl.get_track_title()[:16])
wp.lcdPosition(lcd, 0, 1)
wp.lcdPuts(lcd,sl.get_track_album()[:16])

So that is a start – now to make it update when the track changes and to scroll the titles.  And…. And…

Adding Squeezelite to SqueezboxServer on Rpi

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Our squeezebox classic has died for as yet unidentified reasons.  I have already rebuilt it once using my original post as a guide after my dodgy self made RPi case rebooted it once too often.

To get spotify on my RPi (armel) version I used this with some tweaks:

[Tutorial] Squeezelite up and running on Raspbian Wheezy HF:

  • I had to download  the armel version of the binary

  • wget http://squeezelite.googlecode.com/files/squeezelite-armv6hf

  •  I think that there is a bug in the start/stop script – I had to remove the ” — $DAEMON” line from the start command for some reason before it would work.