{"id":298,"date":"2013-11-09T17:03:00","date_gmt":"2013-11-09T17:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thomas.w-p.me.uk\/blog\/2013\/11\/squeezebox-frustration-prompts-action\/"},"modified":"2013-11-09T17:03:00","modified_gmt":"2013-11-09T17:03:00","slug":"squeezebox-frustration-prompts-action","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thomas.w-p.me.uk\/blog\/2013\/11\/squeezebox-frustration-prompts-action\/","title":{"rendered":"Squeezebox Frustration prompts action…"},"content":{"rendered":"

I sold my broken squeezebox on ebay.\u00a0 It turns out it was just the power supply.\u00a0 How incredibly frustrating.<\/p>\n

So I decided to work on getting my RPi LMS a display.\u00a0 Notes.<\/p>\n

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

https:\/\/github.com\/WiringPi\/WiringPi-Python\/issues\/7<\/a> fixed this and I compiled WiringPi2.<\/p>\n

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

# 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])<\/pre>\n
So that is a start – now to make it update when the track changes and to scroll the titles.\u00a0 And…. And…<\/p>\n
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I sold my broken squeezebox on ebay.\u00a0 It turns out it was just the power supply.\u00a0 How incredibly frustrating. So I decided to work on getting my RPi LMS a display.\u00a0 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 … Continue reading Squeezebox Frustration prompts action…<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[33,34,36],"class_list":["post-298","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-raspberry-pi","tag-squeezebox","tag-squeezelite"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thomas.w-p.me.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/298","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thomas.w-p.me.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thomas.w-p.me.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thomas.w-p.me.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thomas.w-p.me.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=298"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thomas.w-p.me.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/298\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thomas.w-p.me.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=298"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thomas.w-p.me.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=298"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thomas.w-p.me.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=298"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}