I’ve set up a Pimoroni Pirate Audio (amp) for playing rain sounds when the kids sleep, and using the controls to play/pause and adjust volume (display is disabled - it’s too bright at nighttime. The issue is that whenever the Pi Zero reboots, I need to manually load the file that contains the rain …

Could you set your phone as a wifi hotspot and operate the Pi through that for when you are away?

Or try using cron and mpc to play it 5 mins after reboot, to let the system come up. @reboot sleep 300 mpc add “name and path of your track here”;mpc play You may need to install mpc and mopidy-mpd I’m also not sure if Mopidy waits indefinitely for the network before it loads, therefore without a …

Thanks! Good points. Regarding your second reply, how is using mpc and mopidy-mpd different from using JSON-RPC?

I don’t know, I’ve never used JSON-RPC, always stuck with MPC as I have very little programing knowledge and MPC just does what I’ve wanted it to do. Have a look at this page for another idea on how to implement it

Thanks a lot! Much appreciated. That should get me started.

[image] sapristi: There’s also this discussion , which is a bit more complicated, but more “stable”. Thank you, that’s something else I’ve learned to do!! Was getting frustrated with it, but then increased the sleep time to 3 minutes and it worked perfectly.

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sapristi October 20, 2020, 6:04pm 7

There’s also this discussion, which is a bit more complicated, but more “stable”.

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