Hi there, I’m having issues with Mopidy. I’m trying to setup my pirate audio board so it immediately plays a song on boot. However, because I installed Musicbox as a WebClient for Mopidy ( using this command : sudo python3 -m pip install Mopidy-MusicBox-Webclient) I don’t have a setup.sh file that …

It’s difficult to answer, because many things depends on your particular system setup. Basically what I would do is, at after booting : start mopidy use a command line client to add a song and play it To autorun programs at boot, there are basically two solutions: run as the program a systemd…

My exact setup is : Hardwarewise : -raspberry pi zero v1.3 -wifi dongle -Pirate audio board -sandisk ultra 16gb 10A1 Softwarewise: -raspbian buster with desktop -slightly modified script for pirate audio : instead of installing Iris install musicbox (Link to the actual file : https://drive.…

Ok so it appears you are running mopidy with a systemd service (you can see that with all the systemctlcommands in the install script. I thing the easiest way to go would be to create a custom service that would sleep for a while, then add a song and trigger playback. For this you need : install …

Thanks a lot dude, it worked ! just had to add this to the service sript to be able to enable it : " [Unit] Description=Automatically play a song on boot After=network.target [Service] Type=simple RemainAfterExit=no ExecStart=/home/pi/script/autostart.sh [Install] WantedBy=multi-user.targ…

So I finally (almost) completed my project ! you can check it out here : https://github.com/G-a-v-r-o-c-h-e/PIpod-Nano

That is cool. I wanted to do something just like this but failed at the crucial step of actually doing it… so kudos to you! I like the idea of holding the button for longer to initiate a safe shutdown - that is neat. Have you considered suggesting they add this support to the GitHub - pimoroni/mopid…

Got it, I’ll give mopidy a shout out in the thanking section. Thanks for the corrections, I’ll make sure I edit this today ! Let’s hope that raspberry doesn’t see it then :crossed_fingers::wink: I’m not working on a case currently, it is not my priority and I’m not even sure I’ll work on one somed…

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sapristi March 24, 2020, 3:50pm 8

Nice, glad you made it work !

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