Restart steam after internet or stream outage

Pi MusicBox
1

I’m using PiMusicBox for a private stream to cover live events for a radio station. So not only does the box need to start playing the stream immediately, but it needs to restart / persist / recheck and play that stream if it goes down temporarily.

Installed mpc according to these instructions - Radio doesn't return after internet dropout: mpd-watchdog

And ran “mpc repeat on” and PiMusicBox will restart the stream if its broken…except when a reboot occurs the “repeat on” command is gone.
Any ideas how to make this stick?

Thanks for the help

2

Add mpc repeat on (or whatever) to the autoplay commands at the bottom of /opt/musicbox/startup.sh.

3

ok. might have put this in the wrong place…

if [ "$INI__musicbox__autoplay" -a "$INI__musicbox__autoplaywait" ]
then
    log_progress_msg "Waiting $INI__musicbox__autoplaywait seconds before autoplay." "$NAME"
    sleep $INI__musicbox__autoplaywait
    log_progress_msg "Playing $INI__musicbox__autoplay" "$NAME"
    mpc add "$INI__musicbox__autoplay"
    mpc play
    mpc repeat on
fi

Should it be before the “mpc play” command?
because I rebooted my stream server and it won’t reconnect automatically.

4

What is rebooting here, musicbox or your streaming server?

5

I added that line to the startup.sh.
Rebooted PiMusicBox. It grabbed the stream and started playing.
I restarted my stream at the server online and the PiMusicBox won’t attemp to re-play it.

Additionally, when I boot PiMusicBox it says “repeat:off”.
“mpc repeat on” must be in the wrong place.

Thx

6

I don’t see why repeat isn’t being enabled there, you should be fine to put any commands you want in that section.

Where and when exactly?

7

When the Pi boots (HDMI directly into Pi) I have it on a 35 second delay then it starts the autoplay and gives the stream address. After that it says:

[playing] #1/1    0:00/0:00 (0%)
volume: 85%   repeat: off   random: off    single: off   consume: off
ok

MusicBox 0.6

MusicBox login:

When I login as root and type “mpc repeat on”, the statement shown above shows as “repeat: on” and functions the way I need it to.

8

Got it working! Thanks.