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I have setup the PhatBeat to play audio via Airplay using your tutorial:
http://learn.pimoroni.com/tutorial/sandyj/streaming-airplay-to-your-pi

Is it possible to change the colors of the vu-meter with this setup? I would like to go from white to blue (instead of green to red).

I'm trying to integrate MQTT messages into the phatbeatd service, so that I can change the station via MQTT messsages.

The MQTT can in general connect to the MQTT server, but only if I manually restart the service after boot. During boot, I always get a socket.error: [Errno 101] Network is unreachable.

I can't figure out how to make the service wait until a proper internet connection is established. I tried changing the service definition to wait for network, named or all, but I still get the same error. I changed the raspi-config settings to wait for network on boot, but still the same error.

Anybody have some advice?

in line 10, it should be "chown" and not "chmod". You're changing the owner of /home/pi/.config/vlc/ to pi, group pi, not changing permissions.

I would like to re enable PI internal audio and switch back an forth to phat beat: how could I do that? THX

Hello,

I use my Pirate Radio to listen to streams with the help of the scripts in the vlc radio project.
Since I use my pirate radio only for that purpose, I don't need to install scripts on an already existing OS. I prefer to flash an image on an SD card for the purpose of the Pirate Radio. I find it more convenient and a common thing to do for embedded devices.

So I have forked the RaspberryPi tool they use to generate Raspbian images and added a step to configure the OS to work as the scripts do in the vlc radio repo. There should be no difference in the results of this build and the modifications done to the OS by the classic install. This will result in a ready to use image to flash on the SD card and enjoy the Pirate Radio.

The repo is here: https://github.com/pirateradiohack/PiRadio
The code I have added on top of official Raspbian is here: RPi-Distro/pi-gen@master...pirateradiohack:master

cheers

I would like to change the port for VLC web interface to 80 but that does not seem possible. I changed the config in /usr/bin/vlc but then it wasn't accessible on 80 or 8080. I switched it back and then it was accessible on 8080. So it seems that it is the correct file to edit but there is something blocking.usage of port 80.

This was installed on a fresh install of Raspbian Buster Lite.

To reproduce, play an ogg file with ogg123. I timed it, and a 3:24 song finishes playing in 3:07 and sounds higher pitch than normal. This is consistent with the difference between 44100Hz and 48000Hz.

Installing PirateRadio (get.pimoroni.com/vlcradio) on a new Pirate Radio Kit...

Install mostly works, but ends with:
--- Warning ---

Looks like the issue begins with the install of vnc-nox...

Checking for dependencies...

Falling back on pypi...


This is in a new, clean install of raspian lite :

uname -a

Will continue to fiddle...

Hello void,

I know that this is completely unmaintained, but maybe someone is still listening in on this and has some ideas. I really like the phat-beat hat and it's still working fine, but I wanted to upgrade the RaspberryPi underneath for different reasons. I started the old install scripts on a brand new bookworm 64bit.

• OS_NAME could not be determined, so it patched that variable
• The python package can't be installed via python anymore, but via apt, so I patched that
• wiringpi is now available from here: https://github.com/WiringPi/WiringPi/releases/download/3.1/wiringpi_3.1_arm64.deb, so I patched that
  • 3.2. didn't work, don't remember the exact log anymore, but it said to use 3.1 instead
• So the installation seems to run through.

The phatbeat Python library doesn't properly connect to the board, when doing phatbeat.set_all(0,128,0,0.1) it crashes due to

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/phatbeatd", line 192, in <module>
    phatbeat.set_all(0,128,0,0.1)
  File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/phatbeat/__init__.py", line 250, in set_all
    setup()
  File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/phatbeat/__init__.py", line 325, in setup
    GPIO.add_event_detect(button, GPIO.FALLING, callback=_handle_button, bouncetime=200)
RuntimeError: Failed to add edge detection
Exception ignored in atexit callback: <function _exit at 0x7faf6e5a80>

I can live without the actual phatbeat LED stuff, I only care about audio output, so I removed the GPIO.add_event_detect call from the python library.

Now my last hurdle seems to be that pulseaudio can't connect to the actual board.

pulseaudio[705]: Using device: phat-beat
pulseaudio[707]: gpio: Unable to open GPIO direction interface for pin 23: No such file or directory
pulseaudio[709]: gpio: Unable to open GPIO direction interface for pin 24: No such file or directory
pulseaudio[705]: [pulseaudio] module-alsa-card.c: Failed to find a working profile.
pulseaudio[705]: [pulseaudio] module.c: Failed to load module "module-alsa-card" (argument: "device_id="1" name="platform-fef00700.hdmi" card_name="alsa_card>
pulseaudio[705]: [pulseaudio] module-alsa-card.c: Failed to find a working profile.
pulseaudio[705]: [pulseaudio] module.c: Failed to load module "module-alsa-card" (argument: "device_id="2" name="platform-fef05700.hdmi" card_name="alsa_card>
pulseaudio[705]: [pulseaudio] server-lookup.c: Unable to contact D-Bus: org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.NotSupported: Unable to autolaunch a dbus-daemon without a>
pulseaudio[705]: [pulseaudio] main.c: Unable to contact D-Bus: org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.NotSupported: Unable to autolaunch a dbus-daemon without a $DISPLAY>

I guess both the Python issue and the pulseaudio issue are due to some GPIO changes, but here I'm a little but clueless. Any further hints would be appreciated.

Maybe @Gadgetoid, I saw you commenting on these things in the past.

Running "curl https://get.pimoroni.com/vlcradio | bash" gives the following error:

The VLC Radio installer
does not work on this version of Raspbian.
Check https://github.com//
for additional information and support

This is because there is no check for Buster in the
Pimoroni/phatbeat/projects/vlc-radio/setup.sh installation script
The raspbian_check() routine needs to be modified as shown below to support Rasbian Buster

raspbian_check() {
IS_SUPPORTED=false
IS_EXPERIMENTAL=false

if [ -f /etc/os-release ]; then
    if cat /etc/os-release | grep -q "/sid"; then
        IS_SUPPORTED=false && IS_EXPERIMENTAL=true
    elif cat /etc/os-release | grep -q "stretch"; then
        IS_SUPPORTED=false && IS_EXPERIMENTAL=true
    elif cat /etc/os-release | grep -q "jessie"; then
        IS_SUPPORTED=true && IS_EXPERIMENTAL=false
    elif cat /etc/os-release | grep -q "wheezy"; then
        IS_SUPPORTED=true && IS_EXPERIMENTAL=false
     elif cat /etc/os-release | grep -q "buster"; then
        IS_SUPPORTED=true && IS_EXPERIMENTAL=false
    else
        IS_SUPPORTED=false && IS_EXPERIMENTAL=false
    fi
fi

}

I have tested it with the above modification and vlc-radio then installs and runs fine.
Bob Rathbone

My phat beat has been working fine on the prior release of stretch (2018-11-13-raspbian-stretch), but there appears to be an issue with the latest version.

It's a new install, ran 'sudo curl -sS get.pimoroni.com/phatbeat | bash' without issue, and the speaker-test from the command line works great. But in the desktop environment , the audio device is disabled (the task bar speaker icon has a red 'X', and the volume control is disabled). When clicking on the speaker icon, it shows snd_rpi_hifiberry_dac with a green checkmark, but when I attempt to open device settings via the task bar or via Audio Device Settings in Preferences, a popup window appears with the error "No ALSA Devices Found".

Not sure if this is a pulseaudio vs alsa issue, but any suggestions would be welcome.

It would be great to be able to fall asleep to the radio, knowing it's going to shutdown in 20 minutes when holding the power off button for 2 seconds.

The scrip from readme "curl https://get.pimoroni.com/vlcradio | bash" seems to be an old version which doesn't support raspbian buster.

Cloned version from github works.

To reproduce, play an ogg file with ogg123 while having the vumeter enabled. Press ctrl-c to stop playing. About 50% of the time this result in ogg123 hanging. The VU meter remains lit when this happens.

I recently tried to use the installation script to set up my phat beat once again but got three 'Unary operator expected' errors at various times during the scripts execution, it doesn't fail and continues with other bits it is doing but quite crucially things didn't work afterwards. I am using Raspbian OS Lite (32-bit)

I was able to get it to work properly again by executing the following commands at the terminal:
extract OS_NAME="Raspbian"
extract USER_HOME="/home/pi"

I also had to install git sudo apt install git and then the script ran perfectly.

I wasn't sure if this was the best way to post this as I have already solved the issue but I wanted to share my findings so I can hopefully save someone else many hours of debugging

I tried to install this on the latest bullseye release, but there wiringpi is deprecated, thus the installation fails. Is there any hint on how to overcome this?

Thanks!

Hi,

I just attempted to install the VLC radio for Raspbian but I don't get a response from the URL (https://get.pimoroni.com/vlcradio).

Instead, I cloned the repo and executed the setup script which seems to work.

Regards
Luke

It would be very nice if the installer could be updated to Raspbian Stretch. I tried it but it's not working and I switched back to Jessie.

I want to propose a tiny improvement of your vlc-radio software:

• save last volume
• save last stream (station)

permanently, so that the next start starts with these values.

Perhaps you know a quick way to achieve this.