This project turns a Raspberry Pi into an alternative to Radio Bilal. Once setup, it will play your selected live audio streams from livemasjid.com.

Moving the primary repo to Github

Latest: 26 Jan 2022 Release notes:

• Merged API into main code
• Added web interface
• Other bug fixes

Revision: 1.0 19th April 2021 Release notes:

• Added release notes
• Added API
• Added support for alternative ALSA audio devices in settings (still testing)

1. Download setup.sh from the link above
2. bash setup.sh

1. Install latest Raspbian Lite
2. Setup Wifi and SSH
3. Boot and SSH
4. sudo apt update && sudo apt install git python3 python3-pip ffmpeg ssh-client build-essential libsystemd-dev libasound-dev nginx
5. cd /opt/
6. sudo git clone [email protected]:Muslims-in-IT/ebilal.git
7. sudo chown -R pi:pi ebilal
8. cd ebilal
9. pip3 install -r requirements.txt
10. cp /opt/ebilal/settings_example.toml /opt/ebilal/settings.toml
11. sudo cp /opt/ebilal/other/*.service /lib/systemd/system/
12. sudo chmod 644 /lib/systemd/system/ebilal*
13. sudo systemctl daemon-reload
14. sudo systemctl enable ebilal.service
15. cd /var/www/html/
16. sudo ln -s /opt/ebilal/ebilal_web .
17. sudo cp /opt/ebilal/other/ebilal_site_nginx /etc/nginx/sites-available/
18. sudo ln -s /etc/nginx/sites-available/ebilal_site_nginx /etc/nginx/sites-enabled/ebilal_site_nginx
19. sudo systemctl enable nginx
20. sudo systemctl start nginx

1. sudo systemctl start ebilal.service
2. Visit http://ebilal.local on your browser
3. Listen for audio, if none, sudo systemctl status ebilal.service

1. Modify settings.toml and update MOUNTS=["activestream"] to set streams to listen to (pick from livemasjid.com using the last word in the stream URL). e.g. MOUNTS=["greensidemasjid"]
2. Audio device audio_device="" can be set to the value of the device name when running sudo amixer Default is "", other options to try: "PCM" or "Master"

sudo systemctl status ebilal.service journalctl -u ebilal.service -f

1. cd /opt/ebilal
2. git reset --hard origin/master (Note: this will override your settings.toml, so make a copy 1st)
3. git pull
4. pip3 install -r requirements.txt
5. sudo systemctl restart ebilal.service

Try the new API here: http://ebilal.local:8000/docs (if hostname is ebilal)

Visit the alpha web interface by using your browser to visit the IP address of your Raspberry pi: http:///

If you're using the pimoroni: curl https://get.pimoroni.com/phatbeat | bash

A docker image has been setup, usage: docker run -ti --rm -v /dev/snd:/dev/snd --privileged mitpeople/ebilal_pi0

Licensed under AGPL-3.0-or-later (or AGPL-3.0-only