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README.md

python-flaschen-taschen

Let's Go!

For our purposes, this guide might assume:

  • Raspberry Pi Model 3 B running Raspbian buster
  • AirPlay receiver (shairport-sync) and MQTT broker (mosquitto) running on same Raspberry Pi as the helper utilities.

Requirements

Install system python dependencies and clone this repo. See REQUIREMENTS Quickstart

See wiki for additional pointers.

Install

We rely on python3's built-in venv module for python library dependencies.

The album art manipulation will be handled by PIL (Python Imaging Library) Pillow.

# useful for having PIL in REPL in system python3
sudo apt install python3-pillow

cd ~/projects/shairport-sync-mqtt-display
cd python-flaschen-taschen
python3 -m venv venv
source venv/bin/activate
pip install -r requirements.txt

Configure

Copy the example config file (config.example.yaml) to a new file and customize.

cp config.example.yaml config.secrets.yaml
$EDITOR config.secrets.yaml # $EDITOR would be nano, vi, etc.

Configure the MQTT section (mqtt:) to reflect your environment.

For the topic, I use something like shairport-sync/SS_HOSTNAME

  • topic needs to match the mqtt.topic string in your /etc/shairport-sync.conf file
  • SS_HOSTNAME is name of server where shairport-sync is running
  • Note, there is no leading slash ('/') in the topic string

Testing

Install and use the libraries used in Adafruit tutorial for Adafruit RGB Matrix + Real Time Clock HAT.

Borrowing from the tutorial:

mkdir -p ~/projects/rgb-matrix
cd  ~/projects/rgb-matrix

curl https://raw.githubusercontent.com/adafruit/Raspberry-Pi-Installer-Scripts/master/rgb-matrix.sh >rgb-matrix.sh
sudo bash rgb-matrix.sh

Respond to the prompts. A reboot may be needed when complete. This will clone the hzeller/rpi-rgb-led-matrix repo from GitHub.

Run a demo (assuming your Pi + HAT + LED Matrix are powered and hooked up correctly)

cd  ~/projects/rgb-matrix
cd rpi-rgb-led-matrix/examples-api-use

sudo ./demo -D0 --led-rows=32 --led-cols=32 --led-slowdown-gpio=2 --led-brightness=50

If all goes well, an animated rotating square will be depicted on the LED panel.

flaschen-taschen

The flaschen-taschen project is a client/server system for managing LED matrix display output.

cd  ~/projects/rgb-matrix
git clone --recursive https://github.com/hzeller/flaschen-taschen.git

cd flaschen-taschen

Server

Output in Terminal

works great with iTerm2 - macOS Terminal Replacement.

$ cd  ~/projects/rgb-matrix/flaschen-taschen/server
$ make FT_BACKEND=terminal
$ ./ft-server -D32x32 --hd-terminal
UDP-server: ready to listen on 1337

Output on LED Matrix

$ cd  ~/projects/rgb-matrix/flaschen-taschen/server
$ make FT_BACKEND=rgb-matrix
# sudo ./ft-server --led-gpio-mapping=adafruit-hat --led-slowdown-gpio=2 --led-rows=32 --led-cols=32 --led-show-refresh --led-brightness=50

Client

FIXME:

This is command line examples, demo apps, and finally the app found here (it acts as a client).

Automatically launch on boot

FIXME:

There's a systemd service file at /etc/shairport-sync_rgb-matrix-server.service in this git repository.

There's a systemd service file at /etc/shairport-sync_rgb-matrix-client.service in this git repository.

troubleshooting running

Name or service not known

If you get an error like

socket.gaierror: [Errno -2] Name or service not known

you should add the mqtt broker host that you are using to /etc/hosts on the computer that is running this client app. For example, an entry like:

192.168.1.42 	mqtthostname