phonopi

Raspberry PI project to integrate record player, Spotify, and MP3 collection into stereo system

Install Steps

IceCast2

Install icecast: https://icecast.org/docs/ Hosted on port 8000

sudo apt-get install icecast2

Butt

Install butt from source: https://danielnoethen.de/butt/manual.html#_install

sudo apt-get install libfltk1.3-dev portaudio19-dev libopus-dev libmp3lame-dev libvorbis-dev libogg-dev libflac-dev libdbus-1-dev libsamplerate0-dev libssl-dev

Note AAC not supported, so removed that package from install. Also do ./configure --disable-aac

tar -xzf butt-<version>.tar.gz
cd butt-<version>
./configure --disable-aac
make
sudo make install

Installed to: \usr\local\bin\butt

1. Start butt
2. Settings. Add server (phonopi at 8000, using stream password. phono.mp3 mountpoint -- must have .mp3 at the end)
3. Add a stream info. Be sure to check make it public checkbox.
4. Audio tab, Streaming via MP3. 192k bitrate. Recording Mp3 (default). Signal present/absent at -28 dB
5. Streaming tab, start if signal present for 1 second, stop if absent for 15 seconds.
6. Record tab, change record directory to: /home/pi/phono_recordings
7. Back on Main tab, save.

In order to run it headless, use xvfb:

sudo apt-get install xvfb
xvfb-run -a butt

Spotify Connect with Raspotify

https://github.com/dtcooper/raspotify

curl -sL https://dtcooper.github.io/raspotify/install.sh | sh

Edit /etc/default/raspotify to give a cool name and icon, etc..

Edit /usr/share/alsa/alsa.conf

Replace

defaults.ctl.card 0
defaults.pcm.card 0

with

defaults.ctl.card 1
defaults.pcm.card 1

sudo service raspotify restart

VLC

1. Open VLC.
2. Set library and playlist.
3. Tools > Preferences > All radio button > Interface > Main Interfaces. Enable Web.

cvlc --http-port 7777 --http-password 1238 

https://wiki.videolan.org/Documentation:Modules/http_intf/#VLC_2.0.0_and_later

Samba

https://www.raspberrypi.org/forums/viewtopic.php?t=214546 https://docs.huihoo.com/ubuntu/9.04/internet/C/networking-shares.html

sudo apt install samba samba-common-bin smbclient cifs-utils
sudo nano /etc/samba/smb.conf

At bottom:

[music]
    path = /home/pi/Music
    read only = no
    public = yes
    writable = yes
    browseable = yes
    guest ok = yes

[hdd]
    path = /media/pi/USB_HDD_750
    read only = no
    public = yes
    writable = yes
    browseable = yes
    guest ok = yes
    force user = pi
    
[home]
    path = /home/pi
    read only = no
    public = yes
    writable = yes
    browseable = yes
    guest ok = yes

Add a password for smb:

sudo smbpasswd -a pi

Pi Hole

https://pi-hole.net/

curl -sSL https://install.pi-hole.net | bash
sudo nano /etc/lighttpd/lighttpd.conf
# Edit serve.port to use 81

# Change password
pihole -a -p

Configure it to be the DHCP server of the network.

Goto http://10.205.1.1/ui/1.0.99.202617/dynamic/home.html and turn off DHCP server.

Run at startup

Install authbind to allow running on port 80 as normal user

sudo apt-get install authbind
sudo touch /etc/authbind/byport/80
sudo chmod 777 /etc/authbind/byport/80

Edit /etc/rc.local placing this line above exit 0 (the ampersand is important)

runuser -l pi -c 'authbind --deep python3 /home/pi/projects/phonopi/run_phonopi.py &'

To kill at after startup:

ps aux | grep python3
kill <pid>
ps aux | grep butt
kill <pid>