trellis-mpc

Control forked-daapd with the Adafruit UNTZtrument!

Installation

Install pip3 and numpy

sudo apt-get install python3-pip python3-numpy

Install python-mpd2 (with support for the outputvolume command)

git clone https://github.com/chme/python-mpd2.git
cd python-mpd2
git checkout outputvolume
sudo python3 setup.py install

Install the Adafruit gpio and trellis python libraries

sudo pip3 install adafruit-gpio
git clone https://github.com/chme/Adafruit_Trellis_Python.git
cd Adafruit_Trellis_Python
sudo python3 setup.py install

Install trellis-mpc

git clone https://github.com/chme/trellis-mpc.git

Create fifo

mkfifo vizualizer.fifo
sudo chown daapd:daapd vizualizer.fifo

Configure trellis-mpc

cd trellis-mpc
cp ./trellis_mpc/config_template.py ./trellis_mpc/config.py

Set VIZ_FIFOPATH to the created fifo. Add fifo configuration to /etc/forked-daapd.conf.

Optionally enable systemd service for trellis-mpc

sudo cp ./scripts/trellismpc.service /etc/systemd/system
sudo systemctl enable trellismpc.service