Gav's World : Raspberry Pi : Jukebox Pi

Jukebox Pi [gav-pi19]

At times, with my Multimedia System playing random music by default (obviously, it can be overridden with any number of Music Player Clients), I just wasn't sure which track was playing.

So, with a spare Raspbery Pi Zero W, a 4x20 dot matrix display, an enclosure that I bought from a seller who's no longer on Ebay, and a little bit of Python, we have a fully functioning MPD monitor (that also tells me if my Internet connection is live)!

Installation was simple:

Assemble the enclosure.
Mount the LCD (with LCD backpack) and Raspberry Pi to the enclosure.
Connect VCC, GND, SDA and SCL from the Pi to the backpack.
Install Raspbian Lite to a micro SD card.
Put the sd card in the Pi and boot up.
Enable I²C in the configuration.
sudo raspi-config
Install a couple of additional python modules:
sudo apt install python3-smbus python3-mpd mpc
Call the script from /etc/rc.local
Reboot and hope it works (you may want to run it from the command line first of all though)!

Note: there may be a slightly later version of the script on my useful scripts page (which may be safer, just in case I've got the multiple   required to show white space delimiation for Python wrong.