Mopidy-Touchscreen 0.2.0

Mopidy extension to show info on a display and control from it

Extension for displaying track info and controlling Mopidy from a touch screen using PyGame/SDL.

Dependencies

• Mopidy >= 0.18

• Pykka >= 1.1

• pygame

Installation

Install by running:

pip install Mopidy-Touchscreen

Or, if available, install the Debian/Ubuntu package from apt.mopidy.com.

Configuration

Before starting Mopidy, you must add configuration for Mopidy-Touchscreen to your Mopidy configuration file:

[touchscreen]
enabled = true
screen_width = 320
screen_height = 240
cursor = True
fullscreen = False
cache_dir = $XDG_CACHE_DIR/mopidy/touchscreen

The following configuration values are available:

• touchscreen/enabled: If the Touchscreen extension should be enabled or not.

• touchscreen/screen_width: The width of the resolution you want to use in pixels.

• touchscreen/screen_height: The width of the resolution you want to use in pixels.

• touchscreen/cursor: If the mouse cursor should be shown. (If you use a touchscreen it should be false)

• touchscreen/fullscreen: If you want to be shown as a window or in fullscreen.

• touchscreen/screen_width: The folder to be used as cache. Defaults to $XDG_CACHE_DIR/mopidy/touchscreen, which usually means ~/.cache/mopidy/spotify

Features

Working

• See track info (track name, album, artist, cover image)

• Seek Track

• Play/Pause

• Mute/Unmute

• Change volume

• Next/Previous track

• Library

• Menu (exit mopidy, restart…)

• Shuffle on/off

• Repeat one/on/off

• Playback list and song selection

• Playlists

Planned

• Use keyboard or GPIO buttons instead of touchscreen

Screenshots

Video

Example video running the extension

Project resources

• Source code

• Issue tracker

• Download development snapshot

Changelog

v0.2.0

• First working version

v0.1.0 (UNRELEASED)

• Initial release.