Mute snapcast client playing on raspi3
Project description
Dark Mute
Dark Mute is python script that mutes snapcast client volume when it senses lights are off in the room.
It's written in Python 3 and requires a photoresistor-capacitor circuit connected to a Raspberry Pi running Snapcast.
Setup/Usage
As the pi
user in its home directory:
python3 -m venv darkmute-venv
. darkmute-venv/bin/activate
sudo python3 -m pip install DarkMute
- Test it:
darkmute
Brightness thresholds are hard-coded for now, to change them see Developer Setup section.
To run this as a service, create a systemd service definition:
/etc/systemd/system/darkmute.service
[Unit]
Description=Dark Mute
After=snapclient.service
[Service]
ExecStart=/home/pi/darkmute-venv/bin/darkmute
Restart=Always
User=pi
[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target
Developer Setup
- Clone this from gitlab
- Create and activate Python 3 virtual env
pip install -e .
to install dependencies- Build the circuit, connected to GPIO Pin 7
- add user to gpio group /dev/gpiomem
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