volumio-buddy 3.0.0rc3

Hardware add-ons integration for Volumio 3

volumio-buddy

new release!

This release now supports Volumio 3! It's actually an almost complete rewrite of the code, now using Python 3 with asyncio. It doesn't support Volumio 2 anymore, because the underlying OS is too outdated for a smooth migration to Python 3 (Volumio 2 users can still use release 0.4.1).

Introduction

Volumio-buddy is a python3 library and helper program for Volumio 3. It is meant to run on the same host where the Volumio back-end runs and provides the following additional functionality:

• connect to volumio using the websockets API
• support for GPIO pushbuttons to control volumio
• support for rotary encoders to adjust the volume and to skip through a playlist
• RGB LED support
• SSD1306 OLED 128x64px screen support (I2C)
• Battery power monitoring with an INA219 chip.

Installation instructions

The package assumes installation on a Debian based distribution for Raspberry Pi with systemd based init. If you don't use systemd, install the package with make install and start the vbuddy script manually in the virtual environment.

Edit src/vbuddy to reflect your hardware setup. The script ignores the display and battery monitoring components if they are not found, but you need to update the GPIO pin configuration and the I2C addresses, if you use different ones than I do.

If your buttons or rotary encoders need an internal pullup or pulldown resistor, edit src/vbuddy.service to include the commandline option -p up or -p down in the ExecStart line.

Install the service in a separate virtual environment using the following commands:

make .venv
. .venv/bin/activate
make service
sudo systemctl start vbuddy