PI Radio Player

A projecct to play BCC live stations and on-demand programmes via MPC/MPD on the Raspberry PI.

Setting up a development environment

Dependencies (ToDo: these should be put in a Requriements document)

• psutil
• flask
• python-mpd2

Non-Python dependencies

• mpc/mpd

  • On Rapspbery PI:
    • sudo apt-get install mpd mpc
  • On Windows:
    • https://chriswarrick.com/blog/2013/09/01/mpd-on-windows/
    • Only mpd is needed, not mpc

• Debugging in PyCharm required a particular configuration. See PyCharm integration at the end of this article: http://flask.pocoo.org/docs/1.0/cli/

Set up a python environment

To create the environment:

conda create -n radio_player

or

cd <proj-folder>; virtualenv radio_player

To activate the envirionment:

activate radio_player

Programming reminders

Running a test manually: python -m unittest audio_player/tests/test_audio_mpd.py

Google Python Style Guide has the following convention for case of elements:

• module_name
• package_name
• ClassName
• method_name
• ExceptionName
• function_name
• GLOBAL_CONSTANT_NAME
• global_var_name
• instance_var_name
• function_parameter_name
• local_var_name

Running on Raspberry PI (temporary method)

One time setup

On Raspberry PI create a project folder, set up a Python virtual environment and clone the PiRadioPlayer repository:

cd <project-folder>
virtualenv radio_player_env psutil flask python-mpd2
source radio_player_env/bin/activate
git clone https://github.com/SimonFlower/PiRadioPlayer

To run the radio player:

cd <project-folder>
source radio_player_env/bin/activate
cd PiRadioPlayer
export FLASK_APP=main.py
flask run --host=0.0.0.0