MMM-MplayerRadio

[electros]

@wishmaster270 sorry but i don’t know about what command you talk. To play that test file in mplayer from the shell?

[wishmaster270]

@electros
mplayer -cache 256 -playlist PLAYLISTFILE

I will try to reduce the flickering but I don’t think this will stop the problem of your stations not being played.
I spent the last hour to read more about Xmms2. I don’t think that I can implement an easy way to switch between the two players. One of the main problems is that Xmms2 does not provide the current stream info of the station.

[electros]

@wishmaster270 yes i know that about xmms2 but my stations don’t provide that info anyway.
Thanks for your time, if is not pssible that it. Thank you

[wishmaster270]

Hi,

gave it a new try today. But i can`t get xmms2 to run on my pi. Looks like the xmms alsa plugin has some problems with my HifiBerry.
Also tried omxplayer but it has problems with internet streams.

[electros]

@wishmaster270 Thank you for you still trying

[electros]

@wishmaster270 I installed xmms2 from " Synaptic Package Manager" and I must install all xmms2 related audio plugins before this to work. So maybe this is reason for no work.
In another way can you please show me how I can run a xxx.sh file local instead of a web link when I chose a radio station ?

[wishmaster270]

Hi,

my problem is that i messed up my audio configuration as i tried to configure pulseaudio to make it possible to play music either on my local HifiBerry speakers or on a bluetooth speaker.
Mplayer still works fine but i can`t get any sound from xmms2.
The other problem is that there are a lot of known problems of xmms2 but xmms2 is dead since 2017.
Thats why i tried omxplayer which is still maintained.

Currently the module supports local playlist files but not calling any other player. You can change the binary that is called but it still sets the args as mplayer will need it.

[electros]

@wishmaster270 Ok, I find a easy way to play a web radio with xmms2 player from a executable .sh file for that I ask you to tell me how I can run that file from your module. Now is not working my radios with mplayer.

[wishmaster270]

It pushed a new development version to the repo.
You can change to it if you do the following commands:

cd ~/MagicMirror/modules/MMM-MplayerRadio
git checkout development
git pull

In the new version you can add “customCommand” and “customCommandArgs” to either the whole module or to every station.
You then can use any script you like to play either all stations (by passing the url to it) or a special script for each station.

Example:

		{
			module: "MMM-MplayerRadio",
			header: "Radio",
			position: "top_center",
			config: {
				customCommand: "/home/pi/doSomething.bash",
				customCommandArgs: ["one", "two", "###URL###"],
				stations: [
					{
						title: "Antenne.de",
						url: "http://www.surfmusik.de/m3u/antenne-bayern,922.m3u",
						logo: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/ac/Antenne-bayern-logo.png",
						customCommand: "/home/pi/doSomethingElse.bash",
						customCommandArgs: ["one", "###URL###", "three"],
					},
				],
			},
		},

In this example for all stations the script “/home/pi/doSomething.bash one two http://…” is called.
But “Antenne.de” uses the script “/home/pi/doSomethingElse.bash” with different args.

The only condition the customCommand-Script needs to meet is that it stays active as long as the station is running and stops the playback if it gets killed.

[electros]

@wishmaster270 Now if I put this in the config file:

{
			module: "MMM-MplayerRadio",
			header: "Radio",
			position: "top_center",
			config: {
				customCommand: "",
				customCommandArgs: ["", "", ""],
				stations: [
					{
						title: "KissFM",
						url: "",
						logo: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/ro/8/86/Logo_Kiss_FM.png",
						customCommand: "/home/pi/MagicMirror/modules/MMM-MplayerRadio/scripts/KissFM.sh",
						customCommandArgs: ["", "", ""],
					},
				],
			},
		},

and this in KissFM.sh

#!/bin/bash

    xmms2 stop

   xmms2 clear
  
 
xmms2 add https://live.kissfm.ro/kissfm.aacp

  xmms2 play 

it’s working when i want to start radio but nothing happens when i touch the stop button just a short flickering of your module(I use a 10" touchescreen).
Thank you.

[wishmaster270]

Hi,

as i wrote in the documentation you need to make sure that your script runs as long as the station is active and needs to stop the playback if it gets a kill signal.
Maybe i will find a short tutorial about catching the kill signal.

[wishmaster270]

If you change your script to (playRadio.bash):

#!/bin/bash
URL=$1
RUN=1
exit_script() {
        echo "Stopping playback"
        xmms2 stop
        xmms2 clear
        RUN=0
}

trap exit_script SIGINT SIGTERM

xmms2 stop
xmms2 clear
xmms2 add $URL
xmms2 play

while [ $RUN -gt 0 ]; do
        echo "Still running"
        sleep 1
done

and the config to

		{
			module: "MMM-MplayerRadio",
			header: "Radio",
			position: "top_center",
			config: {
				stations: [
					{
						title: "KissFM",
						url: "https://live.kissfm.ro/kissfm.aacp",
						logo: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/ro/8/86/Logo_Kiss_FM.png",
						customCommand: "/home/pi/MagicMirror/modules/MMM-MplayerRadio/scripts/playRadio.bash",
						customCommandArgs: ["###URL###"],
					},
				],
			},
		},

You can then reuse the same script for different stations only by adding the url as first parameter in the config

Edit: Added url back to the config

[electros]

@wishmaster270 it’s working now thanks.

[wishmaster270]

@electros Perfect.
I think I will check in the script into the repository so you can easy update to upcoming versions

[electros]

@wishmaster270 Thank you

[bryan_1]

@wishmaster270 Hi, I’m newbie and know almost nothing about coding. I have installed your module successfully, but what should I do to start it (without touchscreen)? It is shown on my mirror but not played. I put only one Station.
I want to start it automatically if I start my mirror.
Thanks.

[wishmaster270]

@bryan_1 Hi, currently there is no autoplay feature implemented. But I will check it the next days. Maybe it is not a big deal

[wishmaster270]

Hi,

just published an new version (0.0.3) which provides an autoplay feature. Simply add the station index you want to play to the config option “autoplay”. If you only configured one station it is 0. The station will start to play after about 1 second after the mirror started.

[A Former User]

hi @wishmaster270 ,

if you want me to create a vocal control with MMM-GoogleAssistant, just tell me.
I can create a special sub-code for your module

can do:

• volume control (no api found)
• change stations (next/previous/play/toogle,etc) from your api

[wishmaster270]

@Bugsounet Hi, great idea. At the moment my mirror is only controlled by sensors and touch.
The volume control buttons of my module only send an notification to MMM-Volume that’s way there isn’t any api in this module.
Everything else can be controlled by notifications. There is a small section about the notifications in the readme.