[mythtv-users] Standalone music player with mythfrontend on Raspberry PI?

Nick Rout nick.rout at gmail.com
Fri Dec 28 17:32:09 UTC 2012


On Dec 29, 2012 5:50 AM, "Gordon McCrae" <gordon.mccrae at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I'm thinking more of a non-MythTV device like one of the devices from
Logitech, Sony, etc.
>
> Just curious if anyone else on this list has a similar device and using
it with MP3 files hosted on Linux.
>


I have 2 squeezeboxes running against a Linux server (also happens to be my
backend). Works fine. Be aware squeezeboxes are now EOLed. Buy while you
can.

> Cheers
> Gordon
>
>
> On 28/12/12 16:26, Karl Dietz wrote:
>>
>> On 10.12.2012 11:03, Gordon McCrae wrote:
>>>
>>> I'm looking to add music playback functionality into a room with no TV
>>> display, so the normal MythTV frontend isn't appropriate.
>>
>>
>> I'm not sure how well that would work, but I remember a thread about
>> controlling a MythTV frontend via text-to-speech using the LCD
>> functions.
>>
>> I can imagine a Raspberry PI + LCD Display + Remote Control being a
>> nice solution for the task at hand. Obviously its build instead of buy.
>>
>> Thinking about the details it makes a nice milestone on the way to a
>> full MythTV frontend on limited devices as you get away with only
>> reducing memory usage a bit (you can tear out all big pictures via a
>> dedicated theme) instead of squeezing everything in. And you don't need
>> to hook up the video decoder if you restrict yourself to MythMusic.
>>
>> Attaching a IR receiver + HD 44780 LCD Display + small case makes a
>> nice project on its own, too. Maybe some of the XBMC (or generic PI)
>> users have something already finished in that direction.
>>
>> Regards,
>> Karl
>>
>> PS: There are resctrictions, like 5.1 audio only via HDMI.
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