I bought a raspberry pie 3B +. After installing the system, the ash fell to a thick layer. I didn’t know what to do… Recently, I came up with an idea: make a music player with raspberry pie, play English listening automatically from 6:30 to 7:20 every day, force yourself to practice English, and cure your lazy bed habit, which can also be used to listen to songs.
preparation:
1. One raspberry has been sent, and the Linux system has been installed, and the python 3 environment has been installed;
2. A speaker (aux cable interface or Bluetooth speaker is OK), connected to raspberry pie;
Software environment construction:
MTOOL is a music player written in Python. It is open-source on gitee and GitHub. It is mainly controlled by the command line. This is very suitable for our needs.
Download address: https://gitee.com/shadowlesswalker/mtool.git
First of all, we log in to raspberry pie with SSH tool (putty I used) on the computer. If it won’t, we can also use Baidu raspberry pie SSH tutorial. Enter the following command:
cd /usr
git clone https://gitee.com/shadowlesswalker/mtool.git MTOOL? Download MTOOL source code
cd mtool
Ln – S – F / usr / MTOOL / mtoolctl / usr / bin / MTOOL
Then install the MTOOL dependency packages: pyGame, configparser (if any, you don’t need to install them)
sudo apt install python3-pygame
pip3 install configparser
At this point, the installation of MTOOL is complete. MTOOL is a C / S (server / client) mode program. After the server is turned on, it will listen to the UDP port (the default is 127.0.0.1:6666), and then accept the command from the client to control the playback.
Let me set up the server-side boot
vim ~/.bashrc
Add the command on the last side:
Nohup MTOOL — server start > / usr / MTOOL / log & where nohup and & are used to run programs in the background
Configure Music folder path
First, configure the location of your music folder and open / usr / MTOOL/ mtool.conf , modify it by yourself:
[player] this section sets the player parameters
List = music ා set the default play list. The list name must appear in the playlists section
Volume = 0.2 ා default volume
Port = 6666 ා the default UDP port for the server to accept commands
Index = 2 ා current playing position
Next = next # default playback mode: next | loop | random play corresponding sequence | single loop | random play
[playlists] # preset sections of the play list, which can be set in the format: list name = folder path
Music = music ා the name of the play list is music, and the path is. / music
EN listen = / var / share / en listen ා the path of my English listening resource file
Start using the MTOOL command
source ~/.bashrc
or
nohup mtool –server start > /usr/mtool/log &
#Start the server manually first. Although the previous configuration is boot up, it can only take effect after the next boot
MTOOL – C info ා view the server status, which can be used to test whether the server has been started. The attack is similar to the following display:
MTOOL – C play ා
MTOOL – C Vol = 0.5 ᦇ set volume
MTOOL – C lists ා view the available playlists
MTOOL – C list ා lists the music files in the current play list
MTOOL – C next = random | next | loop ා set playback order
MTOOL – C playf = Zui ා switches to single loop (next = loop), and plays the file with Zui in the file name
The basic usage is like this, we can control raspberry pie to play music on the computer, but the computer is always on is not good, what’s more, lying in bed? We can install SSH tools on mobile phones, such as juicessh (recommended) and alicloud app.
Set raspberry pie to play regularly
We use crontab, a Linux built-in task scheduling command, to set the scheduled playback function.
When it comes to timing tasks, we first need to make sure that the time of our raspberry pie is accurate. Hey, hey, hey… Unfortunately, raspberry pies are usually inaccurate… This is because the clock will continue to run when the computer is powered off by a CMOS battery, but the time will be lost after the raspberry pie is turned off. Even if the time is not accurate, how can you normally perform a scheduled task…
So let’s solve the time problem first – NTP (network time synchronization)
dpkg-reconfigure tzdata #Set the time zone. The configuration file is in / etc / timezone and set to Shanghai time zone
dateා check the time and make sure our time zone is China time zone
Start NTP service
apt install ntp
ntpdate ntp.ntsc.ac.cn #Synchronization of new NTP server of China National Time Service Center ntp.ntsc.ac .cn）
Or in / etc/ ntp.conf Add NTP server address in
Restart NTP service:
Systemctl enable NTP ා NTP
Systemctl start NTP ා start NTP service
Date ා check the system time, it should be correct
Then set the scheduled task:
First, write a script to switch the play list, change the volume, and play when on, which is called by the scheduled task
vim /usr/mtool/start-en-listen
The script is simple:
_dir=”/usr/mtool”
MTOOL – C playlist = en listen ා switch to English listening list
MTOOL – C Vol = 1.0 ᦇ turn the volume to maximum (hehe hehe)
MTOOL – C next = random ා set random play
MTOOL – C play ා
Next, add a scheduled task
Crontab – e ා will open the editor and add the scheduled task at the end:
30 6 * * * /usr/mtool/start-en-listen >> /usr/mtool/ log.client It starts at 6:30 every morning
20 7 * * MTOOL – C stop
Finally… Great achievements!!!! I can’t sleep in every morning!!!
Of course, we can also add a few lines of code, automatically turn off the SSH service at 6:30 a.m., and then turn it on at 7:20 a.m., so that when you want to sleep in, you can’t turn off raspberry pie playback from the SSH end of your mobile phone, and you can only get up and unplug the power…..