Auto play file/network address upon startup?

gvklaveren

Hi,

With Pi Music box you do have a possibility to play a file or a web radio URL at startup.
You have also the possibility to set the waiting time before starting playing in the settings.

How can I realise this in Rune Audio?
(So you can let someone (old) just switch "the box" on, and after a minute it starts playing the specific radio station.)

After that a user can use the GUI on his phone to play to play whatever he/she wants.

I do not want to edit a queue every time before the "auto play" feature can be used by someone else.

irishwill2008

You could create a PHP script to add interface that creates cron jobs or go create a cron manually if you really wanted by logging into SSH.
User: root. Pass: rune.

Setup Crontab and trigger using commands like:

/usr/bin/mpc clear

//Clears Queue

/usr/bin/mpc volume 0

//Sets volume (0 can be changed to whatever volume to 100)

/usr/bin/mpc load "playlist / radio name"

//Lastly, load the playlist or radio.

Hint: For loading radio stations you need to add:

webradio/

followed by station.pls!
If you had a radio station you added a station called lets say: christmas then it could be christmas.pls.
Then the command to add is:

mpc load "Webradio/christmas.pls"

// I add quotes incase the name contains spaces.

Then to play just do,

mpc play

.
What i would suggest is to FTP into the system, go to the webradio folder which is:

/mnt/MPD/Webradio

and look for the .pls (radio station) you would like to play. Grab that, create a cron by googling your way on how to do or follow some steps from: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/cron and https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Systemd/Timers.

Hope it helped!:)

gvklaveren

Thanks irishwill2008

I will look into it soon.

Maybe I can suggest this as a feature request.