steveg wrote: > Hello and thanks to the wonderful people who keep on developing this > audio player. > > I've finally got round to adding a relay to the power supply to my amp > and driving the relay using a GPIO pin using help from 'another forum' > (http://www.pinkfishmedia.net/forum/archive/index.php/t-165465.html) - > from Greg > > And it works great! (I made a few mods to the script, but those posts > got me pretty close). Really awesome. I'm a stickler for zombie power > draw. I can put up with the PI running 24/7, but not the amp. Now I just > stop playing music and the amp turns itself off after <1min delay- this > makes the sleep function so much more useful! > > And now I have seen that there is a new version of piCorePlayer. I > installed the new version (this is well thought out - too easy to > install), got my relay script working again, and then started messing > around with shairport-sync. This will be great for the WAF, although I'm > trying to phase out iDevices from the house... > > Shairport-sync works great, so far. Once enabled and installed, the > AirPlay setting appears on the iPad, and music will start playing, but > both through AirPlay and whatever LMS was playing. That gets a bit > confusing - auto pause on the other service would be nice. And then once > I do pause LMS (to just play the AirPlay music), the script detects that > LMS is not playing and shuts off my Amp. Drat, I've outsmarted myself. I > could keep playing LMS at zero volume, but this is supposed to be about > increasing the WAF :-) > > I've had a look on google, but couldn't work it out - does anyone know > how to detect if shairport-sync is playing so I can add that to my > script?
Chluz wrote: > I'm also very interested in this. > I have a powered speaker that turns off by itself after 20min of no > sound. > I'm planning on wiring a relay to mimick the effect of the tactile > speaker power button, and an optoisolator to detect if the power on led > is on (to avoid turning off the speaker if it's already on) > > This coupled with the script in the thread you linked should work. > Of course as you said there is the issue of shairport > Still, I can't help thinking that there are more efficient ways of > detecting if lms is playing than polling all the time (but I am not > criticising, its already great that it's working) > Is it possible to have a script called from picoreplayer whenever > lms/shairport player is started, and another when stopped? I think you guys might be better off using the LMS shairport addon. I guess this would output through squeeelite, so the script will always work. :confused: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Greg Erskine's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=7403 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=97803 _______________________________________________ unix mailing list unix@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/unix
