sispheor/piclodio2

Raspberry Pi Web Clock Radio

Piclodio2

This version is not anymore maintained, please take a look to Piclodio 3

Piclodio2 is a web radio player and a also an alarm clock. You can add url stream to complete the collection. Scheduling alarm clock is easy and can be periodic.

Prerequisites

pip for python dependencies, Mplayer to play stream, at to stop alarm clock automatically, sqlite3 to store data, git to clone the project and python-alsaaudio to manage sound

sudo apt-get install python-pip mplayer at sqlite3 git python-alsaaudio

Install Django framework from pip

sudo pip install Django==1.7.7

Clone the project. Notice we didn't use sudo here. The folder has to belong to the Pi user.

cd /home/pi
git clone https://github.com/Sispheor/Piclodio2.git

Option 1 : Use Django's server to run piclodio

It's not the best practice but it's easy and fast.

As pi user :

Copy the init script

sudo cp Piclodio2/run_piclodio/init_script/piclodio.sh /etc/init.d/piclodio
sudo chmod +x /etc/init.d/piclodio
sudo update-rc.d piclodio defaults

You can edit it to customise settings Start piclodio :

sudo /etc/init.d/piclodio start

That's it, you can now access your piclodio at http://youip:8000

Option 2 : Run Piclodio with apache

Prerequisites

sudo apt-get install apache2 libapache2-mod-wsgi

Move Piclodio in default apache directory and give access

sudo mv /home/pi/Piclodio2 /var/www
sudo chown -R www-data: /var/www/Piclodio2

Copy vHost from sources folder into apache vHost configuration folder

sudo cp /var/www/Piclodio2/run_piclodio/apache/piclodio.conf /etc/apache2/sites-available/piclodio

Enable the vHost

sudo a2ensite piclodio

And last, we have to allow the Apache user www-data to use mplayer. Edit the sudoers file with the command

sudo visudo

and add this line at the end of the file

www-data ALL=NOPASSWD:/usr/bin/mplayer* ,/usr/bin/pgrep mplayer ,/usr/bin/killall mplayer, /usr/bin/at

Add Apache user to audio group to allow him to control sound

sudo usermod -a -G audio www-data

Reload Apache

sudo service apache2 reload

That's it! Piclodio is now available on it IP address on http://RPI_IP_ADDRESS/piclodio

piclodio2's Issues

Alarm clock doesn't work anymore after edit

The prob is in the crontab
This is what I get after edit:

40 7 * * [u'1', u'2', u'3', u'4', u'5'] env DISPLAY=:0.0 python /var/www/Piclodio2/runWebRadio.py 1 >/dev/null 2>&1 #piclodio 1

What we should have

40 7 * * 1,2,3,4,5 env DISPLAY=:0.0 python /var/www/Piclodio2/runWebRadio.py 1 >/dev/null 2>&1 #piclodio 1

Show RPI clock in real time

Use the javascript Date object to show the real hours:minute:second in real time. Then increase it every second with javascript.
http://www.w3schools.com/jsref/jsref_obj_date.asp

Bip bip sound every x minutes

Add on option to play a "bip bip" sound every 10 minutes for example to avoid to get asleep again ;)

We can get sound here : http://www.pdsounds.org/library_abc/B

What do you think about it ?

Fill debug page

one button to run a speaker test

output of picsound debug
output of crontab -l
output of select * from alarmClock
output of ps aux | grep mplayer

Need Header template

We repeat everything in all template.. Job need to be done

Controle Rpi volume

Control of the volume via Piclodio interface

add changelog file

bind it into the readme and make it readable from github.

backup mp3 file in case of no internet connection or stream down

check return status after mplayer [stream_url]

if not 0

mplayer -loop 0 backup.mp3

Create init script

Create a init script that run piclodio with the Django's server

Play mp3 rescue file in case of "no internet connection"

Sometime (like this morning) it happened that i don't have any internet connection so my Piclodio does not turn music on, so i don't get up and I'm late !!

The idea is to check return code of mplayer [stream_url]

if return code is not 0 (stream is dead or we dont have any internet connection..), then we "mplayer backup.mp3"

check if crontab line is really existing

I just cloned the project and started it. A clock alam is setted by default in the database but the crontab line doesn't exist.

upgrade django to 1.9

Rewrite sound Lib in python

Does the sound lib can be write in python?
Can it become more generic to run on whatever Debian system?

editable radio and alarm clock

Remove Ajax and implement standart Django form

Documentation Issues

The documentation should start with a description of what the project is and what it does. I figured it out from bits of information further on but it should be right at the top.

I also noticed the docs use wget instead or pip, is the raspberry pi restricted from using pip to install python packages? pip install Django==1.6 seems easier.

Also many of these instructions might be good to fold into an init or setup script for convenience. But that's a nice to have :-)

remove pyc file

and untrack them into gitignore

Enhance template of volume control

Insert blank line in crontab after each edit/create of alarmclock

It seems to doesn't distub the good working of the program anyway.

remove dependencies to crontab python module

We could do everything by ourself with simple system call to manage cron entrys

It would be easier to install Piclodio from scratch ?

Check if radio's URL is available

Run backup MP3 if not available

Louder sound progressively

Maybe it could be cool to louder sound progressively ? I don't know

upload our own MP3 backup

Add MP3/OGG Support

Hi

Maybe possible to play a local mp3,ogg sound instead of a radio ?
I could only select a webradio

Thanks by advance