One time, I must deal with sound on some area in specific time.
So I created a raspberry based server, which runs, control’s and deal with radio stream. I used rpi1 – raspberry 1.
Maybe this can help someone.
Firts, we download Raspbian Jessie Lite and burn this image on sdhc card (of 2GB capacity at least):
wget https://downloads.raspberrypi.org/raspbian_lite_latest unzip 2017-01-11-raspbian-jessie-lite.zip dd if=2017-01-11-raspbian-jessie-lite.img of=/dev/sdb bs=4M #make sure, that /dev/sdb is your sdhc card, free to format
After first use, make some enhacements and customizing:
sudo tune2fs -c 1 /dev/mmcblk0p2 #this force to check sdhc card every reboot for errors
Edit /ets/fstab and force to use some log destination to ramdisk and with less write operations.
Because after some time, the sdhc card may fail because of many writing operations on it. In my case, I deal with three bad shdc cards in two years.
– option noatime (Do not update inode access times on this filesystem)
/etc/fstab: none /var/log tmpfs size=1M,noatime 00 none /var/tmp tmpfs size=1M,noatime 00 none /tmp tmpfs size=1M,noatime 00
Next, I disabled swap, because I didn’t need it:
dphys-swapfile swapoff dphys-swapfile uninstall update-rc.d dphys-swapfile remove #check: free -mh
And finally, install some software, create some scripts, to deal with the music itself.
#I prefer omxplayer sudo apt-get install omxplayer mkdir /home/pi/stream
First script, that will be used in cron:
cat stream/script_audio.sh #!/bin/bash if ps x |grep -v grep |grep -c "omxplayer.bin" then echo "everything is ok" else echo "omxplayer missing, starting..." sh /home/pi/stream/vlna.sh & fi
This script starts to play our live radio.
cat stream/vlna.sh #!/bin/bash omxplayer --vol -200 http://stream.radiovlna.sk/vlna-hi.mp3 & exit 0
And useful script to kill omxplayer from services and stop playing
cat stream/kill_omx.sh
#!/bin/bash
omx=`ps ax |grep -v grep |grep "omxplayer.bin" | awk '{print $1}'`
kill $omx
exit 0
Every script must have execute permision:
chmod +x *.sh
And use crontab, for enable playing. This option runs script every minute every
day in week between 6 am. and 6pm. (from Monday to friday)
*/1 6-18 * * 1-5 sh /home/pi/stream/script_audio.sh &
So, if this will help to somebody, i will be happy 🙂
Have a nice day.
@vasil