AdaMPD

MPD clients for AdaFruit Character LCD Keypad and Raspberry Pi

2 python daemons:

• ada-screen.py - displays the currently playing song and artist on LCD screen
• ada-buttons.py - watch for buttons pressed and do some MPD actions

ada-screen.py:

• you can set a Favorite playlist, to have the backlight of a different color if a favorite song is playing.
• you can also set the default color

ada-buttons.py:

• select: play/pause, right/left: next/previous song, up/down: nothing
• after some idle time not playing, you have to press buttons for some seconds to wake up the keypad, this is for cpu economy

Adafruit doc link: https://learn.adafruit.com/adafruit-16x2-character-lcd-plus-keypad-for-raspberry-pi/usage

Adafruit library: https://github.com/adafruit/Adafruit-Raspberry-Pi-Python-Code

Usage on Raspbian

apt-get install git python-mpd

cd /root
git clone https://github.com/dooblem/adampd
cd adampd

# get adafruit lib
git clone https://github.com/adafruit/Adafruit-Raspberry-Pi-Python-Code

# to test interactively:
./ada-screen.py
./ada-buttons.py

# to setup the init script
ln -s /root/adampd/adampd /etc/init.d/adampd
insserv adampd