pir8radio3 build instructions

by AMC - Adalberto Maria Caccia

WaveShare wm8960-soundcard

(da: https://www.waveshare.com/w/upload/5/54/WM8960_Audio_HAT_User_Manual_EN.pdf) git clone https://github.com/waveshare/WM8960-Audio-HAT cd WM8960-Audio-HAT sudo ./install.sh sudo reboot

VLC media player 3.0.8 Vetinari (revision 3.0.8-0-gf350b6b5a7)

sudo apt install -y vlc

Python digital_clock based on luma.examples by Richard Hull

(da: https://github.com/rm-hull/luma.examples) sudo usermod -a -G i2c,spi,gpio pi sudo apt install python-dev python-pip libfreetype6-dev libjpeg-dev build-essential sudo apt install libsdl-dev libportmidi-dev libsdl-ttf2.0-dev libsdl-mixer1.2-dev libsdl-image1.2-dev

Log out and in again and clone this repository:

git clone https://github.com/rm-hull/luma.examples.git cd luma.examples

Finally, install the luma libraries:

(avoiding memory problems on rpi0, as pillow-6.0.6 causes memory exception:) sudo -H pip install -Iv Pillow==4.3.0 sudo -H pip install -e .

digital_clock.py by AMC:

scp digital_clock.sh pi@pir8radio3: scp digital_clock.py pi@pir8radio3:luma.examples/examples/ scp Arial\ Narrow.ttf pi@pir8radio3:luma.examples/examples/fonts/

.profile:

~/digital_clock.sh

wm8960-soundcard has got a Button on GPIO#17:

(da: https://www.waveshare.com/w/upload/5/54/WM8960_Audio_HAT_User_Manual_EN.pdf) sudo apt install python3-gpiozero