Music in the bathroom
Posted: Wednesday 29 July 2015 10:41
I always wanted music in the bathroom when I'm showering. The normal solution of a lowered ceiling with speakers wasn't an option for me because I rent the apartment I live in. The next option was a Sonos but that's a bit expensive for just in the bathroom. So i thought why can't I connect a bluetooth speaker to domoticz and when I touch a switch the music from a spotify playlist is playing?
I ordered a bluetooth speaker and tried to get it working with my domoticz raspberry pi. That was a fail but then I used another empty Raspberry Pi and after 15 minutes I had a working bluetooth speaker with PimusicBox (a program that uses Mopidy, MPD and MPC).
I think it can be done with only installing mopidy and maybe even on the same Raspberry Pi as Domoticz but I couldn't get it working correct and after a while mopidy crashed and I couldn't get it working again so thats why I used another Pi.
A How to:
Hardware list:
-Working Domoticz
-another Raspberry Pi (I used an old 256mb version, but every version works)
-Earson - ER151 (cheap bluetooth speaker with good sound and can stand high humidity levels)
-bluetooth dongle ( I bought this one http://eu.banggood.com/Wholesale-Wareho ... 55088.html)
How to install:
Download PiMusicbox from http://www.pimusicbox.com and flash it to the SD card
Open the sd card on the computer and open settings.ini
You can add your wifi credentials here and also your spotify login. Don't forget to enable ssh login here.
Log in with root to Musicbox and do this:
Then open settings.ini again:
and change:
Put the lines (only) into the file asound.conf (/etc);
Remove the file setsound.sh (/opt/musicbox)
Put some lines into the file audio.conf (/etc/bluetooth);
Reboot your Pi and the music must play to your bluetooth speaker.
Then the Raspberry Pi must be connected to Domoticz.
I installed mpc from the wiki: https://www.domoticz.com/wiki/MPD_%26_D ... stallation
then i wrote a simple bash script to load a spotify playlist and play it.
Change it to the Ip address of your Raspberry Pi with Musicbox Image and to the port (default 6600) with lsplaylists you load the known spotify playlists and then you can load it into music box. With random on I shuffle the list and I change the volume to 20 (loud enough). Then I play and again put the volume at 20%, because sometimes the first one would not work.
music.sh
To stop the playlist from playing I made another simple script:
musicstop.sh
Copy the scripts to the scripts folder from Domoticz and make both scripts executable.
I connected a 433mhz remote controller from kaku to domoticz and put the scripts into the on and off action. I've made two buttons, one for my girlfriend and one for me so we both can listen to our own playlist.
I think the scripts can be much better but it works for now.
I ordered a bluetooth speaker and tried to get it working with my domoticz raspberry pi. That was a fail but then I used another empty Raspberry Pi and after 15 minutes I had a working bluetooth speaker with PimusicBox (a program that uses Mopidy, MPD and MPC).
I think it can be done with only installing mopidy and maybe even on the same Raspberry Pi as Domoticz but I couldn't get it working correct and after a while mopidy crashed and I couldn't get it working again so thats why I used another Pi.
A How to:
Hardware list:
-Working Domoticz
-another Raspberry Pi (I used an old 256mb version, but every version works)
-Earson - ER151 (cheap bluetooth speaker with good sound and can stand high humidity levels)
-bluetooth dongle ( I bought this one http://eu.banggood.com/Wholesale-Wareho ... 55088.html)
How to install:
Download PiMusicbox from http://www.pimusicbox.com and flash it to the SD card
Open the sd card on the computer and open settings.ini
You can add your wifi credentials here and also your spotify login. Don't forget to enable ssh login here.
Log in with root to Musicbox and do this:
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$ sudo apt-get install bluetooth bluez bluez-utils bluez-alsa
$ hcitool scan ## switch your bluetooth dongle to scan ##
$ bluetooth-agent --adapter hci0 0000 11:22:33:44:55:66 ## <--device you find with the scan and will connect ##
$ bluez-test-device trusted 11:22:33:44:55:66 yes
$ bluez-test-device trusted 11:22:33:44:55:66 ## If trusted, this will confirmed with a 1 ##
$ sudo /etc/init.d/bluetooth restart
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sudo nano /boot/config/settings.ini
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output = alsasink into output = alsasink device=bluetooth
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sudo nano /etc/asound.conf
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pcm.bluetooth {
type bluetooth
device 11:22:33:44:55:66 ##your device##
profile "auto"
}Remove the file setsound.sh (/opt/musicbox)
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sudo rm /opt/musicbox/setsound.sh
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sudo nano /etc/bluetooth/audio.conf
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[General]
Enable=Source,Sink,Socket
Disable=Media
Then the Raspberry Pi must be connected to Domoticz.
I installed mpc from the wiki: https://www.domoticz.com/wiki/MPD_%26_D ... stallation
then i wrote a simple bash script to load a spotify playlist and play it.
Change it to the Ip address of your Raspberry Pi with Musicbox Image and to the port (default 6600) with lsplaylists you load the known spotify playlists and then you can load it into music box. With random on I shuffle the list and I change the volume to 20 (loud enough). Then I play and again put the volume at 20%, because sometimes the first one would not work.
music.sh
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#!/bin/sh
mpc -h YOUR_IP -p 6600
mpc -h YOUR_IP -p 6600 lsplaylists
mpc -h YOUR_IP -p 6600 load YOUR PLAYLIST
mpc -h YOUR_IP -p 6600 random on
mpc -h YOUR_IP -p 6600 volume 20
mpc -h YOUR_IP -p 6600 play
mpc -h YOUR_IP -p 6600 volume 20
musicstop.sh
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#!/bin/sh
mpc -h YOUR_IP -p 6600
mpc -h YOUR_IP -p 6600 stop
mpc -h YOUR_IP -p 6600 clear
Copy the scripts to the scripts folder from Domoticz and make both scripts executable.
I connected a 433mhz remote controller from kaku to domoticz and put the scripts into the on and off action. I've made two buttons, one for my girlfriend and one for me so we both can listen to our own playlist.
I think the scripts can be much better but it works for now.
