Jukebox

Source code for a 5 buttons mp3 jukebox running on a raspberry pi that I build for my boys (5 and 4 years old) for christmas 2019.

CRON Setup

Add the follwoing line to get the script started at boot up.

@reboot export DISPLAY=:0.0 && cd /home/pi && nohup python3 /home/pi/musicbox/music_box.py &

• @reboot ensures that the line will be run at each reboot
• export DISPLAY=:0.0 since I use {pygame} and it has problems with beeing run headless I add this line to make it work without sudo and without a display.
• nohup is used so that the line finishes immediately although music_box.py actually is an infinite loop.

VSCode Debug Config

// Use IntelliSense to learn about possible attributes. // Hover to view descriptions of existing attributes. // For more information, visit: https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?linkid=830387 // IMPORTANT PART to make pygame work without actual display

{
  "version": "0.2.0",
  "configurations": [
    {
      "name": "Python: Current File",
      "type": "python",
      "request": "launch",
      "program": "${file}",
      "console": "integratedTerminal",
       "env": {"DISPLAY": "0.0"}
    }
  ]
}

Audio Comment Telling Children What they are about to Hear

Free online text-to-speach (mp3) service:

free so far: https://console.aws.amazon.com/polly/home/SynthesizeSpeech no free anymore: https://notevibes.com/de/