I don’t know if this is the best place to post this, if not please move it to the right category.
I started this project few months ago and I was using Runeaudio at time. It was a stable release and the only one that fully worked with the new Raspberry 3.
Over the time I found some difficulties as 99% of the Internet tutorials and forum posts are dedicated to Jessie, not Arch. Since sound was working and I was able to control Runeaudio with the buttons I stopped working on the project.
Some weeks ago Airplay stopped working, again! And before burning my “working image” on the SD I decided to spend some time search for updates/solutions. Soon I found out that Runeaudio community was still dead so I decided to try Volumio again. Now on build 2.0.
Everything worked as it should and to be honest I’m really loving it.
The alarm function is really great, I love the Plugins idea and since I’m on Jessie it won’t be a problem to finally drive the LCD.
Today I decided that my project should continue with Volumio. Since I’m again in the mood I’ll spend some free time to finally finishing it.
Now the project:
I bought an old non-working Jukebox Radio on the Dutch Craigslist (marktplaats.nl) for 85€ to create a “Digital Jukebox” inside and keep the outside as it is.
So, what I’ve done so far.
Chassi:
Remove all old electronics
Connected all buttons to Arduino (used the old ones connected with resistor arrays to save pins)
Replace the old pots with rotary encoders
Replace the LCD
✘ Remove scratches from the acrylic
✘ Clean it properly
✘ Replace button labelling
✘ Create a small acrylic back door to access all the electronics
On the software side:
Install and configure Volumio
Install and configure PlainAMP
Configure Adafruit Pro Trinket as keyboard
Player control buttons (five on the left)
Playlist/Radio buttons (five on the right)
Volume and mute encoder
✘ Bass encoder (there’s no command to change EQ on PlainAmp yet and I think they won’t release it!)
✘ Treble encoder (there’s no command to change EQ on PlainAmp yet and I think they won’t release it!)
✘ Menu Navigation encoder (waiting for the LCD)
✘ One encoder that I don’t know what to do with it
✘ Power button (since the Pi will be working 24/7 use this button for something)
✘ Lights (replace them with addressable led strip with spectrum analizer)
✘ Lights button (change between different led modes)
✘ LCD (still trying for a nice script working with Adafruit i2c backpack)
✘ Replace original speakers and tweeters (i really like the sound as it is so I think there’s no reason to change)
And now some pictures.
Before:
Back of the button resistor array and LCD:
The encoders and the resistor array for the middle buttons:
The first “Hello World”:
The LCD had to be trimmed to fit. Only one line of the circuit was interrupted (fixed with the purple wire).
