[Solved] Start/Stop Volumio on time

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1

hello,

just installed Volumio on RPI b+ with Hifiberry DAC+. All went well, no troubles.

Is it possible for Volumio to start playing a webradio on a given time? and stop playing after a specific time?

Would be great. Set up fo weekdays and weekend…

Thx.

2

I don’t know any built-in feature in volumio for this, but it can be easily done with the crontab and mpc commands.

=> Create a script file, for instance /home/pi/startRadio.sh

#!/bin/sh

mpc clear
mpc load WEBRADIO/myRadio.pls
mpc play

Do the same thing for a “stop” script, it will just contains the command:

#!/bin/sh
mpc stop

Then, all you have to do is manage those scripts through the crontab

3

thx.

i’ll look into that.

4

Would be great to implement this in volumio…

5

when editing crontab, do i login ssh with volumio/volumio or pi/raspberry?

6

Doesn’t matter. Just run:

Sudo crontab -e