Hello.
I have this crazy idea to pimp an old boombox of mine (Philips D8614) with a rspberry pi, pCP, jivelite and a waveshare 3.5" touch screen with a resolution of 480x320. The screen somehow fits in the tape deck door and my idea is to make it so that the tape deck still would be usefull.
I would like to add an additional "squeezebox" source and while playing the "squeezebox" I would like to show a cassette playing with the current title and artist shown. It should look something like this:
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I have a couple of ideas but struggle to get the working in a proof of concept. I hope somebody here can help me a bit further.
First I created a script that would check the playing status by CLI commands. If a song is played an andless loop of a cassette would be played and artist and title are written on top. I used ffmpeg for this. However, the video would overlay jivelite which is not accessible anymore then.
Second idea was to rebuild the Now playing screen. When playing the background should show the cassette animation. when stopped the animation should also stop. I am an absolute noob when it comes to Lua and so I am wondering if this at all would be possible and if so where to start.
I also did some research and found the Custom Clock Applet and Custom Clock Helper Plugin a potential solution. There is also ancassette screensaver available wich I tried. But I can't get it working on the 3.5" TFT. Also I would like to have my own cassette animation be utilized (so above), but I can't figure out how to do that.
I would really appreciate if somebody could advise me on this a bit.
I have this crazy idea to pimp an old boombox of mine (Philips D8614) with a rspberry pi, pCP, jivelite and a waveshare 3.5" touch screen with a resolution of 480x320. The screen somehow fits in the tape deck door and my idea is to make it so that the tape deck still would be usefull.
I would like to add an additional "squeezebox" source and while playing the "squeezebox" I would like to show a cassette playing with the current title and artist shown. It should look something like this:
I have a couple of ideas but struggle to get the working in a proof of concept. I hope somebody here can help me a bit further.
First I created a script that would check the playing status by CLI commands. If a song is played an andless loop of a cassette would be played and artist and title are written on top. I used ffmpeg for this. However, the video would overlay jivelite which is not accessible anymore then.
Second idea was to rebuild the Now playing screen. When playing the background should show the cassette animation. when stopped the animation should also stop. I am an absolute noob when it comes to Lua and so I am wondering if this at all would be possible and if so where to start.
I also did some research and found the Custom Clock Applet and Custom Clock Helper Plugin a potential solution. There is also ancassette screensaver available wich I tried. But I can't get it working on the 3.5" TFT. Also I would like to have my own cassette animation be utilized (so above), but I can't figure out how to do that.
I would really appreciate if somebody could advise me on this a bit.