A bemix node is one of the stations that plays music from bemix.
First, configure your node:
$ cp config_example.py config.py
$ nano config.py
And install pafy: $pip install pafy
If you don't know the username and password, ask someone on hall or email miles@milessteele.com.
The player plays music from the bemix server. It can run on almost anything, and only requires that VLC is installed.
To run the node player that plays songs:
$ python player.py
Bemix has sweet buttons on the wall in the bathrooms that can control playback. To enable the buttons, you will need to be running this from a raspberry pi (for this version).
Plug the board in the ceiling into the pi and run:
$ sudo python buttons.py
(buttons needs sudo because it accesses the gpio pins)
Screens are useful for this sort of thing. Consider running these two processes in screens.
$ screen -ls # list all screens on this host
$ screen -R player # start or re-attach a screen called "player"
Press ctrl-a followed by ctrl-d to release a screen.