Use a numeric keypad to control a MPD server.
Written to allow a USB numeric keypad to be used to control mpd running on a headless Raspberry Pi.
To test run
./mpd-numpad
mpd-numpad will connect to the local mpd server and print a list of key mappings.
Pressing a key will perform the coresponding action.
Press "q" to exit.
- mpd server
- python3
- python3 mpd library
On a Raspberry Pi running Raspbian these can be installed by running
sudo apt install mpd python3 python3-mpd
From within the repository run the following commands:
sudo -i
mkdir -p ~pi/bin
cp mpd-numpad ~pi/bin
adduser --disabled-password mpc
cp mpd-numpad.service /etc/systemd/system
systemctl start mpd-numpad
systemctl enable mpd-numpad
ncmpcpp is a ncurses based (full screen text) mpd client.
mpd-ncmpcpp.service is a systemd service file which starts ncmpcpp on a
new virtual console (tty7 by default) on system boot. To install it run:
sudo -i
cp mpd-ncmpcpp.service /etc/systemd/system
# if not already present then add user:
adduser --disabled-password mpc
apt install ncmpcpp
systemctl enable mpd-ncmpcpp
systemctl start mpd-ncmpcpp
systemctl status mpd-ncmpcpp