bedside mood companion

Last update: Thu Jun 5 22:25:40 2025

This is a new Template for bedside mood companion!

Presentation

Principle

Points of interrest

Implementation

Bill of materials

Schematics

High level design

Source code

Get pygame running: not easy, lots of libs missing. Do the below at minimum and cross fingers↓

#to feel at home
sudo apt-get install git emacs-nox htop
#pygame install (last step takes time to build, it's normal)
sudo apt-get install libsdl-dev libsdl-image1.2-dev libsdl-mixer1.2-dev libsdl-ttf2.0-dev 
sudo apt-get install libsmpeg-dev libportmidi-dev libavformat-dev libswscale-dev
sudo apt-get install python3-dev python3-numpy
sudo pip install pygame

Get the scren going on (in my case a KeDei 3.5" HDMI):

git clone https://github.com/goodtft/LCD-show.git
cd LCD-show/

#In case of 3.5" High Speed display(MHS35)
chmod a+x MHS35-show
sudo ./MHS35-show

#let it reboot 
#then edit /boot/config.txt to force a higher resolution than 480x320

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#another option (no need to do both) is to use the KeDei drivers ... seem to work similarily and I ended up using this one (though the zip file is 116MB)
# get the file from their site http://kedei.net/raspberry/raspberry.html and follow what's here http://osoyoo.com/2017/01/install-3-5-hdmi-touch-screen-linux-driver-on-raspberry-pi/

Test it works with Framebuffer (link at Adafruit) : check!

Pictures

Links

Helpful sources

Screen:

https://www.raspberrypi.org/forums/viewtopic.php?t=175616

Configure my HDMI LCD screen link

Radio/playback on Raspi:

Listen to webradio with VLC headless sample script

Inspiration

With a Raspberry Pi:

A great one in an antique radio

Use Music Player Daemon (MPD) or MPC (client)

https://www.lesbonscomptes.com/pages/raspmpd.html

https://learn.adafruit.com/raspberry-pi-radio-player-with-touchscreen/installing-the-music-player-daemon

http://raspberry-at-home.com/mpd-music-player-daemon/

Not directly related but he uses the same screen https://circuitbeard.co.uk/2017/08/28/tomy-turnin-turbo-dashboard-outrun-arcade/

Raspi play youtube from cmd line:

https://www.reddit.com/r/raspberry_pi/comments/3o03f1/a_quick_and_dirty_script_to_play_any_youtube/

With an ESP8266:

The famous Ka-radio

https://hackaday.io/project/11570-wifi-webradio-with-esp8266-and-vs1053

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