mitpeople/ebilal repository overview

⁠eBilal

This project turns a Raspberry Pi into an alternative to Radio Bilal. Once setup, it will play your selected live audio streams from livemasjid.com.

Latest revision: 1.0 19th April 2021 Release notes:

• Added release notes
• Added API
• Added support for alternative ALSA audio devices in settings (still testing)

⁠Installation

⁠The quick way

1. Download setup.sh from the link above
2. bash setup.sh

⁠The responsible way

1. Install latest Raspbian Lite⁠
2. Setup Wifi and SSH⁠
3. Boot and SSH
4. sudo apt update && sudo apt install git python3 python3-pip ffmpeg ssh-client build-essential libsystemd-dev
5. cd /opt/
6. sudo git clone https://bitbucket.org/mitpeople/ebilal.git
7. sudo chown -R pi:pi ebilal
8. cd ebilal
9. pip3 install -r requirements.txt
10. sudo cp other/*.service /lib/systemd/system/
11. sudo chmod 644 /lib/systemd/system/ebilal*
12. sudo systemctl daemon-reload
13. sudo systemctl enable ebilal.service
14. sudo systemctl enable ebilal_api.service

⁠Test

1. sudo systemctl start ebilal.service
2. sudo systemctl start ebilal_api.service
3. Listen for audio, if none, sudo systemctl status ebilal.service

⁠Configure audio device and stream

1. Modify settings.toml and update MOUNTS=["activestream"] to set streams to listen to (pick from livemasjid.com using the last word in the stream URL). e.g. MOUNTS=["greensidemasjid"]
2. Audio device audio_device="" can be set to the value of the device name when running sudo amixer Default is "", other options to try: "PCM" or "Master"

⁠To check status and debug:

sudo systemctl status ebilal.service journalctl -u ebilal.service -f

⁠Updates

1. cd /opt/ebilal
2. git reset --hard origin/master (Note: this will override your settings.toml, so make a copy 1st)
3. git pull
4. pip3 install -r requirements.txt
5. sudo systemctl restart ebilal.service

⁠API

Try the new API here: http://ebilal.local:8000/docs⁠ (if hostname is ebilal)

⁠Optional

If you're using the pimoroni⁠: curl https://get.pimoroni.com/phatbeat | bash

⁠Experimental

A docker image has been setup, usage: docker run mitpeople/ebilal:latest --device /dev/snd

⁠License

Licensed under AGPL-3.0-or-later (or AGPL-3.0-only