MBox

Setting up a toniebox like audio playback device

1. Install raspberry pi OS on SD card using raspberry pi imager (https://www.raspberrypi.org/software/)
2. create ssh file on SD card to enable ssh
3. boot sd card in raspberry pi
4. Ssh into it
5. Switch python version(*): sudo update-alternatives --install /usr/bin/python python /usr/bin/python3 10
6. Add mopidy gpg key wget -q -O - https://apt.mopidy.com/mopidy.gpg | sudo apt-key add -
7. sudo wget -q -O /etc/apt/sources.list.d/mopidy.list https://apt.mopidy.com/buster.list
8. Install python3-spotify

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install python3-spotify

9. Find api key https://github.com/search?q=spotify-appkey
10. install pyalsaaudio pip install pyalsaaudio
11. if you have installed the full raspbian you might want to get rid of the screen reader install instruction audio file playing every 30s:
    1. ps -eaf | grep wiz and then kill the process piwiz
    2. sudo rm /etc/xdg/autostart/piwiz.desktop
12. copy files
13. copy service file to root sudo cp myscript.service /etc/systemd/system/myscript.service
14. reload services sudo systemctl daemon-reload
15. enable service sudo systemctl enable myscript.service

*(undo with sudo update-alternatives --install /usr/bin/python python /usr/bin/python2.7 10