Pirate Audio

Pirate Audio is a range of audio output boards for the Raspberry Pi.

Each board includes an ST7789 240x240 pixel LCD display, four buttons and some form of audio output.

Hardware

• st7789 display - https://github.com/pimoroni/st7789-python
• four buttons, active low connected to BCM 5, 6, 16, and 24 (A, B, X, Y respectively)

Installation

You'll need to add the following lines to /boot/config.txt to get audio up and running:

dtoverlay=hifiberry-dac
gpio=25=op,dh

You can also disable onboard audio if you're not going to use it, this sometimes helps applications find the right audio device without extra prompting:

dtparam=audio=off

Using with Spotify Connect

If you want to display album art and track information on your Pirate Audio LCD then check out https://github.com/pimoroni/pidi-spotify

Note: PiDi Spotify is currently in beta, and does not work alongside Mopidy. If you want to smush track information into Mopidy from Raspotify see: https://github.com/pimoroni/pirate-audio/issues/17

Using With Mopidy

We've created plugins to get you up and running with Pirate Audio and Mopidy.

These will give you album art display, volume, play/pause and skip control.

Build Your Own

If you're planning to build your own application you'll find some inspiration in examples.

But first you'll need some dependencies:

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install python-rpi.gpio python-spidev python-pip python-pil python-numpy

And then you'll need the st7789 library:

sudo pip install st7789

For more display examples see: https://github.com/pimoroni/st7789-python/tree/master/examples