Headless mode

I have got a TV box running Armbian that I’d like to turn into an internet radio device. pyradio is very close to being ideal for my purposes but it doesn’t seem to have a headless mode yet, which is what I want so that I can use pyradio without having a display attached to my TV box and I’d be able to use it using a infrared remote, pushing buttons to trigger commands to control pyradio.

I’d like to see pyradio gain a new --headless option or similar that would not open the ncurses UI but instead start playing a random station in the background unless the user specifies a specific station. The only headless commands I think I’ll need are start playing (random station), skip to random station, adjust volume and stop/quit.

[danboid]

@s-n-g

I’ve ‘finished’ my project:

https://github.com/danboid/TVBIRR

[danboid]

Aha! I thought there might be some such catch but not to worry, I’ll easily be able to write want I want with mplayer and a few lines of shell script so feel free to close this if adding this feature is too much work which sounds like its the case. I was unable to find a ready made solution, pyradio was about the closest to fitting the bill but custom script time it is.

I’ll update this ticket when I’ve created my simple headless streaming thing with a link to its repo.