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README.md

HushPupPi Pirate Radio

Simple pirate radio interface (yes, actual FM radio) for Raspberry Pi with DJ-style queueing, station ID, RDS transmission, and a decent web interface. This is some code which was mostly hallucinated by Copilot. It did great with a lot of guidance, but don't expect miracles, and especially don't expect it to have great performance or security.

Usage

Put radio.html and simple.css into your webroot—I used lighttpd.
Put music-api.py somewhere root can run it. I suggest /usr/local/bin/
The python script, music-api.py, will host a Flask daemon on port 5001. Set up your webserver to proxy requests to /api/ to localhost:5001. The python script calls PiFmAdv, which you'll need to compile yourself.

You should be able to figure out Python requirements from the import statements at the top of the file; they are pretty modest. Likewise, there are some constants towards the top which point to the location of music files, a cache location for album art, and for a SQLite database of indexed music.

Autostart

You can create a simple systemd service with the following:

[Unit]
Description=Music API for FM transmitter
After=network.target

[Service]
ExecStart=/usr/local/bin/music-api.py
Restart=always

[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target