Advanced project with raspberry

[sebastianMember]

Hi out there,

I have a shower with integrated controller to support a radio and some light switches which is quite bad. I plan to replace the existing radio with a raspberry, a waterproof touchscreen, a relay board and a bit of programming. I know that I will have to create an add-on to support the controlling functions, a modified skin to show the needed controls and a touchscreen which has to be made waterproof…

I know that I can get relayboard ready for use but I need to create the add-on which should use Python libraries. Are the needed libraries already in the geexbox distribution (RPi.GPIO)?
Do you have any suggestions for a touchscreen which can work directly with Geexbox?

tia

Sebastian

[Warped RudiModerator]

Are the needed libraries already in the geexbox distribution (RPi.GPIO)?

At the moment we don’t supply any RPi-specific libaries.

Do you have any suggestions for a touchscreen which can work directly with Geexbox?

No idea. A while ago someone asked for tslib. We did add it as optional package but never got any feedback…

a modified skin to show the needed controls and a touchscreen

XBMC already has a skin for such devices. It’s named “touched”. Currently we don’t build it by default, but I guess it can be installed the same way as any other skin.

BTW, isn’t XBMC a bit heavy to be used just as an audio player ? Even though I can’t suggest one, I could imagine that there are alternatives…

[tomlohaveModerator]

mpd (packaged) can be used to play music

[Warped RudiModerator]

From my understanding mpd is just a backend. He would also need some kind of GUI. There web site lists a lot of client programs. But I have not idea which of them is good with respect to features and resource usage.

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