Thanks, Ray

I have not used my Displayotron for years, but it looks like you’re using the radio program that came with the Displayotron3000 so I would recommend looking on the Pimoroni forum or contact their customer support – they are very helpful folk in my experience. https://forums.pimoroni.com/c/support/5 or email support@pimoroni.com

The output I get from the terminal is -

amixer: Unable to find simple control ‘PCM’,0

amixer: Unable to find simple control ‘PCM’,0

amixer: Unable to find simple control ‘PCM’,0

amixer: Cannot find the given element from control default

Traceback (most recent call last):
File “./radio.py”, line 55, in
10 # Idle after 10 seconds

File “/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/dot3k/menu.py”, line 114, in __init__
self._setup_menu(self.menu_options)

File “/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/dot3k/menu.py”, line 166, in _setup_menu
value.setup(self.config)

File “../../plugins/volume.py”, line 42, in setup
self.output_mode = self.get_mode()

File “../../plugins/volume.py”, line 74, in get_mode
mode = subprocess.check_output(“amixer cget numid=3 | grep ‘: values=’”, shell=True)

File “/usr/lib/python2.7/subprocess.py”, line 223, in check_output
raise CalledProcessError(retcode, cmd, output=outp

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I have very little experience of programming so doubt whether I could get to the bottom of this. Are there any kind souls out there that could help?

Thanks, Ray

I think the file you need is dot3k.cfg as in https://github.com/pimoroni/dot3k/blob/master/python/examples/dothat/advanced/dot3k.cfg

The Dot3K makes a great Pi radio, I use mine all the time.

good luck!

I am running the radio on a displayotron HAT and it works brilliantly; however, I am struggling to find the config file to add stations – Help

DAn

Ray

Greetings from Glasgow,
Greg

They were already available in graph.py in the plugins folder, all that was needed was to add them to radio.py

here is my copy of the relevant section of radio.py

import sys
sys.path.append(‘../../’)

import dot3k.joystick as joystick
import dot3k.lcd as lcd
import dot3k.backlight as backlight
from dot3k.menu import Menu
from plugins.utils import Backlight, Contrast
from plugins.volume import Volume
from plugins.clock import Clock
from plugins.radio import Radio
from plugins.graph import GraphCPU, GraphTemp, IPAddress, GraphSysShutdown, GraphSysReboot
import time

# We want to use clock both as an option
# and as the idle plugin
clock = Clock(backlight)

“”"
Using a set of nested dictionaries you can describe
the menu you want to display on dot3k.

A nested dictionary describes a submenu.
An instance of a plugin class ( derived from MenuOption ) can be used for things like settings, radio, etc
A function name will call that function.
“”"
menu = Menu({
‘Clock’:clock,
‘Radio Stream’:Radio(),
‘Volume’:Volume(backlight),
‘Status’: {
‘CPU’:GraphCPU(backlight),
‘Temp’:GraphTemp(),
‘IP Address’:IPAddress()
},
‘Settings’: {
‘Contrast’:Contrast(lcd),
‘Backlight’:Backlight(backlight),
‘Reboot Pi’:GraphSysReboot(),
‘Shutdown Pi’:GraphSysShutdown()
}
},
lcd, # Draw to dot3k.lcd
clock, # Idle with the clock plugin,
10 # Idle after 10 seconds
)

you will see I have added IPAddress, GraphSysShutdown, GraphSysReboot to the ‘from plugins.graph import’ line

then added those plugins to the menu as follows

menu = Menu({
‘Clock’:clock,
‘Radio Stream’:Radio(),
‘Volume’:Volume(backlight),
‘Status’: {
‘CPU’:GraphCPU(backlight),
‘Temp’:GraphTemp(),
‘IP Address’:IPAddress()
},
‘Settings’: {
‘Contrast’:Contrast(lcd),
‘Backlight’:Backlight(backlight),
‘Reboot Pi’:GraphSysReboot(),
‘Shutdown Pi’:GraphSysShutdown()
}
},

Hope this helps