LightShowPi KB

The default documentation says to create a .playlist file, and edit the file to contain one song per line in the following format: Song Name 1 [Tab] /Path/to/your/music/file Well, since it's Christmas I'd like to have a playlist with 50+ songs which can be very time consuming to create. What I found digging through the LSP files was that under the /tools/ folder there's a .py script to automate the process, and it works great. I'm assuming the following: You have a functioning RPi Your RPi is on your home network and you know its IP address You have a functioning LightShow Pi installation  You can transfer files to your RPi To automate the .playlist creation process: Copy all your music to a folder on your Pi.  I have a folder for every CD I copy over under /home/pi/lightshowpi/music/christmas/    OPTIONAL: Remove spaces from filenames  Open up a terminal Browse to your folder containing the music $ cd /home/pi/lightshowpi/music/christmas...

By Default, the webGUI is not started on a LightShow Pi installation. It is super simple and very useful to enable the webGUI. I'm assuming the following: You have a functioning RPi Your RPi is on your home network and you know its IP address You have a functioning LightShow Pi installation  To enable the webGUI: Open up a terminal session Browse to /home/pi/lightshowpi/ $ cd /home/pi/lightshowpi/ Enable the webGUI $ start_microweb That's it! Now, if you're connected to the same network as your RPi, you can open up a browser and go to http://<Pi IP Address>  to control your LightShow Pi. Here's what mine looks like: Update: I didn't have to do step 2. I was able to start_microweb from the default terminal session path.