{"id":17178,"date":"2017-07-23T09:00:46","date_gmt":"2017-07-23T08:00:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/?p=17178"},"modified":"2017-07-24T14:25:20","modified_gmt":"2017-07-24T13:25:20","slug":"internet-radio-controlled-by-a-raspberry-pi-and-flotilla","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/?p=17178","title":{"rendered":"Internet radio controlled by a Raspberry Pi and Flotilla"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/flotilla-radio-icon-1024x682.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-17179\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/flotilla-radio-icon-1024x682.jpg?resize=560%2C373&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"560\" height=\"373\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/flotilla-radio-icon-1024x682.jpg?resize=1024%2C682&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/flotilla-radio-icon-1024x682.jpg?resize=300%2C200&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/flotilla-radio-icon-1024x682.jpg?resize=768%2C512&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/flotilla-radio-icon-1024x682.jpg?resize=560%2C373&amp;ssl=1 560w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/flotilla-radio-icon-1024x682.jpg?resize=260%2C173&amp;ssl=1 260w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/flotilla-radio-icon-1024x682.jpg?resize=160%2C107&amp;ssl=1 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 560px) 100vw, 560px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Giles Booth has recently been rediscovering the <a href=\"https:\/\/shop.pimoroni.com\/search?type=product&amp;q=flotilla\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Flotilla range from Pimoroni<\/a>. By putting together various components, such as the Flotilla dock, a slider, a touch-button add-on and an 8&#215;8 matrix, he&#8217;s created an internet radio. The back-end is MPC and MPD and the Python script simply calls this software to change channels in response to the various Flotilla inputs. A nice little project with Flotilla! <a href=\"http:\/\/www.suppertime.co.uk\/blogmywiki\/2017\/07\/flotilla-radio\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Giles Booth has recently been rediscovering the Flotilla range from Pimoroni. By putting together various components, such as the Flotilla dock, a slider, a touch-button add-on and an 8&#215;8 matrix, he&#8217;s created an internet radio. The back-end is MPC and&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-p\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/?p=17178\">Read more &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[54,4,39,49,51],"tags":[474,151],"class_list":["post-17178","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-accessories","category-audio","category-programming","category-software","category-tutorials","tag-flotilla","tag-pimoroni"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Internet radio controlled by a Raspberry Pi and Flotilla - Raspberry Pi Pod<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/?p=17178\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Internet radio controlled by a Raspberry Pi and Flotilla - Raspberry Pi Pod\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Giles Booth has recently been rediscovering the Flotilla range from Pimoroni. 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