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Devices => JRiver Id -- Hardware by JRiver => Topic started by: CrouchingOwl on December 29, 2020, 05:33:06 pm
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So I've been imagining connecting an IdPi to my receiver/amp. It occurred to me it would be cool if there was a way to connect an IDPI to some kind of hardware for basic media controls such as play/pause/next track/previous track. That way if someone walked up to my desk and was interrupting my music or I needed to get up I could pause without having to fish my phone out of my pocket and unlock my phone first. Has anybody found a way to do so, either by a bluetooth controller or by a hardware modification of the PI itself?
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Plug in a USB keyboard, or any device that acts like a USB keyboard, or a Flirc.
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So you are saying the media control keys common to keyboards would work just fine with no special implementation needed?
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So you are saying the media control keys common to keyboards would work just fine with no special implementation needed?
Yes.
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Cool. I was imagining something along the lines of this device. According to the reviews android phones interpret the input as keyboard commands so in theory it might work.
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00RM75NL0/ref=emc_b_5_t?th=1
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No idea. Sorry.
It might work, but you'd need a Bluetooth receiver. Try searching on the Raspberry Pi forum.
I use a Logitech Bluetooth keyboard with mine and that works well. Any Bluetooth keyboard would probably work.