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CrouchingOwl

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Adding Pause/Play button to an IDPI
« on: December 29, 2020, 05:33:06 pm »
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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Re: Adding Pause/Play button to an IDPI
« Reply #1 on: December 29, 2020, 05:38:57 pm »
Plug in a USB keyboard, or any device that acts like a USB keyboard, or a Flirc.
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CrouchingOwl

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Re: Adding Pause/Play button to an IDPI
« Reply #2 on: December 29, 2020, 06:33:40 pm »
So you are saying the media control keys common to keyboards would work just fine with no special implementation needed?
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JimH

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Re: Adding Pause/Play button to an IDPI
« Reply #3 on: December 29, 2020, 06:36:45 pm »
Quote from: CrouchingOwl on December 29, 2020, 06:33:40 pm
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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CrouchingOwl

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Re: Adding Pause/Play button to an IDPI
« Reply #4 on: December 29, 2020, 06:47:00 pm »
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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Re: Adding Pause/Play button to an IDPI
« Reply #5 on: December 29, 2020, 07:03:42 pm »
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.
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