Soundboard V2

WORK IN PROGRESS

Requirements

• PHP 7+
• NodeJS + NPM
• youtube-dl (optional for YouTube editor) sudo apt install youtube-dl
• ffmpeg (optional for YouTube editor) sudo apt install ffmpeg

Installation

• Copy config.json.dist to config.json and modify it to your needs.
• Run npm i (this may take a while, so alternatively you may install locally and upload node_modules instead)
• Run npx gulp production (or gulp production if you have gulp installed globally)
• You probably want to update the upload_max_filesize and post_max_size in php.ini if it is still set to the default 2/8Mb.

Serve

• Run php -S 0.0.0.0:8000 -t /var/www/public_html/ or serve from apache/nginx or whatever

Raspberry Pi installation

PHP

• Run sudo apt install php php-mbstring

NodeJS + NPM

• Run sudo apt install -y nodejs
• Run sudo apt install -y npm
• Run sudo npm i -g npm

VLC

• Run sudo apt install -y vlc

Install application

• Run git clone https://github.com/WouterWidgets/soundboard-v2 /var/www
• Follow this README.md

FTP access to upload files (sounds)

• Run sudo apt install -y pure-ftpd
• Run sudo groupadd ftpgroup
• Run sudo useradd ftpuser -g ftpgroup -s /sbin/nologin -d /dev/null
• Run sudo chown -R ftpuser:ftpgroup /var/www/public_html/files
• Run sudo pure-pw useradd soundboard -u ftpuser -g ftpgroup -d /var/www/public_html/files -m
• Enter a password for the user, e.g. soundboard
• Run sudo pure-pw mkdb
• Run sudo ln -s /etc/pure-ftpd/conf/PureDB /etc/pure-ftpd/auth/60puredb
• Run sudo service pure-ftpd restart

Misc tips for running it on Raspberry Pi

• You might want to set the 3.5mm audio as the default audio device.
• Increase volume using amixer sset PCM,0 90%
• If you want to hide the mouse cursor, follow these steps:
  • Run sudo apt-get install unclutter
  • Run nano ~/.config/lxsession/LXDE-pi/autostart (or sudo nano /etc/xdg/lxsession/LXDE-pi/autostart depending on your Raspbian version)
  • Add this line: @unclutter -idle 0 and save changes
  • Reboot your device (sudo reboot)