ipodrpi

Classic iPod mod with Raspberry Pi Zero and color screen. Suitable for OSMC and plain Raspbian install.

Install

OSMC:

• Burn SD card with Raspberry Pi Imager (OSMC PI 0/1)
• Start Raspberry with SD inside, go through initial OSMC, (with hdmi display and keyboard) connect to WIFI and ensure SSH is on.
• SSH to RPi from computer or on RPi go to Power > Exit and smash ESC key on keyboard until you get into shell. Default credentials: osmc : osmc

RASPBIAN:

• Burn SD card with Raspberry Pi Imager > Raspberry Pi OS (32-bit)
• Put empty file named "ssh" on SD
• Fill your WIFI name and password in wpa_supplicant.conf and put it on SD
• Insert your SD in RPi and power it on
• SSH to RPi from computer. Default credentials: pi:raspberry

Type 3 commands:

wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/syproduction/ipodrpi/main/cli.sh
sudo chmod +x ./cli.sh
./cli.sh

Ssh on computer (Mac) may refuse to connect if you were previously connecting to this RPi, then:

rm ~/.ssh/known_hosts

After all install please do

sudo raspi-config

And select Auto Login to Command Line, expand filesystem

Caution

Answer honestly on script question OSMC? Because on OSMC we need to disable OSMC repository to sucessfully APT-GET DIST-UPGRADE. When OSMC repository enabled, it fails with upgrading libc6.

What gives

Script will install everything you need to get Raspberry Pi Zero W working with 2 inch Waveshare 320x240 display and iPod's clickwheel.

• Clickwheel Keyboard
• Scroll CCW = KEY_UP
• Scroll CW = KEY_DOWN
• LEFT = KEY_PREVIOUSSONG
• RIGHT = KEY_NEXTSONG
• UP = KEY_ESC
• DOWN = KEY_PLAYPAUSE
• CENTER = KEY_ENTER

Whats inside

1. Disables OSMC repository of APT because it gives errors with libc6. You can add it later to /etc/apt/sources.list (deb http://apt.osmc.tv buster main)
2. Apt update & upgrade
3. Waveshare 2 inch 320x240 FBCP driver
4. PiGPIO
5. wiringPi
6. click.c + pigpio abomination
7. CMUS
8. ncmpcpp

Wiring

Preview

Mentions

• Guy Dupont (https://github.com/dupontgu/retro-ipod-spotify-client) for inspiration and click.c rework of:
• Jason Garr (https://jasongarr.wordpress.com/project-pages/ipod-clickwheel-hack/) for clickwheel hacking
• Ricardo Sappia (http://rsflightronics.com/spotifypod) for smart and beautiful wiring