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Hi,

I'm struggling to find a Music/Media Player (mp3+radio) based on rpi 3+ with www interface, Bluetooth Speaker and GPIO buttons (all 3 working at the same time ).

I found Volumio which has a nice and simple to configure GPIO addon but BT speaker is missing.

I know (tried) that external BT speaker can easily be configured in Raspbian (GUI) - so its possible to get it working.

I'm looking for a solution for dummies. I know that Its possible to write python scripts...etc.

Is there any "ready to work" solution combining www UI+BT+GPIO?

Regards,
MM

I use piCorePlayer (pCP)
RPi 3 with pCP running LMS (server) and SqueezeLite (player) and JiveLite (RPi official touchscreen) serving a number of other players and sources including UPnP to TV, pCP (SqueezeLite) on RPi Zero W with bluetooth to nearby speaker, turntable as source via Behringer USB DAC, and I have plugged in an infrared receiver to GPIO as another way to control it.

Fairly easy to set-up and very easy to keep running - and big benefit of using LMS as the server is that you get access to 10k+ radio stations, plus some 3rd-party services (such as Spotify if you have a paid account with Spotify) and ability to play locally (in my case "locally" is on a NAS box in the same LAN) held audio files - plus it has a good web interface and a documented API.
Even supports synchonization of playback between players so can have more than 1 area playing same thing at same time.

https://www.picoreplayer.org/main_getting_started.shtml

I could be wrong, but I think Volumio has a Bluetooth manager plug-in available. Have a look in the plugins via the web GUI and see if you can install/enable that and if it works with your speaker?

There are a few other people exploring this (as you say there's no "official" built-in support) but the below links might be of interest.

https://volumio.org/forum/bluetooth-spe ... t7432.html
https://volumio.org/forum/volumio-bluez ... t6130.html