syproduction/ipodrpi

Classic iPod mod with Raspberry Pi Zero and color screen

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