New to Python, using Raspberry Pi, GPIO and pygame. I want to end a loop if a button is pressed while playing a media file.
Right now I have it so you press the button and the mp3 file plays all the way through (it is a 30 minute clip). I would like it so if the button is pressed again, the media resets and plays back from the beginning.
I have tried adding a break and an if statement but it just ignores it because the mp3 file is already playing. How would I go about doing this?
Here is what my code looks like:
while True:
while GPIO.input(buttonPin) == GPIO.LOW:
if GPIO.input(buttonPin) == GPIO.LOW:
pygame.mixer.init()
pygame.mixer.music.load(open("audio.mp3"))
pygame.mixer.music.play()
while pygame.mixer.music.get_busy():
time.sleep(1)
else:
break
Try this:
musicplay = False #This variable will be used as a "toggle". When the button is pressed, it will flick from false to true, or true to false
def playbackmedia(): # Define function that is called when button pin is pressed
global musicplay # musicplay is a global variable that is outside of the scope of function
musicplay = not musicplay # Here we are toggling the music play
if musicplay: # if music play is true, play music
pygame.mixer.init()
pygame.mixer.music.load(open("audio.mp3"))
pygame.mixer.music.play()
else: # if music play is false, stop the music
pygame.mixer.stop()
def loop():
#GPIO here add_event_detect will detect when the buttonPin has a falling edge (Just as the button is pressed)
#The bounce time is to give you enough time for the signal to be read clearly. If this wasn't used, when you press the button,
#because of mechanical vibration, the connections fluctuate and it could be read by the Pi as pressing the button really quickly over and over
#again until you let go of the button. You have 300 milliseconds to let go of the button before the playback media function is called
GPIO.add_event_detect(buttonPin, GPIO.FALLING, callback=playbackmedia, bouncetime=300)
while True:
pass
I recommend that you visit the pygame website for more details about how to control the mixer.
https://www.pygame.org/docs/ref/mixer.html
I also recommend you visit this website for more information about GPIO.RPi module
https://sourceforge.net/p/raspberry-gpio-python/wiki/Examples/