A RPi that downloads yt karaoke videos on demand and queues them and allows multiple users via web page. Paired with a karaoke machine that takes the RPi output and mixes it with microphones.

I saw this setup at a friends party and had to check the project and setup it myself...

Hardware

• Raspberry Pi 3 B

Install

• PiImager: Raspberry Pi OS (64bit)
  • Settings: custom hostname, user/pw, wifi, ssh, ...
• Expand SD:
  • sudo raspi-config
    • Advanced / Expand SD
• Install:

    sudo apt-get install ffmpeg -y
    sudo apt-get install chromium-browser -y
    sudo apt-get install chromium-chromedriver -y
    python -m venv ~/.venv
    source ~/.venv/bin/activate
    pip install pikaraoke

• Run:

    source ~/.venv/bin/activate
    pikaraoke

• Autostart
  • nano ~/pikaraoke.sh

      #!/bin/bash
      cd "$(dirname "$0")"
      source .venv/bin/activate
      pikaraoke

  • chmod +x pikaraoke.sh
  • mkdir -p ~/.config/autostart
  • nano ~/.config/autostart/pikaraoke.desktop

      Type=Application
      Name=Pikaraoke
      Exec=/home/<USER>/pikaraoke.sh

References

• https://github.com/vicwomg/pikaraoke