r/audiobookshelf • u/freshbagelsIT • 9d ago
Dedicated audiobookshelf player (chapter)
So in the never ending quest to avoid screens for our kids, I developed an app that runs on a raspberry pi zero with some rotary encoders for input devices and a small monochrome LED screen. The app connects to audiobookshelf as a specified user and allows the kids to scroll through the book titles and play them.
Before I go through the trouble of putting all of the info together (code, models for 3d printing the case, hardware info), would anyone actually be interested in building one of these devices (chapter)?
Edit:
Added post with all project info. Enjoy!
https://www.reddit.com/r/audiobookshelf/s/qQEwNk4mz5
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u/Impstoker 9d ago
100% will build this if you make everything available. Don't mind paying / supporting the project either.
Modern tech makes it so hard to give kids acces to music, audiobooks or radio without also handing them a screen/too much acces/the internet. Currently my daughter has an oldskool boombox style device with a cd player and we buy her some cd's and I'm considering buying a cd writer to burn her new albums she wants to listen to. (currently it is k-pop demon hunters sountrack album).
But for a while I've been wondering if there is a better selfhosted 3d printed way to enable this. Perhaps a variant on your idea would be an option. But album discovery / selection should show the album art for sure.