About

One Button Recording with Buffer, with Raspberry/PatchboxOS and Pisound.

Tap The Button once to record the past 3 minutes, tap again to stop

Core

• recording.sh: Wrapper for Pisound Button
  • Handles starting and stopping of recording
  • Blinks the led during recording
• recording.service: SystemD unit for recording
  • Uses /home/patch/Music/ directory
  • jack_capture timemachine/osc daemon logic
  • captures 180 seconds (3 minutes) of buffer before you pushed the button (configurable, if you change --tmpb 180 in the service file)

Usage

• Install (see below)
• Press button to start recording, including the past 3 minutes, led starts blinking
• Press button to stop recording, blinking intensivies when done
• View files in /home/patch/Music/

Debugging

• watch systemctl status recording.service
• journalctl -f -u recording.service

Requirements

• Patchbox OS (Tested with Debian 12 (bookworm))
• Raspberry Pi (Tested with 5 - 8GB)
• Pisound, optionally with case

Install

    sudo apt install jack_capture liblo-tools
    sudo make install
    sudo sed -i 's:^\(CLICK_1[[:space:]]\+\).*$:\1/usr/local/pisound/scripts/pisound-btn/recording.sh:' /etc/pisound.conf

or edit /etc/pisound.conf manually to contain:

    CLICK_1 /usr/local/pisound/scripts/pisound-btn/recording.sh`

Remove

sudo make remove

Thanks

Original made by strobeflash & Giedrius, for PatchboxOS/Pisound