Keep the show's radio station feel going after the lights go dark.
Your synchronized light show ends for the night — but does the magic have to stop? Encore Radio turns your Falcon Player controller into a real after-hours radio station: streaming music, scheduled announcements, and a smooth handoff from "the show" to "still the show, just quieter." Set it up once, and it runs itself every night on your own FPP schedule.
- It just works, unattended. Add two FPP Schedule entries — Start, Stop — and Encore Radio handles the rest, every single night, no phone or app required.
- Bring your own music library. Point it at a folder on your NAS or any network share and it plays your entire collection, shuffled — no copying files onto the controller, no size limits.
- A real internet radio station, TuneIn included, free.
- Source Fallback, free too — if one source has a bad night, Encore Radio quietly recovers to the next one in line. The music doesn't stop.
- Go premium for Pandora and Spotify — your own curated stations and playlists, not just a fixed stream.
- Source Rotation (premium) — a different station or playlist depending on the night or the hour. Upbeat for the early crowd, mellow after the kids are in bed, something different on weekends.
- Radio-station-style announcements, layered in automatically if you run Announcement Assistant — "Thanks for tuning in!" without lifting a finger.
| Free | Premium | |
|---|---|---|
| Custom internet radio stream | ✅ | ✅ |
| Network share (your own music library) | ✅ | ✅ |
| TuneIn | ✅ | ✅ |
| Pandora | ✅ | |
| Spotify | ✅ | |
| Source Fallback (auto-recovery) | ✅ | ✅ |
| Source Rotation (day/time schedule) | ✅ | |
| Announcement Assistant integration | ✅ | ✅ |
Try any premium feature free for 10 hours of real playback. After that, a license key unlocks it for the year.
- Install Encore Radio from the FPP Plugin Manager (or add this repo manually).
- Open the Encore Radio page and pick a source - Pandora, Spotify, and Source Rotation need a quick, free email registration (or a license key, if you already have one) first; everything else is unlocked right away.
- Add two FPP Schedule entries: Encore Radio - Start for when your show ends, Encore Radio - Stop for when you want it to end for the night.
That's it. For Spotify setup, network share details, and the full
settings reference, see docs/configuration.md.
Running into something odd? Check docs/troubleshooting.md
first.
- Falcon Player (FPP) 9.x or 10.x
- A Spotify Premium account, if you want the Spotify source
Free for personal, hobbyist, and noncommercial use under the PolyForm Noncommercial License 1.0.0. Using this in a commercial or paid-event display? Contact license.request@christmasinboontontwp.com for a commercial license.
Questions, ideas, or something not working right? Open an issue - happy to help.