Hello Andy,
I used your setup on the raspyFi beta version and it works great. But now on the 1.0 version it does not function.
Maybe I could paste my way of using your code.
The wiring is the same you used for XMBC. This is very good to swap between XBMC and RaspyFi by only swap the SD-card.
Here is what I did:
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install lcdproc python-mpd python-pip
mkdir mpdlcd
cd mpdlcd/
wget https://pypi.python.org/packages/source/m/mpdlcd/mpdlcd-0.3.1.tar.gz#md5=e2f642b5aced3339a06bc3601a4a03bf
tar -xzf mpdlcd-0.3.1.tar.gz (Archiv entpacken)
cd mpdlcd-0.3.1/
sudo pip install mpdlcd
sudo pip install lcdproc
sudo reboot
sudo /etc/init.d/LCDd start
sudo update-rc.d LCDd defaults
cd
cd mpdlcd/mpdlcd-0.3.1/
sudo cp mpdlcd.conf /etc/mpdlcd.conf
sudo wget http://andypi.co.uk/downloads/LCDd.conf
cp /etc/LCDd.conf /etc/LCDd.old
rm /etc/LCDd.conf
cd
sudo cp /mpdlcd/mpdlcd-0.3.1/LCDd.conf /etc/LCDd.conf
mpdlcd

As I wrote in the beta it works at this point.

In the actually 1.0 version I get some errors at sudo pip install (something about --upgrade …. Maybe you could help to fix it)
[email protected]:~$ mpdlcd
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/local/bin/mpdlcd", line 10, in
cli.main(sys.argv)
File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/mpdlcd/cli.py", line 465, in main
'logfile', 'loglevel', 'debug'))
File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/mpdlcd/cli.py", line 360, in _setup_logging
handler = logging_handlers.SysLogHandler(address, facility=syslog_facility)
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/logging/handlers.py", line 758, in __init__
self._connect_unixsocket(address)
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/logging/handlers.py", line 775, in _connect_unixsocket
self.socket.connect(address)
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/socket.py", line 224, in meth
return getattr(self._sock,name)(*args)
socket.error: [Errno 2] No such file or directory

Hey olafkewl,

thanks for the information. How could I enable the logs?

Thanks – Tobbes

If have some troubles to getting the LCD working corect. I have a 40 x 2 display and i have the LCDproc working. The only thing is that when i start the mpdlcd the i get the following error:

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[email protected]:~$ sudo mpdlcd --no-syslog &
[1] 2720
[email protected]:~$ INFO mpdlcd.lcdrunner LCD screen is 40x2
INFO mpdlcd.lcdrunner MPD screen added to lcdproc.
INFO mpdlcd.mpdwrapper Connecting to MPD server at localhost:6600
INFO mpd Calling MPD connect('localhost', 6600, timeout=None)
INFO mpdlcd.lcdrunner Starting update loop.
ERROR mpdlcd.lcdrunner Found exception coercing to Unicode: need string or buffer, list found, exiting.
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/mpdlcd/lcdrunner.py", line 89, in run
self.update()
File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/mpdlcd/utils.py", line 64, in decorated
return fun(instance, *args, **kwargs)
File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/mpdlcd/lcdrunner.py", line 77, in update
updated, new_data = hook.handle(self.client, subhooks)
File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/mpdlcd/mpdhooks.py", line 77, in handle
new_data = self.fetch(client)
File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/mpdlcd/mpdhooks.py", line 130, in fetch
return client.current_song
File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/mpdlcd/utils.py", line 64, in decorated
return fun(instance, *args, **kwargs)
File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/mpdlcd/mpdwrapper.py", line 112, in current_song
song_tags = self._decode_dict(self._client.currentsong())
File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/mpdlcd/mpdwrapper.py", line 43, in _decode_dict
(k, self._decode_text(v)) for k, v in data.items())
File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/mpdlcd/mpdwrapper.py", line 43, in
(k, self._decode_text(v)) for k, v in data.items())
File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/mpdlcd/mpdwrapper.py", line 39, in _decode_text
return unicode(text, 'utf8')
TypeError: coercing to Unicode: need string or buffer, list found

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Could use some guidance here