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.
- Pandora and Spotify, with a license key — 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.
- 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 are unlocked right away too, by a free 10-hour trial (no sign-up needed); everything else is unlocked right away as well.
- 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. Want different Internet Radio stations at different times? Save
them by name, then schedule Encore Radio - Play Station instead of
Start - see
docs/configuration.md.
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.
Questions, ideas, or something not working right? Open an issue - happy to help.