I found an old Raspberry Pi3B in a drawer last week, and set about a little project aided by Claude Code to make a remote display for my home moOde Audio player.

If you’re not familiar with moOde I recommend checking it out, it’s an audiophile operating system for the Raspberry Pi range of SBCs and does an amazing job for me as a headless device connected to my main amplifier, housing a collection of around 4k FLAC and mp3 files I have.

I usually control moOde using a mobile or tablet via the local hostname, but wanted to have some “Now Playing” art available and thought the Pi3 with a 4” screen would be perfect for this.

moOde remote display showing Now Playing on a Raspberry Pi with 4 inch screen

It wasn’t all plain sailing getting this setup, I learned pretty quickly that nuances in PiOS operating system version cause a lot of issues when dealing with older boards like this, but we got there in the end! The github Repo is public here if you’re inclined to do something similar.

The screen is touch so this can also be used as a remote so play, pause, skip and control volume… but mostly it’s just a nice way to see what’s playing!