Redstone Automation

Redstone & Automation

This is one of Mixer's most powerful features. You can use Redstone to trigger a Jukebox to play a full playlist from a Barrel, including Text-to-Speech (TTS) announcements.

The Setup

You need two blocks:

1. A Jukebox.
2. A Barrel or Shulker Box placed directly on top of the Jukebox.
3. A Redstone Repeater pointing into the Jukebox.

How it Works

The trigger is the falling edge of the signal. When the Repeater loses power, the Jukebox activates.

When activated, the Jukebox will:

1. Stop any track it was playing.
2. Open the Barrel or the Shulker Box above it and scan its inventory from top to bottom.
3. Build a playlist based on what it finds.

Playlist Contents

The Jukebox will add items to its playlist in the order it finds them in the Barrel:

• Custom Discs: If it finds a music disc you burned with /mixer burn, it adds that song to the playlist.
• Text-to-Speech (TTS): If it finds a Writable Book (WRITABLE_BOOK), it will read all the text from all its pages and use an online TTS service to generate audio of that text. This audio is then added to the playlist.

This is perfect for creating announcements.

Example Use Case: Train Station

• Place a Jukebox + Barrel/Shulker Box at your station.
• Put a Writable Book in the Barrel with the text "The train to Downtown is now arriving."
• Put a custom disc with "train sounds" in the next slot.
• When the train's Redstone signal deactivates, the Jukebox will first announce the train's arrival, and then play the train sound effect.