🎶 pi-midi-host-no-bt

Setup a Raspberry Pi as a headless MIDI USB host, with auto-connection and MIDI merging of all sources.

Optimized for headless configuration on a device without Bluetooth

Usage

1. Use Raspberry Pi Imager to install Raspberry Pi OS Lite. Make sure to use Advanced Options (the gear menu) to enable SSH and create a user account.
2. SSH into your Pi and run this command: bash <(curl -Ls https://raw.githubusercontent.com/dmessent/pi-midi-host-no-bt/main/setup.sh)
3. Reboot

Note: setup.sh currently includes many commented-out steps involving Bluetooth and setting the filesystem to read-only. These were either unnecessary or seemed to cause problems with a headless pi zero. If you're interested in Bluetooth, check out the original https://github.com/sinedied/pi-midi-host project

Aliases

Use these alias to quickly manage your midi setup:

• midi: show connected midi devices
• connect: reconnect all midi devices

Credits

This is a fork of https://github.com/sinedied/pi-midi-host project:

Most of this work was based on instructions from this post.

Additions:

• All-in-one script to setup a new Pi
• MIDI in/out filters for specific devices
• Bluetooth device connection instructions
• Commands aliases
• Drivers for M-Audio MIDISPORT 2x2