gpiozero to control a remote Moode?

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You're describing a Phone or Tablet......   Touchscreen, network control......  so another Pi seems superfluous...?

Yeah, agreed - this is an unusual use case. "We" don't want "more gadgets" lying about the place... Or needing to have our phones on us to change volume etc.

Wouldn't it be easier to have button presses on the pi zero trigger commands on moode via ssh or the web api?
You wouldn't need to customize moode at all. I think.

Ah, that's an interesting idea. My first thought was that it would work fine for 'select playlist x' but might struggle with volume control - repeated ssh connections could be very laggy. Unless I altered the increments. Hmm, I'll need to think.

That's why I thought going down a few levels and passing only the GPIO levels would be fast and, to the Moode, seamless.

I'll need to do some customization of Moode: I build my amp with a relay to control the main power - intending to feed it the signal from the Pi. Someone has posted code to do this through Moode which is cool. I was intending to watch the mpd status file and use that to trigger.