Nice!
Playing my plex playlists now through RPI 3B+ → topping D10S via USB.
So far it looks like sample rate matching is working.
Bitchen.
Thank you @elan !!
Yes, correct, I read his post too fast and thought he was using it for Plexmediaserver as well (as I am)
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If you both are replying to my comment, then yes. I would just be repurposing my un-used 3B+ to be my music player only.
I recently upgraded to a Pi 4 in a NAS case to run my plexmediaserver (for music only), but it’s a bit too far from my stereo setup.
How do I install node 12? I seem to only be able to find the latest (16).
Thanks in advance.
Shouldn’t matter, as far as I know, all the 3s are 64-bit .
Ah yep, that’s what I get for trying to set everything up at 1AM after not touching my Pi for a few years. I’m running a 32 bit image, so I’ll need to dig out my MicroSD collection and try a 64 bit one later.
Personally, I recommend using nvm and running nvm install 12. That way you can easily swap between Node versions for testing.
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I needed to:
$ sudo systemctl enable plexamp, NOT sudo systemctl start plexamp
Now loading at boot.
And after installing pulseaudio-module-bluetooth, I can connect to my Soundcore Bluetooth speaker. Also connects at boot.
I can now stream directly from my Pi to the BT Speaker, and control with plexamp (via cast) my iphone (and it will continue to play even it I quit the iPhone App).
Volume is lower than castiing from the iPhone to the Speaker, but that’s ok, I just increase volume on the BT Speaker
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I needed to:
$ sudo systemctl enable plexamp, NOT sudo systemctl start plexamp
Now loading at boot.
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I installed 12 with sudo apt-get install nodejs
Weirdness continues with loading at boot.
BT Speaker connects, but no sound,
If I delete the service and load in terminal, sound……weird….investigation continues!
Thanks for the help with the node. Installed with nm no problem.
I’m getting the following when I try and run Plex:
cp: cannot stat ‘plexamp.service’: No such file or directory
Failed to enable unit: Unit file plexamp.service does not exist.
I haven’t changed the username (it’s still pi) and I think I see the plexamp.service file in /home/pi/plexamp
Any thoughts? I feel like I’m so close.
Thanks.
did you do this part?: sudo cp plexamp.service /lib/systemd/system/
Yes, I copy/pasted so I had it right.
It says: cp: cannot stat ‘plexamp.service’: No such file or directory
On fresh install of raspberry PI OS 2022-04-04-raspios-bullseye-arm64 another way to change the user name is to use
sudo rename-user
Then a restart and the install wizard takes it from there.
Am I really the only one who has tried this with the headphone jack and not digital output? I just tried on a Pi4 and got the same results. The sound plays but it’s unrecognizable through the headphone jack… Is someone willing to try outputting the sound to a headphone jack and seeing what they get???
That error does not make sense “cannot stat”
Working for me with a pi4 and allo digione HAT (spdif out to an external DAC)
On a fresh 64 bit install of raspberry pi os lite …
Recommended/original plexamp.service didn’t start on reboot … noticed some errors related to node and groups?
Changed to a user service (~/.config/systemd/user/plexamp.service)
(note, I think this also might help prevent issues related to different user names)
Made some changes to the service file …
[Unit]
Description=Plexamp
After=network.target
[Service]
Type=simple
ExecStart=/usr/bin/node /home/pi/plexamp/js/index.js
Restart=always
[Install]
WantedBy=basic.target
Maybe on a lite install (no desktop environment, for headless-only use), the multi-user target is never reached due to no desktop environment, so then the original plexamp.service didn’t start either ? … switched to basic.target
systemctl --user enable plexamp.service
systemctl --user daemon-reload
reboot, check again …
systemctl --user
now plexamp.service is running
Are you saying I need to change my user name to ‘pi’ ?
Sorry… I’m not a strong pi user, so many assumptions are missed by me.
Thanks.
This is so weird. I get the service running at boot:
pi@pi4:~ $ sudo service plexamp status
● plexamp.service - Plexamp
Loaded: loaded (/lib/systemd/system/plexamp.service; enabled; vendor prese>
Active: active (running) since Wed 2022-05-04 12:33:35 EDT; 2min 6s ago
Main PID: 478 (node)
Tasks: 29 (limit: 4164)
CPU: 4.705s
CGroup: /system.slice/plexamp.service
└─478 /usr/bin/node /home/pi/plexamp/js/index.js
May 04 12:33:35 pi4 systemd[1]: Started Plexamp.
May 04 12:33:39 pi4 node[478]: Starting Plexamp.
May 04 12:33:39 pi4 node[478]: DEVICE: No provider for source cb857c65ea05..
But… no sound to the BT Speaker, but if I don’t use plexamp.service and run in Terminal: /usr/bin/node /home/pi/plexamp/js/index.js. It works
I thought the same. It’s a copy/paste from terminal.
