Hi,
I’ve been running headless plexamp for a few weeks with no issue and all of a sudden it stopped. I’m not great at command line so I’m not sure how to troubleshoot.
Plexamp is connect to my PMS running on a Qnap.
With a browser on my laptop I can still get to a play the playlists with no issue.
I tried rebooting the Rasp Pi and I restarted Plexamp with the command line. It did prompt me to reconnect to the Plex with the code. On my PMS I can see the new Plexamp as a new authorized device.
I can get to the headless UI at port 32500, and ir shows the overall structure including playlist, albums, but it won’t play – almost as if it sees the metadata from my PMS but cannot get to the media.
I did update the Rasp Pi and reconnected to Plex again still that didn’t help.
Note I am also running Plexamp as a service on the Pi.
I am on the latest version of PMS.
Any suggestions?
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if you’d prefer to not deal with the command line, you might consider ropieee, which allows you to run headless Plexamp on a Pi alongside other audio streaming apps, with all configuration done with a web browser
otherwise, might need some additional info to help with troubleshooting your current setup … output of the command systemctl status plexamp.service might help
Jun 02 15:23:47 raspberrypi systemd[1]: Started plexamp.service - Plexamp.
Jun 02 15:23:51 raspberrypi node[1158]: Starting Plexamp 4.10.1
Jun 02 15:23:51 raspberrypi node[1158]: Settings: Parsing 7102 bytes into JSON for discovery:hubs.
Also, as a sanity check, ensure that you’ve actually got it selected as the player:
If that’s not done, everything will look fairly normal until you try to play something, at which time it will do nothing and just dump you back to where you were in the interface.
I just tried the web UI again at port 32500 and this time there was a fresh login screen. I was able to login to plex, select the library and playlist and start playback.
I tried this several times over the past few days and the UI rendered as I described in my initial post (seemed to have the metadata, but would not play media). For whatever reason this time was different. The only difference I know if is that I ran the system status command that tgp-2 suggested.
While I’m happy it’s running, I wish I knew what happened.
I’m use a Schiit Modi 3 DAC. It’s obviously selected now, I assume it was before.
Just a followup…
I realized that when I finally was able to log back in, it was on a new browser.
I believe I inadvertently unauthorized the Raspberry Pi and several browsers (PMS settings > Authorized Devices) that I used to connect to the web UI. These various browsers could not be used to connect to the UI until I had cleared the cache. Before I cleared the cache, parts of the UI would load, but I could not control playback or see media.
I didn’t know Ropieee now had Plexamp support! I hadn’t paid it much mind until I saw your post. I read up a bit more on it, installed it and it’s awesome! I love that it also supports Airplay 2 and Spotify Connect. That does away with our also needing a Wiim Mini for Airplay for the Apple and Spotify fans in our household. Thanks for the suggestion!
I wrote up a little procedure here: