Will there be Plexamp 3.0 for Raspberry Pi? The current one has problems, it’s basically useless with that crossfade effect (i know about server.json config, but it doesn’t work always), obsolete nodejs.
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There is a Linux version, but I’m not sure if anyone from the beta team has tried to install it on a RPi. Will check and may try it myself since I have a few laying around.
it’s x86, it can’t work on ARM (unless you are trying to emulate x86 on ARM, good luck with that).
Yeah… sorry. I forgot about that… I’ll ask the developers if they can just setup a new Plexamp target for ARM platforms. I’m not sure how easy/hard that would be within React.
It’ll take some work, given the completely new architecture (not least, adding back the remote control stuff).
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Would it be possible to have the plexamp UI running on a webserver on RPi so that we can control it directly (like modipy or volumio)?
Will you also you provide dev tools for plugins especially for the RPi version? There are some RPi Hats that have a display and also some HW buttons. It’s a bit too much if we ask them to be implemented. But if the new RPi version of Plexamp has plugins, devs like me can take a look at it 
Technically, yes. The desktop version is running inside Electron.
If we did such a thing, we’d provide some form of controllability, probably via HTTP.
That would be great if there is an API to extend the plexamp client. I have tried Mopidy and Volumio but I still prefer to have my setup work seamlessly with Plex that is why I’m still using Plexamp 2.0 on my current RPi/RPi Zero setup.
At the very least, an API to retrieve the info (album art, song title, artists, etc) and some controls like play, pause and FFW and RW will be sufficient
Thanks @elan
what would be totally cool is a headless plexamp for rpi, that is remote controllable/castable to from other plexamp (or even regular plex).
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I want to also put my 
hand up for a headless Plexamp for Pi!
My DREAM GOAL has been to use Plex as my main musical streamer to my Kef LS50W’s!
The ideal would be - drive the LS50W via USB via a headless Raspi Plexamp.
Control from Plexamp on other devices (ipad, iphone, android, PC etc)
@elan - would love to hear any update!
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My dream goal would be to own a pair of LS50s 
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Elan, I hope you can one day!
I hope this doesn’t constitute thread-jacking… I have plexamp running on an rpi - an older version, but still works great. One issue, however, is that plexamp holds onto the audio port, so I can’t airplay to the rpi when plexamp is running, and vice versa (depending on which process was started first). I always have to terminal in to start/stop processes before casting… which is sad. 
Is there any way to build an airplay client into plexamp for rpi? That would solve the problem of having to figure out some sort of audio pipe that would let both plexamp and airplay stream to the audio port… thanks!
Hey. ashenkin,
I have run into this too, but with plex + spotify. In my opinion, it’s not an issue of plexamp not supporting airplay, but an issue of alsa not mixing the signals and only allowing one application to have exclusive access to the sound device.
Now I know there is a more elegant way of solving this through either some kind of ‘automatic’ switching or through a proper alsa config (with dmix?), but every time I have had to do work around alsa, it seems to get weird and I have not figured this one out yet.
As a quick fix, I currently am running a web server on the pi that can be accessed from a smartphone or computer through a browser. The idea is you connect to the server and click a button, then on the backend, the application stops one service and starts the other. I’ll post a link and hopefully it could be helpful to you. Just a note that it requires running as root and requires python3 and flask. Easiest way to run it is just in a screen or tmux session. I went with a web browser button for this, but you could take the same idea and use a physical button attached to USB or the GPIO pins too.
Here is the link: https://github.com/kee7a/simple-music-switch
I’m still trying to figure out the alsa config, but it’s low priority at the moment. If I figure anything out, I’ll post about it.
Yes, I would really like to see a headless plexamp client that can be run on ARM architectures. It would be so easy to plug a raspi into my Bose S1 amp for remotely controlled music streaming!
Currently, there doesn’t seem to be any way to get Plexamp running on a raspberry Pi. There’s no code available to get a server.json file for the old PlexAmp 2 client any more.
at some point we’ll look into it.
first step is restoring controllability to the v3 series.
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Controllability is high on my “want” list for PlexAmp, along with RPi support for the v3 code base.
I’d also love to see Plex, perhaps in partnership with someone else, release a little PlexAmp device that can be attached to an amp/avr/powered speakers. I can build a RPi solution, you can build the same and hundreds of others can too. But, there are thousands out there that can’t or won’t.
agreed those would be nice.
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Controllability from PlexAmp or on PlexAmp?
Here is the guide to getting plexamp running on the pi, and how to get the server.json file: PlexAmp-installer for Raspberry Pi with armv7l HW
