Are there any plans for a desktop GUI version of Plexamp for the Raspberry Pi? I looked at the headless version, but that setup doesn’t really fit in that well with my current configuration for a car mounted Pi. I’d really prefer a standalone setup like the Android app where I can download playlists to the car so that I can listen without an internet connection. Then, when I’m home I can sync playlists with my server and do all of that management more easily from other computers without having to sit in my car to set things up. The headless version seems to be streaming only with no local download option, and I’d rather have a GUI so that I can control local playback like a typical infotainment system on a car. I looked at the Linux installs, but I can’t get the Appimage or Flatpak to run as I’m assuming they aren’t ARM based.
I have had the headless version working as a gui with touchscreen, but with my latest iteration it seems that possibly plexamp headless has broken the currently playing part of the web interface in a way that makes it not very useful.. I’m waiting on a response here Plexamp Pi headless version, web interface no longer shows currently playing info properly? if I can resolve this I will make the setup instructions available.
I’m not sure if that quite helps my situation or not. The biggest issue I have with the headless version is that I don’t believe it has an “offline” mode, which is what I need for my car. I know you can kind of get a GUI with the headless version via the webpage, but the bigger problem for me is that my car is not always going to be connected to my server. I would prefer that the app function more like it does on a phone where it will sync to a server when it can, but will otherwise act as a standard media player that will play local content otherwise.
I tried every possible way I could think of to get the app/program version of it on my Pi, but nothing would work. I tried Wine and box86/64 and even running an Android emulator running LIneage OS to run the Android app version, but none of them would install and run. I had the headless setup up and running in a matter of minutes, but as best I can tell it just doesn’t support offline playback, which is the main thing I need since my car doesn’t have internet connection and I don’t want to hotspot my phone to it every time I drive.
That sounds like you want to run both a Plex server and the headless client on the device in the car, this would be doable as the headless client web interface runs on 32500, which is different to the servers ports, you could also potentially run them as docker containers
Hmm, that’s an interesting idea, but still not quite what I’m looking for. I already have a server set up at my house, so my preference would be to just sync playlists with that server instead of managing two separate ones. For the time being I just have a VLC instance running on the Pi and a folder that I sync with my cloud server, but it’s a bit clunky and harder to update. My hope was that I could take advantage of the server/client nature of Plex to be able to more easily build up stuff on a computer and then just sync it with my car when I’m connected, but not have to rely on a constant connection.
