Hey everyone, hope you’re all safe and healthy out there.
For context, i currently have neither an oled display (those cute small ones) nor an additional pi to test this, so I’m asking for your expertise
My plan is to set up a headless pi with the new Plexamp, and control it remotely. I’d also like to add a small screen, to view whatever music is on.
My main gripe is with making the screen show something.
Does Plexamp already recognize the screen and will output something?
Do I have to change or install something ?
If you have the ability to set text you could use something like playerctl to get the information out. I already use this on my laptop (on linux) for my status bar, so I see no reason why it couldn’t work on raspberry.
Yeah you’d need an ARM version of plexamp. Maybe you could get it to bite with QEMU-binfmt, I don’t know if modern Pi’s are fast enough for that. That’s fairly deep linux voodoo tho, so continue at your own peril
Aww crap.
Okay, @elan , please pweaty please consider adding to one of the sprints an arm release, with compatibility for outputting cool stuff on an oled screen?!
Just let me know who needs the extra coffee, we’ll get it sorted !
Cheers for answering!
If you don’t mind me asking, what do you envision when you talk about the headless option?
I mean when I think for a headless Plexamp player I think something small, connected to a stereo. Similar to a google audio if you remember those.
I don’t see people installing Plexamp headless together with their plex server - unless that is a use case I’m missing? -, or having a laptop/ computer hooked up to the stereo just for Plexamp, since its a tad overpowered.
What’s your take on this?
How do you suppose people will/could use Plexamp headless as it will be available today/soon?
Oh so the headless version of Plexamp will be pi 4 compatible, did I understood right?
But man, a pi4 is expensive …. And over powered for what Plexamp needs, right?
With current pricing, and since we can already cast to Alexa and google, I mean… the dot has a 3.5mm Jack, we can hook up whatever speakers to it, and we get casting from plex and Alexa.
Oh wait, maybe casting to Alexa is different from playing natively on Plexamp??
Any hints?
As an answer to myself, and definitely @elan early birthday present for me, here we have the first steps:
Hell yeah!!! Thank you thank you thank you!
Ima have some fun with this!
Now all we need is something like a full house sound system and google home integration to dump Spotify/Apple Music and have diy high quality speakers.
You don’t say….
/goes back to lab to play with test iPhone
Edit: how exactly are you handling plexamp with Siri? I can open it fine but if I say something like “play fall out boy on plexamp” Siri bugs out and says “sorry you’ll have to continue on plexamp” and says there thinking.
(Also, WAF is down to 0 because, and I quote, “I don’t want any more women in this house, me and two cats is enough, turn off Siri, and use google assistant!”)
Hmm, it should work fine, need latest (or newish) iOS. After a few requests, you don’t even need to add “on Plexamp” as it’ll ask you to set the preferred player.
