# Plexamp - headless on a pi - oled screen compatibility? **URL:** \ **Category:** Plex Labs\ **Tags:** plexamp\ **Created:** [February 24, 2022, 1:54pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/plexamp-headless-on-a-pi-oled-screen-compatibility/778060 "2022-02-24T13:54:55Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 19\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![SeveranExp](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/plex/user_avatar/forums.plex.tv/severanexp/32/93713_2.png) [@SeveranExp](https://forums.plex.tv/u/SeveranExp)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2022, 1:54pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/plexamp-headless-on-a-pi-oled-screen-compatibility/778060/1 "2022-02-24T13:54:55Z")
Hey everyone, hope you’re all safe and healthy out there. For context, i currently have neither an oled display ([those cute small ones](https://www.adafruit.com/product/3527)) 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 ? Anyone able to provide some guidance? Thanks for any tips! ---
**Author:** ![syn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/3ab097/32.png) [@syn](https://forums.plex.tv/u/syn)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2022, 2:05pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/plexamp-headless-on-a-pi-oled-screen-compatibility/778060/2 "2022-02-24T14:05:45Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![SeveranExp](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/plex/user_avatar/forums.plex.tv/severanexp/32/93713_2.png) [@SeveranExp](https://forums.plex.tv/u/SeveranExp)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2022, 4:09pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/plexamp-headless-on-a-pi-oled-screen-compatibility/778060/3 "2022-02-24T16:09:33Z")
It doesn’t seem to run though 😕 Has anyone been able to run this on a pi from the oficial image file from plex?? ---
**Author:** ![syn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/3ab097/32.png) [@syn](https://forums.plex.tv/u/syn)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2022, 9:09pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/plexamp-headless-on-a-pi-oled-screen-compatibility/778060/4 "2022-02-24T21:09:26Z")
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 ---
**Author:** ![SeveranExp](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/plex/user_avatar/forums.plex.tv/severanexp/32/93713_2.png) [@SeveranExp](https://forums.plex.tv/u/SeveranExp)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2022, 11:19pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/plexamp-headless-on-a-pi-oled-screen-compatibility/778060/5 "2022-02-24T23:19:01Z")
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 ! ---
**Author:** ![elan](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/plex/user_avatar/forums.plex.tv/elan/32/5_2.png) [@elan](https://forums.plex.tv/u/elan)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2022, 11:31pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/plexamp-headless-on-a-pi-oled-screen-compatibility/778060/6 "2022-02-24T23:31:54Z")
It’s hard to add new architectures, but never say never. First focus will be on headless tho. ---
**Author:** ![SeveranExp](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/plex/user_avatar/forums.plex.tv/severanexp/32/93713_2.png) [@SeveranExp](https://forums.plex.tv/u/SeveranExp)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2022, 11:51pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/plexamp-headless-on-a-pi-oled-screen-compatibility/778060/7 "2022-02-24T23:51:37Z")
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? ---
**Author:** ![elan](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/plex/user_avatar/forums.plex.tv/elan/32/5_2.png) [@elan](https://forums.plex.tv/u/elan)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2022, 12:05am UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/plexamp-headless-on-a-pi-oled-screen-compatibility/778060/8 "2022-02-25T00:05:30Z")
> [@SeveranExp](#): > > what do you envision when you talk about the headless option? 64-bit rPI connected to stereo, or Sonos or similar which can send the audio out to multiple rooms. > [@SeveranExp](#): > > How do you suppose people will/could use Plexamp headless as it will be available today/soon? You can read back on several threads in here about how people are excited to use it. ---
**Author:** ![e10kstarfire](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/plex/user_avatar/forums.plex.tv/e10kstarfire/32/259675_2.png) [@e10kstarfire](https://forums.plex.tv/u/e10kstarfire)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2022, 9:14am UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/plexamp-headless-on-a-pi-oled-screen-compatibility/778060/9 "2022-02-25T09:14:27Z")
> [@elan](#): > > 64-bit rPI connected to stereo, or Sonos or similar which can send the audio out to multiple rooms. Confused, doesn’t that mean you will be doing an arm build for the Pi? ---
**Author:** ![elan](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/plex/user_avatar/forums.plex.tv/elan/32/5_2.png) [@elan](https://forums.plex.tv/u/elan)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2022, 9:30am UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/plexamp-headless-on-a-pi-oled-screen-compatibility/778060/10 "2022-02-25T09:30:35Z")
yes, headless. no ui. ---
**Author:** ![SeveranExp](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/plex/user_avatar/forums.plex.tv/severanexp/32/93713_2.png) [@SeveranExp](https://forums.plex.tv/u/SeveranExp)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2022, 9:48am UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/plexamp-headless-on-a-pi-oled-screen-compatibility/778060/11 "2022-02-25T09:48:34Z")
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? ---
**Author:** ![e10kstarfire](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/plex/user_avatar/forums.plex.tv/e10kstarfire/32/259675_2.png) [@e10kstarfire](https://forums.plex.tv/u/e10kstarfire)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2022, 12:56pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/plexamp-headless-on-a-pi-oled-screen-compatibility/778060/12 "2022-02-25T12:56:22Z")
Looks like RPi Zero 2, RPi3 and 4 can run 64 bit - [Raspberry Pi OS (64-bit) - Raspberry Pi](https://www.raspberrypi.com/news/raspberry-pi-os-64-bit/) ---
**Author:** ![SeveranExp](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/plex/user_avatar/forums.plex.tv/severanexp/32/93713_2.png) [@SeveranExp](https://forums.plex.tv/u/SeveranExp)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2022, 12:32am UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/plexamp-headless-on-a-pi-oled-screen-compatibility/778060/14 "2022-05-21T00:32:07Z")
As an answer to myself, and definitely @elan early birthday present for me, here we have the first steps: > [@Plexamp on the Raspberry Pi](https://forums.plex.tv/t/plexamp-on-the-raspberry-pi/791500): > > (Making this a pinned thread until we have better instructions/links on the website.) OK, ready to have some fun? Make sure you have a 64-bit capable Raspberry Pi and node v16 installed. Download the headless package from [https://plexamp.com](https://plexamp.com) Extract in the pi home directory. Run from terminal to start (and ignore anything which is printed after you enter the code): $ node js/index.js Starting Plexamp. Please visit https://plex.tv/claim and enter the claim token: You should now… 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. ---
**Author:** ![elan](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/plex/user_avatar/forums.plex.tv/elan/32/5_2.png) [@elan](https://forums.plex.tv/u/elan)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2022, 12:45am UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/plexamp-headless-on-a-pi-oled-screen-compatibility/778060/15 "2022-05-21T00:45:33Z")
you should be able to use an iOS (e.g, iPad mini duct taped to the wall) for voice, siri support with Plexamp is quite good. ---
**Author:** ![SeveranExp](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/plex/user_avatar/forums.plex.tv/severanexp/32/93713_2.png) [@SeveranExp](https://forums.plex.tv/u/SeveranExp)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2022, 1:22am UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/plexamp-headless-on-a-pi-oled-screen-compatibility/778060/16 "2022-05-21T01:22:20Z")
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!”) ---
**Author:** ![elan](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/plex/user_avatar/forums.plex.tv/elan/32/5_2.png) [@elan](https://forums.plex.tv/u/elan)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2022, 1:35am UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/plexamp-headless-on-a-pi-oled-screen-compatibility/778060/17 "2022-05-21T01:35:07Z")
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. (You can always change to a male voice as well) ---
**Author:** ![Volts](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/a5b964/32.png) [@Volts](https://forums.plex.tv/u/Volts)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2022, 2:43am UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/plexamp-headless-on-a-pi-oled-screen-compatibility/778060/18 "2022-05-21T02:43:03Z")
> [@elan](#): > > (You can always change to a male voice as well) Siri’s new American Voice #5 is gender neutral. I realized I needed to be more polite to Alexa when I heard my kids back-talking her. I’m always polite! Where could they possibly have learned that?! ---
**Author:** ![elan](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/plex/user_avatar/forums.plex.tv/elan/32/5_2.png) [@elan](https://forums.plex.tv/u/elan)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2022, 2:55am UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/plexamp-headless-on-a-pi-oled-screen-compatibility/778060/19 "2022-05-21T02:55:25Z")
> [@Volts](#): > > I realized I needed to be more polite to Alexa when I heard my kids back-talking her. I said something really rude to Alexa the other day when she wouldn’t turn off an alarm. My wife glared at me and said “you need to be nicer to her!” First time (quite possibly not last) I’ve gotten in trouble for yelling at a robot. ---
**Author:** ![system](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/plex/original/3X/2/a/2acb9765406f63293d357b4ec509ec39aa28f2ad.png) [@system](https://forums.plex.tv/u/system)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2022, 2:55am UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/plexamp-headless-on-a-pi-oled-screen-compatibility/778060/20 "2022-08-19T02:55:42Z")
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