Plexamp Headless Pi - with display?

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Well now that I happily have Plexamp on Pi running :heart_eyes: and yes i know it’s headless…

…but i can log in on the browser on Pi and cast to itself (its a bit slow doing this but it works). Is there any way to have plexamp web:

  1. Properly fullscreen?
  2. Open and cast to itself on start?
  3. @elan Is there any plan to maybe do something like this as a feature in the future?

On a small Pi screen this would be awesome to display whats playing, play, pause, next, previous.

Or am I a weirdo for suggesting this on a headless app?

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it don’t know what you mean by “properly full screen”. it’s a browser app.

it remembers where it’s casting so if you leave it casting to itself this already works.

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Oh. I was trying this On The Pi itself. with the idea of displaying a full screen view of plexamp web.

I still want to mainly controll the Pi endpoint from a mobile device, but if the pi displayed what was playing like the plexamp does it would be cool.

Im a noob obviously…so it seems weird to be putting in the ip in the browser of the device im on. i.e. 192.168.1.xxx:32500. Is thatb what should be done if you want the interface on the pi itself?

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You could try localhost or 127.0.0.1 as well.

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localhost:32500 works

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So was it by design that this headless plexamp can also not be headless?

I tried to get chrome to launch with plexamp on startup in kiosk mode but can’t get it working. Keep getting trace/breakpoint error.

If that can work a 4" screen and a case redesign will be in my Pi’s future

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i don’t understand the question. headless plexamp can be headless (not have any ui). or control it with any other plexamp (including the web app which the headless app can serve up).

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Yeah maybe I’m a weirdo. Don’t you love it when your users use your product in a way you never expected :wink:
Well yep. My use case…
So my streamer it in my studio wifi only. Both my wife and I work there and we share the plexamp account so we can controll the same playlist from iphone and Android.

We’re artists, we have dirty hands often and dont want to touch the phone when we need to turn volume, see who’s the artist, of this song or mute for a phone call, so I have the hardware encoder so a real volume/mute knob is available.

Then we have a studio assistant who we don’t want controlling our Plex playlist who may want to change the volume or track.

So most of the time headless works, but changing volume I want a real dial to turn. Then I’d like to look and see what’s playing or skip the track without getting out my phone.

So the (non headless) idea of having a touchscreen on the pi streamer that shows me what’s playing and I can skip a track is attractive to me.

If I was back in the city, in an office, at a computer with my phone in front of me things would be different.

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that should work, i have another Pi which runs chrome in kiosk mode for something totally different. not sure what the crash you’re seeing is. others may be able to help or maybe in a raspberry pi forum as well.

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