So, I saw that the rPi headless plexamp version was out of beta and wanted to update. However, I’m not sure what the steps should be to update other than trying to just follow the installation directions as if nothing was already installed. I followed them as best I could (and deleted the plexamp folder first) and it got me a version that loads but doesn’t seem to work. I cannot get any other plex or plexamp clients (all updated) to find the rpi when they could before. If I go to port 32500, I get the interface with the About page saying 4.2.2 but I can’t get anything to play. I can browse all my songs without issue, but if I try to play any of it, I just get this:
Sorry, I don’t understand what you mean by “select the player in the web ui”. I assume you mean in the settings, but not sure which. I did see that the name of the player had changed to “browser” and fixed that, but I suspect that isn’t what you meant. Still can’t seem to play music.
I still can’t get any of my other clients to be able to find the rPi, though the rPi can find the others. As a test, I connected it to my laptop’s plexamp and was able to control the laptop and play music just fine. Yet, even when connected and controlling the laptop, the rPi plexamp would not appear on the laptop plexamp’s player selection popup. Also, the player UI on the rPi in my browser showed up properly when playing through a different client.
Use the cast button on the upper right to select a player. You can control any other Plex(amp) player on the local network, including the player which is serving up the web UI.
But, that is the problem. What my laptop Plexamp sees:
What the rPi sees:
The pi itself is not visible anywhere (should be called Living Room Pi). Also tried phone and Home Theater PC, it’s just not visible anymore.
I think, at this point, it might be easier to just wipe everything and reinstall piOS. I wasn’t using it for anything anyway. Then, hopefully, a fresh install will work.
Think it is because something changed, also for the beta 7! Saw in the log that it now needs the folder “/home/$USER/.local/share/Plexamp/Offline” to exist. Have no idea what it is used for! Change needed for serverside?
You can use my script to upgrade, and keep all tokens! It will create that folder if it does not exist.
A question semi-related to my original problems: should Plex clients be able to see the rPi plexamp instance? All my other Plexamp clients can see it but none of the Plex ones can. This was not the case in the original beta. All my Plexamp and Plex clients could find the rPi with the original beta version.
This isn’t a massive issue since I almost always use Plexamp over Plex on other devices when controlling the rPi, but just something I noticed.
Tried restarting the service, could still not see my rPI Plexamp, added the folder “/home/$USER/.local/share/Plexamp/Offline”, and restarted the service, now they could be seen! This was with one on 4.2.2-beta7 and another one on 4.2.2 (final).
Where are the rPI Plexamp officially released? How does one sign up for notification for new releases? Do not see it under Plexamp - Love your music!
I find the easiest way to update is to long-press the link to the update file, select copy, then in a pi terminal window: wget [space] paste, then: tar -xvf Plex[tab]
(Until a better update path is in place, like apt-get update)
