Cannot access the player from the browser on the rpi 3 b+

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I’m able to access it from other computers in the same network, either with volumio.local or the IP address, but I can’t access volumio.local or the IP address from the browser running on the rpi. Any suggestions? Thanks.

2

Volumio’s UI is locally served on port 3000. So to reach it you would use e.g. http://localhost:3000

3

Thanks. I’m able to manually launch the interface from terminal with firefox -kiosk http://localhost:3000, and it shows the player interface. But autostart on booting doesn’t work as I put the line @firefox -kiosk http://localhost:3000 in $HOME/.config/lxsession/LXDE/autostart. It does open firefox but shows the content in my home directory instead of the player interface.

Update:
It seems firefox opens two pages with autostart, one shows the home directory, and the other shows Firefox can’t establish a connection to the server at localhost:3000.

4

I can’t help much with this problem as I currently don’t run a system using firefox (and lxde). But I guess that Volumio has not started up completely when firefox already tries to load the page from localhost.

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Could be. I added the command to .bashrc. Firefox was not started after booting until I opened a terminal, no matter how long I’d waited. It can access localhost:3000, but needs a trigger - terminal here. Don’t understand the logic. Will try some other methods to bring it up.

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OK. I delayed calling Firefox for 15 seconds and now UI pops up as expected. Thank you.