Hi, I’m a person who decided to use Volumio for its Hi - Fi via a Raspberry Pi 2.
The system has been properly installed and works very well, I changed the song from smartphones and from the PC via the webUI, I would have only one request:
you can use Volumio Offline? I wish I could select songs by the same Raspberry (connected to a keyboard + mouse and a monitor), without having to connect to the Internet without having to use an external device.
Unfortunately Volumio not a window manager and I do not know how to solve. Thank you.
You can start with using mpc commands from the command line. You could also install a gui and browser but that’s a pain getting it to work on volumio 1.5(5) dependancy hell and all that.
Or you could opt to use keyboard / mouse input on a low level, still rather hard but an old mouse could control the most common navigation (play/pause/volume /next/previous) this will require some programming. Or add a remote.
But out of the box you can only use the commandline to control mpc. And of course an other device
You can not create “macros” low level, that the touch of a button (for example, Ctrl + W) changes song, with another key us pause and so on, all from the terminal?
I do not care much graphics, it suits me even the command line.
You could create a script and when you start it you can listen to input signals from the keyboard. But that’s real diy-ing and requires programming. I can’t really help you with that.
In my side, I put a USB WIFI dongle ; and the Raspberry with Volumio works as Access Point.
So My Phone connect itself to the Raspberry and command it ; I don’t use other network.
that actually shouldn’t prevent you from booting, it would probably only take some more time to boot.
Disabling like you did shouldn’t be a problem as long as you have a wireless connection, but i would prefer to set it to a static IP outside your normal range and remember/write it down. So in the future when you want to use the wired connection you won’t run into trouble. Or when you change the name or password of your wireless network
The Raspy work very good with my Hi-Fi!
I’ve only one problem:
since I just have to use the command line, I recycled an old VGA monitor.
I used this HDMI - VGA cable: i01.i.aliimg.com/wsphoto/v0/5666 … jector.jpg
But if i boot my raspberry i don’t see anything.
If instead i boot the raspberry connected at a TV with HDMI and after disconnect the raspberry and connect him at this cable all work fine.
At this time all work everything works until it detachment from the device current to restart (instead, if i use “Sudo reboot” work fine).
Why this? It’s a boot/config problem?
Thanks a lot (sorry for my english).