I bought myself a Raspberry Pi 3B+ and a original Raspberry 7" Touchscreen intending to use it as a mediaplayer based on volumio.
The installation and setup worked all fine, and I was able to connect using the WebUI and configured things. But that setup only showed a volumio console on the attached 7" display.
To also get a proper Volumio UI on the touchscreen I triggerd the installation of the Touchscreen display plugin via the WebUI (Settings => Plugins => Miscellanea => Touch Display plugins). That process started fine downloading and installing all the prereq’s but then hung at about 70%. Looking at the details I had to learn that the process was apparently hanging in some keyboard layout selection expecting some numeric input to select the desired keyboard layout. But neither keying in my preferred layout’s number in the WebUI nor on the keyboard attached to the Pi made this process to continue.
So, after a while I then restarted the Pi. I now get at first a console as before which after a few seconds is replaced with a gray background with a white centered mouse pointer. Is that an X-server being started? The mouse cursor follows an on-screen touch-movement - so that is working as well but what I am missing is the actual volumio-UI showing up, so that one can operate the player using the touch-screen. After all - that was the point of buying and attaching the 7" display to the Pi…
I then tried to re-run the plugin installation hoping that it would continue from where the first installation has left off but I only get an error message that this plugin is already installed.
So: what do I need to do or fix to get the expected volumio UI also to show up on the 7" screen?
It seems to me you just haven’t been patient enough while the 70% has been shown. Kind’a bug sometimes happening.
To be able to reinstall a “messed up” plugin installation i always had success deleting the corresponding folder in \data… (look for the plugin folder) and restart. This may not be the official way but always helped to be able to reinstall.
Next time you install please give yourself more time. Sometimes repositories aren’t available for a fast download depending on where they are stored - just wait a little longer in this case. Try some more - it will work.
Hello – Please excuse if this is in the wrong place for my query, but part of the subject problem is in common.
I setup a RPi 3B with a HifiBerry DAC PLUS as a music server and used a USB Flash Drive for the Music Library derived from iTunes. The Music (MP3 files) play real well when plugged into a stereo receiver with speakers.
I used a Nexus Tablet to set up Volumio and my PROBLEM is with the Plugins Setting Page from the Volumio Menu.
Currently using 2.389 but have used other version 2 releases (2.185 and 2.344, and a few others) with the same results. Everything that I did or tried was under WiFi, no ethernet cable was attached
When I select the Plugins Item from the Volumio Menu, my screen shows ONLY the following 4 lines:
Volumio
Plugins
Plugins Management
Search Plugins Installed Plugins
NOTHING ELSE IS ON THE SCREEN??? THE SEARCH AND THE INSTALLED ITEMS ARE BACKLITEABLE BUT DON’T DO ANYTHING EVEN AFTER 15-20MINUTES AND RPI’S GREEN LED IS ALWAYS OFF.
ON PICTURES OF THE PLUGINS SCREEN THAT I HAVE SEEN ON THE WEB, THERE ARE OTHER FIELDS SUPPOSEDLY ON THE SCREEN BUT THEY ARE MISSING FROM MY SCREENS … NO “UPLOAD PLUGIN” OR “ACTIVITY LITE” OR ??ETC???".
Today, I installed 2.344 and got the 4 lines above, but with Upload Plugin on line 4 (at the far right). The 3 items on line 4 are backliteable, but after taping them, nothing ever changes on the screen … however, the Green LED on the RPI was blinking. This went on for 15-20 minutes, after which I got bored and turned things off.
Any suggestions or assistance would be greatly appreciated.
I removed the plugin (i.e. the touch_display-directory as instructed) and re-installed again from the WebUI. This time the entire (re-)install of the plugin ran till the end within <1 minute and even before it displayed “Plugin successfully installed” the volumio UI showed up on the 7" display. So, I guess the last time the download location must have been down or something (because I had waited >1/2 hr before rebooting).
Thanks for giving me that hint on how to uninstall the plugin. Highly appreciated!
I experienced the same error, but for another reason. My file system never got expanded, so my root file system was 98% full with only 7 MB left. I solved it by expanding the file system on my Linux laptop.
Shutdown Volumio
Remove SD card and put it into the laptop
Resize with:
e2fsck -f /dev/mmcblk0p3
resize2fs /dev/mmcblk0p3
sync
4. Remove SD card and put it into the Volumio computer
5. Start it up