A long time ago i had a kenwood amplifier… Wasnt that great but it had one thing that stuck in my mind which i think would look realy cool on a nic volumio build…
It had a nice big centered volume knob with a tiny red led near its edge instead of a painted line or engraved mark to mark the set volume,
You could just turn it by hand, but it was motorized too so you could use a remote. The knob would turn accordingly if you set the volumenup/down, and the little led would blink in response to receiving ir commands
If you pressed mute, the little led would slowly blink to indicate muted mode.
Motorized volume pots are actualy not that expensive on aliexpress etc… Not even Alps ones… finding or building a nice knob is doable, so is adding a tinny led or plasic fiber to an internal led to it…
But to me, i would find it realy great if it worked both ways… So that volumio follows the knob and vice versa…
So have volumio read the potmeter position setting and adjust the set volume to it (the ring indicator on the gui showing the same position). So just read the pot with an adc or something to set the hardware mixer in the audio dac…
and the other way around… So if the volume gets changed through the gui, it should adjust rhe position of the knob accordingly using the motorized pot(while blinking the led to signal its response to “remote commands”…
Wouldnt that look awsome??
Might take some extra care to avoid looping as in remotecommand -> changes volume and adjust knob position -> which gets registered by volumio measuring the pot -> which triggers another adjustment
Aby idea’s?? Could be external by a little arduino thats send volyme adjustment to volumio sonehow and listent to volume changes on volumio not triggerdby itself and has the volume knog follow on it…
Or a plugin kind if thing…
