My second Volumio DIY: “Autiotop” update

ofiras · June 5, 2024, 2:20pm

@Roberto_Grieco
to make it an official plugin is not so simple. there is a lot of work to do in order to integrate with the Volumio os without modding its files. make a friendly configurations ui, and a lot of graphic work to support more resolutions. the code is open , so maybe it will go to the dev section and I will get some help from the community. for now its my self DIY project with an open code for anyone that like to use it.
look above , to get the new skins its very simple

Roberto_Grieco · June 5, 2024, 4:34pm

if anything, you could create an unofficial plugin like peppymeter which however has a simpler installation mechanism

However i installed as you said me to the latest volumio version.
Then

ofiras:

using the Volumio ui , disable the audiotop plugin and uninstall it

using ssh, run the following commands :
 sudo rm -r AudioTop
 git clone  --branch spectrum https://github.com/ofirasp/AudioTop.git  
 cd AudioTop
 volumio plugin install

i’ve updated your plugin but now meters don’t move anymore.

ofiras · June 5, 2024, 6:27pm

do you have sound?
does the meta data (cover, title etc) update?
have you tried restart?

if all is true just go back to the working image, I will think what else might happend

Roberto_Grieco · June 5, 2024, 6:47pm

i have sound,i restarted several times…metadata updated.

ofiras · June 5, 2024, 7:10pm

Try to refresh the selected DAC,
From settings playback option,
Change the dac to something else that you have in the list , save and then change it back to your dac and save again.
Show me your asound.conf file
From ssh:
Cat /etc/asound.conf

Roberto_Grieco · June 5, 2024, 8:59pm

Update Audiotop plugin: all’s ok
update Volumio with volumio updater forceupdate volumio. No meters move
This is my asound.conf:

pcm.!default {
type empty
slave.pcm “volumio”
}

pcm.volumio {
type empty
slave.pcm “volumioOutput”
}

There is always a plug before the hardware to be safe

pcm.volumioOutput {
type plug
slave.pcm “volumioHw”
}

pcm.volumioHw {
type hw
card “DAC”
}

ofiras · June 6, 2024, 6:50am

try to use this from the audiotop plugin setting,

after that reset the DAC setting as I explained before and restart
if it’s not working check if the asound.conf has changed

Roberto_Grieco · June 6, 2024, 11:03am

i made this, but nothing is changed.

ofiras · June 6, 2024, 11:54am

try manually from ssh:

sudo mv /volumio/app/plugins/audio_interface/alsa_controller/index.js /volumio/app/plugins/audio_interface/alsa_controller/index.js.original.js
sudo cp /home/volumio/AudioTop/volumiomod/index.js.audiotop.js /volumio/app/plugins/audio_interface/alsa_controller/index.js
sudo mv /volumio/app/plugins/music_service/mpd/mpd.conf.tmpl /volumio/app/plugins/music_service/mpd/mpd.conf.tmpl.original
sudo cp /home/volumio/AudioTop/volumiomod/mpd.conf.tmpl.audiotop.tmpl /volumio/app/plugins/music_service/mpd/mpd.conf.tmpl

then reset dac settings and restart.
if this is not working the only thing I can tell you is to burn the image again

Roberto_Grieco · June 6, 2024, 8:48pm

I flashed again your image without AudioTop and volumio update…

Roberto_Grieco · June 9, 2024, 3:59pm

Hi @ofiras. I wanted to ask you a question, even though I am completely ignorant in computer science. When I use music from Spotify Connect together with Peppymeter i have continuously problem of playing stutterings and clicks so it don’t allow me to use peppymeter , instead with your audiotop plugin everything is fine, the audio from Spotify Connect streams without clicks. So i wanna ask you what files of peppymeter have you modded for the correct audio streaming. I’d Like to understand how to correct my audio issue in peppymeter.
Thank’s

ofiras · June 10, 2024, 8:03am

I didn’t correct the problem, because for me there where no problem in the first place (I never used Spotify , so I didn’t know there is a problem)
I thing its the related to the way that they implemented their plugin, a lot of reasons can be. if I can guess, there are some main reasons:

alsa configuration using duplicate can cause high cpu
using pygame 2 instead of 1.9.4 which is the recommended version for raspberry , again more resource consumption especially on old devices
using a lot of redundant threads in python can cause lags

when you use Spotify run
top
from ssh, it will print live status of your cpu. if its above 70-80% , it may be the problem

Roberto_Grieco · June 10, 2024, 5:06pm

Hi,my friend @ofiras This is my top file using Spotify and Peppymeter.

Welcome to Volumio for Raspberry Pi (6.1.77-v7l+ armv7l)
volumio@volumio:~$ top
top - 19:03:26 up 8 min, 1 user, load average: 1.04, 0.57, 0.33
Tasks: 170 total, 1 running, 169 sleeping, 0 stopped, 0 zombie
%Cpu(s): 11.2 us, 21.5 sy, 0.0 ni, 67.1 id, 0.0 wa, 0.0 hi, 0.3 si, 0.0 st
MiB Mem : 3787.7 total, 2621.4 free, 412.8 used, 753.5 buff/cache
MiB Swap: 0.0 total, 0.0 free, 0.0 used. 3248.7 avail Mem

PID USER 1372 volumio 2259 volumio 1401 root 1604 volumio 1092 volumio 1462 volumio 2380 volumio 20 0 1 root 2 root 20 0 3 root 0 -20 4 root 0 -20 5 root 0 -20 6 root 0 -20 10 root 0 -20 11 root 20 0 12 root 20 0 13 root 20 0 14 root 20 0 15 root rt 0 16 root 20 0 17 root 20 0 18 root rt 0 19 root 20 0 21 root 0 -20 22 root 20 0 23 root rt 0 24 root 20 0 27 root 20 0 28 root rt 0 29 root 20 0 31 root 0 -20 32 root 20 0 33 root 0 -20 34 root 20 0 35 root 20 0 36 root 20 0 38 root 20 0 39 root 0 -20 40 root 20 0 41 root 0 -20 42 root 0 -20 43 root 0 -20 44 root -51 0 45 root 20 0 48 root 0 -20 49 root 0 -20 50 root 0 -20 51 root 20 0 and this is PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND
20 0 774244 41612 15996 S 101.3 1.1 1:26.10 go-librespot
20 0 348176 102296 36220 S 17.3 2.6 0:26.74 python3
20 0 199300 44304 31108 S 4.3 1.1 0:07.59 Xorg
20 0 454028 137516 100328 S 2.3 3.5 0:11.85 chromium-browse
20 0 247944 109368 39188 S 0.3 2.8 0:17.59 node
20 0 189556 9468 8504 S 0.3 0.2 0:00.51 upmpdcli
5976 2720 2196 R 0.3 0.1 0:00.09 top
20 0 34076 8860 6656 S 0.0 0.2 0:06.25 systemd
0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.01 kthreadd
0 0 0 I 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 rcu_gp
0 0 0 I 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 rcu_par_gp
0 0 0 I 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 slub_flushwq
0 0 0 I 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 netns
0 0 0 I 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 mm_percpu_wq
0 0 0 I 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 rcu_tasks_rude_kthread
0 0 0 I 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 rcu_tasks_trace_kthread
0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.12 ksoftirqd/0
0 0 0 I 0.0 0.0 0:00.22 rcu_sched
0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.01 migration/0
0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 cpuhp/0
0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 cpuhp/1
0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.01 migration/1
0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.10 ksoftirqd/1
0 0 0 I 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 kworker/1:0H-kblockd
0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 cpuhp/2
0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.01 migration/2
0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.07 ksoftirqd/2
0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 cpuhp/3
0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.01 migration/3
0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.04 ksoftirqd/3
0 0 0 I 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 kworker/3:0H-kblockd
0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.01 kdevtmpfs
0 0 0 I 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 inet_frag_wq
0 0 0 I 0.0 0.0 0:00.34 kworker/0:1-events
0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 kauditd
0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 khungtaskd
0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 oom_reaper
0 0 0 I 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 writeback
0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.01 kcompactd0
0 0 0 I 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 kintegrityd
0 0 0 I 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 kblockd
0 0 0 I 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 blkcg_punt_bio
0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 watchdogd
0 0 0 I 0.0 0.0 0:00.24 kworker/u8:2-events_unbound
0 0 0 I 0.0 0.0 0:00.23 kworker/2:1H-kblockd
0 0 0 I 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 rpciod
0 0 0 I 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 xprtiod
0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 kswapd0
system log : http://logs.volumio.org/volumio/0jmhVX5.html

ofiras · June 11, 2024, 7:58am

The peppymeter cpu usage seems fine,
But the process that uses above 100% is properly the Spotify agent and it’s too high and may cause problems.
I guess that the reason for that is related to configuration of alsa. Sorry can’t help you with that

Roberto_Grieco · June 11, 2024, 2:57pm

Thank’s the same @ofiras