[PLUGIN] Glass - Phoenix risen from the PeppyMeter Screensaver ashes

Gelo5 · October 4, 2026, 2:51pm

I know, I know – I’m using version 0.8.58
You are using a very old version!
That’s why you should buy @nerd a coffee!

msherman · October 4, 2026, 11:57pm

Running beautifully on rpi4 w waveshare 11.9" screen.

Has anyone got this working with Metaroon.

I was hoping that the implementation being different from peppymeter might allow Glass to work w room. For me, no luck.
Gemini had many authoritative steps but finally admitted that it was guessing and then apologized profusely.

nerd · October 5, 2026, 4:37am

Hey @msherman,

With MetaRoon the meters cannot move, and it is not something a setting fixes. The plugin handles Roon’s metadata and controls, but the sound itself is played by Roon’s own RoonBridge, which goes straight to the DAC. Glass measures the audio inside Volumio’s own sound path, where MPD and the other sources play, and Roon’s audio never passes through there. PeppyMeter had the same limit for the same reason.

Making it work would mean routing Roon’s audio through Volumio’s sound path (an ALSA loopback), which has costs of its own (latency, no native DSD). That does not exist today.

In order to investigate anything I need you to follow post #2 or #80. You need to provide me with the details as requested, or simply I have no way to investigate anything.

Frankly - your choice.

Kind Regards,

msherman · October 5, 2026, 12:40pm

Seems then that there is nothing to investigate. Many thanks for your swift reply.

Best of luck with your cat herding efforts from post 2 and 80

nerd · October 5, 2026, 4:30pm

Hey @msherman,

Thanks, without “hacking” into the path with loop - nowhere to get data from.

I think this is quite simple. I know the code inside out. Also I know what does and does not help to chase the “gremlins” out. This is clear community member’s choice which boils down to “no data I need = no help”.

Kind Regards,

msherman · October 5, 2026, 6:35pm

A magnificent piece of work.
Much appreciated.

dewen · October 6, 2026, 12:55pm

Hi @nerd

I have a feature request regarding Glass-evo:

When using Glass-evo, it temporarily disables both the Touch Display plugin and the Now Playing plugin.

I am currently using a Waveshare 5.5" AMOLED screen, which is susceptible to burn-in if static UI elements remain displayed for extended periods.

Since both Touch Display (which has a screen timeout setting) and Now Playing (which offers a slideshow screensaver mode) are disabled by Glass-evo, would it be possible to add a similar built-in screen saver or timeout feature to Glass-evo?

For example:

Screen Timeout: Automatically turning off the screen after a configurable period of inactivity.
Slideshow / Screensaver: Triggering an image slideshow when idle or paused to shift pixels and prevent AMOLED burn-in.

Thank you so much for your hard work and continuous support!

nerd · October 6, 2026, 2:14pm

Hey @dewen,

With Glass plugin 0.8.68 and glass-evo 0.1.36 you can use a dedicated switch in the Background Glass Screen section where the defaults are:

Screen off:  0s
Duration:    500ms

Kind Regards,

tweed77 · October 6, 2026, 4:44pm

HP Pavilion X360 11-u000nf - Intel N3060 - 2GB RAM - 11,6" WXGA IPS Touch Display - 1366x768.
Price 17,5 euro including power supply

Volumio 4.119 - Glass 0.8.69
The touchscreen works right from installation, as does the laptop’s built-in audio.
Volumio is installed on the 32GB eMMC drive inside this HP unit.
The SD card reader also functions as mass storage a 64GB Sandisk SD card was tested.
The Glass plugin also works correctly after installation.

Gelo5 · October 6, 2026, 4:48pm

Now try out the skins marked TOUCH.

tweed77 · October 6, 2026, 5:02pm

This laptop has a screen with a resolution of 1366 x 768.

Which ones are they, and what is the intended effect ?

Gelo5 · October 6, 2026, 5:14pm

All 1920x1080 skins fit!! You have touchscreen controls - e.g., play, pause, volume, etc. Use the TAILOR function (Themes).

tweed77 · October 6, 2026, 5:27pm

I tested it on a skin like that.

I set the “Fit to Screen” option.

Play - pause - stop - next - previous - volume up / down It works reasonably well.

It works here too

Gelo5 · October 6, 2026, 5:28pm

Turn on fanart; there will be photos of the bands.
https://fanart.tv/get-an-api-key/

tweed77 · October 6, 2026, 5:35pm

This laptop has a Intel Celeron dual-core processor and 2 GB RAM.
I bought it for fun, for testing, audio in the kitchen

Lee.Yan · October 7, 2026, 1:23pm

The Rapidly Evolving Glass:
Glass is evolving at a breakneck pace, with multiple version upgrades appearing in a very short time—it’s a bit hard for me to keep up. Network speeds when accessing sites outside of China are poor, and the system feels particularly sluggish within Volumio.
I’d like to verify my understanding: is “remote” a remote client, and is “Glass-evo’s remote” an enhanced version of it? Currently, both versions launch with a visible interface on my Windows 10 machine—though the fonts look wrong—but neither the VU meter nor the spectrum analyzer shows any activity. Once launched, I cannot close the remote application; neither mouse clicks nor Alt+F4 work. However, the “Face” and “Anymote” features function correctly on the browser-based management page, and the displayed information utilizes the custom fonts and music genre icons I loaded.
“Face” and “Anymote” seem somewhat like Windows Remote Desktop; rather than rendering locally, they receive images from the remote source—is that correct?
Finally, I’d like to ask: is it possible to display a theme on the remote client that differs from the one used on Glass itself?

@nerd

nerd · October 7, 2026, 1:39pm

@Lee.Yan

The pace is the clinic’s fault, not yours. Nobody is obliged to take every release: leave “Offer test releases” off on the System tab, and upgrade when something new tempts you or something old bothers you. Glass is rapidly evolving and still has long way to go before considered ready.

Your questions, on a silver tray:

What “remote” is
It is not a remote control. It is a remote display: Glass on another machine, showing the player’s meters, fed over the network. There are two flavours of the same program, with the same settings page and the same configuration:

Standalone, from Glass’s releases: the theme and nothing over it.
Bundle, from glass-evo’s releases: the same display with the Glass interface in it - the clock and date when the player stands still, and a bar of controls (previous, play or pause, next, volume).
So the glass-evo one is not a better remote; it is the same remote with the Glass interface added. Install one or the other, not both. Either replaces the other and keeps its settings.

It will not close
The remote has keys of its own. Q quits it. Escape leaves full screen and keeps it running in a window, so its settings page can be used on the same machine. F takes the screen again. Alt+F4 and mouse clicks are not how it closes.
The meters do not move
The theme arrives over HTTP, but the needles and bars arrive as UDP datagrams to port 5580. If the theme shows and nothing moves, look at the player’s Remotes tab: a remote listed as connected but not receiving frames means UDP is blocked between the two machines. On Windows, check that Windows Defender Firewall allows glass on private networks.
Also: the remote and the player must speak the same frame protocol, so they upgrade together. A remote of an older release ignores a newer player’s frames. Windows remotes from 0.8.59 upgrade themselves from their own settings page (Version panel, “Upgrade to”), which saves you a download from GitHub over a slow line.
The fonts look wrong
The remote takes its fonts and format icons from the player. Please post the Glass version of the player and of the remote, and a screenshot of the remote’s screen next to the same meter on the player’s Face tab. A screenshot is welcome here: the problem is what the screen draws.
A different theme on the remote
Yes. On the remote’s settings page (port 5583 of the Windows machine, or “Glass Remote Settings” in the Start menu), under Theme, choose one of:

follow the player (the default),
one of the player’s installed themes, kept whatever the player shows, with its own meter rotation,
or a theme from a folder on the Windows machine itself, including \\Internal Storage\glass.

If the checks in 3 and 4 do not settle it, the clinic needs the full story. Without it, nothing will happen. Either:

The report, per post 80: on the player, Status tab, “Find a problem”, then “Make a report”, and “Copy for the forum”. It also carries the Remotes tab’s view of your remote.
[PLUGIN] Glass - Phoenix risen from the PeppyMeter Screensaver ashes - #80 by nerd
Or the full story by hand, per post 2: items 1 to 10, plus the remote’s part - the Windows version, the remote’s Glass version, and its own log. For the log, set Verbose on the remote’s settings page, quit it with Q, start it from PowerShell, and post what it prints:

& "$env:LOCALAPPDATA\Programs\Glass Remote\glass.exe" --remote

The same with local setting in browser:

& "$env:LOCALAPPDATA\Programs\Glass Remote\glass.exe" --remote --settings

The screenshot from point 4 goes in addition to the log, never instead of it.

The details: Remotes · foonerd/glass Wiki · GitHub
The remote’s troubles, one by one: Troubleshooting · foonerd/glass Wiki · GitHub

Kind Regards,

Lee.Yan · October 7, 2026, 1:58pm

Ever since I started following Glass (0.7.39), it feels like you haven’t taken a break; new versions are released constantly. There’s a phrase in the Chinese-speaking world for this: “going all out.”
Thank you for such a quick response.
I have carefully read the description of the GitHub project’s features multiple times.

nerd · October 7, 2026, 2:40pm

Dear Volumionauts,

A discharge summary from the clinic. Glass 0.9.0 and glass-evo 0.2.0 leave theatre together, and they gather everything since 1 October into one pair: Glass 0.8.0 to 0.8.90, ninety-one releases in eight days. The surgeon has stopped counting. The pharmacy has not.

It began, as these things do, with a dream. @Gelo5 dreamt of a clock.

He got five. Type, seven segments, sixteen segments, a flip clock, and a dial with hands in four styles, each in its own colours, at the size he sets, up to four times the look’s.

He got a date with it, which is more than most dreamers can say.

Then he dreamt of the weather, and the clinic, having lost all sense of proportion, gave him a forecast. Not just today, but the weather now, the day’s low and high, the next 24 hours, or the whole week in columns. The skies move at their own pace: rain falls, snow drifts with a sway, the sun’s rays turn, a star winks beside the moon, and heat haze shimmers above 30 degrees. Thunder flashes, but only if you ask, because a flash in a dark room is how patients end up in cardiology. Heavy weather looks heavier.

And there is a heatmap: every temperature in the colour of its degree. Freezing comes out frozen. Heat comes out a vivid, slightly alarming red. Somewhere in between, 12 degrees is the forecast’s own ink, which is the most British temperature ever committed to code. The forecast comes from Open-Meteo, for a place of your choosing.

The clock, the date and the forecast each sit on a grid of nine cells above the bar, aligned where you put them, with a margin of your own.

Meanwhile, in the other wards:

glass-evo graduates from preview to the pair this release names. Glass 0.9.0 asks for glass-evo 0.2.0 as the least it works with.
A picture of your own when nothing plays, uploaded or taken from glass/backgrounds, darkened as you say. It shows on the player’s screen, the Face tab, Anymote and the remote displays. The screen goes off after the minutes you set, with a fade.
When the player stops, the idle screen comes at once or after the persist period. Your choice.
Every piece has its own colour, strength, background and background colour, the buttons included.
The Face tab and Anymote carry the face: the clock, date and controls over the theme, and the buttons act on the player.
Remote displays wear the face too, and Linux, Windows and Android remotes upgrade themselves from their own settings page.
The System tab offers test releases, and goes back to stable, part by part, with a backup first.
Themes get fonts and sizes per text field, negative positions, cue tracks, and fanart that carries on across meters.
The player gets covers from a Lyrion server, bounded caches, and a display that does less where nothing changes.
Diagnosis improved: when a display cannot start, it now says why, in the libraries’ own words.

That is the short version. The long version is ninety-one changelog entries and the surgeon’s sleep debt.

How to get it: Manager, System tab. One press for Glass, one for glass-evo. The previous versions are kept, so going back is one press too.

The wiki is catching up with the version numbers as you read this. The content is already there:

The full changelogs:

github.com

foonerd/glass/blob/main/CHANGELOG.md

# Changelog

All notable changes to Glass are recorded here. The format follows [Keep a Changelog](https://keepachangelog.com/en/1.1.0/). Versions follow [Semantic Versioning](https://semver.org/spec/v2.0.0.html).

## [0.9.0] - 2026-10-07

Glass 0.9.0 gathers the 0.8 series, 0.8.0 to 0.8.90, 1 to 8 October 2026, into one release with glass-evo 0.2.0. Every change below has its own entry under its number.

- **The Glass interface on the player's own screen, glass-evo, from a preview to the pair this release names.** Got, updated and removed on the System tab, chosen on the Screen tab, the screen handed over and back by itself where the face cannot hold it (0.8.0 to 0.8.1, 0.8.16 to 0.8.18, 0.8.27 to 0.8.30, 0.8.37, 0.8.40, 0.8.46, 0.8.49). Glass names glass-evo 0.2.0 as the least it works with.
- **The idle screen on a grid.** The clock, the date and the forecast each on nine cells above the bar, aligned inside them with a margin of the user's own, a piece larger than its cells running over on the side it is aligned to; sizes drawn as set, up to four times the look's, over the edges (0.8.8, 0.8.72 to 0.8.77).
- **The weather.** Today's forecast for a place of the user's choosing, from Open-Meteo, in the Forecast section and on the grid; the span, today as a line or the next 24 hours or the week as columns; the heatmap, every temperature in the colour of its degree, the week's days and the date by their switches; the skies in colour, moving at their own pace, thunder flashing by its switch (0.8.79 to 0.8.86).
- **The look panel drawn by glass-evo itself.** Every piece of the likeness, the clock in its faces, the date and a clock in type in the look's own font, the forecast, drawn by the component's module as the screen draws them, the module fetched by the installed version (0.8.12, 0.8.78, 0.8.89). Each piece's own colour, strength, background and background colour from the look's Colours and Backgrounds, the buttons' included; How solid moving every background at its distance (0.8.84, 0.8.90).
- **A picture of your own when nothing plays**, chosen on the Screen tab from the player's `glass/backgrounds` or uploaded, darkened as you say, on the player's screen and, from 0.8.87, on the Face tab, Anymote and the remote displays; the screen off after minutes with nothing playing, over a fade (0.8.63 to 0.8.64, 0.8.67 to 0.8.68, 0.8.87).
- **When the player stops**, the idle screen at once or after the plugin's persist period, chosen in the Backgrounds section (0.8.88).
- **The browser views carry the face.** The Face tab and Anymote show glass-evo's clock, date and controls over the theme, drawn by its module, and its buttons act on the player; the Screen tab says what the views show; they tell the truth when the player stands still (0.8.5 to 0.8.7, 0.8.9 to 0.8.10, 0.8.19, 0.8.36, 0.8.51).
- **Remote displays with the face, bringing themselves up to date.** A remote built with glass-evo shows the face and brings the look and the picture; a Linux, Windows or Android remote upgrades itself from its settings page, the archive checked, the one before kept; the Remotes tab says which are behind (0.8.20 to 0.8.24, 0.8.53 to 0.8.54, 0.8.58 to 0.8.59, 0.8.61).
- **The System tab.** Test releases, offered to this player as soon as they are published; Back to the stable release, part by part, with a backup first, and from a shell with `get-glass.sh --stable`; downloads that break tried again (0.8.5, 0.8.13, 0.8.52, 0.8.55, 0.8.62).
- **Themes.** Text fields with a font and size of their own, radio and format icons by the most telling name, a theme's own stand-in for a folder layer, rotation quality pacing the turning as before, cue tracks, the sample rate aligned as the theme says, a negative position, fanart carrying on across meters (0.8.11, 0.8.26, 0.8.33, 0.8.47, 0.8.56 to 0.8.57, 0.8.60, 0.8.65 to 0.8.66, 0.8.69 to 0.8.71).
- **The player.** Covers from a Lyrion server through Squeezelite, recognised by content and held across address changes; the caches of covers and fanart bounded; a two-sided spectrum kept through a mono recording; a volume fader dragged as drawn; the display doing less where nothing changes (0.8.2 to 0.8.3, 0.8.15, 0.8.31 to 0.8.32, 0.8.34, 0.8.48).
- **Finding what is wrong.** The reasons a display cannot start, named from the libraries' own words; the Graphics row and the kiosk left stopped, not failed; settings backups of your own never removed; the downloads folder cleared at start (0.8.28, 0.8.35, 0.8.38 to 0.8.39, 0.8.41 to 0.8.45).

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github.com

foonerd/glass-evo/blob/main/CHANGELOG.md

# Changelog

All notable changes to glass-evo are recorded here. The format follows Keep a Changelog; versions follow Semantic Versioning.

## [0.2.0] - 2026-10-07

glass-evo 0.2.0 gathers the 0.1 series since the first pair users got, 0.1.10 with Glass 0.8.0 on 1 October 2026, into one release with Glass 0.9.0. Every change below has its own entry under its number.

- **The face costs nothing where nothing changes**, and a change of track is not the player standing still (0.1.11, 0.1.21); a two-sided look keeps its two sides through silence and a mono recording (0.1.12, 0.1.16).
- **The clock in five faces**, type, seven and sixteen segments, a flip clock, a dial with hands in four styles, each with its colours, drawn as shapes (0.1.15); a size the user sets drawn as set, over the edges (0.1.13).
- **The idle screen on a grid.** The clock, the date and the forecast each on nine cells above the bar, aligned inside them with a margin of the user's own, a piece larger than its cells running over on the side it is aligned to, pieces on the same cells sharing one glass (0.1.39 to 0.1.44).
- **The weather.** Today's forecast, the weather now and the day's low and high with their captions; the span, the next hours or the week as columns; the heatmap, numbers only, the week's days and the date by their switches; the skies in colour, moving at their own pace, thunder flashing by its switch, heavy weather murkier (0.1.44 to 0.1.51).
- **A picture of your own when nothing plays**, in the theme's place, darkened as you say, on the player's screen and, from 0.1.52, on the browser views and the remote displays; the screen off after minutes with nothing playing, over a fade (0.1.32, 0.1.35 to 0.1.36, 0.1.52).
- **When the player stops**, the idle screen at once or after the plugin's persist period, `[idle] wait` (0.1.53).
- **Every piece's own colour, strength, background and background colour**, the buttons' included, each from the look's Colours and Backgrounds and from no other piece (0.1.47, 0.1.54); a meter theme's own `face.txt` laid over the chosen look (0.1.26).
- **The face for a browser.** The module Glass's Manager serves to its Face tab and Anymote, drawing the face over the theme and setting the look panel's likeness, the clock in its faces, the date and a clock in type in the look's own font, the forecast at its moment (0.1.14, 0.1.15, 0.1.43 to 0.1.45, 0.1.51).
- **The face on remote displays**, the bundles for Linux, Windows and Android beside the component, bringing themselves up to date (0.1.18 to 0.1.20, 0.1.30 to 0.1.31).
- **With the themes.** Text fields with a font of their own, the radio icons by signal and mono, the volume number's words, a cue track's type, rotation quality pacing the turning, a Lyrion server's covers, the caches bounded, the screen taken on a DSI panel at every boot, no black frame at a countdown's end (0.1.22 to 0.1.25, 0.1.27 to 0.1.29, 0.1.33 to 0.1.34, 0.1.37 to 0.1.38).

## [0.1.54] - 2026-10-07

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@Gelo5 - you dreamt of a clock. Be careful what you dream next; the clinic seems unable to say no.

And of course @Wheaten, this one keeps asking for needles - bold, moves, sharp font edges, smooth slip on the verges…

Kind Regards,

Lee.Yan · October 7, 2026, 3:47pm

Use Glass-evo
Do I need to install Glass-evo on Volumio as well in order to use Glass-evo-remote?
Can Glass-evo only be installed via the Glass-manager page? I have already downloaded glass-evo-0.2.0.zip; how can I install it manually? As I mentioned earlier, online installation frequently gets interrupted due to network issues, preventing the process from completing.

@nerd