[PLUGIN] MPD OLED - installation & configuration plugin

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936

SSD1315 works too

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937

Nice! :sunglasses:

938

Hello, what is the easiest way to install an OLED display.
All the explanations here make me a little confused.
Unfortunately, installing via the plugin doesn’t work for me.

Raspberry Pi 3B
Volumio 3.616
Display 1.3 inch SSD1306 I2C /3c / SH1106 I2C

The following devices were found on I2C bus undefined: 3c

I use a clean Volumio installation without any additional plugins

939

i have volumio 2.9 . raspi 4 and an amp2 is there a way to install an oled 128 by 64 ic2 oled display ?

940

There is no support for Volumio V2.xx. This version is EOL for almost 2 years now.

941

Hello, what is the easiest way to install an OLED display - The plugin is the easiest way

All the explanations here make me a little confused. - What explanations? What was confusing?

Unfortunately, installing via the plugin doesn’t work for me. - What didn’t work?

You can try the non plugin version:

942

That’s exactly what I did. My display stays off. I receive this message:

The following devices were found on I2C bus undefined: 3c

943

What is it that you did exactly?

944

hello,
Long ago I had not used this plugin.
So, I tested on a fresh install on a rpi5, Volumio 3.703.
So far, so good, it works out of the box with an i2s Dac BassFly µHAT.
But one issue if Softvolume is used. It breaks volumio.
I updated asound.conf in the plugin to fix it.
If other user experiences the same issue, I could update the plugin.
Let me know
File is now:
cat /data/plugins/system_hardware/mpd_oled/asound/volumioalsa.postalsa.5.conf

#----------------mpd_oled_section-------------
pcm.volumioalsa {
     type plug
    slave.pcm {
        type multi
        slaves {
            a { channels 2 pcm "postalsa" }
            b { channels 2 pcm "mpdoledfifo" }
        }
        bindings {
            0 { slave a channel 0 }
            1 { slave a channel 1 }
            2 { slave b channel 0 }
            3 { slave b channel 1 }
        }
    }
    ttable [
        [ 1 0 1 0 ]   # left  -> a.left,  b.left
        [ 0 1 0 1 ]   # right -> a.right, b.right
    ]
}

pcm.mpdoledfifo {
  type volumiofifo
  fifo "/tmp/mpdoledfifo"
}

#---------end of mpd_oled_section-------------
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945

Works great with rpi5, volumio 3.703 and external DAC. Super @balbuze !

947

Did you test balbuze’s ALSA config changes?

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948

Yes

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949

playing Spotify connect
RPI 5 VOLUMIO V3.703

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950

yes, please

951

Did you break your OLED?

952

Hehehe, only photo.

953

I’m currently using an OLED Display 2.42" Waveshare and the font is quite angular. I have a question: is it possible to add an option to change the font in the Oled_ mpd plugin?

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954

Font is part of the source compilation, so no there is no easy fix.
Or you can install the dev branch manually, but this will be very limited supported by me. (no plugin configuration page)

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955

@Wheaten
Thanks for the answer!
I’m afraid that I’m not very advanced yet and I might break something in the Volumio 3.703 system, but it works really great now.

I think this is possible with further development of the OLED_mpd plugin, which also works reliably

Best Regards

956

Hi

Important issue: SPI displays don’t work with mpd_oled on the Raspberry Pi 5

Adrian.