[PLUGIN] Now Playing

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891

Volumio Rivo running 3.874
Now Playing Plugin 0.7.6

In the now playing settings for the Volumio Now Playing plugin I have selected “random Image from Upsplash” for my “Idle screen” but all i am getting is a black background. This worked fine up until about three days ago, and also works fine on my Volumio 4, Pi5 configuration.

Logs
http://logs.volumio.org/rivo/WwAv7dD.html

892

Updating to latest version of Volumio causes problems with the Now Playing plugin where the graphics are replaced by text.


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Trying uninstall the plugin totally jammed up the system where it got stuck at (I think) where it is loading the plugins. I was able to ssh in and delete the Now Playing plugin folder and that allowed me to recover the system.

Here’s my config from System Tools:

System Information

  • OS info

  • Version of Volumio: 4.073

  • Hostname: musicbox2

  • Kernel: 6.12.47-v7l+

  • Governor: performance

  • Uptime: 0 days, 0 Hrs, 2 Minutes, 41 Seconds

  • Network info

  • Interface: wlan0

  • IP Address: 192.168.1.132

  • MAC Address: e4:5f:01:9a:2b:17

  • Type: wireless

  • Speed: nullMb/s

  • Audio info

  • Hw audio configured: IQaudIO DAC Plus

  • Mixer type: Hardware

  • Number of channels: 2

  • Supported sample rate: 22050 44100 48000 88200 96000 176400 192000 384000

  • Board info

  • Manufacturer: Raspberry Pi Foundation

  • Model: Raspberry Pi 4 Model B Rev 1.5 Raspberry Pi

  • Version: b03115

  • Firmware Version: 2025/05/08 16:21:35 version 69471177ba7e4cb7597cb2496f2a0b23f19c1113 (release)

I will wait for your comments before trying to reload the plugin.

Regards,

893

Hey @HeadGeek @patrickkfkan

I had problems with Now Playing after update to 4.073.
Rpi 5 + Rpi touch Display 2
Now Playing latest version.

My Pi just hangs an freeze. I was unable to reach it, not even via SSH, so I couldn’t provide a log

I had to do a fresh install to have my pi up and running and I will not install Now Playing until the plugin is updated.

Best Regards/ C

894

I updated my other streamer (rPi 3B+) too to the latest code. Tried to uninstall Now Playing plugin first. Had problems with the uninstall like with the other unit and finally got it going after ssh and deleting the folder from /data/plugins.

Regards,

895

Hi @HeadGeek,

On a freshly installed Volumio v4.073 + Now Playing plugin v1.0.2 on Rpi 4, Here’s what I got:

  1. Uninstall fails

This I can confirm. Got an error message about failing to remove some files due to permissions. Will be fixed in next version.

  1. Graphics replaced by text

This I could not reproduce. You’re seeing the text because Google Material Icons font could not be loaded for some reason. But it didn’t happen in my case. Does this happen if you open the Now Playing UI in a desktop web browser?

896

Hi @ClaesM ,

By “update”, did you mean updating from an older version through Volumio’s updater? Or did you perform a fresh install?

Did this happen after you activated the Now Playing screen by clicking the “Set to Now Playing” button in plugin settings? Or simply enabling the plugin is enough to cause the freeze?

897

Hey @patrickkfkan !

I did an update from Volumio 4.072 to 4.073. After updating my problems occure when trying to do some changes in Now Playing 1.02 that already was installed before updating to 4.073. My guess is that there is some compability problem with Volumio 4.073.

Now I have done a fresh install of latest Volumio OS and I’m little bit scared of installing Now Playing again

Best Regards / C