[PLUGIN] YouTube for Volumio

domi · November 24, 2020, 4:09pm

i really appreciate ur help and ur work… but it seams that there is no common solution for this Problem… i will try to set up a completly fresh System and will report if Things gonna Change…
thank u

patrickkfkan · November 27, 2020, 11:04am

Hi guys,

I’ve been missing from the scene for ~9 months. During this time, I’ve moved on to other things but still use Volumio occasionally for my music stuff.

As I understand, the Youtube plugin had been removed from the official list of Volumio plugins. I haven’t been using the plugin since then but I think it would now be a good time to revisit it and see what can be done to get it working properly again. Nevertheless, since I can only do this in my spare time, it could be a while before I can churn something out. Hopefully I’ll be able to get something done before Christmas (current code looks like mashed potato, so I’ll probably start afresh).

Best regards,
Patrick

dvo · November 28, 2020, 6:03pm

@patrickkfkan did you see this?

dvo · November 30, 2020, 2:33pm

does any one still have the plugin working? mine is dead…
uhm in no version it want’s to play …( 3.10 and 2.853 )
the 3.10 indexes songs fast and the 2.853 is very slow in responce
i can login to google … can search on yt with volumio he says gonna play but no responce of mpd
it shows but player doesn’t play…

"dependencies": {
		"googleapis": "45.0.0",
		"inside": "^1.0.0",
		"iso8601-duration": "1.0.6",
		"kew": "0.7.0",
		"md5": "2.2.1",
		"node-cache": "5.0.1",
		"v-conf": "^1.4.0",
		"ytdl-core": "^3.2.0"

any body a idea? went true all options above… need some ideas

queengab · December 7, 2020, 4:00pm

Hi to all,

it seems yotube plugin for Volumio has again problems with the video/audio coding. Since one week i experienced the same problems of other users.

This is my log running after login to volumio via ssh and running sudo journalctl -f

Dec 07 15:46:38 volumio volumio[819]: ***** track.uri: bEeaS6fuUoA
Dec 07 15:46:38 volumio volumio[819]: Calling `ytdl.getInfo` with a callback will be removed in a near future release. Use async/await.
Dec 07 15:46:40 volumio volumio[819]: Error: Error parsing info: Unable to retrieve video metadata
Dec 07 15:46:40 volumio volumio[819]: at getWatchPage (/data/plugins/music_service/youtube/node_modules/ytdl-core/lib/info.js:75:13)
Dec 07 15:46:40 volumio volumio[819]: at <anonymous>
Dec 07 15:46:40 volumio volumio[819]: at process._tickCallback (internal/process/next_tick.js:188:7)
Dec 07 15:46:40 volumio volumio[819]: Error opening Youtube stream, video is probably not valid.

Please help me to understand if you have the same errors to start a debug.

I would like to rembember that we used a youtube plguin 0.10 from december 2019 (i think to remember) but there are new versions. Rember also that google apis actyal version is the 59.00 or 61.00

The code of the plugin is a mess and i’d like to hel with debug and test a developer with the right knoweldge of node.js (unfornately i don’t know node.js).

One month ago i compare the two versions of plugin and the are many differences also i the autenthication paramters and method to work.

Maybe @patrickkfkan is our man or @balbuze.

I’d like to rembember that volumio is great, but for my experience, youtube actually is my method to listen the 70% during my day. Is free and have music also in hd nowadays and i cant’ pay a service like spotify or something else.

The youtube plugin is kille service for Volumio. It’s important.

For the moment you can go using stream what you hear from your pc and setting a local webradio starting from your pc, but it’s not the same, instead cant using bubble upnp app with my smartphone.

The real joy is to use yotube plugin with smartphone.

Bye

dvo · December 7, 2020, 4:05pm

@queengab
around christmas patrickkfkan will get in to this matter he said …
so we have to wait a little bit … it would be a nice christmass gift from him i guess
@alex me Tree

Axel · December 7, 2020, 9:26pm

Now I’m looking forward to Xmas even more

jnreinwa · December 13, 2020, 11:11am

Hi everyone,

is it really a good idea to rely on the Google API? There have always been issues about it…
On the other hand Google seems to be very friendly to access via youtube-dl. Seems like a lot of persons work on it to keep it working.
I’m not a JavaScript programmer, but there exists an NPM package for accessing youtube-dl from within JavaScript that might be useful: https://www.npmjs.com/package/youtube-dl

Regards,
Jochen

dvo · December 13, 2020, 1:10pm

@jnreinwa
they are back …27 days …they had RIAA problems that’s why we didn’t use it Jochen…

DoNaLdDuck · December 13, 2020, 2:26pm

mine is also dead

jnreinwa · December 13, 2020, 2:57pm

@dvo
The Software was always working and it was possible to get it from other websites. It is not an online service that can be taken down. The RIAA problems showed once more that it is not easy to “take down” youtube-dl. As long as Google is not really willing to do so…

dvo · December 13, 2020, 3:09pm

we will see what way it’s gonna be … patrickkfkan will pick it so wait and see…

wynand_goss · December 16, 2020, 8:41am

Hi there @volumio team I have a issue where the youtube plugin is not listed under the PLUGIN MANAGER under MUSIC SERVICES I am running system ver 2.853
is there a plugin or service that i need to install before i can get the youtube plugin on my list to be installed

thanks Wynand

Axel · December 16, 2020, 10:48am

Hi Wyand, it’s not listed since a while because it’s not running currently. More details you can find in this thread.

patrickkfkan · December 16, 2020, 12:22pm

Hi everyone,

Let’s move over to this thread:

Regards,
Patrick

wynand_goss · December 16, 2020, 12:37pm

Thanks @Axel

will go and have a look at it

queengab · December 17, 2020, 10:01am

Hi @patrickkfkan,

thansk very much for your effort.
I have 2 questions for you

I have actually volumio 2.853 (latst version) with rapi2 and hi-fi berry. Mpd version 0.20.18. Is this the case to follow your insturctions here?
MPD 0.21.16 for Volumio (arm, armv7 and x86)
I have upnp server can’t work and have problem in the past with youtube playback that interrupt at 3/4 of the song. I assume volumio is based on older debian version.
To install the plugin i will follo your link. But don’t know if we can clone the plugin direclty from github. And then where can i create the youtube plugin installation idrectory? Inside volumio directory user of volumio?

Anyway thanbks very much for your work. We really appreciate and if you need tests write to me!

Bye

dvo · December 17, 2020, 10:10am

with the mpd update that would be something from the past … @queengab only if you keep the 0.20.18
you will have problems so update thempd and your good…dir will be : home/volumio/
extract it and do a manual install : volumio plugin install
for the mpd is the install way written in the posts above…

patrickkfkan · December 17, 2020, 10:46am

@queengab,

Since you’re on 2.853, it would perhaps be better for you to try the mpd update first to get rid of the playback cut-off problem (yes, just follow the instructions there). 3.010 has its share of issues and while the plugin works well without needing to update mpd, you may encounter other issues.

As @dvo said, you need to run volumio plugin install after cloning the Github repo. You can just go to the Github link and copy and paste the commands from the installation instructions (after enabling ssh on your Volumio device).

I suggest we all move to the new thread and raise questions about the new plugin there. This way, the post with the new plugin link will not get buried by the later posts.

queengab · December 17, 2020, 10:50am

with the mpd update that would be something from the past … @queengab only if you keep the 0.20.18
you will have problems so update thempd and your good…dir will be : home/volumio/

Can’t understand…please be more clear.

Anyway @patrickkfkan i report my experience.
Volumio latest version 2.853 on arm device (raspi2)
Updated mpd daemon and enabled (MPD 0.21.16 for Volumio (arm, armv7 and x86))
Installed youtube plugin 2 and enabled youtube api method. Works like a charm!!!
Thank you very much. This is a great work for the community.

Bye

OT: i thinked the MPD update also resolved my problem with UPNB and bubble upnp server but can’t find nothing.

EDIt: i replied on the new thread!!
Bye we will move there