show photo of both items (from templates and templates_spectrum)
That’s what I did?
Download
unpack and copy the WHOLE FOLDERS (from templates–>to templates, from templates_spectrum–>to templates_spectrum), do not change the name
TYVM, that fixed it! 
Apologies for the delayed reply, I had reached my forum allowance.
Volumio X86 PeppySpectrum It was very successful, I added a short video.Thank you very much to everyone who contributed.
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Totatally agree with this. Reading a thread that spands years doesn’t make sense.
Hey Falk,
Running V2.21 of peppy on Volumio V3.742.
If I turn of animation and place the VU-meter somewhere on the screen I get Segmentation Faults, and Peppy won’t start.
If I enable animation again, peppy starts without errors?
error: peppy_screensaver: Error start PeppyMeter: Error: Command failed: /data/plugins/user_interface/peppy_screensaver/run_peppymeter.sh
/data/plugins/user_interface/peppy_screensaver/run_peppymeter.sh: line 7: 4417 Segmentation fault python3 ./screensaver/volumio_peppymeter.py
If I do the same with a full screen template (1280x400) I can turn animation of and peppy starts.
Any idea?
Hi @Wheaten,
I‘ll check this with volumio v3.742
The segmentation fault error is very difficult. It comes from pygame v2 with sdl2. I don’t know exactly if sdl2 version changed in this Volumio version.
If this error also occurs with my original skins?
No only with smaller ones, that I use as overlay over Volumio’s “Manifest” or “Now Playing”.
It is also intermitted, or better screen dependent. The segmentation faults happens on the Waveshare 7.9 Inch (HDMI), but not a Waveshare 4.3inch Capacitive Touchscreen MIPI DSI screen.
Ah, I understand. This is a known issue for small resolutions 320x240 and 480x320.
Please set in meters.txt:
meter.x = 1 instead 0
I think that helps.
Will try but the resolutions are:
1280x400 (failing) and 800x480 (working)
Tested on the Waveshare 800x480, modified meter.x=1, and it worked.
Thanks
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1 more question 
Had anyone success to make the background xxxx-bgr.png transparent? Looking for a way to fill up unused space on my 1280x400 screen, but the background is pretty dominant.
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insert this bgr
Funny you 
If I leave it blank Peppy won’t start.
If white => white
If transparant png => black
If I use a 1x1 pixel png => indicator won’t refresh and grey background
Have you tried transparent + a few 1px drops?
Hi @Wheaten,
transparent background isn’t possible. It is an initialised pygame screen, this screen can’t be transparent. It always needs a picture or color, alpha channel is ignored.
For the fade in effect I use a trick. I capture the current screen before the screen saver start and use it as background. But with your overlay the current screen is dynamically, with the next song it is changed. Therefore it’s not possible to use it as background.