I had start the support for a similar animation some time ago. But it‘s difficult to do this as an additional modul without change the main routines of peppy meter.
@peppy.player, if you have an code sample for me, I can look, how we can implement this.
You can send me a PM 
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Fantastic job!!!
I built my Volumio streamer with rpi 4 4gb, linear power supply, lcd 8,8" and now with peppymeter.
2aCD your plugin is marvellous.
After some listening sessions, I decided to play DSD songs.
Unfortunately I eard randomly dropouts (rattering).
The problem is more present with DSD128 songs.
I use the internal Oppo 105D usb DAC.
The “DSD Playback mode” is setted on DoP.
In Peppymeter plugin I use DSD native.
Can you help me?
Please
Try changing DoP to DSD Direct.
Thank you
If I change DoP to DSD Direct my dac doesn’t read the song as DSD, but it shows LPCM 2.0 384Mhz.
For this reason I didn’t try this solution.
Hi,
I’m trying to install PeppyMeter but fail to do so. The installation works o.k., but when trying to run it I get the message:
pygame 1.9.4.post1
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Traceback (most recent call last):
File “peppymeter.py”, line 289, in
pm.init_display()
File “peppymeter.py”, line 145, in init_display
pygame.display.init()
pygame.error: Unable to open a console terminal
I checked the following:
- I gave permission using sudo chmod 666 /dev/fb0
- I setup the config file to look at FRAMEBUFFER_DEVICE = “/dev/fb0”
- I set the correct resolution of the screen (1280x400)
Now, I suspect the screen resolution. The spec says 400x1280, but when I give these parameters, it says that it can’t open the file 400x1280 or can’t find it.
I have uninstalled Piton, PeppyMeter and dependencies and reinstalled back. Nothing helps.
Any suggestions will be highly appreciated. I don’t know what to do next.
Thanks,
Jacob
Hello
The Peppymeter 2.2.1 plugin is installed according to the instructions from “Gelo5” on a newly installed Volumio 3.757 and runs well. However, with the recommended Alsa setting “DSD native (bitperfect audio)” I have irregular dropouts in the sound. In the playback settings I have set the recommended 12 MB for “Audio buffer size”.
If I choose the Alsa setting “modular Alsa”, the dropouts in the sound do not occur. However, the audio stream is downsampled from 24 bit in 96 kHz to 16 bit in 48 kHz. This is what my built-in real-time audio analyzer (Ian Canada MonitorPi Pro) shows. I can also hear a loss in sound quality.
My system consists of a Raspberry Pi 4 with 8 GB RAM with an Ian Canada ESS9038Q2M dual mono DAC shield. In Volumio, the DAC model is set to “Audiophonics I-Sabre ES9028Q2M”.
I have the same behavior with my other Raspberry Pi streamers (Audiophonics Evo Sabre and Audiophonics ES9038Q2M DAC-Shield). All 3 streamers are based on the ESS9038Q2M D/A chip.
What am I doing wrong? What else can I do to stop the sound dropouts with “bitperfect audio”? I don’t want to use “Modular Alsa” because of the poorer sound.
Thanks and best regards
Gunter
I also have an Ian Canada but don’t experience this problem.
Raspberry 5 4gb, Ian Canada isolator ll, FofoPi MA 1.5, ES9038Q2M Dual Mono II, Transformer I/V, monitor Pi pro.
I use hifi Berry dac + pro [p5] as driver because of the FifoPi MA 1.5.
bèta software kernel 6.6.
Thanks for the tip.
I have in my system:
- Raspberry Pi 4 with 8 GB RAM, with Ethernet cable in the home network
- from Ian Canada: ShieldPi Pro Mk.III (EMI shield / power cleaner), ReceiverPi DDC with Amanero Combo384 (digital inputs RCA, OPT, I2S, USB), FifoPi Q7 (Re-Clocker), ES9038Q2M Dual Mono II (DAC), I/V STD MkII (Output stage) with 2 SparkoS Labs SS3602 Dual Discrete OPA DIP8 (Class A output amps), MonitorPi Pro (control center and signal analyzer)
- Volumio 3.757 (no beta)
- Standard 14 inch touchscreen monitor (HDMI, 1920x1080, 60 Hz)
The HiFiBerry DAC+ Pro [Pi5] driver is not available in Volumio 3.757 (no beta). If I select the HiFi Berry DAC+ Pro as the driver, I have no sound. Volumio shows the error message “Failed to open ALSA. Failed to open ALSA device ‘Volumio’. No such device.”
I haven’t done the Volumio 3 beta test with kernel 6.6 yet. Is that difficult?
I use hifiberry dac+ pro because of the driver that FifoPiMA needs, previously I had to add the driver to the /boot/userconfig.txt file otherwise no sound.
This has now been adjusted in the beta.
but I think because of the ES9038Q2M Dual Mono II and Q7 you need the Audiophonics driver.
The link shows the problem I had before, this is also the beta section, just scroll all the way to the top and it tells you how to enable the beta.
A post was merged into an existing topic: Volumio x86 + PeppyMeter
The update to the software kernel 6.6 did not solve the sound dropouts. But now my USB WLAN stick works and at a super-fast 433 Mb/s. 
According to the manual for my Ian Canada FiFoPi Q7, you can use “Generic I2S DAC” as the DAC model in Volumio instead of “Audiophonics I-Sabre ES9028Q2M”.
I tried that. It was a complete success. With the “Generic I2S DAC”, the sound dropouts with PeppyMeter in Bitperfect mode are gone and all DAC and reclocker functions work perfectly. 
I don’t know how you connected the ian canada Ess Sabre DAC, but take a look at these settings and it could be that the Audiophonics I-Sabre ES9028Q2M driver is not working properly.
When I select OSF bypass I get distorted crackling sound.
This is a very long thread going back years and webradio has been mentioned but as things are currently, is there a way to get webradio station titles to display consistently? These are custom added stations via mywebradio.
They sometimes appear but I’m not sure what triggers them on or off. Slightly less important, is it possible to have album art for mywebradio stations, I’m only using four stations and can transfer art manually.
Thank you for all the work you’ve put into this.
This is what I’m currently seeing, art and titles work with Spotify and network shares. Sorry for the graininess, just a quick iPad shot.
