Project with PeppyMeter/PeppySpectrum Screensaver Plugin for VOLUMIO

WayneT · October 12, 2022, 7:44am

Hi @2aCD, great work on this! Is there no way to enable serial output from the peppymeter elements of your plugin?
I tried the link the balbuze’s plugin, but that page doesn’t exist anymore.

bungie240 · October 12, 2022, 7:24pm

Excellent work as always…any chance of the turntable at 1024x600?

Thanks in advance.

Gelo5 · October 13, 2022, 6:40am

Yhy

ClaesM · October 13, 2022, 4:34pm

840 x 480?……. Please……

bungie240 · October 14, 2022, 8:15pm

Thank you Gelo5, looks awesome.

WayneT · October 15, 2022, 2:20am

Found the link, and got serial working with some minor tweaks. Details here.

After the fact it occurred to me that I could have just used this plugin, then install peppymeter using the normal procedure (not as a plugin). The only reason I needed a plugin was since Volumio v3 doesn’t allow you to change /etc/asound.conf, which this plugin resolved. All you need to do after that is install peppymeter iaw with https://github.com/project-owner/PeppyMeter.doc/wiki/Installation then adjust the config.txt file to use the fifo created by the plugin (from memory this plugin uses /tmp/myfifo).

dvo · October 15, 2022, 7:32am

Hey Gelo5 a question is it posible to use css3 in peppy?

Gelo5 · October 15, 2022, 8:59am

This is a question for @2aCD or @Wheaten or @balbuze or our programming colleagues

dvo · October 15, 2022, 9:12am

Oke i think it’s for @2aCD or @peppy.player and not the others

So far as i can see it’s not there i think peppy is not web based.

Gelo5 · October 15, 2022, 9:27am

840x480? If this is a mistake - 800x480 is higher

peppy.player · October 15, 2022, 4:03pm

As others replied already - PeppyMeter was written in Python using Pygame module/library. It’s so called rich client which is usually running on displays connected to you computer not remote browsers. It cannot run in a browser directly like Javascript. Therefore you cannot use CSS3 (used for styling web pages) with PeppyMeter UI.

But besides of displays connected to you computer PeppyMeter can output volume signal to other devices as well. Those devices should be connected to your computer (e.g. Raspberry Pi) using such connections/protocols as I2C, Serial interface, PWM and HTTP:
Outputs · project-owner/PeppyMeter.doc Wiki · GitHub

Using HTTP protocol PeppyMeter can send a volume signals to browsers over your local network. Though in this case it’s your responsibility to implement the whole UI. While doing that you can use CSS3 or any other web technology which you know/prefer.

Best regards

dvo · October 15, 2022, 4:08pm

Oke tnx for the info

dc2geeks · October 16, 2022, 6:51am

and 1280 x 400 …please…

ClaesM · October 16, 2022, 10:03am

I just hit 4 by mistake…

Joersch · October 16, 2022, 1:04pm

My case is finished, maybe there will be an update

Gelo5 · October 16, 2022, 1:21pm

Yhy
All new skins:
Project with PeppyMeter Screensaver Plugin for VOLUMIO v2.9xx and 3.0xx buster - #1396 by Gelo5?

mchief · October 16, 2022, 6:52pm

Thank you @Gelo5

peppy.player · October 16, 2022, 7:47pm

I’ll post this announcement here as this is the most active PeppyMeter thread on this forum.

New version (Signac Edition) of the PeppyMeter was released today:

New features include:

Refactored the algorithms for circular and linear meters
The changes allow to create vertical linear and circular meters
The circular meter range can be more than 180 degrees now
Fixed rendering issues for several default meters

Here are the new default meters which demo the new functionality:

Gelo5 · October 16, 2022, 7:51pm

Please describe the installation process.

peppy.player · October 16, 2022, 7:59pm

I’m not familiar with Volumio plugin which is using the PeppyMeter code. Whenever it fetches the PeppyMeter from the Github it will get the latest version.