Spotify Connect

[balbuze]

Not sure it will work by changing ${devicename} because the index.js will fail to fill this field and then generate an error. It is better to change it in startconnect.sh once generated by the plugin. But erased each time you save something in the plugin…( that should not happen very often)

[danielfelix]

@spyking

@MovingDots

Hi Balbuze,

Is there any way to change the name of the Volumio player manually?
Right now none of my players are taking the name set in ‘system’

Thanks in advance,

L

Sure: edit the volspotconnect2.tmpl file and replace ${devicename} to what ever you want.

@danielfelix

Vospotconnect2 never worked for me, I use the old Voslpotconnect without any inconvenience.
I would like it to work, but I got tired of trying, there is no way.
Any ideas?

What architecture, and what exactly do you mean by never worked?

Sorry, RaspPi3, Allo Boss DAC, now last dev Volumio.
What I did not do now is to uninstall volspotconnet before installing volspotconnect2, is it necessary?
regard

[balbuze]

Weird as I use the same hardware.

[danielfelix]

@balbuze

Weird as I use the same hardware.

I always have strange things …

[balbuze]

What exactly happens with volspotconnect2 ?
You can’t connect or no sound or what?

[danielfelix]

It connects but there is no sound.

[balbuze]

Do you use the equalizer?

[danielfelix]

Ha! It does not work either! now it is disabled because it starts with the volume at 100%.

[ashthespy]

@balbuze

Not sure it will work by changing ${devicename} because the index.js will fail to fill this field and then generate an error. It is better to change it in startconnect.sh once generated by the plugin. But erased each time you save something in the plugin…( that should not happen very often)

Nah, replace() will just pass along the input string if there is no match.

But - maybe it’s better to expose a new config field with device name - that defaults to the default Volumio name?

[balbuze]

In the first version of volspotconnect, a field in setting allowed to set the name. I remove it because I don’ see the interest of setting a different name from volumio itself, that can be change. Now it is selfconfigured… But if thousand of users need it…

[ashthespy]

@balbuze

In the first version of volspotconnect, a field in setting allowed to set the name. I remove it because I don’ see the interest of setting a different name from volumio itself, that can be change. Now it is selfconfigured… But if thousand of users need it…

Compltely offtopic – It’s easier to implement this than github.com/volumio/Volumio2/pull/1530

Btw - new version is still not available from the official plugin manager Guess @michelangelo forgot to update the gh-pages branch!

[balbuze]

OK I see
But do you think it is really useful in that case? If yes, I’ll add a field for that, and if empty, the default name will be the one set in volumio… What do you think?

[danielfelix]

@balbuze

What exactly happens with volspotconnect2 ?
You can’t connect or no sound or what?

Well, I uninstalled volspotconnect and volspotconnect2, I rebooted, I installed volspotconnect2 and it does not connect, there’s no way.
I went back to voslpotconnect and it works correctly.
I have installed simpleequalizer without activating (it starts 100% in the last two dev versions of Volumio, before it worked correctly), LastFm Scrobbler, Autoplay and RadioParadise.
I’m in Argentina, will it be a problem with the Spotify servers?
regard

[MovingDots]

@balbuze

OK I see
But do you think it is really useful in that case? If yes, I’ll add a field for that, and if empty, the default name will be the one set in volumio… What do you think?

For me it would be useful, because I user upper case for the first letter of the player, and after a reboot of raspberry or restart volspotconnect2 plugin it is often only lowercase. And now with latest dev version I cannot change the name anymore if I change name in system.

It is probably my ocd talking but I like the names clean.

Thanks anyway and thanks for the great work on the plugins!

[yungyaw]

@yungyaw

Hi, I just installed the latest version (18 May 2018) from Github using these commands:

wget https://github.com/balbuze/volumio-plugins/raw/master/plugins/music_service/volspotconnect2/volspotconnect2.zip mkdir ./volspotconnect2 miniunzip volspotconnect2.zip -d ./volspotconnect2 cd ./volspotconnect2 volumio plugin install

My settings for Volspotconnect2 are:

Volumio ver: 2.389
Device: Raspberry Pi 2B+
Initial Volume: 100
Volume Normalisation: OFF
Multi-User Device: ON

I was able to connect and play some songs using Spotify app on my iPhone. However, when I switch away to other app (I did not have background app refresh turned on Spotify app), the connection will lost. It is as if the Spotify must be active or else the connection will lost. I tried the same test on Mac and got the same result. As soon as I close the Spotify app, the connection will lost and music stop playing.

Am I missing something? What else can I try?

Just to update on my issue. I solved the problem by doing a factory reset and reinstalled the volspotconnect2 plugin from github. It is working fine now.

[baba86]

Also did a factory reset here. Installed the plugins via the volumio interface, but still doesn’t do the trick.

Is the via github update different maybe, newer?

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[ashthespy]

@baba86

Also did a factory reset here. Installed the plugins via the volumio interface, but still doesn’t do the trick.

Is the via github update different maybe, newer?

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baba86, unfortunately the official plugin manager has not yet been updated (you should be able to tell from the ‘updated on’ field). So directly from the repo is the option right now.

It’s quite easy

[baba86]

@spyking

@baba86

Also did a factory reset here. Installed the plugins via the volumio interface, but still doesn’t do the trick.

Is the via github update different maybe, newer?

Verstuurd vanaf mijn ONEPLUS A3003 met Tapatalk

baba86, unfortunately the official plugin manager has not yet been updated (you should be able to tell from the ‘updated on’ field). So directly from the repo is the option right now.

It’s quite easy

Challenge accepted Can i find a how to somewhere? Do i need to hookup volumio with a screen?

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[ashthespy]

Nope - just SSH access

github.com/balbuze/volumio-plug … to-install

[thomasweg]

Hey Guys,
i am currently using Raspberry Zero W connected via Wifi.

With volspotconnect2 after about 10 to 15 Minutes the music often justs stops but the cover is still showing up on the volumio homepage and is stated as playing. After that i can’t connect anymore via spotify connect.

Volspotconnect 1 seems to be much more reliable in this kind of regards, but i would like to use shuffle.

The pi can play an internetradio stream for hours without interruption, so the wifi signal seems to be stable.

Has got anybody the same problem with volspotconnect2?

Logs://
[spoiler]Jun 03 11:22:23 volumio volumio[16559]: INFO:librespot_playback::player: SpCon::metadata
Jun 03 11:22:23 volumio volumio[7074]: info: [SpConDebug] Pushing metadata::Vollibrespot:true
Jun 03 11:22:24 volumio volumio[16559]: INFO:librespot_playback::player: Loading track “I Got 5 On It - Feat. Michael Marshall” with Spotify URI “spotify:track:4IYKjN1DrYzxKXt0umJqsG”
Jun 03 11:22:24 volumio volumio[16559]: INFO:librespot_playback::player: Normalisation Data: NormalisationData { track_gain_db: -6.239998, track_peak: 1.0128862, album_gain_db: -6.6600037, album_peak: 1.0332344 }
Jun 03 11:22:24 volumio volumio[16559]: INFO:librespot_playback::player: Applied normalisation factor: 0.48752862
Jun 03 11:22:25 volumio volumio[16559]: INFO:librespot_playback::player: Track “I Got 5 On It - Feat. Michael Marshall” loaded
Jun 03 11:22:25 volumio volumio[16559]: INFO:librespot_playback::player: SpCon::kSpPlayTrackChanged
Jun 03 11:22:25 volumio volumio[7074]: info: [SpConDebug] Sink acquired
Jun 03 11:22:25 volumio volumio[16559]: INFO:librespot_playback::player: SpCon::kSpSinkActive
Jun 03 11:26:38 volumio volumio[7074]: info: [SpConDebug] Sink released
Jun 03 11:26:38 volumio volumio[16559]: INFO:librespot_playback::player: SpCon::kSpSinkInactive
Jun 03 11:26:38 volumio volumio[16559]: ERROR:librespot_core::session: Error { repr: Os { code: 104, message: “Connection reset by peer” } }[/spoiler]