Having free time during the holidays has lead me to make a lot of changes to Volumio 1.55. See previous post here: https://volumio.org/forum/new-for-volumio-t3697-10.html where I talk about some of the changes I made with a screenshot example.
As opposed to my previous post, this is a much larger shift, and more things are broken while I am developing and I still need to convert all of the settings type pages. Also, if you were to make this change, you would need to install pianod, upgrade php, install 2 extensions for php, and add a couple more processes to your startup, so it is definitely not a git clone away.
Long story short, I’ll probably just make my own IMG file to distribute once I am done tinkering.
PS I would really like to get the Volumio slack channel going (https://volumio.org/forum/volumio-slack-channel-t3711.html), as I would love to collaborate and spread ideas more quickly, so if you are interested, message me your email so I can invite you!
Can you offer some insight into what you did to get Pandora going? I’ve been wondering about trying to do that, but I’m probably on my own in terms of making it happen since I made the mistake of getting a Utilite to run Volumio, and that’s never worked properly out of the box. Pianod with the web interface reskinned and incorporated into the volumio UI?
sudo apt-get install libao-dev libgcrypt11-dev libgnutls-dev libjson0 libjson0-dev libfaad-dev libmad0-dev
sudo apt-get install libjson0 libjson0-dev
wget http://deviousfish.com/Downloads/pianod/pianod-latest.tar.gz
tar -zxvf pianod-latest.tar.gz
cd pianod-175
./configure && make
sudo make install
cd contrib
cp startscript-example /usr/local/etc/pianod.startscript
vi /usr/local/etc/pianod.startscript
#make changes to reflect your pandora account
vi /usr/share/alsa/alsa.conf
#replace "pcm.front cards.pcm.front" with "pcm.front cards.pcm.default"
#start the service with the following command
sudo pianod -n root (root can control audio device)
And then it is used exactly like mpd/spop except on tcp port 4445.
Well, about that, every developer is a sunday DIY’er. There dedicated to make volumio 2, a complete rework
The official releases need to bring an out-of-box experience, users should not need to manually install core functionality.
I’m not saying socketman isn’t doing a great job, because he is doing a great job. I’m just saying there are other expectations for volumio 2 and every one works on volumio in their free time.
I did say later in my post that I am going to offer it as an IMG file, but I just wanted to update my progress and let people know they could, if they wanted to, do the upgrade process
If so, will it have the kernel that allows it to do USB storage? All releases to date have require manual updating of the kernel to get USB working, and it’s a huge headache when a newer kernel was released by Compulab a long time ago.
Unfortunately, I don’t have the competency to do it. I can fiddle with systems to a point, but I’m a terrible/incompetent scripter/coder.
My work with the Utilite was primarily taking the existing Volumio img, which was built on a very, very old Compulab kernel, and upgrading the kernel in-place with a newer one supplied by Compulab. The only thing that got me was USB, but that was what I wanted from it.
