Volumio with lcd 20x4 customized

Hi Edrian

I’ve just tried my box of bits build and couldn’t get the LCD to work either… there seems to be a new notice about buster end of life during the pydpiper install:

DEPRECATION WARNING
Progress: 70
Status :Installing necessary utilities
This Linux distribution (raspbian buster) reached end-of-life and is no longer supported by this script.

Not sure if that’s the problem yet. Will keep looking…

/S

Hi Edrian

Still not sure about why this is happening, but managed to get it working by taking a working docker image and copying it to a new 3.631 install.

1, Install pydpiper as normal, so that it shows up in the Volumio plugin UI
2, Download this to your /home/volumio directory as a TAR file
file (link only valid for 7 days)
3, Replace the not working docker container with the downloaded one by typing sudo load -i ./pydpiper.tar (it takes a little while to extract and copy)
4, check your pydpiper settings via the plugin UI and click “Save” to restart the service
5, wait… :slight_smile:

That worked for me at least

/S

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Thanks mate, I’ll try these later appreciate your help

Edit: should i use filezilla to transfer this file to home/volumio directory?

Done! Plugin Successfully Installed
Plugin installed successfully!
volumio@volumio:~$ sudo load -i ./pydpiper.tar
[sudo] password for volumio:
sudo: load: command not found

Sorry!

should be: sudo docker load -i ./pydpiper.tar

ill try again, thanks
btw. how do i modify the text/script/code on my LCD
like changing position of text and changing the opening text like welcome volumio

you need to edit the Pages file in /home/volumio/pydpiper specifiied at the bottom of pydpiper UI and set the mount pount to “Local directory”:

You might have to change the ownership of the pydpiper folder so you can edit the file with:

sudo chown +R ./pydPiper

There’s a short guide to the content of the pages file here: display-configuration

The opening text is found in the splash widget section.

Widgets are placed in a canvas and then a sequence will call one or more canvas items.

Hope some of that helps.

Hi @SimonF,
Finally made to work with old ver.
My other concerns is i try to run to a latest version, the plugin is manage to install and showing lcd time time and start pyd and exiting pyd… But if i play a song nothing comes out.


That’s my experience also.

I think it’s related to an update in the newer version of the socket.io component. PydPiper is requesting player state data and the new socket.io isn’t responding

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