Video UI via HDMI?

jruben4

Just started working with RuneAudio, so this might be a dumb question -

I'm using my TV speakers as my audio output (via HDMI) so when Rune is playing, I need my TV on. The audio is working great. My question is, I'm just seeing a linux login prompt, which is kind of boring (and may burn in my screen).

Is there some sort of visualization that I can turn on (over the HDMI video out) to show what track is playing, screen art, etc? I know I can see that in my webUI, but I need something on the TV when I'm using the audio.

Thanks!

ACX

Hi ,
unfortunatly for you RuneAudio does not provide anything like that out of the box, as it's intended to be used as an headless player. But you can install third party stuff on your own, for example Ncmpcpp and enable its visualization.

jruben4

Could ncmpcpp be running at the same time I'm using Rune's web interface to play/stop songs?

ACX

Yes, you can use multiple clients at once.

jruben4

Are there any instructions out there on installing ncmpcpp on RuneOS? I played around with it but it's not straightforward...

ACX

RuneOS is based on Arch Linux, so please refer to the Arch Linux wiki I linked you.
To install the package do the follow:

pacman -Sy
pacman -S ncmpcpp

From this point you are on your own