RuneAudio 0.4-beta for Raspberry Pi2/3

hondagx35

Hi all,

a new image (Raspberry Pi2/3) is available for testing.

You can download it from my Google Drive.

What is new, has changed?

- If a WiFi device is available and no IP is assigned RuneAudio starts an AccessPoint.

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SSID: RuneAudioAP
Passphrase: RuneAudio
IP: 192.168.5.1

- No need to edit config.txt, I2S DAC can be enabled from UI.

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- password protection
The UI can be password protected (default "rune")

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- screensaver mode for local and remote browser

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- Artist and Lyric info

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- randomly add songs from a playlist to the end of the current playlist

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- Spotify only visible when enabled + browsing by Composer

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- boot screen for local display (optimized for 7" TFT)
The pictures are located in "/usr/share/bootsplash"

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- image can be made Read-Only (sorry not possible at the moment, because aufs is not enabled in the kernel)
Please contact me if you like to test this feature

- RaspiBackup installed and configured (but not available via UI yet)

- support for all new ALLO products
ALLO Piano 2.0 syncronized volumes (digital & subwoofer) when hardware volume is enabled.

- alsamixer now can be accessed via UI
Does not look good but sometimes very handy
http://yourIP:8080

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- bugfixes and other small changes

I hope you like it

Please feel free to post your comments / bug reports here.

Frank

ianhaynes

It's great to see this new release. I'd like to test the 'read only' feature please.

Thank you again for all the work the team put into it.

Ian

Stephane

Hi Frank,

I have just installed it. I had to configure my touchscreen by hand (Waveshare 800x480) because the resolution is not automatically set.

Can I save the configuration from the previous version and restore it to the new one? I have several webradios that I would not like to enter by hand again!

I will test it more this evening at home and report.

ianhaynes

All set up and working, once I remembered to reboot having set the DAC type

The WebRadio sorted alphabetically and not returning to the main library screen when you've added a station is excellent, thank you.

Three comments so far:

The words 'Library', 'Playback' and 'Queue' and their respective icons are all bottom-aligned. I'm sure they used to be vertically centered.

I've read elsewhere that the recent versions of MPD can play .M3U8 files natively (as used by the BBC now for their highest-res feeds). It would be great to have this in Rune. (rather than have to use MinimServer).

As noted by Stephane, it would be good to be able to save a list of Radio stations and bring them back into a new Rune installation.

Ian

PS: The artist and song information is excellent too.

Yatsushiro

This is not fair, I'm stuck at work...

Have you incorporated the 'audio' 384kHz advanced kernel?

Stephane

The local screensaver does not seem to work. I changed the value to 5 (minutes?) and nothing happens.
I have a Waveshare 7" HDMI and USB touchscreen (800x480) connected.

hondagx35

Hi Stephane,

Stephane wroteCan I save the configuration from the previous version and restore it to the new one? I have several webradios that I would not like to enter by hand again!

Sorry, save and restore is not possible.
You can try this script from user "xan".

Frank

hondagx35

Hi Ian,

The words 'Library', 'Playback' and 'Queue' and their respective icons are all bottom-aligned. I'm sure they used to be vertically centered.

Thank you for pointing this out, this will be fixed with official release

I've read elsewhere that the recent versions of MPD can play .M3U8 files natively (as used by the BBC now for their highest-res feeds). It would be great to have this in Rune. (rather than have to use MinimServer).

The version used in this image should be able to use m3u8 but it is not compiled in.
I will try to get it in with the official release.

Frank

hondagx35

Hi Yatsushiro,

Have you incorporated the 'audio' 384kHz advanced kernel?

No, not yet.

Frank

hondagx35

Hi Stephane,

The local screensaver does not seem to work. I changed the value to 5 (minutes?) and nothing happens.

It is in seconds and only gets activated while playing and not on the settings screens.

Frank

Frost_dk

Hi Frank.
That you very much for the new image. the WIFI AP works like a charm

I have found two "bugs"

It seems that with my system, the reboot button does not work, the spinning wheel comes and the screen fades out, but it is never rebooted.

At the dev page, http://runeaudio.local/dev, I can't activate DEV mode.

EDIT : After a reboot, It was possible to change into DEV mode, but it took 2 tries before it was saved.

regards,
Rune Frost

ianhaynes

Frank,

You mentioned being able to make the image read-only. How do we enable that?

Ian

mo86

Hi Frank! Thanks for the new beta version, looks great with the new features.

I found a bug, but it's not a new one:
When having albums with the same name, from different artists (Greatest Hits is a good example), it shows all artists and title from this albums. Also if I selected an artist before, it shows me all artists with a greatest hits album.

This happens when open any greatest hits album:

MO86

hondagx35

Hi mo86,

I found a bug, but it's not a new one:
When having albums with the same name, from different artists (Greatest Hits is a good example), it shows all artists and title from this albums. Also if I selected an artist before, it shows me all artists with a greatest hits album.

Yes, it is a known bug but not easy to fix at the moment.
Let me see what i can do.

Frank

hondagx35

Hi Ian,

You mentioned being able to make the image read-only. How do we enable that?

A HowTo will come soon.

Frank

Discovery

Hi Frank,

Is this the long-discussed new version with refactored code, etc., or perhaps an updated version of the current build while development of the refactored code version continues?

Thanks,

Trevor

hondagx35

Hi Trevor,

Is this the long-discussed new version with refactored code

No, it isn't but i think it is worth to try.

Frank

DomieMic65

Hallo Frank!

I am downloading ... are there any changes that lead to better sound?
Thnx!

What are the benefits of "read only" version?

Keep up the great work you are doing!!!!!!!!!!!

Stephane

The SMB share is not active, I can't connect to it with my linux laptop or my windows laptop.

EDIT: systemctl enable smbd && systemctl start sbmd and everything works fine.

EDIT 2 : write access is denied.

hondagx35

Hi Stephane,

The SMB share is not active,

On my system it is:

root@runeaudio(rw):~# systemctl status smbd
● smbd.service - Samba SMB/CIFS server
   Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/smbd.service; disabled; vendor preset: disabled)
   Active: active (running) since Mon 2016-02-22 15:40:22 CET; 59s ago
 Main PID: 422 (smbd)
    Tasks: 2 (limit: 512)
   CGroup: /system.slice/smbd.service
           ├─422 /usr/bin/smbd -D
           └─425 /usr/bin/smbd -D

Feb 22 15:40:21 runeaudio systemd[1]: Starting Samba SMB/CIFS server...
Feb 22 15:40:22 runeaudio systemd[1]: Started Samba SMB/CIFS server.
root@runeaudio(rw):~#

And it is accessible from Windows and Linux as read-write.

Edit: The date is strange, i have to check this!

Frank