Getting Started with Volumio, the Music Server on a Rpi that works with Home Assistant

[@glib01]

In case someone comes across this and has the same problem that I had. Couldn't get the hat to work with raspbian, so I temporarily installed volumio; then checked /boot/config.txt and found dtoverlay=hifiberry-amp so I added that line to the same file in raspbian and the hat now works.

[@DrZzs]

Thanks for sharing! I'll pin this just in case.

[@extraordinaryhuman1806]

the head floating is kinda scary but the video is good

[@alerey4363]

it's a tribute to the Talking Heads

[@fordi_steve]

It’s like watching Red Dwarf!! Great video too.

[@ovide115]

Absolutely, looks like he is drowning in the image or sinking in a swamp of software. And indeed the video is verry good.

[@longstaffkj]

Great video. 👍 I've been looking for something like this before committing to installing volumio. Floating head, not so great.

[@0815DST]

Can I stream Audio from my phone (any Audio file or youtube sound or whatever) to the Hifi Berry via the BT functionallity of my RPi 3 while Volumio is running?

[@YawnDogg]

need this answer otherwise not worth it

[@youraverageaudiophile4069]

for bluetooth you will need paid version..... better option is Airplay / UPnP... you have a plugin available in volumio... you can use Airplay in case of iOS... for Android you can install BubbleUPnP app from playstore

[@ABKimp]

Does Volumio need a separate Pi? Or can it be installed on the same one running HA? 2. Can it run on a Pi zero? Or ESP 32?

[@LucasDellaSantina]

esto es lo que estoy buscando

[@BK-fr9vz]

Smart man! Love your works and love your head on the screen xD good job hope you do well in future

[@DrZzs]

ha! Thanks! I'll do my best to keep making good stuff.

[@derekswitzer9624]

I know this is an older vid now, but can Pandora be played through Volumio now? or just Spotify as far as music streaming?

[@Johnny5rlx]

ok real feedback here. sorry it's negative but it's honest. this is nauseating to me. is sounds so robot, but so human, not sure , such a obnoxious combination. really don't know anything about the content.... just impossible to listen to it and retain my sanity :(

[@epg2501]

Do the have the Spotify API fixed now so it shows playlists? Looking to out together a Raspberry Pi streamer.

[@BB-Rareburto]

I love the head, and your video is really good in every respect. Thanks.

[@drewc9947]

So, say you had a functional 8 track stereo receiver, with phono in, with 8 ohm speakers. Could this 20W amp be connected into the phono in to convert it into a Bluetooth radio? Would your phone control the Pi volume via Bluetooth like any device, with the receiver adding more volume on top?

[@amitabhsrivastava1255]

You shouldn't connect amp out to the phono in. Things will blow if there is no protection in the device.

[@alaskawoodman]

Is it possible to have Volumio playing a playlist (songs) and then have HA trigger the sound effect (door bell ring for example) AND have Volumio return to the songs it was playing before it was interrupted by the HA triggered sound effect?

[@youraverageaudiophile4069]

can be done by Node Red

[@dummag4126]

Impossible!!!! I try but there is no way to configure wifi net before.

[@chrisrosenkreuz23]

attention naturally flows to Iron Maiden. EXCELLENT

[@EsotericArctos]

Do you still use Volumio? Did you setup as multi-room audio or just for one room?

[@aihysp]

any news on TTS? and also to play files and not playlist?

[@ansomeBob]

I'm looking for a video of adding snapcast to a system like this but not found one yet. Anyone point me at one? Volumio installed and working well, playing through the DAC but adding the snapcast plugin seems to mute the DAC output.

[@wty1313]

Great instructions, but the floating head thing is kinda disturbing...

[@MattFarmerdotnet]

Thank you for this video. Is it possible to play the same audio on multiple Volumio Pis at the same time for a whole home audio solution?

[@robthomas7232]

I had a play with volumio a couple of times in the past and its really good and seems to be actively developed. Multi room sync is what I needed though which is why I went the Google home/Chromecast route. Looks like they know its still needed and there is a 3rd party plugin that can help ...volumio.org/forum/multiroom-and-synced-multiroom-should-built-t8264.html

[@MattFarmerdotnet]

Rob Thomas thanks!

[@chrishettinger6314]

Check out Pi Core player software. The players use Logitech Media Server to stream from a windows computer hosting the media server. They can be synced so that one stream is synchronized to multiple players. I run several on Raspberry Pi zero W with a generic DAC from Amazon. I have pi 3-bs and 2-bs. Some using on-board audio port, some with the same DAC. Some on wifi and some ethernet. You can play unique streams to each or have 1 or more syncs. Pi Core Player is read only, so if you unplug a pi without shutdown, the card does not get corrupted. I have been running 7 or so with no issues for about 3 years. Best of all, the pi's are all headless and controllable using any web enabled device using a number of apps or web browser. the icing on the cake is that Home Assistant automatically recognized and loads the players.

[@DrZzs]

wow! that sounds really great. If anyone wants to check it out here's the link to get picoreplayer picoreplayer.sourceforge.net/main_about.shtml

[@James02876]

You can also check out forked-daapd for multi room. It supports streaming to airplay and Chromecast devices, and lets you run it as a service, so you can use the pi for other programs as well.

[@vursalov]

of course like. But that Head like Frankinshtain )))))

[@mattivirta]

i need help, i have raspi 3 b+ whit subtronix X820 HDD board, no SD card used, and subtronic X920 pcm5122 DAC board, i need use raspi to table computer, many different software, and if looking movie or video youtube etc. need sound, now i has test my new DAC board in raspi and volume has headphone wery slow. how can make better and install volumio because all manual what i found internet has image to SD card, shit, no need image ,i have own builder good image in raspi, need only software who can play and contoller volume good in display whit mouse, ,no have touchscreen, how install my raspi somethink software and were ? volumio or other ?? what need config.txt file change ? why dac board headphone plug has wery slow volume, how make more ? how play my music, or youtube music to speakers, board have 2 RCA plugin but speakers no have, need this amplifier too or no ? RCA out to speaker ????

[@treahrevol1750]

Don't know if you will even read this, or if anyone else has asked/mentioned.... Maybe the reason why you struggle with the USB is that with the HAT you use, is that the pi isn't getting enough current for the USB? (just spitballing)

[@mattivirta]

i not understand why volumio have own image ? how i use all other my software if add SD card volumio image only, need use many many other software too and NO SD card, i have HDD and no can install any image now, need only apt-get install xxx software were can controller X920 pcm5122 board music and volume. how ? and how this board connect speakers ? need amplifield ?

[@SmartLifeEnthusiast]

Looking for a RPi media player OS that works with HiFiBerry MiniAmp, Home Assistant and TTS. Currently installed HiFiBerry OS, but just like Volumio it doesn't seem to work with TTS

[@huseyinozsut9949]

I am trying to integrate volumio to the same raspberry that I am using for Home Assistant. I use Home Assistant supervised through docker. I thought installing volumio to docker would solve my need; but I could not find a way to install volumio to docker. Do you know a way?

[@distraido7614]

Play radio when I turn on raspberry pi?

[@Videogame9559]

I love your videos you Explained every thing clear and simplified thank got raspi zero w work easily with a mini amplifier and raspiaudio hat . Thanks keep them up anything new with raspberry pi 4 or raspberry pi 8gb

[@prabhuja7554]

If i add a 3.5 waveshare screen hat to RaPi..how to configure DrZ

[@DrZzs]

It's really difficult to troubleshoot over comments. The best place to get answers to your questions is on the discord channel. Check the video description for more details.

[@prabhuja7554]

Great Humourous Knowledge combo like Bill Nye Guy...

[@DrZzs]

Thanks! That means a lot!

[@coredalae]

For spotify you can also use: github.com/balbuze/volumio-plugins/tree/master/plugins/music_service/volspotconnect2

[@DrZzs]

Sweet! I've had people ask that exact question but I didn't know if it was possible. Thanks.

[@coredalae]

=) pretty sweet. Though in my setup i'm switching to actual chromecast audio's.. as my pi1 is slow and this sometimes doesnt work. And unfortunately you cant use this in a multiroom setup :( Great for a boombox setup though.

[@prabhuja7554]

Now have they refined USB bug??DrZ 2023?

[@DrZzs]

I’m not sure. I haven’t updated this in years.

[@gbirincsik]

The TTS can be fixed very simple: Here my configuratio - platform: volumio name: livingroom musicbox host: 172.16.1.4 port: 3000 - platform: mpd name: livingroom_tts host: 172.16.1.4 With this the MPD can use TTS, the volumio platform is not supporting tts some of the reason. I dunno it was mentioned in the comment section, I have not checked. the MPD won't load the playlists, but possible it does not work just only me. :D

[@ActionParsnip]

Hi will Volumio + Spotify work OK on a RasPi Zero W, please or does it need the power of the bigger PIs. Great video :)

[@Fajah69]

Can you play the music on the host device where Volumio is running? Or it is just pure streaming to clients through the browser?

[@ABKimp]

Thank you for all you work. I've become a fan!! Can you enable playing local files and BLOCK any network sources??

[@dablet]

is this compatible with Logitech's squeezebox platform? meaning, can i use sqeeze apps to control volumio remotely with a phone?

[@DrZzs]

great question. I'm sorry I don't know the answer.

[@derekswitzer9624]

Also, what if you run from pi audio jack into a receiver before it gets to the speakers - does that improve the audio quality without using a pi hat first? (I'm planning on hooking a Volumio pi up to the receiver/sound system for my living room)

[@OrchardAudio]

It will work, but the DAC that drives the audio jack that is built into the pi is pretty shitty.

[@edsiebert5986]

Hey DrZ, thanks for your superhelpful videos. Do you know if this can run off a raspberry pi zero?

[@cam00001]

Nothing personal here but, could we lose the talking "head" on your videos? I'd just rather watch the screens with the information maybe in a larger format without the floating head. Thank you. No offence and I really do want to subscribe but the floating head kinda gets in the way.

[@DrZzs]

ya, I've pretty much stopped with the floating head. It was fun for a while, but just like my mullet in high school, I've kinda grown out of it :) I haven't done it in the newer videos except for a few seconds at the end.

[@prabhuja7554]

Can u put an updated 2023 Volumio Pi ..box pls

[@DrZzs]

Thanks for watching! We have a lot of things on the schedule already, but we will see what we can do. Thanks!

[@danielmpr]

Wonder if it's compatible with bluetooth speakers? by adding a USB bluetooth adapter?

Your USB key issue may be due to a power supply that is not strong enough.

[@alpha_pixel_]

Is there any way to directly install volumio in home assistant pi

[@DrZzs]

no there isn't sorry. I know we talked about it but I don't remember the reason it wasn't going to be possible.

[@mariuszfuchs2010]

You are a very good teacher with great easy to understand explanations even nonenglish person.

[@CarlRayburg]

Have you tried the audurin speech recognizer or mycroft? They might help with the voice commands in your projects.

[@mettymaster6963]

Does it run good on a Raspberry Pi Zero? Or Pi 3 is recommended?

[@rykerhasyounow]

Having to edit your yaml, means it could be easier!

[@LEDepot]

watched your Volumio video and would like to know if you can stream to it from airplay or Spotfy? thank you

[@SornDP]

You can stream airplay to volumio from iPhone or iTunes. It's one of cool features the doctor forgot. I don't know about Spotify

[@LEDepot]

Thank you- SornDP

[@DrZzs]

I didn't know that was possible! I'll have to play with that feature.

[@SornDP]

@@DrZzs I think it must be enabled in the settings or something, but it works. My wife uses it all the time.

[@DrZzs]

I'll check into it! Thanks

[@wngdhssr]

Mmmmmmmm using a dac amp to listen to ogg.vorbis

[@wngdhssr]

Ah yess we do love some lossy compression i love hearing compression

[@jeroendevries9525]

Iframe doesn't work when you have your home assistant protected with https and your volumio isn't to bad.

[@DrZzs]

ya, that is a bummer. And without SSL, there are a bunch of sites you can't use with too. :( maybe someday there will be a way to work around that issue.

[@dr.lakshaygoel5100]

Can we use it to stream music from phone via Bluetooth?

[@DrZzs]

no. I don't believe it uses the bluetooth on the rpi. It's possible that there is a plugin for it that I don't know about. But it connects to your wifi so if your phone is also on the wifi you can connect to Volumio that way.

[@alamoudimoh]

how do you keep the pi and amp cooled?

[@redbad]

All hail the Lich King!!

[@DrZzs]

He's my fav

[@DAveShillito]

As well as using the Web UI. I believe Volumio uses MPD internally (they may use Mopidy). This means that Volumio uses the MPD interface so there are many MPD client's that can connect to Volumio. I use MPDroid on Android & QMPDClient on PC.

I was going to mention MPD here. Its the old and known solution for just this!

[@DrZzs]

I'll be checking into mpd for tts with volumio. Thanks!

[@wizdude]

There is also an official iOS app for volumio so you can use your phone to change music easily when you have guests over for a party :-)

[@constantinchirita2683]

Hey, its possible to play different song on each connected device at the same time? Thanks for support!

[@amity7737]

is there a way to connect it without ethernet

[@_fulles_]

taht face is cripi

[@BedLeonZeD]

Thank you for your work DrZzs i thank you for the time that you put into all your videos cheers

[@nunu9997]

What if i need to stream an external listenlive link

[@carltimmons3198]

nicely done.

[@markferrick10]

Very Kool. Something to consider. I have a spare 2B, so only cost is the hat. Do you know the CPU utilization while running?

[@DrZzs]

I don't know. I've seen amps for pi zero, so the pi3 must have enough capacity. Franck was looking at creating an add-on for Hassio but I think it was going to be a challenge.

[@jtavaresmhi]

Do you know a way of sincronize spotify with home assistant? I have a problem: "INVALID_CLIENT: Invalid redirect URI"

[@DrZzs]

I'll have to tinker with it. I used to have it working where I could even play a playlist with a button but that was a while back. I'll have to look at what I had. I'm not even sure it would still work.

[@Lone432345]

I don't think MP3 or Flac are as ancient as you make it out to be.

[@DrZzs]

Sorry. I didn't mean to diminish the importance of mp3 or flac. Our family has probably become too reliant on streaming services. That's a great thing about Volumio, is not needing Pandora or Spotify.

[@D_Chm]

The floating disembodied head is a bit distracting, otherwise good tutorial

[@DrZzs]

Thanks It was a phase. I'm over it now. :)

[@AgustinGrau]

Creepy

[@easwaran83]

DRZZS can the media select service in home assistant Can be used to play music in Google home Speakers? If yes how do you do that. Wr is the mo3/flac file to be stored? Please guide

[@DrZzs]

have you found any answers to this? I haven't tried playing music much on my google mini, but my few attempts have failed anyway. Keep trying and let me know if you find the solution.

[@easwaran83]

Yes @DrZzs. Sucessfully done { "entity_id": "media_player.living_room_speaker", "media_content_id": "RASBERRY PI IP :PORT/local/audio/Rooster.mp3", "media_content_type": "audio/mp3" } Rooster.mp3 Stored in Hassio/Config/www/audio folder. Create Folder name www & audio if it dosent exist. Restart HA. Above code will work.

[@Robert.Dickson]

How do you switch Volumio off and not corrupt your sd card?

[@OrchardAudio]

Shutdown in the settings menu.

[@MrMurphyprecht]

Hi mate, have you tried picoreplayer with LMS? Or was there a reason you used Volumio?

[@DrZzs]

I've heard of picoreplayer but haven't tried it. Volumio was a recommendation from a friend and worked well for playing local MP3's, which was my goal.

[@abhinay6]

26th January, 2020 - KZbin plugin has broken for me..... Is it working for you ?

[@alamoudimoh]

hi, is it still broken?

[@abhinay6]

@@alamoudimoh yes but I found a work around kzbin.info/www/bejne/bHm3h5l6lKpjf9E

[@semectual]

I Like the Plain English Straight Forward Directions on this Video!

[@DrZzs]

Thank you. I should do an update. There's probably been some good additions to newer releases.

[@ZionkoDzionko]

Could you make video about switch that also checks the status of the switches and display it on the same switch (I mean switch that is also light and says it is on or off depending on real state not ) and how to make momentary switch. (Ass long you pressing it send command)

[@DrZzs]

I'll sure try. I'm planning eventually to build some of these: github.com/aderusha/HASwitchPlate

[@ZionkoDzionko]

Nice! Thanks for all of your content! ULTRA helpfull!

[@simonjohnfox6431]

Great Video: What was the Sensor you used at the end? Looked like a wireless reed switch. Do you have a model number?

[@DrZzs]

it's this one: drzzs.com/RF_door_sensor

[@Cinemaaereo]

Always the same question... How do you use RF Sensors? Is it Sonoff RF-Bridge?

[@DrZzs]

Hi! Quick answer is yes. The RF sensors need the RF bridge to work with Home Assistant. I just did a video about the RF bridge a week or so ago. Here's the link if you haven't seen it. If you have specific questions about it let me know: kzbin.info/www/bejne/hZe2k3x8fq-Dq8U

[@paperoga79]

Can Volumio work with a bluetooth speaker on PI4?

[@OrchardAudio]

Yes, but you will need the premium account.

[@omnivorace]

Some loose their head, some...

[@pedrodeabreufreire1920]

Can i store all my music direct in the device or i have to have some kind of NAS or external usb storage?

[@DrZzs]

You can store your own music on the sd on the pi, or on a usb drive connected to the pi, or on a network shared drive. Whichever is easier for you.

[@pedrodeabreufreire1920]

@@DrZzs , thanks for the answer, and can be controlled by an app in a tablet?

[@sah1448]

Great video as always. Just curious, can you send tts from Hassio to the Volumio device to be spoken out of whole house audio or whatever the Volumio is connected to? Thanks

[@DrZzs]

Audio from volumio plays on just what the volumio is connected to. So if you don't have the volumio connected to your house speakers it won't play there. I still don't know about tts with volumio though. Someone said mpd player, but I don't know anything about that (yet!)

[@javiermitchell7073]

First of all Kudos for all you videos, you have inspired me. This is a great video, however I wanted to ask about the battery and charger solution, can you expand a bit on this? Thanks

[@DrZzs]

Thanks! sure. Since the Amp Hat takes 12v with a pretty standard barrel connector and I had a 12v battery pack laying around, I plugged the 12v battery pack into the Amp hat and it worked great. I can't say how long it would last. To recharge it I just use the charger that came with the battery pack.

[@javiermitchell7073]

Thanks, I figured as much, I saw your pictures and found a similar battery pack on Ebay. Keep doing these amazing videos!

[@seppomuppit]

This Voloomio thing looks neat. Aloominum.

[@DrZzs]

haha I like it :)

[@mosheg6512]

Maybe we could get a Volumio Hassio addon... :-)

[@DrZzs]

I know Franck looked at it, at least briefly. It seemed like it would be difficult. I agree with the idea though. I'd love to see a more integrated media player for Home Assistant that runs on the same pi and uses the audio output. There is an add-on that'll let you play spotify from the audio on the pi. It essentially creates an available device that spotify can connect to and play from (which is the HA pi).

[@michbest]

Damn creepy!

[@5speedfatty]

sup doc... this could be great as an addition to an over the shelf soundbar! possibly with an optical audio output instead of an amp. add in network attached storage and you could have a fairly strong "smart" soundbar. also cant wait to see you do a thermostat, hint hint, wink wink.

[@DrZzs]

That is a great idea! There are pi-hats that have optical output. I think you can run volumio on a pi zero too... I've got the basic parts together for a thermostat. It'll be part of the maker faire game. Same principles, different application.

[@5speedfatty]

lol doc. i know ya have the basic parts of a thermo put together, i modeled the wall cover after all.

[@5speedfatty]

i told you i was one of your subs brother. i actually watch most of your videos

[@HOMESECURED1]

Nothing else matters. Love this

[@HOMESECURED1]

Thanks

[@joebetto4390]

Can you get youtube on this

[@jongriffith4293]

Haven't looked yet, but is there a 70V amplifier for the RPi3?

[@DrZzs]

70v?? I don't think so. They've all been 12v that I've seen.

[@jongriffith4293]

70V amplifiers are what are used in lobbies and theme parks and hospitals and grocery stores to be able to connect a butt load of speakers to one L/R channel. So, in order to deliver a signal to all of the speakers in our lobby, we have to run the Pi3 into a 70V amplifier (19" rack mount) but if there was a Pi3 version that was smaller, like the Extron half-rack 70V amps, we could use that instead.

[@DrZzs]

oh cool. I'm not aware of that. Let me know if you find one.

[@yiannisspanos694]

I have to say I was too existing when I saw the title but then I was disappointed.. sure this is cool, but I was hopping for something that can compete with Sonos. I want a client for my pc, so I can use my pc speakers too, and the ability to play music on multiple devices at the same time.

[@DrZzs]

maybe Plex will do that for you. I don't know about multiple devices, but with Plex you have a server and clients and the music (or videos) plays on the client. So you could hear it on your PC or phone or TV. With Volumio the sound comes out of the pi audio output only (as far as I know).

[@yiannisspanos694]

Just to be clear, the video was great!

[@DrZzs]

Thanks man. I've started playing with Plex. I'll keep your goals in mind when I'm checking it out. I'm hopefully it'll be another great media player option :)

[@yiannisspanos694]

For what I've seen, Plex is a great tool for media consumption. Personally I am thinking to try Kodi first. Mostly because it's opensource. I also found some ways to add meta-data so its more like Netfix. Using SQL (not exactly sure how this works yet, its in my plans though) it can automatically start playing a movie from where you stopped watching, even if you switch client. You just need to have a "server" to store all of the data and the movies. I'm trying to find a cheap way to build a nas-server that can easily be upgraded in the future. I found a lot of ideas in the DataHoarder subreddit. I just don't have enough time right now. Nor any extra money to buy a server.

[@wizdude]

Yiannis Spanos I used to be a Kodi guy (previously XBMC) but switched to Plex. It's extremely good. I run a server for Plex, movies and tv are stored on my NAS. I also have a silicondust HDHomeRun so I can record free to air television - full dvr functionality with program guide. Once you go plex, you'll never return to Kodi. My daughter even uses the Plex client on her iPad with the offline support to download movies for watching during trips.

[@ajp323a]

Great video Doc. But if volumio could cast to Airplay speakers or Google cast, that would be even better!!!! Unfortunately, all research points to not capable :( (at least at this point)

[@DrZzs]

There is an Add-on to allow airplay with Chrome-cast devices. I haven't tried it but that might give you want you're looking for.

[@DrZzs]

check out SornDP's comment. I guess there is a way to cast airplay to Volumio. I didn't know that was possible!

[@ajp323a]

YES, exactly what i was looking for. i checked all ADDINS but did not see it. Will check SornDPs comment. THANK YOU!

[@ajp323a]

Ops, sorry, i spoke too soon,SornDP is referring to cast from iOS to Volumio. I am looking to cast from Volumio to "cast" devices. this way can use V. as whole house media player. in theory i think it's possible, need to overwrite OUT device to CAST, but probably way too much work, and definitely over my head :( Thank you anyway for checking on it.

[@DrZzs]

looks like it is active by default. I'll try to connect to my volumio through airplay when I get home to see if there's anything else required for the setup.

[@TzviSpitz]

TTS works when added via the mpd component. I use the Volumio component in the front end, and the mpd component just for automations

[@DrZzs]

oooh, I'll have to look into that. What is mpd?

[@TzviSpitz]

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Music_Player_Daemon and www.home-assistant.io/components/media_player.mpd/ very simple config, just a standard media_player I'm @tzvi on discord if you need more info

[@DrZzs]

awesome! When I get to working on it I'll look to you for help :)

[@vaughanza]

Thanks for another great video

[@DrZzs]

You are very welcome!

[@batmanitaly]

really cool, at 9:33 minute you have a manic laugh XD

[@DrZzs]

I'm working on my evil genius laugh too ;)

[@davidbeiler6364]

looks cool, but i have a dedicated dell server that just does plex

[@ameggs]

Yep same here.

[@DrZzs]

ah, I just started messing with Plex too. It looks like HA integration is really complete with Plex. I'd like to call a service to play a video clip on the tablet in our kitchen. That'd be one step above playing the audio clip.

[@DrZzs]

What Dell server are you using?

[@ameggs]

Im not sure if you are asking me or David, but I have a Dell poweredge r510 with 8, 3tb drives in Raid 6 ( 2 parity drives for data protection). This server runs open media vault as the OS. This allows me to use this a Home storage server for all of my media files but also pictures videos etc. It also is a back up solution for out portable devices as well.

[@ajp323a]

David or Andy, how's Plex working for u? I tried to use it on synology (for lower power consumption) to create whole house music server (on the cheap), but it was a bit laggy on web interface on the tablet, but it could stream to different google homes/mini speakers. Maybe I should just setup PC server for it, but not really sure about power use, especially if I use it once in the while. Looking for just music server.... Any recommendations???

If you set up a mpd media_player you can use text to speak to send messages to the player

[@DrZzs]

I hadn't heard of mpd. I'll have to look into that. Thanks!

[@DrZzs]

do you use the mopidy addon? I'm trying to figure out the link between the mpd player and volumio. Can you explain it a little for me? Thanks!

you just have to set up a MPD www.home-assistant.io/components/media_player.mpd/ media_player with the host value set to the volumio ip address no nead for plugins to find this media player you can set the value name to make it easyer to find. hears a copy of my config. - platform: mpd host: name: kitchen - platform: volumio host: port: 3000 restart home-assistant and send tts to media_player.kitchen for my config.

[@DrZzs]

Björn sweet! I’ll try that today. Thanks!

[@christosv.4025]

Great job again! Does it support multiroom fuctions?

[@DrZzs]

Thanks! it only plays on speakers connected to the audio output jack on the pi. At least the last time I checked there wasn't a way to play the same song at the same time on separate Volumio devices. I have mine connected to speakers that are in the ceiling through the whole house, so for me it is multi-room, but not in the way Amazon Echo can do multi-room.

[@OrchardAudio]

It supports it, but only with the premium account.

[@Chos3n_One]

great job Zordon.

[@DrZzs]

Thanks "It's morphin' time!"

[@VAKUL-DC]

awesome vid Doc. Now hass.io can greet me when i come home. Does it work (perform well) on Pi Zero ?

[@DrZzs]

Thanks! I saw some posts about Volumio working on the pizero. It might take some tinkering, but should work.

[@MrJozza65]

I'm running Volumio on a Pi Zero W with a PhatDAC DAC connected to an amp. It runs fine, although it is a bit slow to catalog big network drives and occasionally I have to manually refresh the Now Playing screen on the web client, but the playback of mainly Flac files is flawless for me.

[@DrZzs]

even on my pi3 it takes a while to index media. I saw some people had trouble with the pi0w. Did you have to do anything special to get it working?

[@VAKUL-DC]

Thanks i will give it a try, i will be able to tie to one of the good computer speaker s that come with bass box so not planning to get the amp hat. unless you guys tell me it does a better digital to analog than just connecting the audio out to a std analog amp. so once the files are indexed it operated normally...or does it slow down often on a pi-zero ?

[@MrJozza65]

@@DrZzs Hi, I must be lucky because all I did was burn the image, fired it up and it worked a treat. Took a little experimentation to get it reading my Linux shares, but that's down to my lack of Linux know how :)

[@Subzearo]

Is spotify still broke for this?

[@DrZzs]

Nope! We use spotify with it every day. Infact there is even a fix that allows you to finally import your spotify playlist. I can't find the link right now. Look through the comments it might be posted here somewhere. If not, let me know and I'll look. Maybe someone emailed it to me. I can't remember now, but I did it and it worked!

[@Subzearo]

@@DrZzs ok

[@rhys.davieswork]

Hey Zz, are you a Christian or other religion? i noticed "Worldly Music" as a folder name?!

[@eden4949]

I guess he means world music by that, ie traditional music from different cultures

[@rhys.davieswork]

could be, but he did hit like on my comment...

[@1Patient]

@@rhys.davieswork Christians don't listen to the Devil's Music :-D

[@allonmessenberg3129]

$50 CAD for an amp? Hmmm...

[@DrZzs]

I was surprised to see some of the higher end dac/amps at $150. There are cheaper options even but they aren't made specifically to fit on top of the pi.

[@DAveShillito]

I have Volumio running on an original Pi 1 with the audio coming out of a cheap HDMI to VGA/audio adaptor plugged into my hifi. So it would probably run on a Pi Zero making it all substantially cheaper.

[@allonmessenberg3129]

Do you have a link to the hdmi-audio adapter that you're using?

[@DAveShillito]

Sorry, I bought it years ago (when Volumio was still called RaspyFi). It was something like this one goo.gl/ww2duY but mine does not have a usb power connector.

[@peterpichler8986]

Excellent overview - right what I needed plus trouble shooting of all likely issues!

[@UglyKidJoe71]

Very nice! Jeez I hope this works with OpenHAB :)

[@seyioshingooglemailcom]

Great videos as always, I have two raspberry pi's with amplifier hats. I would like to try volumio on then and also connect it to home assistant. Can volumio and home assistant run on the same pi, or do I need a separate pi? Thanks

[@youraverageaudiophile4069]

you will need separate Pis

[@seyioshingooglemailcom]

YourAverageAudiophile Hi, thanks for the reply. Had shelved everything for a while as busy work wise but will try and pick it back up 👍🏾