Is here anyone using Volumio?

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I am currently working on a binding for volumio2. I am not affiliated with this project and just a user of it. Volumio is a bit like DIY Sonos for Raspberry Pi.

If anyone here is interested in testing my binding, I would like to share it.

At the moment I support the basic functionality like current title/album/coverart and playback controls.

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Hello Patrick,

i’m using Volumio 2 on an raspberry 2
Would be great to test this binding.

regards
Thomas

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Perfect… I will try to provide you a jar as soon as possible. If your comfortable with compiling binding for openhab you could even checkout my binding from https://github.com/patrickse/openhab2-addons/tree/volumio.

On which platform are you running openhab?

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Compiling, not yet :frowning:

I’m using openhab 2 on rpi (OpenHABian)

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Sounds good. So I will try to provide you a jar and some instructions tomorrow. But keep in mind… it´s “work in progress”

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I’m used to “work in process” as I’m developing for fun, too. :slight_smile:

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You can find the currently snapshot release here…

To install the binding you need to copy it to your raspberry and open the karaf console. Then hit

install file:///tmp/org.openhab.binding.volumio2-2.0.0-SNAPSHOT.jar

for example… you will receive a bundle id as a result…

start ###

Where ### is the bundle id. This should activate the bundle/binding and you should be able to find the volumio device in your inbox on paper ui…

hope it works :wink:

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This may be a stupid question, but why not just use the MPD binding? From memory Volumio includes the MPD and MPC daemons.

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That´s true… and I actually tried the MPD binding… but MPD does not support all of the features Volumio offers…

I hope I will be available to get multiroom and the other volumio stuff to work… and it´s a way for me to learn building openHAB bindings :wink:

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Btw I found some problems with the binding… I will need to do some fixing… at the moment it´s working quite slow… but it works fine on my mac…

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Updated the jar file on github. The new version is much quicker and does not block the initialize phase of the binding.

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I’ve learned now that there has to be a uninstall ### first for the new version :slight_smile:

It immediately finds my volumio. Will now create some items and test.

EDIT: Playing music but my items aren’t updated.

I’ve createt these:

String Volumio_Title “Volumio Titel” {channel=“volumio2:volumio2_thing:a5996cf3-da4e-420b-be11-c65f530360cf:title”}
String Volumio_Artist “Volumio Künstler” {channel=“volumio2:volumio2_thing:a5996cf3-da4e-420b-be11-c65f530360cf:artist”}

The thing is marked as online. So does the openhab logfile say…

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Hi Thomas,

here is my configuration… It works in BasicUI and ClassicUI. What kind of media are you listening to? Webradio?

volumio2.things

Thing volumio2:volumio2_thing:c434bb11-f813-461b-a239-88f9c07aaac0 "Volumio" [ hostname="192.168.178.74" ]

volumio2.items

String   kI_Volumio_Title       "Title: [%s]"                   (kI)   { channel="volumio2:volumio2_thing:c434bb11-f813-461b-a239-88f9c07aaac0:title" }
String   kI_Volumio_Artist      "Artist: [%s]"                  (kI)   { channel="volumio2:volumio2_thing:c434bb11-f813-461b-a239-88f9c07aaac0:artist" }
String   kI_Volumio_Album       "Album: [%s]"                   (kI)   { channel="volumio2:volumio2_thing:c434bb11-f813-461b-a239-88f9c07aaac0:album" }
Dimmer   kI_Volumio_Volume      "Volume"         <soundvolume>  (kI)   { channel="volumio2:volumio2_thing:c434bb11-f813-461b-a239-88f9c07aaac0:volume" }
Player   kI_Volumio_Player      "Player"                        (kI)   { channel="volumio2:volumio2_thing:c434bb11-f813-461b-a239-88f9c07aaac0:player" }

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Text label="Volumio KĂĽche" icon="settings" {
                Text item=kI_Volumio_Title
                Text item=kI_Volumio_Album
                Text item=kI_Volumio_Artist
                Slider item=kI_Volumio_Volume
                Default item=kI_Volumio_Player
}

you could try to activate the debug logging on the binding…

osgi > log:set debug org.openhab.binding.volumio2

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Ok I’ve changed from volumio (known in DNS and was marked in openhab as online) to IP

Now it shows the title and artist. But volumio is marked offline :slight_smile:

Spotify title and artist is shown correct, too

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Was this a dns volumio.localdomain or zeroconf name like volumio.local. Anyway… it should work both. I will try to spend some time at the discovery site… maybe there´s the problem.

Thanks for testing… btw. coverArt is also implemented… but it´s only shown by paperUI at the moment. Couldn´t get it to work in classic or basic.

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Plan on installing openhab 2 on my synology box soon and already use volumio 2. You have just given me more incentive to get it working.

Looking forward to it

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@Unthred :slight_smile: … thanks

@skeal Found the problem for the offline “Thing” Problem. The reason is, I am throwing an exception and catch it with an thing status offline. I really need to refactor a few parts to make it a bit cleaner… I will try to get it done by the end of this week. At least I hope so… I am on a business trip… and my volumio device is at home…

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Just uploaded a new jar to github… I think I´ve fixed this issues with the offline item and it´s working quite stable on my environment. Please try the new release and give me some feedback.

It should work much more stable now.

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@skeal Did you already had the chance to test the new version?

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Not yet. Will do this evening. But thanks for your work