What's this?

This repo contains a plugin that displays music info on a HD44780 20x4 LCD screen (using I2C). The plugin displays the currently playing music (webradio and local music have been tested so far). The displayed text will scroll by default, like in a car radio, but this can be turned off.

How to install the plugin

• Go to the Volumio Test Player by visiting the following url: http://volumio.local/dev/ or http://<volumio-ip-address>/dev
• Enable Plugins Test Mode and SSH
• Connect to Volumio via SSH via ssh volumio@volumio.local or ssh volumio@<volumio-ip-address> using password volumio
• In the SSH client, clone this repository by executing git clone https://github.com/TomNiesse/volumio-plugins-sources
• Navigate to the plugin's folder by executing cd volumio-plugins-sources/lcd_info
• Execute the command volumio plugin install and wait for it to finish (Volumio 2.x will hang on "Finalizing installation", but the plugin has already been installed successfully; just hit CTRL-C after 5 minutes or so and continue to the next step)
• Close the SSH connection
• In the Volumio web interface, go to Plugins -> Installed Plugins and enable the plugin
• Restart Volumio

Updating the plugin

• Connect to Volumio via SSH via ssh volumio@volumio.local or ssh volumio@<volumio-ip-address> using password volumio
• Go into the volumio-plugins-sources folder by executing cd volumio-plugins-sources
• Execute git pull
• Go into the lcd_info folder by executing cd lcd_info
• Execute volumio plugin refresh
• Execute volumio vrestart or reboot