Hi, i use picoreplayer 6.1 on my Usbridge Sig because it’s, to my ears, the best sounding roon endpoint.
unfortunately the script neither works for me, i have the same error :
sh: .: line 4: can’t open ‘/home/tc/www/cgi-bin/pcp-functions’: No such file or directory
Can anyone help ?
i would like to know if roonbridge is better than squeezebox emulation.
Thanks in advance.
You can try this fork: https://github.com/sam0402/picoreplayer-roonbridge
It seems to be updated for latest piCorePlayer.
Thanks a lot, it works. 
@Suresh_Kamath - Others can correct me if I’m wrong on this but my experience using PiCorePlayer is that the display software is Jivelite and the intent is to mimic Squeezebox Touch look and feel. So the combination is PiCoreplayer, Squeezelite, and Jivelite along with the display on the Raspi. You’ll need to enable Roon Squeezebox emulation in setting on your Roon Core machine and then you can use the display as a Squeezebox device. Jivelite doesn’t interact with Roonbridge so no display content comes to it over Roonbridge.
If you want to use Roon Bridge along with the display then you might be better served by using Ropieee XL on the Raspi endpoint. Ropieee XL includes software to use the display. It shows what’s playing and has basic controls like next track, play, pause, and volume. There’s an extension that installs on Roon so the artwork for what’s playing can display.
I’ve played around with both PiCorePlayer and Ropieee XL. Both are really good. The display is richer with PiCorePlayer but your streaming rates will be limited to 196 kHz max due to the Squeezelite interface. For me that’s fine because I don’t hear a difference between music at 196 and music at higher bit rates. PiCorePlayer has SOX upsampling you can play with or you can do the upsampling and room EQ stuff in Roon.
Ropieee is neat because it’s such a simple display and simple package. Not as fancy as PiCorePlayer+Squeezelite+Jivelite but a bit more simple.
-Doug
@Douglas_Gardner
Many thanks for your inputs. I only needed the Raspberry Pi to Display what’s playing on my main system as the display on the SimAudio Moon 390 is quite small. I have been able to configure it with Ropieee. The Jivelite display of PiCore player is much better. However for my needs I realised that the Squeezebox system of PiCore player cannot be grouped with the SimAudio zone which is required to be enabled to just display what’s playing on the Moon 390.
I do miss the VU meters but at least I do have a display with Ropieee.
Thanks
Curious if you needed to connect a DAC to the raspi in order for Ropieee to display what’s playing. I want to do something similar on my main system but don’t want to connect my USB DAC to the raspi.
I don’t think ropieee shows up in roon unless it has a DAC connected.
I’m not 100 percent certain, because I haven’t tried it, but I’m pretty sure you can point a RPi with screen running RoPieee at any zone to display what is playing on that zone without having a DAC attached to the RPi. I think plenty of people use the RPi for this purpose.
YEP, I just tested it. That works. Go into the RoPieee or RoPieeeXL setup and type in PRECISELY the zone name and save.
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That’s not required. The display is separate functionality from the audio.
You can use a Pi with display for just that purpose: add a screen to an already existing endpoint/zone.
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Yes indeed. A DAC is not required to be connected to the Pi. The zone name has to be exact and it will display what is playing in that zone.
It will be wonderful if we also have an option to just show what’s playing and not have any player controls showing so that the full screen just shows the Artwork and song Title.
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You can try this fork: https://github.com/sam0402/picoreplayer-roonbridge
It seems to be updated for latest piCorePlayer.
Not working on picoreplay7.0 anymore. Hope someone can fix this. Appreciated!
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It works for me.
Try to reflash the sd card.
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It worked after reflashing the card!
Thanks fortelling!