I have the RPi “official” 7" touch screen connected to my RPi 3B+. The screen functions, but doesn’t show the Now Playing screen. If I go to the Ropiee setup page for it, I think I’m supposed to see a tab for setting brightness, etc - I don’t see anything like that.
I see the exact same issue that Gavin had. I see the linux text but, no Ropiee display. However running the pacman commands that Gavin ran to resolve his issue hasn’t worked for me.
pacman -Syu double-conversion
pacman -Syu ropiee-touchui
Those ran successfully, but didn’t change anything.
One point is I am not seeing the undervoltage warnings that Gavin saw, as I’m using a 5A power supply.
I’ve rebooted both the server and the RPi several times. At this point I’m stuck as to what else I could try?
This is all I see:
I presume this is a brand new RoPieee install, eg the initial install occurred with the display connected? (This is when the display is detected and the software installed.)
Screen needs to be enabled during installation otherwise it is not recognized. This can easily be checked in the webinterface if there’s a display tab or not.
Furthermore an advice (which you can ignore of course ) : RoPieee is not a ‘regular distro’. So logging into it and running all kinds of stuff is not recommended.
RS Online and Farnell/Element14 both have Pi display cases that can hide a hat - some will need mods however for things like speaker connections or BNC/RCA outputs. at this point tho most are not Pi 4 ready.
FLIRC have some really nice options but with no hat or display - I use these for standalone Roon Bridge setups networked USB converter with Ropieee.
Sometimes it better to have the display and the endpoint separated due to listening verses seeing what’s playing distances
Well, I kind’a blew it here. I had the display working and everything was good. However, I noticed when playing DSD files I was getting a crackling sound. So, I re-imaged the SD card and started over. Good news is that fixed the crackling with DSD. Bad news is no matter what I’ve tried I can’t get the 7" display to show the Now Playing screen again. I’m stuck at the “Zone Not Found” message on the display.
It asks:
Is the DAC on? - YES and connected
Remote Control Ext enabled? - YES and shows the IP address of the RPi I’m using.
Correct Zone Configured in RoPieee? - I have “Sprout” set in the Remote Control Tab. I have “Sprout” set as the zone name for the RPi ALSA USB2.0 connection to the Sprout DAC.
When I go to the RPi’s RoPiee page I don’t see the “Display” tab. ALso, I seem to recall that if I go to Roon’s Settings\Displays I should see it there also - but I don’t.
Since the RPi also has a HiFiBerry Digi hat on it I have tried the above steps with the USB/Sprout zone disabled and just the HiFiBerry enabled to see if this was an issue with having to use the assigned hat as the correct zone. But, no luck there either.
I grabbed another SD card, imaged it and went through the installation process again - same issue.
Maybe, there’s a special order in which I’m supposed to config the device that I’m missing?
Oh, many, many times. I also rebooted the Roon server a few times, and the RPi.
It plays fine now with DSD files, just can’t get the display back. It’s sitting there now in clock mode. But, it just won’t connect to the zone for some reason.
This is so weird. I don’t understand why you have these problems…
Anyways: the thing is broken. It installed all parts (hence the ‘zone not found’ message on the screen), but for the rest it did not register properly (which I really don’t get) that this is a unit with a touchscreen.
Hence no tab in the web ui, hence no proper configuration, hence the ‘no zone’ message.
I need to dig further in the logs trying to find out what the h* is going on.
Thanks a ton! That worked Though I had to go back and lookup the vi text editor commands
Yeah, I don’t know what happened here. I used the same file to image that I was successful with the other day. Same RPi, same display, but for some reason even after 2 SD cards and 2 re-imaging attempts it didn’t want to work. You can be sure I’m going to backup this imaged SD card.
) : RoPieee is not a ‘regular distro’. So logging into it and running all kinds of stuff is not recommended.
Though I had to go back and lookup the vi text editor commands 