TV display

[Steve Woodhouse]

I know I’m flogging a dead horse, but really, if you could just introduce this.

Go to the video below, 1:14 to 1:49.

The image on the TV at 1:40, just give us that please.

Not everyone will either want it use it, but there are surely enough of us who’ll will to make it worthwhile.

Thank you.

 

[cc_rider]

WiiM has two APIs to accomplish this using some basic coding. I published this one over 2 years ago, there are several others who have done the same using different languages like go and JavaScript.

GitHub - retired-guy/WiiM-HDMI: Display now playing info from WiiM streamer to HDMI display

Display now playing info from WiiM streamer to HDMI display - retired-guy/WiiM-HDMI

github.com

 

[Steve Woodhouse]

WiiM has two APIs to accomplish this using some basic coding. I published this one over 2 years ago, there are several others who have done the same using different languages like go and JavaScript.

GitHub - retired-guy/WiiM-HDMI: Display now playing info from WiiM streamer to HDMI display

Display now playing info from WiiM streamer to HDMI display - retired-guy/WiiM-HDMI

github.com

It’s great, but I’m just wanting plug and play.

The other stuff, I might give a go if I’ve nowt on.

 

[R7CKY]

Hi! Would you mind step by step showing how you did this? I have an AppleTV 4K and an Ultra on same network. Can’t figure this out lol. Thanks in advance

Hi,did you manage to figure out this out?

 

[cvdlinden]

I optimized this for my TV screen.
Deleted some stuff that wasn't needed for TV screen use and edited the layout and style to my liking.
Really happy with the result.
View attachment 14365

The original wiim-now-playing was optimized for a low-res touch screen (Raspberry Pi with 480p touchscreen). I might do something with a TV (1080p/4K) resolution... don't mind if I run with your idea.

 

[castalla]

The original wiim-now-playing was optimized for a low-res touch screen (Raspberry Pi with 480p touchscreen). I might do something with a TV (1080p/4K) resolution... don't mind if I run with your idea.

Nice but still too complicated for the average user to implement

 

[cvdlinden]

Sure! Your options are:

• Wait for WiiM to release anything to show you what's playing now on a screen of your choosing. Or:
  • Buy a WiiM Ultra now, you'll get the screen on the device.
  • Get the WiiM Home app (https://www.wiimhome.com/app) for your iOS/Android/Mac/Windows device.
    There is no Android TV app as I'm aware of, which should solve like 99% of the demand me thinks.
• Put some effort in, i.e. ask that nephew that 'works with computers' to help, and get the satisfaction of building something yourself.
  For about 125 euro you've got the components to build a Raspberry Pi with touch screen. Then it will take several evenings cursing yourself, me, WiiM, whoknows. Here are some instructions/guidelines: https://github.com/cvdlinden/wiim-now-playing/blob/main/docs/RPi-Setup.md (your mileage may vary!)
  • It does not need to be a Raspberry Pi, with touch screen. It should run on any computer given the requirements, which aren't high.

For sure the developers of WiiM are reading up on this forum. So asking them nicely is still an option. And they might surprise you in the future...
Edit: Have a look here https://forum.wiimhome.com/threads/...e-to-see-wiim-produce.725/page-66#post-100529

 

[castalla]

Sure! Your options are:

• Wait for WiiM to release anything to show you what's playing now on a screen of your choosing. Or:
  • Buy a WiiM Ultra now, you'll get the screen on the device.
  • Get the WiiM Home app (https://www.wiimhome.com/app) for your iOS/Android/Mac/Windows device.
    There is no Android TV app as I'm aware of, which should solve like 99% of the demand me thinks.
• Put some effort in, i.e. ask that nephew that 'works with computers' to help, and get the satisfaction of building something yourself.
  For about 125 euro you've got the components to build a Raspberry Pi with touch screen. Then it will take several evenings cursing yourself, me, WiiM, whoknows. Here are some instructions/guidelines: https://github.com/cvdlinden/wiim-now-playing/blob/main/docs/RPi-Setup.md (your mileage may vary!)
  • It does not need to be a Raspberry Pi, with touch screen. It should run on any computer given the requirements, which aren't high.

For sure the developers of WiiM are reading up on this forum. So asking them nicely is still an option. And they might surprise you in the future...
Edit: Have a look here https://forum.wiimhome.com/threads/...e-to-see-wiim-produce.725/page-66#post-100529

An app has been requested many times previously - no response from Wiim.
Too long in the tooth for all that raspi stuff - been there, done it - I just want plug n play solutions these days

 

[LesE]

I simply use the Screen Cast function on my Lenovo tablet to send the WHA display to my TV.

 

[castalla]

I simply use the Screen Cast function on my Lenovo tablet to send the WHA display to my TV.

View attachment 15869

Yes - but isn't whatever else you then do on the tablet just cast to the TV? It could all be resolved with a dedicated app

 

[LesE]

Yes - but isn't whatever else you then do on the tablet just cast to the TV? It could all be resolved with a dedicated app

True, but I leave the WHA static on the tablet and use my phone for everything else.

 

[hgo58]

I still see two options that should be easy for WiiM to implement and would be a good selling point.

1) Cast a "Now Playing" page formatted for big screens to any cast enabled receiver. The casting device is the WiiM device, not the WiiM Home App.

2) Use the already available WEB server in the WiiM device to provide a "Now Playing" page for any browser.

The WEB based page could be expanded to a full WiiM Home App page to allow use by Windows, Mac, Chromebook and Linux platforms.

 

[bird]

The original wiim-now-playing was optimized for a low-res touch screen (Raspberry Pi with 480p touchscreen). I might do something with a TV (1080p/4K) resolution... don't mind if I run with your idea.

I kind of optimized it for my Sony 4K TV. At least I tested the client on it.
Still need to upload the git and then of course you can do with it what you want.

 

[cvdlinden]

I kind of optimized it for my Sony 4K TV. At least I tested the client on it.
Still need to upload the git and then of course you can do with it what you want.

I've just tried it on the internet browser on my Sony tv as well. Yes, that definitively deserves some attention.
My idea was to add a 4K/high res display mode to the UI. Most RPi screens are 800x480 pixels. So that is quite a long way off from 4K.

 

[bird]

I use TV Bro. You can just add a shortcut to the inputs and then the page automatically loads when you change the to the input.
To add a separate display mode to the UI is a great idea. Sadly my lack of javascript skills would make this a hard venture.

 

[cvdlinden]

Ugh. The default browser on my Sony TV doesn't understand media queries. As probably, I presume, many an old Android TV... rethinking my game plan...

 

[bird]

Can you install apps on your TV? There are many kiosk apps which can be used for displaying a website without adress bar and such. Perfect for that case.

 

[cvdlinden]

Yes, I'm using TV Bro and BrowseHere right now. The thing is, there is no easy way to detect a 4K TV, from where I can figure out right now.
Basically you wanted the player controls hidden when showing on a tv, right?

 

[bird]

The thing is, there is no easy way to detect a 4K TV, from where I can figure out right now.

Okay so the browser would probably just detected as an android browser right?

Basically you wanted the player controls hidden when showing on a tv, right?

For me personally I don't need the controls in that case at all.
I just wanted a clean an elegant display of the album cover and the most necessary infos. That's why I removed the other stuff.

 

[cvdlinden]

Getting a bit technical here, but the browser(s) on an Android TV reports itself as having a resolution of 960px by 540px, which is only a fraction (1/16th) of the entire 4K resolution. Somewhat logical as the full 4K resolution would be unreadable on your TV while browsing from the couch.

Now the RPi touchscreen has a resolution of 800 by 480 pixels. Not far off from what the TV reports. Optimizations for TV would be horrible on the touchscreen. Not to mention for cases where you would repurpose an old computer monitor for display.

In short, still working out a way to have a TV optimized screen. Soon...

 

[cc_rider]

Now the RPi touchscreen has a resolution of 800 by 480 pixels.

It's 720 × 1280 now.

https://www.raspberrypi.com/products/touch-display-2/