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.

 

[cvdlinden]

Just checked on my Chromecast with Google TV (not the latest 4K version). Works! Obviously because it has Android TV and thus supports TV Bro and BrowseHere. I know that TV Bro has an option to keep the screen awake.
I thought I had a Xiaomi stick lying around somewhere... but can't find it.

 

[cvdlinden]

Unfortunately, Samsung uses the Tizen OS which is Linux based and I'm finding out that side loading apps isn't possible either.

Perhaps a Firestick will be an option. Since my RPi is close to my TV, I may try a direct connection with HDMI using your Kiosk mode instructions.

Because you already have your NAS/OMV running on that RPi, I'd suggest trying this out on a separate SD card first.

The Kiosk mode installs a desktop environment on your system, which hogs a lot of resources. And I haven't found a clean way to revert those changes if it doesn't turn out as expected. Other than just reformatting the SD card and starting over. Switching out SD cards is preferable over redoing your NAS/OMV setup again.

 

[LesE]

Just checked on my Chromecast with Google TV (not the latest 4K version). Works! Obviously because it has Android TV and thus supports TV Bro and BrowseHere. I know that TV Bro has an option to keep the screen awake.
I thought I had a Xiaomi stick lying around somewhere... but can't find it.

Thanks for checking that out. Looks like we have at least one good solution.

 

[LesE]

Because you already have your NAS/OMV running on that RPi, I'd suggest trying this out on a separate SD card first.

The Kiosk mode installs a desktop environment on your system, which hogs a lot of resources. And I haven't found a clean way to revert those changes if it doesn't turn out as expected. Other than just reformatting the SD card and starting over. Switching out SD cards is preferable over redoing your NAS/OMV setup again.

Excellent advice. My plan was to create an image of the SD card before attempting to install the Kiosk mode just in case it doesn't work out.

Before going this route, I may also look at creating a Tizen TV web app.

 

[solace]

The new release, with TV mode, is up on Github: https://github.com/cvdlinden/wiim-now-playing
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Surely there will be things that could've been done better. I'll save them for the next one. I'm done staring at code for now.
Have fun running it on whatever you've set up!

Note: If you are upgrading through Git. Please do an 'npm install' after the 'git pull', and do a reboot to make sure everything is good to go.

First off, THANK YOU so much for this! It's fantastic and has added so much to my setup.

Secondly, i noticed on my 32" Samsung 4K Smart Monitor that the text is a bit small. Is it possible for me to edit the text size and maybe even shift the margins of the album art and other UI parts of the Now Playing screen in a little bit to optimize it's fit on my screen a little better? I poked around in the code a little bit but it wasn't clear to me.

Thanks!

*EDIT*: Scratch that, i was able to just change the Zoom in my Samsung Monitor browser and get it to a more suitable sizing.

 

[solace]

Honestly it feels like WiiM should integrate this into the Ultra natively, i can't imagine it takes much added horsepower.

 

[cvdlinden]

Honestly it feels like WiiM should integrate this into the Ultra natively, i can't imagine it takes much added horsepower.

Or release a ready-to-go box/stick with a screen and/or HDMI output so the rest of of the lineup down to the Mini can benefit.
I have no idea how much headroom the WiiM products still have in order to add a webserver to serve up the Now Playing info.