Trying Volumio on a Raspberry Pi 3
This blog post explains my experiences with the Volumio Music Player on a Raspberry Pi 3.
Prepare the SD-Card image
See https://volumio.org/get-started/
Download Volumio your platform: Raspberry Pi
- VERSION: 2.129
- RELEASE DATE: 23-03-2017
- TOTAL DOWNLOADS: 677960
- IMAGE MD5: 7c8cb096671ffa754440fb66bae62bdd
Click "Download", will download file volumio-2.129-2017-03-23-pi.img.zip
Unzip the file and verify the checksum
gmacario@ITM-GPAOLO-W10 /cygdrive/d/temp
$ unzip ~/Downloads/volumio-2.129-2017-03-23-pi.img.zip
Archive: /home/gmacario/Downloads/volumio-2.129-2017-03-23-pi.img.zip
inflating: volumio-2.129-2017-03-23-pi.img
gmacario@ITM-GPAOLO-W10 /cygdrive/d/temp
$ ls -la volumio-2.129-2017-03-23-pi.img
-rw-r--r--+ 1 gmacario Domain Users 2936012800 Mar 23 00:22 volumio-2.129-2017-03-23-pi.img
gmacario@ITM-GPAOLO-W10 /cygdrive/d/temp
$ md5sum volumio-2.129-2017-03-23-pi.img
7c8cb096671ffa754440fb66bae62bdd *volumio-2.129-2017-03-23-pi.img
gmacario@ITM-GPAOLO-W10 /cygdrive/d/temp
$
Then write the *.img file to an empty MicroSD-Card (4 GB or bigger)
NOTE: On MS Windows you may use Win32DiskImager
Insert the MicroSD into the RPi3. Plug an Ethernet cable into your RPi3 Power up the RPi3 from the microUSB port.
NOTE: There are no messages displayed on the RPi3 serial console, don't worry.
Run Fing and verify that a new device called volumio is displayed.
In my example this get the assigned IP Address: 192.168.12.105.
Browse \\volumio.local ==> Does not work from my Windows 10 laptop (WHY???)
Try logging into the device via SSH:
gmacario@ITM-GPAOLO-W10 ~
$ ssh volumio@192.168.12.105
The authenticity of host '192.168.12.105 (192.168.12.105)' can't be established.
ECDSA key fingerprint is SHA256:h0EWpVmHzJnH/kwGf6GtT2uwMFsvk//eoiHfEO+dn4A.
Are you sure you want to continue connecting (yes/no)? yes
Warning: Permanently added '192.168.12.105' (ECDSA) to the list of known hosts.
volumio@192.168.12.105's password:
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\ \ \_/ |/\ \L\ \\_\ \_\ \ \_\ \/\ \/\ \/\ \ \ \/\ \L\ \
\ \___/ \ \____//\____\\ \____/\ \_\ \_\ \_\ \_\ \____/
\/__/ \/___/ \/____/ \/___/ \/_/\/_/\/_/\/_/\/___/
Free Audiophile Linux Music Player - Version 2.0
C 2015 Michelangelo Guarise - Volumio Team - Volumio.org
Volumio Debian GNU/Linux comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY, to the extent
permitted by applicable law.
volumio@volumio:~$
Inspect mounted filesystems
volumio@volumio:~$ df -h
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/mmcblk0p2 2.2G 493M 1.6G 24% /imgpart
/dev/loop0 253M 253M 0 100% /static
overlay 27G 12M 26G 1% /
devtmpfs 479M 0 479M 0% /dev
tmpfs 487M 0 487M 0% /dev/shm
tmpfs 487M 4.7M 482M 1% /run
tmpfs 5.0M 4.0K 5.0M 1% /run/lock
tmpfs 487M 0 487M 0% /sys/fs/cgroup
tmpfs 487M 16K 487M 1% /tmp
tmpfs 487M 0 487M 0% /var/spool/cups
tmpfs 20M 32K 20M 1% /var/log
tmpfs 487M 0 487M 0% /var/spool/cups/tmp
/dev/mmcblk0p1 61M 29M 33M 47% /boot
tmpfs 98M 0 98M 0% /run/user/1000
volumio@volumio:~$
The image is based on Raspbian
volumio@volumio:~$ cat /etc/os-release
PRETTY_NAME="Raspbian GNU/Linux 8 (jessie)"
NAME="Raspbian GNU/Linux"
VERSION_ID="8"
VERSION="8 (jessie)"
ID=raspbian
ID_LIKE=debian
HOME_URL="http://www.raspbian.org/"
SUPPORT_URL="http://www.raspbian.org/RaspbianForums"
BUG_REPORT_URL="http://www.raspbian.org/RaspbianBugs"
VOLUMIO_BUILD_VERSION="c2a36d9689f55c1a8d60e4bcf6a70b072a8138fa"
VOLUMIO_FE_VERSION="3b84e7a97479daf304d02679ff18405556fc1dec"
VOLUMIO_BE_VERSION="0ee5830d72efb2a019e23de171f1306bf3499e26"
VOLUMIO_VARIANT="volumio"
VOLUMIO_TEST="FALSE"
VOLUMIO_BUILD_DATE="Thu Mar 23 00:15:25 CET 2017"
VOLUMIO_VERSION="2.129"
VOLUMIO_HARDWARE="pi"
volumio@volumio:~$
The Volumio application is based on NodeJS:
volumio@volumio:~$ ps axfw
PID TTY STAT TIME COMMAND
2 ? S 0:00 [kthreadd]
3 ? S 0:00 \_ [ksoftirqd/0]
5 ? S< 0:00 \_ [kworker/0:0H]
...
1421 ? Ssl 2:38 /usr/local/bin/node /volumio/index.js
1921 ? S 0:00 \_ /bin/sh -c /usr/local/bin/node /volumio/app/plugins/miscellanea/albumart/serverStartup.js 3001 /data/albumart
1922 ? Sl 0:00 \_ /usr/local/bin/node /volumio/app/plugins/miscellanea/albumart/serverStartup.js 3001 /data/albumart
1994 ? Sl 0:02 \_ /bin/node /volumio/app/plugins/miscellanea/albumart/serverStartup.js 3001 /data/albumart
2010 ? Sl 0:02 \_ /bin/node /volumio/app/plugins/miscellanea/albumart/serverStartup.js 3001 /data/albumart
2013 ? Sl 0:02 \_ /bin/node /volumio/app/plugins/miscellanea/albumart/serverStartup.js 3001 /data/albumart
...
2394 ? Ss 0:00 /usr/sbin/dhcpd
2741 ? Ss 0:00 /lib/systemd/systemd --user
2744 ? S 0:00 \_ (sd-pam)
volumio@volumio:~$