Plexamp Headless on Moode 9+

[ehsan2023]

Here's a mockup of Renderer Config with Plexamp settings



Assume nodejs is installed, the systemd service file is there and code to change the default user id in the file to the actual userid happens during moode startup. With these in place only steps 2, 3, and 5 are needed in the Guide.

@vinnn, Some questions about Plexamp and nodejs run state

1. What method can be used to determine whether Plexamp is running or not?
For example pgrep <executable_name>

2. How to start/stop nodejs itself?
We don't want this running by default unless its actually going to be used.

ETA: 3. How to determine the version of Plexamp?

Nvm,

I managed to figure it out. The plumbing is committed and seems to work ok. I'll just go ahead and make a short help guide and then testing can happen in the field after 9.0.2 is released.

The other option is to do a local build yourself if you are familiar with using the build tooling etc.

Great work Tim implementing this renderer for Plexamp. I am testing that now and it looks like Plexmap service is not releasing MPD no matter what configuration I set for that.

I installed a test clean install and used setup_3rdparty_plexamp.txt to install only PlexAMP and same thing happened.

Is this currently working in version 9.0.3 or I am doing something wrong?

Thanks!