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[Gilliland]

Hello, all, I just installed Moode audio for the first time, and I'm barely started with trying to make it work for me.  My application is probably not typical - I want to use it as a standalone music player operating on just the machine it is installed on.  So the only client will be itself.  

So far I'm stuck at square one - I haven't succeeded in getting the local display to work.  But I will do some searches here to see if someone already has the answer for me, and if not I'll try to find the right place to post a question.  

Jim

Hi Jim, and welcome aboard.

To do that you need to first connect with your browser (and point it to moode.local, or whatever you have chosen as the player's name; or its IP address), then click "m" => Configure => Peripherals, and enable Local Display.
Then reboot your moOde box and you're done.

Thank you!  I'm sure it is that easy for some.  Maybe my display is quirky.  It is a generic 1024x600 7" display that claims to be for the Raspberry Pi and claims not to need any special driver.  It looks just like a dozen other displays, front and back, that are sold on Amazon.  

For most of the first dozen or so times that I tried it, it mostly gave me a blank white screen, fully lit, no text or graphics whatsoever.  It did the same thing this time, but after several restarts, it is suddenly giving me a full display (showing the icon view of all of the built-in radio streams).  I'm hesitant to predict what will happen the next time I restart it, but this result does give me some hope.  

I am finding that the system responds very slowly.  If I click a choice on the display, it sometimes takes a minute or more to respond.  My assumption is that it is busy scanning the music on the USB drive that I have plugged in, but I don't know enough to feel confident in this assumption.

I'll keep tinkering with it and see what I can learn.

Thanks again for your help!

Jim

PS - maybe that is the explanation for my local display problems, too. If the system is that busy, it might take a while to fully render the display. If I find that I need to start again from scratch, I will do it without the USB drive until I get the system configured.