06-22-2025, 12:12 PM
(06-22-2025, 10:16 AM)duzeper Wrote: OK, clearly I am showing my age here. I do not understand this, comparatively modern, idea that everything has to be controlled by a web browser.
I have a computer (RPi) with built in sound and hdmi outputs. (I accept that the sound is not the most stunning quality for audiophiles, however, to my mind, it is perfectly adequate. I can take the headphone ouput to a stand-alone amplifier (showing my age again) and the quality is adequate for my needs.)
What I do not get, is the need then to involve another, otherwise redundant, computer in order to run the web browser. Why not simply write the software as a stand-alone package with the option of browser control (or, I suppose, vice versa)
Also, your previous post implied that 'Kernel mode' would give me hdmi video output but not audio - not the case - as I said , with 'Peripherals', 'Local Display', 'General settings', 'Display', enabled, (which purports to 'Display the moOde WebUI on a locally attached display') still, all I see is boot messages followed by a login prompt.
Clearly Moode is not for me, which is a shame as the UI is the best I have found so far. I will obviously need to continue searching for a suitable stand-alone RPi music player.
Couple things:
1. You don't need to use a second computer when the Pi is connected to a locally attached display for example a Pi Touch2 DSI display or an HDMI attached display. Moode's WebUI runs in a local instance of chromium browser on the Pi and renders entirely on that local display. This is entirely a "stand-alone" system.
2. The default "Kernel mode" video core driver supports both audio and video over HDMI for example when the Pi is connected via HDMI to an AVR + HDTV or any other HDMI display with audio capability.
A lot of our users run these two types of configurations myself included :-)
As I understood it you have a locally attached display and also want to use the built in Headphone out jack. The only way to enable the Headphone jack in moode is to revert to the Legacy Firmware Mode videocore driver which at least in moode, doesn't support any other audio or video options.
I think your usage scenario is perfectly valid and maybe there is way to get the Headphone jack enabled using the Default Kernel Mode videocore driver but I havent been able to figure that out.
