A small Raspberry Pi powered screen that displays what I am currently listening to. It sits, unassuming, next to my computer on the desk. When no music is playing it displays my most listened to albums from the past week, as well as my music listening stats pulled from Last.fm.
I started by following this basic guide to setting up a headless Raspberry Pi that can connect to my home WiFi. Next, I followed these basic steps to install the HyperPixel software so that the little screen worked. I knew that I basically wanted to set it up so that every time I booted up the device it would automatically open up a predefined website and sit there in a glorified kiosk mode. Relatively easy.
I created a Shortcut to control the Raspberry Pi with some basic commands. I then attached this into my Settings+ Shortcut that sits on my home screen, so I have easy access to all the options. You can duplicate what I created by changing out the IP address for your Pi:
I just upgraded my nest mini to the hub v2. I like to listen to podcasts while I go to sleep but the display screen stays on the Spotify display. If I try and swipe back to the clock etc, the music stops playing. How is having a glowing screen in your face helping anyone sleep? How can I turn the screen off and and and still play my podcast?
Just got it myself and it seems that saying "Hey Google - screen off" works, but you have to tell it to start playing whatever it was again from your phone. This also only works for the file currently being played, as it stops after the end of it (so no playlist).
Mine used to play my podcast playlist and allow me to turn the screen off, but now for some reason, spotify podcasts force the screen to stay on, spotify music will allow me to turn the screen off and google podcasts allow me to turn the screen off.......
I've tried a variety of things but whenever I start playing my music/podcast again, the screen just returns to displaying the media screen. If I try and turn the screen off or swipe the screen away, it stops playing. For a device that boasts all its sleep Health features it's quite stupid. Lol.
This always used to work fine on radio streams, but stopped a couple of days ago. "Go home" or screen swiping now stops the stream when it once was ok. "Resume" starts plating again, but then you're back to having the display on - utterly frustrating...
Sorry for the late reply. I wanted to follow up and see if you are still in need of any help? Please let me know if you are still having any trouble from here, as I would be happy to take a closer look and assist you further.
Best regards,
Jake
I am. My daughter sleeps to ocean waves. There's ocean waves for ten hours. But it shows as a video and screen stays on for ten hours. Is that even Ok for the screen? I have tried playing on song mode but those are only an hour and despite me saying loop or repeat, Google Hub says "something went wrong" and to try again later. It's not YouTube Music bc on my phone, iPad etc i can loop the same song all night without any issue. As a result. Use the iPad and not the Google hub which is the main reason bought it.
So I don't know if this is a fix or it was mentioned already but I have to use google podcasts for display off playback. It works like it should (you play podcast, ask google to turn off display and then podcast resumes after google stops talking). This does not work for Spotify unfortunately for me.
In Music Maker 14 Producer, while it says in the help file that the time display grid can be changed to minutes and seconds, there's no indication how to actually go about this. Any tips anyone?
And sorry, no: it DOES not show up under options in the BPM area of the time display - all I get there is the possibility to set TAP, reset BPM, etc.
New to Sonos. I have a pair of One SLs being delivered this week, an Arc on order and an S3 sub sitting here still in the box. I plan on using the SLs as a stereo pair in my office strictly for music. When streaming high resolution music from the Sonos app via one of the music services, (Qobuz, Apple Music, etc.) does Sonos provide you with the audio format details such as the bit rate, sampling rate, etc. or does it simply just indicate HD or something along those lines? Thank you.
When I'm listening to music on my Android using Music Player, I want to see what song I'm listening to on my lock screen, and maybe even play/pause and go forward/backward on the playlist, but not change the playlist.
By default, the stock player has the player controls in Android. Play a song from your stock music player app (the one which was originally included in your mobile) and play a song. When you turn off the screen and get back to the lock screen, you must be able to see the player controls.
You can also try Sony Walkman which offers a number of features including lock screen controls. You can also use an app like Simply Lockscreen to enable music player functionality to your lock screen.
On your Andriod phone, when you can't see the music playing, on the lock screen. All you need to do is go to your phone settings and enter 'Apps & Notification' click on the music app, tap on the data usage and then clear your cache.."IT'S DONE"... That's all you need to do. It's pretty simple right?
But you should only do this if you don't care about your playlists anymore, cause as you clear your cache it removes all the playlists you've created from your music app and then your songs will start showing on the lock screen again.
Tap and hold on the app until you see the 2 section dropbox. It should say/show APPS and WIDGETS. Tap on widgets. You should be seeing the Amazon Music widget. Tap and hold on the screen. You will be able to drag the Amazon control app onto your screen and yes, it does work on locked screens.
I have the power settings to turn the display off in 10 minutes but to never turn off the computer when plugged in . Yet, when I have music playing and the display turns off the sound stopsthe. Player continues to run but there is no sound.. Tapping the start button or any key and the screen lights up and the music resumes. Sound driver rolledback to windows native. Nothing changes.
I asked some other 9365 users and they stated their systems operated normally so I am at a loss as to why it happens or what to do about it. I even checked the operation on a clean Windows 10 install, so it might be a Bios situation.
While you can use all kinds of programs and apps for that, the following happens when you play music using desktop programs: As soon as the screen goes to sleep (the device itself is still active), music stops.
The main reason for this is how the Connected Standby feature works on the device. Microsoft introduced Connected Standby in Windows 8 as a way to bring a low-power state to Windows devices that works similar to how smartphones and tablets handle things.
I have created two Registry files that you may use to enable or disable Connected Standby on your device. This may help you if you only need to turn off the feature occasionally, but want to use it at other times.
You may need to disable automatic hibernation as well. I suggest you try it first without disabling it, and only perform the following operation when music stops playing after a while (not when the screen turns off, but when hibernation kicks in).
If you use Google Chrome to play music, for instance using web services, then you may start it up with a parameter called exclusive-mode-audio to keep music playing when the device enters Connected Standby mode.
Something to consider is my system goes into Modern Standby/not connected. I watched the Microsoft video concerning Modern Standby. I am not sure I want that for my systems and may check your registry edit.
Hello SaltGrass. Connected standby mode is the main feature of laptop 9360, 9365. And Connected Standby works mostly with Windows Store applications and not desktop apps, and that is the main reason why desktop programs will stop working when the computer enters the mode.
I was just watching my system when it went to sleep with the registry change and it started flashing white and yellow on the power LED on the front. So I guess I won't be leaving this one with that mod.
I found a website which has a very simple explanation of Modern Standby. I have been making a mistake assuming the "Turn off Display" actually meant that. In reality, which you probably already knew, you are telling it to go to Modern Standby.
Once in Modern Standby, the Desktop Activity Moderator will suspend desktop apps and as you mentioned, allow background apps to turn on and complete some function. Thus the music will stop. For me it just took a little more info and comparing the event times to the sleep study, to understand..
Hi. I have lost the display of music playing when my phone (iPhone 11) is locked. I have done the turn on off and delete the app. When downloading the app again, my Lock Screen will display they song been played. But as soon as I close the app down and go to re use it, it will not display. Any ideas?
Is this true? I can't seem to find any information on this. I also find it hard to believe that if this were true, display manufacturers haven't come up with materials to make large displays without these unwanted effects.
And 87% of statistics are made up on the spot too ;) I've never heard such tosh. In a home studio the least of your worries is going to be reflections from a couple of screens. What about the windows, or the hard parallel walls & ceiling?
He says that large flat surfaces cause reflections. As far as that goes, it's kind of true. What he's missing though is that reflections have to come from somewhere. His monitors are firing forwards, so the sound as it leaves the speaker isn't going to reflect off the screen, and everything is good.
In order to reflect off the screen, the sound would first have to bounce off the rear wall, then off the screen and back. If there are substantial reflections off the rear wall though, the small extra reflection off the screen is insignificant compared to the much larger reflection off the rear wall. In that case, what needs fixing (and urgently if he's doing mixes) is the rear wall with some appropriate panels in appropriate places. At which point there's no longer anything reflecting back towards the screen, and everything is good again.
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