Use with volumio

[yfr]

Hey, I have the great volumio system running on my pi Zero. But I can't get the alsa settings to work right.

The sound plays but the LED are not showing any reaction.

The original asound.conf looks like this:

pcm.softvolume {                                                                         
    type             plug                                                                
    slave.pcm       "softvol"                                                            
}                                                                                        

pcm.softvol {                                                                            
    type            softvol                                                              
    slave {                                                                              
        pcm         "plughw:1,0"                                                         
    }                                                                                    
    control {                                                                            
        name        "SoftMaster"                                                         
        card        1                                                                    
        device      0                                                                    
    }                                                                                    
max_dB 0.0                                                                               
min_dB -50.0                                                                             
resolution 100                                                                           
}                   

How can I change this to use the LED's?

[Gadgetoid]

What LED product are you trying to drive, what does your asound.conf currently look like?

It's been a while since I last tried Pi VU Meter with volumio, it didn't work especially well since i2c/GPIO access needed to be granted to MPD.

[battez]

did you get this working @yfr ? I am trying it with Blinkt, and using HDMI Audio but Volumio does not like the asound.conf that pivumeter installs (setup.sh was used) and no longer can the audio be played.

Volumio is a bit confusing in how it is using things to me, is there another ALSA based audio server that is known to work easier with PiVumeter? Love the simple elegance of the VU on blinkt, thanks for the project!