Setup environment for plugin development

Plugins
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Hello together,

I want to write my own plugin for Volumio 2 but I am struggling since my plugin crashs the web UI. After installing it and calling the configuration page I only see the loading indicator. After refreshing the page in my browser it is not reachable anymore. Any SSH connection is still usable. So I have tried to restart the mpd daemon but without success. The system log has no entries either.

I use the Spotify plugin as template.

Are there any instruction how I can setup an development environment?

Thank you. :slight_smile:

Stefan

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Hi,

see at

volumio.github.io/docs/Developm … nment.html

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But if you have questions, or you see that something is missing… let us know

In order to better troubleshoot your plugin, launch

sudo journalctl -f

so you’ll see where it fails

4

Hi,

great thanks. I will try in the evening. I totally missed that section in the docu. I am sorry.

Is there any way to publish a plugin so that the people can download a custom plugin directly in the plugin configuration of Volumio2 like you can install the Spotify plugin?

Thanks.

Stefan

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You can load a plugin directly from hard disk etc. on PC/whatever which is hosting the browser running the Volumio UI.

6

Sure, once you’ve done it, send a pull request to the volumio-plugins repository.
There are 2 branches

master : where we have the sources
development: where we host the packages and the json files that populate the plugin repo.

Once you do the PR I’ll verify and merge.
If you have other questions just ask!

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Alright. Thank you. :slight_smile:

I forked the plugin repo and will try to develop an amazon music plugin (like the one for kodi).

One last question: can you please tell me where Volumio stores the information about which plugins are installed?

I tried to delete my plugin folder from /data/plugins and wanted to reinstall it but then the installation failed because the plugin was already installed which wasn’t the case. Anyway the system copied the new files to /data/plugin/…

Because the web UI didnt work anymore I couldnt uninstall it from the web UI.