I found the omxplayer node and try to use it without success. [image] node-red-contrib-pi-omxplayer A Node-RED node to control OMXPlayer on the Raspberry pi Console cmd "omxplayer -p -o local /home/pi/Desktop/lassedenken.mp3" works. My flow doesn´t work and i…

A quick google search for the error message you are getting failed to open vchiq instance finds this stack overflow question about running omxplayer on a Pi from Php code - https://stackoverflow.com/questions/42583835/failed-to-open-vchiq-instance Check the answers for the solution.

The documentation is fine. You should return both the filename and the command. filename = "/home/pi/Desktop/lassedenken.mp3" return {filename:filename,payload:"playpause"} Can't test it though, does the node still work (last update is 2 years ago).

[image] bakman2: filename = "/home/pi/Desktop/lassedenken.mp3" return {filename:filename,payload:"playpause"} Thx ! I get "Error: not redy yet"... hmmmpf, maybe its outdated or so. Any idea why exec node "omxplayer -p -o local /home/pi/Desktop/lassedenken.mp3" gives error while e.g. "sudo re…

What error? You may have to provide the full path to omxplayer.

exec node "omxplayer -p -o local /home/pi/Desktop/lassedenken.mp3" gives "error 255" ( picture ) I am no linux expert but isn´t this ^^ the full path since "home" dir is located at root ?

Enter which omxplayer Use the full path in the exec node.

:slight_smile: of course you mean the path to the player... sry :slight_smile: I have the same error (255) with "usr/bin/omxplayer -p -o local /home/pi/Desktop/lassedenken.mp3"

Can you show us a screenshot of the error? You can paste an image directly into here.

usr/bin/omxplayer try: /usr/bin/omxplayer instead.

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ukmoose 18 September 2019 14:48 18

As @bakman2 hinted @colin suggested trying the full path the the executable not the music file

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