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We write Volumio OS to a microSD card using the Balena Etcher app before saying a big hello to a key advantage of mounting our Touchscreen Pi ‘inside’ an open-backed case: we don’t need to remove the case in order to gain access to the Pi’s microSD card slot. Premium pricing clocks in at around €6/month but the first 15 days are free.
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Unlike RoPieee, Volumio charges on a subscription basis to add ‘Premium’ features such as multiroom, native streaming for Qobuz and Tidal plus Tidal Connect and the Italian company’s new Manifest UI.
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Now it’s time to download Volumio OS from the Italy company’s website. Well, almost essential - we’ll come back to that but here’s what our finished hardware looks like: This HAT is essential if the downstream DAC has only coaxial and/or TOSLINK inputs and no USB. I also added a JustBoom S/PDIF HAT board to show what’s possible from the Pimoroni frame case (that wasn’t with the Digitalrise case). This means we can do away with the red and black power cables that can be annoying to tuck away tidily. We solved this by separately powering the screen and the Pi via their respective microUSB and USB-C sockets. When building the RoPieee Touchscreen Pi, we discovered that powering the touchscreen’s control board and the Raspberry Pi from one power source resulted in an underpowered Pi. (More detailed instructions can be seen here). The four supplied plastic screws hold the frame and feet together. Before we add the third and final Pimoroni layer, we need to add the feet: push each foot’s mounting ‘hook’ into the corresponding hole on the frame and slide downwards. Next, we reattach the Raspberry Pi 4 to the back of the touchscreen’s control board and reconnect the two with the ribbon cable and black/red power cables (as we did in the first build). Once that’s done, we can reattach the touchscreen’s control board to the back of the screen and add the second Pimoroni frame layer. BUT! There’s no need to detach the tiny ribbon at the very top. We then have to unscrew the touchscreen’s control board from the back of the screen in order to fit it through the cut-out hole of the first Pimoroni layer. The first layer requires the Raspberry Pi 4 to be completely removed from the assembly. The Pimoroni frame piles up in three layers. Stateside folk should try their luck on. I bought it from for €15 but UK folk can also get it here. You’ll also need an open-backed frame (case) like this one from Pimoroni ( Pibow?). This brings us back to basics so if you’re starting from scratch with this Pi Touchscreen project, know that you’ll need 1) a Raspberry Pi 4 and 2) the official Raspberry Pi Touchscreen (and no other touchscreen). …and then carefully removing the Pi + Touchscreen from its shell: We start by popping the back panel on the Digitalrise case… While we’re at it, we’ll change up the case for an open-backed varietal to leave room for the addition of DAC and S/PDIF HATs used by many Pi-Fi enthusiasts.
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In this article, we will see how to add ‘now playing’ touchscreen possibilities to Spotify (Connect), Tidal and Qobuz, all by way of Volumio OS running on a Raspberry Pi.
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Later, we saw how an upgrade to RoPieee XL added Spotify Connect functionality but visually-speaking left Roon’s ‘now playing’ screen as a placeholder:
We effectively built a Roon (‘Bridge’) streamer with a 7″ touchscreen for €200. In the first installment of this Touchscreen Pi series, we hooked a Raspberry Pi into the back of the official Raspberry Pi 7″ Touchscreen display, dropped the two-fer into a Digitalrise standing case and ran a RoPieee operating system for a touch-enabled ‘now playing’ screen.
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