PowerBlock and Volumio

dolomitejunkie

This bit of kit is lovely and works as advertised above with Raspbian and RPi3.

However I really want to use it for a project using Volumio dist. I was wondering if anyone could help as I have run into some problems.

I am currently trying to run the 'make' command after doing the clone from git and I get the following output:

volumio@vintage-radio:~/PowerBlock$ make
cd src/powerblock && make all
make[1]: Entering directory
'/home/volumio/PowerBlock/src/powerblock'
cd ../lib/jsoncpp/ && mkdir -p build/release
cd ../lib/jsoncpp/build/release && cmake
-DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=release
-DJSONCPP_LIB_BUILD_SHARED=OFF -G "Unix Makefiles"
../..
-- JsonCpp Version: 1.0.0
-- Configuring done
-- Generating done
-- Build files have been written to:
/home/volumio/PowerBlock/src/lib/jsoncpp
cd ../lib/jsoncpp/build/release && make
make[2]: Entering directory
'/home/volumio/PowerBlock/src/lib/jsoncpp/build/release'
make[2]: *** No targets specified and no makefile
found. Stop.
make[2]: Leaving directory
'/home/volumio/PowerBlock/src/lib/jsoncpp/build/release'
Makefile:28: recipe for target
'../lib/jsoncpp/build/release/lib/libjsoncpp.a'
failed
make[1]: ***
[../lib/jsoncpp/build/release/lib/libjsoncpp.a]
Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory
'/home/volumio/PowerBlock/src/powerblock'
Makefile:16: recipe for target 'all' failed
make: *** [all] Error 2

The first part runs as advertised but the problems seem to start when it tried to:

make[2]: *** No targets specified and no makefile
found. Stop.

Any help would be much appreciated!

petrockblog

There must be something different between Volume and the stripped-down Raspbian that is used for RetroPie. I must take a look into this to give yo further hints. Maybe someone else has an idea?

dawed

Just a hint for those who installing powerblock and Volumio...

Use allways sudo and before do the cmake stuff, you need to install first some c++ stuff:
sudo apt-get install build-essential

petrockblog

Thanks for the hint! I have updated the README. The install script (install.sh) already had that package. I was not aware of these differences.

Glad that it is working for your now!

mayday

@dawed @petrockblog could you explain more. I'm having issues installing powerblock on volumio. I'm kind of new to the pi world.

petrockblog

@mayday You need to login to you Volumio via SSH (https://volumio.github.io/docs/User_Manual/SSH.html) and then execute the one-line set script of the PowerBlock (https://github.com/petrockblog/PowerBlock#installation).

efrank

@petrockblog
Will the PB script still work with the new Volumio 3 now that they are using Debian Buster and not Debian Jesse?

petrockblog

@efrank Hi! It should. I still need to test it out with the newest Volumio distribution, though. Thanks for the hint! On vanilla Buster Raspbian it is working.