BluOS controller app on Linux

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Rand K Barthel

• August 02, 2019 15:57

I'd just like to put in a plug for supporting the BluOS controller app on Linux. All of my home computers run Linux Mint 18.1, which is closely related to Ubuntu, and my work-at-home machine is running RedHat Enterprise Linux 7.6. I realize it's a niche market, but it's growing, and I bet it's pretty similar to MacOS under the covers.

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  Fabrice A

  • December 10, 2021 10:32

  Andrés Martinelli was the wizard, he kindly shared the solution:

  7zr x BluOS-Controller-Setup-3.16.0.exe -r app.asar -otmp

   

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  Andrés Martinelli

  • December 10, 2021 12:25

  Nevertheless, other lines shall be modified to make it work. Still hasnt figured out all the changes needed. I know almost nothing about electron. :(

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  Fabrice A

  • December 11, 2021 15:53

  I finally got 3.16.0 running, and wrote a brief note about how I did:
  https://github.com/frafra/bs-bashpatch/issues/2

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  Andrés Martinelli

  • December 11, 2021 15:57

  Great. Will give it a try. The analytics part is crucial.

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  Bo Johansson

  • December 11, 2021 18:30

  A big Thank You! Fabrice A (and Andrés Martinelli) for your work. I just successfully built the app to your instructions in the "issues/2" in GitHub. It was built on and works on my Linux Mint 20.2.

  The only issue I had was the instructions to patch the 'package.json'. I couldn't find the place in the file where I should patch. In the end I just added the lines beginning with + at the end of the package.json (taking care to get the begin-end statements correct). I also had to remove an old package-lock.json left over from an earlier attempt yesterday.

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  Bo Johansson

  • January 10, 2022 21:34
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  An update and a renewed Thanks to Fabrice A and Andrés Martinelli.
  I just rebuilt the linux app to be based on Windows client 3.16.1. It works fine and I can control my Bluesound player on both the laptop (MX linux) and the PC (Linux Mint 20.3) where it was built.

  The only issue I didn't solve was the update check for the Controller. Most likely I failed to correctly patch the ...tmp/app/www/app.js.

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  Fabrice A

  • January 11, 2022 10:46

  @Bo Johansson well the update check for the Controller does also not work for me - I did not try to analyze it yet.

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  Mitch

  • March 06, 2022 17:47
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  @edward, i just tried with fresh bottles installation but the latest Windows BS (BluOS-Controller-Setup-3.16.2.exe) is not launching. Are there any dependencies to enable or other settings?

  [edit] I got it working, had to create a custom bottle and use 32bit architecture. [/edit]

   

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  Reagan

  • April 30, 2022 23:06

  @Mitch - Thanks for pointing this out. Working great using Bottles. Just wanted to point out that I didn't have to create a custom bottle using 32-bit architecture. Creating a custom bottle using the sys-wine-* runner and 64-bit architecture worked.

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  Bersa

  • May 02, 2022 04:30

  Hey David S,

  any chance to get the BluOS Controller AppImage updated to 3.18.7 ?

  Your patched version is what has worked best for me on Debian.

  Thanks in advance.

  BR Bersa

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  Nicolas

  • September 26, 2023 14:59
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  Hi,

  I have packaged the last version of the controller app and I have noticed an ever spinning wheel when displaying an album.

  Wondering if anyone has also noticed it? I suppose the app is trying to load something...
  I updated the app on iOS and I don't have the issue.

  Thanks

  

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  Genesio Di Sabatino

  • September 15, 2022 19:38

  @TONY W. - PRODUCT SUPPORT MANAGER

  is there any possibility of having an official client for linux or, better, a web interface?

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  Fabrice A

  • October 02, 2022 15:20

  It's a rainy Sunday afternoon, and I tried to update my old 3.16.0 with the current 3.18.4. [1]

  For those who are interested, I can confirm that the method I described in [2] still works fine with 3.18.4.

  [1] https://bluos.net/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/BluOS-Controller-Setup-3.18.4.exe
  [2] https://github.com/frafra/bs-bashpatch/issues/2

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  Fabrice A

  • October 02, 2022 20:04

  I finally setup a GitLab CI pipeline which automatically generates an AppImage for linux as described in the issue above. 

  The project is available at https://gitlab.com/fabrice.aeschbacher/bluos-controller-linux

  To reproduce a build locally, follow the app-image build job in [1].
  Or you can download the AppImage built by the pipeline [2].

  [1] https://gitlab.com/fabrice.aeschbacher/bluos-controller-linux/-/blob/main/.gitlab-ci.yml#L14
  [2] https://gitlab.com/fabrice.aeschbacher/bluos-controller-linux/-/packages
  
  

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  Julien Jay

  • October 03, 2022 06:47

  Many thanks to all who are involved in packaging, distributing this BluOS release for Linux !

  I've downloaded the AppImage directly from Frabrice's GitLab, and it works as a charm ! Great job :)

   

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  Paul S

  • October 10, 2022 17:57

  Thank you to all, works fine! Now why can't Bluesound do this for themselves...

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  Kevin Eyewanders

  • October 20, 2022 19:17
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  The longer I am running Bluesound in my home (3 or 4 years now) the stronger my wonder as to why I left Sonos behind to begin with becomes, particularly when I stumble onto threads such as this. (TBH I know exactly why, but it's never an easy pill.) I do wish Bluesound had more presence/manpower/capital... or whatever the reason is for so many years-long no-shows such as this one here. Just a "we'll take that under advisement" three years ago followed by tumbleweeds........
  
  edit:(Hats off to Nicolas, David and Fabrice for all of this)

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  Nicolas

  • October 20, 2022 10:16

  I was not involved.
  Kudos to David, Fabrice and all the other people involved.

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  Fabrice A

  • October 20, 2022 21:15

  I pushed a new version for v3.20.0

  To reproduce a build locally, follow the app-image build job in [1].
  Or you can download the AppImage built by the pipeline [2].

  [1] https://gitlab.com/fabrice.aeschbacher/bluos-controller-linux/-/blob/main/.gitlab-ci.yml#L14
  [2] https://gitlab.com/fabrice.aeschbacher/bluos-controller-linux/-/packages

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  Fabrice A

  • October 29, 2022 12:01
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  Just pushed a new version for v3.20.1. I could not find the release notes explaining the changes since v3.20.0, but I guess it is related to [3].  

  To reproduce a build locally, follow the app-image build job in [1].
  Or you can download the AppImage built by the pipeline [2].

  [1] https://gitlab.com/fabrice.aeschbacher/bluos-controller-linux/-/blob/main/.gitlab-ci.yml#L14
  [2] https://gitlab.com/fabrice.aeschbacher/bluos-controller-linux/-/packages
  [3] https://support1.bluesound.com/hc/en-us/community/posts/9370049558935-BlueSound-Windows-App-version-3-20-0-issue

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  Paul S

  • October 30, 2022 15:29

  Thank you! :)

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  krang

  • November 06, 2022 21:35

  this is fantastic work, thank you SO much for this :)
  Is there a chance to port it to aarch64? It's for Ubuntu touch where I cannot easily use fundamentals such as yarn etc...

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  Jonathan Anderson

  • November 11, 2022 17:57

  And it just works. Thank you so much for this Fabrice!

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  Marcos Bujosa

  • November 19, 2022 15:42

  Hello Fabrice,

  what should I do with those files to install bluos-controler in my pc? Thank you.

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  Fabrice A

  • November 20, 2022 09:14
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  Hi Marcos,

  Just download the AppImage file, copy in a directory of your choice, make it executable ( chmod +x bluos-controller-linux-3.20.1.AppImage ) and start it ( ./bluos-controller-linux-3.20.1.AppImage ).
  
  If you wish, there is also this wrapper script, which I hope is self-explanatory:
  https://gitlab.com/fabrice.aeschbacher/bluos-controller-linux/-/blob/main/bluos
  
  The script expect the AppImage files to be stored in /usr/local/share/bluos , and in that directory,  bluos-controller-linux-latest.AppImage to be a symlink to the latest version.

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  Marcos Bujosa

  • November 20, 2022 15:36

  Thank you!

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  Jonathan Anderson

  • November 24, 2022 20:09
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  Tiny request, could we package the bluos logo in the appimage? Yes, I tried to do it myself by running the gitlab pipeline locally but there seems to be many things I need to learn ;-)

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  Fabrice A

  • November 25, 2022 20:03
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  @Jonathan I'll try for next release:
  https://gitlab.com/fabrice.aeschbacher/bluos-controller-linux/-/issues/1

  Meanwhile you can manually use the icon I pushed temporarily here:
  https://gitlab.com/fabrice.aeschbacher/bluos-controller-linux/-/blob/dev/assets/icon.png

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  Fabrice A

  • November 25, 2022 20:30

  @Jonathan I think this https://gitlab.com/fabrice.aeschbacher/bluos-controller-linux/-/commit/014384ad3f92f8c8ac05d03d20d234476e2471c8 should fix it.

  You can try it from the dev pipeline:
  https://gitlab.com/fabrice.aeschbacher/bluos-controller-linux/-/jobs/3381979995/artifacts/browse

  If you confirm that it works, I'll merge it for the next release

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  Fabrice A

  • December 08, 2022 22:33

  I pushed a new version for v3.20.2. I could not find the release notes explaining the changes since v3.20.1

  Since last (Linux) version, here is what I changed :
  - Add BluOS icon to AppImage (https://gitlab.com/fabrice.aeschbacher/bluos-controller-linux/-/issues/1)
  - 'Upgrade Check - Controller' works now (https://gitlab.com/fabrice.aeschbacher/bluos-controller-linux/-/issues/2)

  To reproduce a build locally, follow the app-image build job in [1].
  Or you can download the AppImage built by the pipeline [2].

  [1] https://gitlab.com/fabrice.aeschbacher/bluos-controller-linux/-/blob/main/.gitlab-ci.yml#L14
  [2] https://gitlab.com/fabrice.aeschbacher/bluos-controller-linux/-/packages
  
  

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