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Document recommendations for headless setups #15
Description
- Use case: Run Mopidy-MPRIS + Rygel on a headless system to support playing audio in Mopidy from an UPnP client.
- Research: Does any MPRIS clients support using the system bus?
- Research: Can we start a session bus if there's none? Ref. wrap-dbus script. Will Rygel running as some other user on the system be able to connect to Mopidy-MPRIS using the mopidy user's session bus?
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kmiterror commentedon May 6, 2015
I have a headless setup with rygel working. You need some fake x server to have dbus working with mpris. I use xvfb, it's available in most repos. I start it with a command:
It creates a minimal x server 1x1 pixel 8bits color, so it has minimal memory impact and enable mopidy-mpris and rygel to work through dbus.
Ofcourse DISPLAY envirnoment variable needs to be set up, I'm setting it in /etc/enviroment to:
Im running it that way for few months.
tr1xem commentedon Oct 15, 2024
Still works ++
jodal commentedon Sep 23, 2026
The README now documents headless setups: running Mopidy-MPRIS on the system bus, and using Rygel for UPnP/DLNA. Closing as completed. The open research questions can get new issues if someone wants to work on them.