roonmatrix

Control your own LED matrix hardware, which can display a wide range of informations: Music played from Roon, Apple Music or Spotify, weather data, RSS feeds, custom text messages, and more. The RoonMatrix is a free maker project, and describes step by step how to build your own LED matrix display hardware. And with this app you can configure your hardware extensively, and specify from which sources the text to display is composed. With the app you can send text messages directly to your device, control the display speed, brightness and much more.

Version 1.1.0 - a big update:

• Support for CoverPlayer device (free maker project (coming soon): a device with color lcd display to show the album cover of playing track in selected zone, select zone, and control play mode).
• Zone cover area: a zones overview with cover and play control at the bottom row below device list, animated if new zones available or removed.
• device scan extremely faster now.
• smoothly scrolling zone text ticker which displays information about playing zones (artist, album, track) now glitch-free (updates behind visible area).
• communication between app and device changed from timed pull requests to websockets for faster reaction on zone updates.
• button row (in bottom area, right from export button) to start Spotify or Apple Music app.
• Control page with new buttons for repeat and shuffle mode.
• Device list: shows cover art if cover is available (for Roon, Spotify and Apple Music zones).
• Device list: control ticker speed on hoverering in right bottom corner of device item.
• Device list: open big ticker (scrollbar) by click on ticker text of device item, and control ticker speed on hoverering in right bottom corner of ticker page.
• Device list: open control page by click on cover of device item.
• SettingsPage: configure what should be displayed in zone cover area (artist, album, title, size of covers dynamically or static).
• a lot of small bugs fixed.