Peppymeter and mopidy

[Jeff]

Hi,
Thanks for your interest.
After starting mopidy, i ran:

sudo systemctl status mopidy 

and didn’t see any error, not even a warning. Also, when i typed:

aplay -L

(Capital L) then peppyalsa was in the list. In fact it was the only device with is name only (others had a comment).

Also, i forgot to mention that my issue might be related to this:

Output to 2 alsa devices silmutaneously?

I want to output my audio to 2 alsa devices silmutaneously. 1st output to my raspberry’s headphone jack (device=plug:output) 2nd output to an additional alsa device named peppyalsa (device=peppyalsa), which is used to feed audio into a named pipe (fifo), on the other end of that pipe/fifo I’m running peppymeter (a vu meter on my SPI touchscreen). peppyalsa is an alsa plugin created by the maker of peppymeter to work around the blocking behaviour of fifo. When testing the peppyalsa device wit…

However i don’t understand the ‘!’ in the line:

ouput = .... ! .... ! ....

cheers