Raspberry Pi 5 Volumio Player with NVMe, PoE, DAC, and a Bare-Metal Style LCD
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This is a small, purpose-built Raspberry Pi 5 Volumio appliance with M.2 storage, DAC output, PoE, and a minimal LCD status screen.
The hardware is only half the project. The other half is the display program, written in C.
Instead of running a desktop, browser, kiosk mode, or heavy plugin just to show basic music info, this build writes directly to the Linux framebuffer.
- No X11, Wayland, Chromium, or bloated UI stack sitting in the background.
The goal is simple: show useful Volumio information without wasting the Pi.
The screen displays:
- Time
- Song title
- Artist
- Playback state
- Network status
- Offline status
- Simple visual feedback
- Large clock mode when nothing is playing
- Smaller clock with track info when music is active
- Blinking colon as a simple heartbeat indicator
The enclosure was designed around the actual hardware stack:
- Raspberry Pi 5
- Waveshare PCIe to M.2 Adapter with PoE Function and active cooling
- NVMe storage
- InnoMaker HiFi DAC Pro
- Waveshare 3.5 inch RPi LCD
The OpenSCAD case includes cutouts for USB-C, HDMI, audio jacks, Ethernet, USB, and MicroSD. It also includes bottom intake vents, side fin vents, stronger M2.5 mounting points, lid screws, DAC jack labels, and solid sticky-foot pads for side orientation. A lot of Raspberry Pi Volumio builds are either bare boards, generic cases, or full touchscreen setups running more software than needed. This one is built more like a simple audio appliance.
It is not trying to be a…
