Akai - Media Player 2. Volumio

I dowloaded and put on a microSD card the Volumio
Connected to HDMI, keyboard, switched on - nothing on the screen (maybe the screen resolution)
Moved the set to a 4K TV - nothing on the screen
Removed the Wi-Fi module - nothing on the screen
Switched the Pine64 board to completely new - nothing on the screen
Changed the microSD card to a different piece, manufacturer - nothing on the screen
Changed the microSD card to my previously used Android TV distribution - screen on, booting
RTFM - you are an idiot. The Volumio is headless on SBCs

Connect to the LAN, wait for IP, connect via browser

First task accomplished
I need a few plug-ins for the complete system:

Tidal (I'm using mainly as music streaming)
Looked around. I'm not happy. Looks like the native integration doesn't exists. You have a few choices:
1. Subscribe to MyVolumio and use Tidal through it
2. Download your music locally with AudFree
3. Stream through UPNP/DLNA from your Android phone
I can tell, I'm not happy with either choices. Not yet decided, what to do.
Further reading:
https://forum.volumio.org/tidal-playback-t8894.html
https://www.audfree.com/tidal/tidal-on-volumio.html
https://forum.volumio.org/tidal-native-plugin-myvolumio-t10682.html

16x2 (20x2) LCD display - hopefully my VFD use the same communication protocol
It looks like there is quite a lot information exists on the internet. I just need to grab them, and build. The question is, how will it work on the Pine64 as all of the descriptions for Raspberry Pi.
Here are the Github repositories for the code:
https://github.com/Saiyato/volumio-pydpiper-plugin
https://github.com/dhrone/pydPiper
https://github.com/JedS/Raspdac
Connection:
https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhDN0xib8RQp84p4BqSTxCumE6uhyphenhyphen2iqGubwXm-KATwOJx0sHPCs1NKIhWuSWM56k99GLX91C0lwPjYfspIR3Jhl_yviuIMxvLpiiFX3ck0547TcxwAUciyi3cRbKmU0u9lV6lM20T8SfBj/s1600/Volumio+LCD+1.jpg
I2C Interface (not yet decided, if I'll use it):
https://forum.volumio.org/display-16x2-and-i2c-interface-t9549.html

Rotary Encoder
It looks like the rotary encoder plugin already in the stock firmware, so I installed it already.
Here is the documentation and connection:
https://github.com/Saiyato/volumio-rotary-encoder-plugin
I read on various pages, that this is unreliable. Here is a different solution:
https://forum.volumio.org/getting-rotary-encoder-working-t9690.html
We will see, what is the working solution.

Buttons/GPIO
The chassis contains three buttons already. My plan is to keep them, and use them for... I don't know yet. I'll figure out later. probably I'll relabel the buttons.
Anyway. Here is the plugin:
https://github.com/tomatpasser/gpio-buttons
https://github.com/volumio/volumio-plugins/tree/master/plugins/system_controller/gpio-buttons

Bluetooth
I'd like to play music from my phone through bluetooth. So looked for the solution. Here I found one:
https://forum.volumio.org/volumio-bluetooth-receiver-t8937.html

Infrared Remote
Here is a starting point for the infrared remote I plan to use:
https://forum.volumio.org/control-guide-for-raspberry-t9700.html

Now I collected all of the information I think is necessary for my VolumIO project. I'll continue from here connecting, setting up piece-by-piece.