Re: [slim] New modified SqueezeAMP batch?
philippe_44 wrote: > No that would not work. The boost is a different PCB with a voltage > converter that "boosts" the input voltage to whatever is needed to > charge batteries. What can be changed on every PCB (basic and boost), by > swapping a few components, is the number of battery cells (2 or 3) it is > supposed to work with. By default, basic is 2 cells and boost is 3 > cells. But basic does not boost input voltage an cannot acomodate any > charger to charge batteries. > Ahhh, yeah my bad, mis-understood what the component swap did thanks for the clarification. Kev KeBul's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=32883 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=116084 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] New modified SqueezeAMP batch?
bengaldave wrote: > > Display like this? > https://www.pishop.us/product/0-91-inch-white-oled-display-module-i2c-interface/ > Yes bengaldave wrote: > > will we have options for boost or not? I assumed most people wanted no > boost? > Your initial interest/order will have been for basic or boost, I believe you can change some components on a basic to bring it up to boost specification - but these things are tiny as are some of the components, so decent soldering skills with the right tools for smd soldering and steady hand and heart would be required. If I remember correctly when Philippe receives the batch he will contact you to confirm your requirements and advise of payment details (was via PayPal for both my batches), I guess if you wanted to change from basic to boost you can ask at that stage if he has any boost available. Of course Philippe would have to confirm this - I'm not officially speaking on his behalf. bengaldave wrote: > > So something like this > 5.5mmX2.5mm connector > > https://www.amazon.com/12V-Power-Supply-Adapter-Transformer/dp/B07DMFN2YN/ref=sr_1_4?crid=C6E2V4HJLB7Z&keywords=power+supply+2.5mm&qid=1668121824&sprefix=power+supply+2.5mm%2Caps%2C146&sr=8-4X2.5mm Yeah, but that's a big ol' psu, I think this one would also be fine https://www.amazon.com/ALITOVE-100-240V-Converter-Available-Security/dp/B07VQGHSWY/ref=sr_1_19?crid=27X06L6GB7C9N&keywords=12v%2Bpower%2Bsupply&qid=1668124124&sprefix=12v%2B%2Caps%2C273&sr=8-19&th=1 bengaldave wrote: > @paul, did not realize that it also had ethernet, thats great > Philippe has added Ethernet support to the SqueezeESP project but the hardware required is not included in SqueezeAMP builds at the moment as that would change the form factor and require another re-design of the layout. In this latest batch Philippe has managed to add the IR receiver without making the unit any larger, so no need for re-design of cases. That would not be the case if an ethernet socket was added. Kev KeBul's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=32883 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=116084 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] New modified SqueezeAMP batch?
bengaldave wrote: > Yes, since these will have nice acrylic cases (?) largest display that > fits in case, just the 2 line display? Or color? > > Is there anything additionally we need to purchase? > > Power supply? The SqueezeAMP Readme on github will answer a lot of questions... https://github.com/philippe44/SqueezeAMP/blob/3.x/README.md The display that fits in the case is the SSD1306, 0.91" 128x32 pixels, the readme has a link to an example and shows a picture of it installed inside the case. Power supply, yes you'll need one - again the readme outlines the options for basic or boost with or without batteries etc, I run a basic with display no batteries using a 12v 1.5A psu from an old router and it seems fine, but I also have 2A and 3A variants available if I need them. Connector specs are in the readme. Kev KeBul's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=32883 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=116084 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] New modified SqueezeAMP batch?
bengaldave wrote: > Question on airplay support. The description for squeezeamp shows > support for airplay. > > There is also a LMS plugin, shairtunes, which works great! Thanks! > > The author of the plugin is the same person working on squeezeamp? > > Is there a difference of capabilities between the LMS plugin and the > squeezeamp airplay support? > > Would the same device show up twice on the iphone since there is an LMS > airplay for that device and the squeezeamp advertising airplay also? > > Thanks for the great work! Functionality wise, I think they are the same, Airplay1 and support synchronisation I think both show up, I'm sure I've seen that previously... although just fired up one of my SqueezeAMPs and the SqueezeAMP one isn't showing, I don't use that feature so may have disabled it or it's not working in the somewhat older version I'm running on that SqueezeAMP. There is a setting in the LMS Shairtunes plugin "Allow all Squeezelite-based players" - needs to be ticked for SqueezeAMPs to be offered as an Airplay device. Kev KeBul's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=32883 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=116084 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] New modified SqueezeAMP batch?
bengaldave wrote: > Also, the squeezeamp description states support 10 band equalizer. What > is the use case and how does a user interact with the Squeezeamp to set > equalizer settings? LMS does not have equalizer settings, or does it? > There is a plugin for LMS - SqueezeESP32, it enables an ESP32 settings section in the player settings within LMS for any connected SqueezeESP32 based players and provides settings for attached displays and the 10 band equilizer. bengaldave wrote: > Also, there are only audio outputs, there is no line in, correct? or is > there? > I don't believe there is a physical line in on SqueezeAMP. bengaldave wrote: > The squeezebox radio has a line in, but I am not even sure how that > works, how do you control of the audio on the squeezebox radio from LMS? > How do you select audio in versus the digital? The SB Radio switches automatically to line in when a cable is plugged into the line in socket, this can can be overridden by selecting another music source to play from either the radio menu or LMS. Whilst line in is active volume is controlled from the player controls not from LMS There is an Applet available to enable switching to line in on the Radio itself and I think a plugin for LMS that allows switching from LMS CLI, both written by community contributors on this forum, a search (Google*) for Squeezebox Radio Line In should find them Kev * - Other web search engines are available :p KeBul's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=32883 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=116084 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] UK - Spare Touchs & SBs for sale
gvh wrote: > > Can't wait to type that wifi key 4 times using a remote Gotta be a case for adding a temporary SSID with short and easy passcode just for testing, if your wifi setup allows for additional SSID's Kev KeBul's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=32883 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=115861 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] UK - Spare Touchs & SBs for sale
gvh wrote: > > Can't wait to type that wifi key 4 times using a remote Gotta be a case for adding a temporary SSID with short and easy passcode just for testing, if your wifi setup allows for additional SSID's Kev KeBul's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=32883 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=115861 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Volume increasing to 50% randomly
mherger wrote:
>
> I've added a change to 4.7.2 to simply ignore 49% volume for the time
> being. Hopefully this will give us some slack until I've figured out
> what's really going on...
Thanks, in place and running
This was produced by my usual method - playing through App and Connect,
on SB Touch change to playing local file, go back to Spotify App (which
is still connected to SB Touch) and click on mute, then click un-mute -
at that stage it tries to set the SB Touch to match the App volume...
which obviously in this case was 49 - no idea if that was a coincidence
I certainly didn't previously try and set the App volume to 49.
I'll continue to test around this scenario - got a few things I'd like
to check out.
Note: Debug logging in Spotty Plugin not set until after I had started
to play local music and my Spotify User has been *** out and players
Mac addresses changed.
Cheers
Kev
[22-01-10 16:38:42.1566] Plugins::Spotty::Connect::
DaemonManager::initHelpers (90) Checking Spotty Connect helper
daemons...
[22-01-10 16:38:42.1578] Plugins::Spotty::Connect::
DaemonManager::initHelpers (120) This is the sync group's master, or a
standalone player with Spotify Connect enabled: 00:04:20:££:££:££
[22-01-10 16:38:42.1589] Plugins::Spotty::Connect::
DaemonManager::initHelpers (120) This is the sync group's master, or a
standalone player with Spotify Connect enabled: 00:04:20:@@:@@:@@
[22-01-10 16:38:42.1599] Plugins::Spotty::Connect::
DaemonManager::initHelpers (120) This is the sync group's master, or a
standalone player with Spotify Connect enabled: 00:04:20:$$:$$:$$
[22-01-10 16:39:09.4612] Plugins::Spotty::Connect::_connectEvent (368)
Got called from spotty helper for 00:04:20:££:££:££: volume
[22-01-10 16:39:09.4653] Plugins::Spotty::API::Token::get (202) Found
cached token:
BQBzquPNZdNB00PrALXfwyAaw2zijGJ7l6mJ4SljxR0HTHcQCEG8oYThDi8Nv7VC7ri0836sHowG8KGN2sbefd2Z6yarSwrMhYzFqacPtO9K8p_s-fwQzbsUBEv465n_vvHsAnSktePTDECpj8zZ5hwxYKzHtdRnqYKz8I7XQnOxFWYiKyByKND65GBcsxcUcucJz36WgpN9xaARfZbJmg-VI51Jh1688QXfaZInFX9VxvzBC7ox51XmvX3s-3fNCxGpQPtnnw
[22-01-10 16:39:09.4660] Plugins::Spotty::API::__ANON__ (1336) Trying to
read from cache for me
[22-01-10 16:39:09.4671] Plugins::Spotty::API::__ANON__ (1339) Returning
cached data for me
[22-01-10 16:39:09.4704] Plugins::Spotty::API::__ANON__ (1340) do {
my $a = {
country => "GB",
display_name => "***",
explicit_content => {
filter_enabled => bless(do{\(my $o = 0)},
"JSON::XS::Boolean"),
filter_locked => 'fix',
},
external_urls => { spotify =>
"https://open.spotify.com/user/***"; },
followers => { href => undef, total => 0 },
href => "https://api.spotify.com/v1/users/***";,
id => "***",
images => [],
product => "premium",
type => "user",
uri => "spotify:user:***",
};
$a->{explicit_content}{filter_locked} =
\${$a->{explicit_content}{filter_enabled}};
$a;
}
[22-01-10 16:39:10.7037] Plugins::Spotty::Connect::_connectEvent (368)
Got called from spotty helper for 00:04:20:££:££:££: volume
[22-01-10 16:39:10.7078] Plugins::Spotty::API::Token::get (202) Found
cached token:
BQBzquPNZdNB00PrALXfwyAaw2zijGJ7l6mJ4SljxR0HTHcQCEG8oYThDi8Nv7VC7ri0836sHowG8KGN2sbefd2Z6yarSwrMhYzFqacPtO9K8p_s-fwQzbsUBEv465n_vvHsAnSktePTDECpj8zZ5hwxYKzHtdRnqYKz8I7XQnOxFWYiKyByKND65GBcsxcUcucJz36WgpN9xaARfZbJmg-VI51Jh1688QXfaZInFX9VxvzBC7ox51XmvX3s-3fNCxGpQPtnnw
[22-01-10 16:39:10.7088] Plugins::Spotty::API::__ANON__ (1336) Trying to
read from cache for me
[22-01-10 16:39:10.7104] Plugins::Spotty::API::__ANON__ (1339) Returning
cached data for me
[22-01-10 16:39:10.7143] Plugins::Spotty::API::__ANON__ (1340) do {
my $a = {
country => "GB",
display_name => "***",
explicit_content => {
filter_enabled => bless(do{\(my $o = 0)},
"JSON::XS::Boolean"),
filter_locked => 'fix',
},
external_urls => { spotify =>
"https://open.spotify.com/user/***"; },
followers => { href => undef, total => 0 },
href => "https://api.spotify.com/v1/users/***";,
id => "***",
images => [],
product => "premium",
type => "user",
uri => "spotify:user:***",
};
$a->{explicit_content}{filter_locked} =
\${$a->{explicit_content}{filter_enabled}};
$a;
}
[22-01-10 16:39:10.7161] Plugins::Spotty::Connect::_connectEvent (385)
Ignoring volume reset to 49
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Re: [slim] Volume increasing to 50% randomly
slartibartfast wrote: > In my case the volume always jumps to 49 or 50% though. It never jumps > to any other value. > Yeah sure, was aware of that it was 49% for the first two I had before I tried to reproduce it, so far not been able to replicate un-asked for jumps specifically to 49% or 50%, so there must be another factor. Fully accept and already stated that this may not be the issue seen by everyone, but thought it interesting enough to open discussion on it, Michael seems pretty sure that only "connect" adjusts the volume and this is certainly a method whereby connect is involved in changing volume on a player not playing music through connect. Whilst we are on 49% or 50%, during testing I saw quite a few instances of a 1% change in volume, logs showed the final value what was requested/updated from spotify me cache, it happened enough for me to notice, but decided not to confuse things further. I asked for "thoughts?" on my post because my initial thoughts were that the App to SB player "connect" should be cleared down if the SB player starts to play from another source... However, I've just tested against an Amazon Echo Dot, which behaves similarly, once connected to the Dot from the Spotify App, if I pause play on the Spotify App then the connect remains in place. If I then ask Alexa to play something from Amazon Music again the connect remains in place and changing the volume on the Spotify App changes the volume on the Dot... But the big difference is... if I then change the volume on the Dot itself then the volume on the Spotify App changes accordingly, so the volume on App and device remains in sync if they are "connected" even if I'm playing music on the Dot from another source. This doesn't happen with LMS, once it is in that "connected but not playing from Spotify" state LMS Web UI Player volume changes are not replicated in the Spotify App. That to me looks like one issue with the plugin/LMS/connect implementation - allowing the volumes to change independently whilst a connect session is in progress. Also don't want to muddy the waters further but just seen a case where by Spotify App volume is set roughly half way along slider, Touch volume in LMS UI was set somewhere around 80, after connecting both sliders remained in the same place, music was playing (but not sure of the actual volume because my wife is watching the TV so has control of the Soundbar) I increased the App volume and saw the LMS volume slider jump back down to 62%, so it looks like the volumes didn't sync until I changed the App volume. Interestingly in the log files prior to change to 62% the current connect state shows a volume_percent of 49 and prior to that there's a Plugins::Spotty::Connect::_connectEvent (377) Ignoring initial volume reset right after daemon start Gonna have a break from it now and wait to see what Michael thinks. Kev KeBul's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=32883 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=114815 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Volume increasing to 50% randomly
TomS wrote: > I believe I am seeing this issue with Spotty/Spotify Connect. My kid > uses the spotify app on her phone to kick off a playlist on her sb > radio, and various other devices seem to jump to 49%. :( Tom, If your daughter sometimes connects her App to your other players then this is exactly the scenario I can envisage with the "connect open to player but not playing" scenario in my previous post... She connects to say the kitchen player for a while, she finishes and pauses play/closes App and heads out. You come along and select something else to play on the kitchen player, so now you're listening to a radio station on the kitchen player, but her Spotify account/App has an open connect to that player. She comes home heads to her bedroom and opens the app and causes a volume change on the connected kitchen player before switching her App "connect" to her bedroom player. Any chance this could be happening? Kev KeBul's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=32883 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=114815 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Volume increasing to 50% randomly
Wow, I've battered my setup with testing for over 10 hours now, trying to reproduce the issue and I think I've made some sort of progress, I've gone from rough memory, trying to replicate what I'd done when the volume dropped to 49% to actively abusing the setup trying to break it. (I used to be a software tester... ah!! those good old days!!) I've managed to get the volume to change seeming on it's "own", is as Michael thought, initiating a connect and play from the Spotify App which previously had a different volume level set and the volume change was immediate on playing... - So Touch volume = 85 - Open Spotify App (on MacOS) and connect to Touch - Spotify App volume slider moves up to a higher level, Touch volume remains at 85% - Reduce volume using slider in Spotify App, there's no % indication in the App but Touch volume level follows and drops to a lower level, in this test 44% - In LMS Web UI switch to playing a local file - Touch volume remains at 44% local file plays, Spotify App playing is paused but connect remains "listening" to Touch player - Increase Touch volume back to 85% in LMS Web UI - Go back to Spotify App and click on play for the paused track - Play on Touch swaps from local file to Spotify track and volume on Touch drops back to 44% - This, from Michael's comments is probably expected behaviour, although re-synching of volume does seem inconsistent depending how you initiate the connection, sometimes Spotify App will change to LMS/player volume setting, sometimes LMS/player volume will change to Spotify App volume. However, I've also managed to get volume changes whilst playing outside of Spotify Connect and that's from further testing around this concept of getting Spotify App and LMS/Spotty out of sync, especially by direct selecting a non-Spotify track or stream in LMS Web UI whilst a Spotify Connect is still in progress (Step 4 above), in this state, play from the Spotify App via connect is paused *but the connect remains in place* and the volume of the player can still be changed from the App even though it's not actually playing through the App... Obviously this may not be everyone's issue - but I'm fairly sure I've managed to replicate my volume change issue... Being new to this Spotify thing and not being overly familiar with the App or connect, but wanting to explore the integration with LMS, I first tried to find Plant & Krauss Raise the Roof using search in LMS Web UI, that didn't find anything, so I used the Spotify App on my Mac and selected my SB Touch through the devices menu. After listening to that album Spotify continued to queue up more tracks, I then tried the search artist option in LMS Web UI managing to find the artist and browsed for albums on Spotify, found the album I was after and played it. This, as I've subsequently found out, pauses the play on the Spotify App but leaves the player connected to the App. At some time whilst listening to this second album I must have gone back to the Spotify App (I may even have exited the App and then re-opened it later, the connect but not playing state remains), and whilst in the App must have adjusted the volume - which reduced the volume on the Touch, (mute in the App doesn't mute the player but then un-mute will then change the volume of the player to match the App volume). Bear in mind I was new to and playing around in the App and probably wasn't aware of the significance of the connected status. Along similar lines, I tested whether this behaviour occurs with the IOS App - having put the setup back into the connected but not playing state on the MacOS App I then closed that App and opened the Spotify IOS App on my iPhone - that also picked up the connected but not playing state, in this case though one "innocuous" click on the volume down button on the side of the phone saw the volume on the player drop to 23%. I have log files for these incidents, but would probably need to notate to indicate what I did where in the log file, but I think it's easily reproduced following the steps above and having a little play around. Thoughts?? Kev KeBul's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=32883 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=114815 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Volume increasing to 50% randomly
I've just taken up a Spotify Premium offer, so have been using Spotty v4.7.1 for 5 days. I have three players sync'd and the same three players selected for use with Spotify Connect in the Plugin settings. On my first ever listen to tracks from Spotify I only had one of those players turned on and streaming from Spotify, The volume of that player is always set to 85 (SB Touch), it's hooked to the aux input of my TV soundbar and actual listening volume is controlled by Harmony Remote activity configured to alter the soundbar volume. Within 4 tracks of listening (can't precisely say) the volume suddenly dropped away... the Touch volume had dropped to 49, at first I thought I'd brushed the volume slider on the web UI, set it back to 85 and continued listening. Next time I listened to Spotify, same scenario, just listening to the Touch and again within a few tracks the volume on the Touch dropped to 49 - this time I ddin't even have the web ui open so knew it wasn't an accidental swipe this time... The Touch has been connected to the soundbar for 8 years and the in conjunction with the Harmony remote for the last 4 years and the volume on the Touch has never changed from 85 before. The other two players SB radio and Boom have also been used but so far their volume has not changed yet. I regularly browse these forums and saw this thread had jumped back up the top, read it and realised it's what I've started to see since I started using Spotify and Spotty. I've tried to reproduce the issue but annoyingly no luck so far, I got the impression that both times it was several tracks in after search for an Artist or Album and then selecting an album to play. I've now set Spotty logging to info - will report back with log files if it happens again. Kev KeBul's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=32883 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=114815 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] LMS 7.9.0 not recognizing my players in Windows 10
jeffstake wrote: > > I cannot see a list like that which appears at the upper right of your > screen. > Am I on the wrong page? > best > jeff Yes, you are on LMS Settings, try http://localhost:9000 Kev KeBul's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=32883 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=104112 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Outside speakers wireless fed by lms and sync possible?
KeBul wrote: > > > As for syncing, I remember testing syncing on my sister's SqueezeAMP > before I fitted in place, but I would guess that was using wired > speakers. Can't say for sure if I've ever tested how reliably you can > sync players when bluetooth is involved, but if the bluetooth delay is > reliable/fairly constant then you should be able to adjust the player > audio delay to match in LMS > > Kev I've just setup a SqueezeAMP bluetoothed to my headphones and was able to sync that with a SB Touch, needed 25ms of Player Audio Delay on the SqueezeAMP and seems to be holding out fine. Quite impressive really, the Touch is hardwired to the network, obviously the SqueezeAMP is wireless to the network and then wireless again to the headphones - I love my SqueezeBox stuff!!! :o I'll continue to test over the next few days see if the delay through bluetooth remains the same. Kev KeBul's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=32883 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=115126 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Outside speakers wireless fed by lms and sync possible?
There are a few options available to you. Some already outlined. It all depends on how much you like to play and also whether you have decent wifi signal outside. If you've got decent wifi outside then quite simply a SB Radio with battery... still available to purchase second hand, with or without battery, batteries can also be purchased. This is how my sister gets her sounds out further into her garden, I'd already fitted a wifi access point to improve the reception at the rear of their house and so far it's providing a good enough signal that she can un-plug her kitchen SB Radio and take it out into the garden with her. She also has a SqueezeAmp that feeds wired speakers out to their patio seating area, the SqueezeAmp lives on top of her kitchen cabinets, the speakers are mounted on the external side of the wall with wires going straight through the external wall. I went down this route for her because it's very reliable, the bluetooth option from the SqueezeAMP can be a bit more fiddly and less reliable. Unfortunately SqueezeAMPs have sold out so not really an option unless you are prepared to build one yourself or maybe buy an A1S (see below) Bluetooth speaker options... this is what I use, but it's a tinkerer's world, I have a SqueezeESP32 based setup (AI Thinker A1S Audio developer board at £13) and a £20 (on offer) Anker Bluetooth speaker. The A1S has SqueezeESP32 loaded and is configured to connect to my Anker speaker. The A1S lives inside my workshop and I can get decent and pretty reliable bluetooth signal up to about 50 feet away. I could also use a SqueezeAMP for this, but for me the A1S is not quite as precious as one of my SqueezeAMPs and also has the advantage that it can be powered by a USB power socket. (It also lives, rather stylishly I think, in an old plastic oxo cube box re-purposed with a push to play/pause and volume control knob fitted), I mean c'mon who else has a player called SqueezeOXO :D I previously mentioned this being fiddly and unreliable... fiddly in that you have to power on the speaker, wait a minute and then power on the A1S and then leave for a minute or so before playing... for me if you try and do it all too quickly then it will invariably either not connect, connect but not play or connect and play but broken up play. Once in one of these states you have to turn off both devices and wait for the player to disappear from LMS, then power up again with patience :) On very rare occasions after listening for a few hours it just stops playing and you have to power off player and speaker and start again. I believe, but have not tried it, you can also use a Raspberry Pi and pCP Squeezelite setup to connect to and play through bluetooth speakers. And then you have Bluetooth transmitters/receivers, feed the wired audio output from your duet receiver into one of these and bluetooth connect the transmitter/receiver to a speaker. As for syncing, I remember testing syncing on my sister's SqueezeAMP before I fitted in place, but I would guess that was using wired speakers. Can't say for sure if I've ever test how reliably you can sync players when Bluetooth is involved, but if the bluetooth delay is reliable/fairly constant then you should be able to adjust the player audio delay to match in LMS Kev KeBul's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=32883 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=115126 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Looking for advice on Rasperry Pi piCore Player set up
slartibartfast wrote: > So was the original issue just that you didn't know the IP address of > the Pi and connecting the monitor allowed you to find it? If so looking > at devices connected to your router or using a phone app like Fing would > also have allowed you to find it. I thought that was suggested earlier > but maybe not. > Yeah it was suggested, but to be fair to the OP (and others in this sort of situation) lots of people try and help and it can be something of a bombardment of ideas tips and things to try - effectively becoming an information overload for someone who is already struggling. But better to get a bit too much help than none - and as ever this forum is full of very knowledgeable and helpful souls. Glad the OP has moved onto the second part of his adventure.. Roll on Squeezelite with a Topping and LMS!!! Kev KeBul's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=32883 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=114796 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Looking for advice on Rasperry Pi piCore Player set up
Well if you're feeling a touch more masochistic, then you could always try and configure up the RPi/pCP for wifi... not as an final solution but just to see if you can get further into the process. Instructions here: https://docs.picoreplayer.org/how-to/setup_wifi_on_pcp_without_ethernet/ If you do decide to have a play with this - then use a "code" text editor such as Notepad++ on Windows or BBEdit on Mac OS, when you edit your wpa_supplicant.conf file. The in-built text editors (Windows Notepad or Mac OS TextEdit) can put some weird characters and formatting into your file that you can't see but will mess up your attempts to configure your wifi SSID and passcode preventing a successful connection. Kev KeBul's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=32883 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=114796 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Looking for advice on Rasperry Pi piCore Player set up
slartibartfast wrote: > With the Pi4 you need a micro HDMI adaptor so it isn't quite so easy. > Ah yeah! good point, had no issues setting up my 2 RPi 4s with pCP headless, so never got near needing to hook them up to a monitor. Done it many times on my 2 and 3 versions though. in these instances Amazon Prime would be your friend at £4 for a cable or adapter and next day delivery. Apologies to AC48 for not remembering that. Kev KeBul's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=32883 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=114796 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Looking for advice on Rasperry Pi piCore Player set up
As I suspected lots of good help being offered, So far it looks like you're on the correct path, you've imaged - your directory listing looks OK, so now it's either booted up OK and you can't find its IP address in your router or it's not booting up properly/or able to join your network. So I'd agree with the consensus, get a screen onto your RPi so you can see what's it's actually doing when powered up. For me, without a PC monitor available, I use my TV - easy to pull the HDMI cable out from the back of my cable box or Blu-Ray player and plug that into the RPi HDMI port, power on the TV change it's input to the correct HDMI port and then power up the RPi. >From me one other thing to try in the meantime... on your Mac in the App store search for an app called LanScan, it's free, get that and once installed run it and do a scan of your network (button above Start LanScan) with your RPI connected to your router and powered up. If you RPi is out there in the correct address range then it will show with Raspberry Pi trading Ltd (or foundation) as a vendor, if it's there then LanScan will show its IP Address, which you can use in your web browser to access pCP configuration pages. But as others have said - try and get a monitor of some kind connected to it, once it's booting properly and you know it's IP Address you can carry on configuration using the pCP web user interface. Kev KeBul's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=32883 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=114796 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Looking for advice on Rasperry Pi piCore Player set up
Obviously you can get bombarded with information in such instances as these. First of all the Pi needs to be connected to your network by being connected (wired) to a network port on your router, *not* directly wired to your PC. But as Kidstypike has queried, let's try and determine you have correctly imaged your micro sd card with pCP. To do this you'll need an additional program... For Windows you can use: - Balena Etcher for Windows - Win32Diskimager - Raspberry Pi Imager On Mac: - Balena Etcher for Mac OS - ApplePiBaker - Raspberry Pi Imager The premise is you use one of those utilities, specify the card you want your image to be written to (your micro SD card), specify the image file (your downloaded and unzipped picoreplayer.img file and then the utility will format the card, create all the necessary partitions, unpack and copy the files and make the card bootable. On windows you may need to run the utility as administrator (right mouse click the icon and select "run as administrator" from the context menu) On mac OS the utility may ask you for an admin password. Once that is successful you can place the card in your RPi, connect the RPi to your router and power it up, leave it for a few minutes to allow it to boot and then look for its IP address in your router. Kev PS apologies on my previous posts - missing that you wanted to use pCP as a player as well as LMS, in that case you can skip the bits about turning off Squeezelite and disabling Squeezelite autostart. I'l leave setting up your Topping on pCP to others - I'm not familiar with that process. KeBul's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=32883 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=114796 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Looking for advice on Rasperry Pi piCore Player set up
Other important things with pCP configuration... You'll see in the web interface a lot of settings have a "Save" button either beneath the setting or at the bottom of a section of settings. Remember I mentioned pCP is running in a virtual disk created during boot, changes to configuration are made in that virtual disk and need to be written back out to the boot image or they will be lost next time pCP is booted and the virtual disk is recreated... So the mantra is... make a change - save, make a change save... On the Main page there is also a "Backup" button, this will save all changes back to the boot image - so a "catch all" save for any changes made. You'll also go through a few reboots to pick up some changes, pCP will prompt for those. As kidstypike said, go into Beta mode (along the bottom of the main page) this will show you all available config options and will be required for things like setting static IP address. Then you'll be working along the menus below the "Squeeze Audio Device" banner on the Main page. (Main Page, Squeezelite Settings, Wifi settings, Tweaks and LMS) Kev. KeBul's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=32883 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=114796 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Looking for advice on Rasperry Pi piCore Player set up
OK, in addition to Greg's links to the documentation and kidstypike's good simple run through... First of all, relax and enjoy the learning experience, you say you want to get it right, but it's so quick and easy to start from scratch... getting anything wrong will just be a good lesson. It takes me less than an hour to complete my full setup from scratch (including full scan of local music library, installation of plugins on LMS and configuring all of my 7 Players). I've seen some of your other threads and I'll start by trying to clarify a few things, piCorePlayer is a small distribution based on Tiny Core Linux, originally created as a Squeezelite Squeezebox player that boots into and runs from a virtual disk created ram in the RPi, meaning the software based on the SD card is only used during boot to "create" your Squeezelite player. The pCP team have subsequently improved and expanded its capabilities way beyond just a Squeezelite player... LMS, Bluetooth, Shairtunes, Jivelite, Samba, USB storage support, comprehensive web based configuration and probably more, LMS particularly has altered the original philosophy in that it does write back to the the original SD card and unlike a pure Squeezelite setup it should not just be powered off (stop LMS before pCP shutdown, reboot or RPi power off). Squeezelite - Player (A later project for you!) Jivelite - Controller (Not needed for you, but allows your RPi/pCP with a screen added to become a controller) LMS - Server So onto your specific needs, from what I have gleaned from your other posts is all you need to start with is an LMS server... using the RPi and pCP as a player can be done later if required, if you are referencing the official documentation... it is biased towards pCP being a player, don't get lost in that, all you need is pCP imaged and running on your RPi on the same network as your laptop and you accessing pCP via a web browser to configure it for your needs for now, i.e. LMS Ideally as an LMS server the RPi should be connected to your network by ethernet, i.e. cabled not wifi. To specifically answer the questions you've asked in this post: Micro SD Card size - anything from 8Gb upwards is plenty, bit you'll probably struggle to get one that small these days! LMS Controller - once LMS is running you can control it and any players using your Duet Controller, smart phone, tablet, laptop web interface and more. Setting up using your laptop - all you need is a Micro SD card with a fresh image of pCP, PSU for RPi, network connection for RPi and a browser on your laptop Kidstypike has given you a good outline, a couple of additions to his steps... In pCP downloads: use *PiCorePlayer 7.0.0 - Standard Version* for older RPis or 4B with 2Gb memory use *PiCorePlayer 7.0.0 - 64 bit Kernel* if your RPi is a 4B with 4Gb of memory After download of pCP image - unzip it... it is the .img file you need to burn to your micro SD card Here's my edited checklist of tasks for an LMS only build, I've removed tasks irrelevant to you to keep it clearer and LMS Plugins you'll have to decide which ones you need: PC work prior to RPi boot: - Initial image to card >From web browser after RPi boot: - Stop squeezelite - Disable squeezelite autostart - Fixed IP Address - PcP updates: full, minor and patch - Name - Timezone - Turn off wifi - Turn off hdmi - Add time update line to Cron - Resize file system - Install additional file systems - Change pCP password - and onto LMS - Install LMS - Login to mysqueezebox - Configure each player settings - add LMS plugins: - Powersave - Material - Shairtunes - BBC Sounds - Play Windows Media - Group players - LastMix - Global Player - RadioNet - Obviously if you're stuck on any task, just come back here and ask for more details. Hope this helps Kev KeBul's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=32883 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=114796 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] ASUS ZenWifi AX (XT8) firmware upgrade disconnects my squeezeboxes
There's quite a few threads discussing wifi issues in the Squeezebox Radio forum, some similar to your issue of running the older SB hardware on new wifi 6 mesh type routers. Have a quick read through those - if I remember correctly there are posts which indicate specific features to turn off to re-establish reliable wireless connections on Squeezebox players. Kev KeBul's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=32883 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=114743 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] OT - variables in CD ripping speed
I use EAC for ripping and that has an indication of when it is doing error corrections for each track it is reading, in general most tracks fly through with no errors, some have a few and some fill up the indicator box completely taking quite some time to do so. It still reports 100% accurate rip in the summary at the end, so the error correction mechanism apparently works. Only one it actually couldn't do, on inspection when held up to the light, you could see the hole in the disc, no doubt caused by the printing on the disc. So I would venture quality of pits and style of construction specifically whether the label is printed on the foil I'm sure I remember that being an issue with early failure of some retail CDs Kev KeBul's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=32883 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=114485 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Squeezebox Classic (SB3) Repair Considerations
Beast Of Bodmin wrote: > Maybe it's time to throw in the towel for my SB3? > > I tried to resurrect it today. > > The WiFi card died many years ago. > > It fell into disuse after the WiFi died, because my apartment didn't > have ethernet cables in the walls to where cable modem was. Now my main > cable modem is less than a metre away. > > I can't do a factory reset, because it won't respond to the remote > control. I think the remote works because if I point my mobile phone's > camera at the remote and press buttons, I see a light. > > How involved is checking and then replacing the IR diode? With respect to the above quoted issues... First make sure you have removed the failed wifi card even if ethernet port is configured for use a failed wifi card can cause problems and second, for the remote receiver issues, try a new PSU, it's fairly common for a failing PSU to cause issues with the IR receiver (actually seen this myself with my SB Touch). Then, if a new PSU resolves the IR issue, then it would be worth plugging the wifi card back in and see if that bursts back into life with the new PSU. Kev KeBul's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=32883 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=109775 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] SD card unreadable after power cut
Hi Jouteur, When you say you can't connect to Pi after a power fail... is that connect to LMS on the Pi? or piCorePlayer on the Pi? If it's piCorePlayer then I'd suspect your card, but you could try stopping LMS and shutting down piCorePlayer and then power cycle to see if it survives that, if not then I'd definitely be looking at trying a different card. If it's just LMS that stops working, then it's not unusual for LMS database and cache to get corrupted by a power fail, my sister's setup suffers from this because she has a whole house RCD mains protector that trips rather too keenly. In her case we can normally get back in via ssh and pCP web interface to delete the Db and cache files and start again without re-flashing the card. I can't say for sure, but I think I've seen somewhere on the forum that having a USB thumb drive on the Pi with LMS cache and Db files moved onto it is more reliable, perhaps because it's an external drive the data gets written out to the usb stick rather than cached in memory. Kev KeBul's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=32883 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=113324 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Transporter for sale
pkfox wrote: > Hi Paul what is nx100 n = number x = multiply 100 GBP = £100 So hundreds of pounds, for example if n=4 then £400 Kev KeBul's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=32883 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=112879 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Help reviving SB3 needed
Here's a link to a thread discussing common SB3 hardware issues. https://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?103213-Squeezebox-3-common-faults-over-time Failing capacitors certainly seems worth looking at, no experience on SB3's but I've fixed many failed devices suffering from capacitor failure very cheaply. Good luck Kev KeBul's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=32883 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=111659 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Alarm toggle
slartibartfast wrote: > Can anyone having this issue check the status of the alarm in the web > interface after turning the alarm off using the power button? If you mean in Settings/Player/Alarm Clock then these settings are not changed, after my weekly test when I checked the alarm settings they were exactly the same as I had initially set, I think the OP has also stated this as well and implies it by saying they have to toggle the alarm (turn off, turn on) to get it to work again and as I stated in a previous post when our main bedroom SBRadio is on from an alarm we we turn it off using the power button pretty much every weekday and it has never changed the alarm setting in the web interface or caused the alarm to fail the following day. Kev KeBul's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=32883 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=110908 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Alarm toggle
slartibartfast wrote: > How did you turn off the alarm? Using the Rotary knob or the Power > button? Well can't say for sure, I did it a few weeks ago, but most likely the power button. Our normal daily alarm is always turned off by either the power button or by letting it run its course set by Alarm Timeout (in minutes), never by the main control knob, I've never seen this issue before and my wife gets up for work every weekday woken by that alarm. So the differences between OP's alarm use and mine is once a week rather than daily and we use a favourite with a radio station stored in it as the alarm sound rather than one of the pre-selectable alarm sounds. I'll do some more testing... I've changed my test "Friday only" alarm to Friday, Saturday and Sunday, with Brainfluid as the sound and will turn it off by power button each time to see if it fails. I can set it back to weekly on Sunday before I go away for the week Kev KeBul's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=32883 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=110908 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Alarm toggle
Apologies for not getting back sooner, kept forgetting to check and testing a once a week event takes... well, a week! Having set one of my Radios to alarm the same as yours (liquefy)... one day a week, brainfluid sound, repeat alarm. I can confirm the behaviour you are seeing... When initially configured the radio displays the alarm bell icon and comes on at the correct time, the following week no visual display and no alarm. Only thing I've realised may have affected it the Radio was sync'd to an SB Touch, so I've removed the sync, away again next week though, so next update will be in 2 weeks time if I remember :o Kev KeBul's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=32883 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=110908 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Alarm toggle
Hi, I've used the alarm function for many years and not seen the issue you are having, but if I'm understanding your use case it's slightly different to mine. We tend to use two alarm configs, one for weekday, MTWTF and a second for weekend SS, sometimes the second is used for an earlier alarm time on a weekday as well, I also play a radio station, but from your screenshot you have one alarm day a week, Wednesday and play an alarm sound. I've configured another one of my radios to alarm just on Friday, using Brainfluid sound, (can't use Wednesday because I'm away for the next two Wednesdays) and If no progress has been made here I'll report back on the behaviour I see. The alarm bell symbol on the player display seems to come on about 23 hours 53 minutes before the next alarm event. I also switch off the alarm using the power button, so that shouldn't be the issue. Just for further troubleshooting information, you mention you've used many versions of LMS, how have you upgraded over the years? Have you had any fresh builds and setup/configured from scratch? What platform? Cheers Kev KeBul's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=32883 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=110908 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Synchronize players: worked fine, now constant hiccups
Man in a van wrote: > Required raspberry pi voltage is a tad over 5volts > > But he's running a Hifiberry AMP2 which requires 12-24v PSU (the Hifiberry AMP2 supplies the 5v power required by the RPI itself). Hifiberry recommend a minimum of 3A for an AMP2, I wonder if you are right on the limit of 3A with your setup. Doesn't really make sense with some of your symptoms, (why would this be affected by the addition of a new zero base player), but I can see some of your symptoms occurring if you start to run out of power/current. Kev KeBul's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=32883 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=109945 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Squeezebox Radio alternative?
What about a Squeezebox Radio Easy to find second user variants on a certain online auction site. Kev KeBul's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=32883 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=109851 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] (4) Squeezebox radios for sale
Would be useful if you told us where you are in the world. Kev KeBul's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=32883 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=109854 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] From PC to NAS
As others have replied, Raspberry Pi is a good option, you can either install from scratch as it were with Raspian/Debian and download and install all the necessary packages manually or use pre-prepared packages from Max2Play or PiCorePlayer, both of these are easy to get up and running and well supported by their authoring teams. For QNAP NAS's Digimaster's (forum user) excellent work on his QLogitechMediaServer QPKG has breathed a new lease of life into easily running LMS on that platform, but only working on Intel x86 and x86_64 processors at the moment, he's hoping to expand that to Arm processors soon, There's threads here and on the QNAP Community forum about his QPKG. I currently use an RPI 2B with Max2Play and it's very stable and not too bad for speed, local music files are stored on a QNAP. I'm also testing QLogitechMediaServer and I have to say it's quick, although perhaps it should be it's running on a 4 core 2Ghz Intel Celeron processor with 16Mb of RAM available. Some nice choices out there at the moment - RPi, QNAP and Synology - times are good! To try and answer some of your other questions... I use Mediamonkey, MP3Tag and MP3Gain to maintain my library of music, a master copy is kept on my PC and then it is copied up to the NAS. Of course these days I'm only adding the odd album, so I prep that by checking tags, album art and applying track gain on the PC, then I copy the folder for that album up to the NAS, pretty standard file structure of Music/Artist/Album. Updates to LMS - never run LMS on a PC or Synology so not sure exactly what mechanisms for updates they utilise, On a Pi, I think if using raspbian/debian on a manual install you can just use wget to download and install the latest package, I think it's the same for PiCorePlayer (details on the help pages at picoreplayer.org) Max2play offer an upgrade/install LMS, with a drop down to specify which version, from their Web based management screen plus the ability to specify a downloaded file (so you can download the latest version for Debian from the Squeeze downloads page and then tell Max2Play to upgrade using that file). QLogitechMediaServer, I think downloads and updates to the latest version everytime it starts, you can change that behaviour though in the config files. Regards Kev KeBul's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=32883 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=109681 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] What are your long-term SqueezeBox solutions?
drmatt wrote: > I also found the squeezebox build on Joggler wasn't so stable for long > term playback. My touch will stream iPlayer live radio for days and days > without hiccup, but the touch would regularly fail and require a power > cycle (same if it was streaming local media tbh). I suspected the audio > driver. Maybe that's just mine, don't know. Gave up with it. Raspberry > Pi is the future for all things, imho. LMS need not die. > > > -Transcoded from Matt's brain by Tapatalk- Assume drmatt actually means "but the Joggler would regularly fail" and I would agree with this from my experiences, I found the Joggler touch screen to often be difficult and on one running SqueezeOS at my sister's had far more failures and hassle with it than I would have liked, many reboots required and lost network connections. Finally it crashed and failed to reboot into SqueezeOS, no doubt a re-flash required. During the same period (and for many years previously), not one issue with my SB Touch, so I bit the bullet and upgraded her Joggler to a Touch and we've not looked back, plus the Touch is fully functional with our Harmony remotes using a "Squeeze me baby" activity which turns on the Touch, TV soundbar and sets the correct input on the soundbar. For me Jogglers just weren't quite good enough to remain in mainstream use but are good for playtime and one did a sterling job for a couple of years, booting into Android so I could run a Dementia Day Clock App for my mother. Kev KeBul's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=32883 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=108823 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] What are your long-term SqueezeBox solutions?
drmatt wrote: > Buy plenty of spares.. > ...^^This^^... I've been picking up spare players from eBay for a couple of years now, I look after my system of 3 Radios, 1 Boom and 1 Touch and my sister's setup with 2 Radios and a Touch. At the moment we both only listen to either our own collection of ripped music or radio, no paid music streaming services yet so will happily continue with LMS, my sister has an Amazon Alexa and we were looking forward to trying the voice control of LMS by HaB-Tunes but sadly that seems on hold at the moment. If I ever go to a paid service then at the moment it would be Spotify so I can continue with LMS and Spotty, but maybe in the long term that will lead to a simpler setup with no maintenance probably one of the smart speakers. For spares I currently have 4 working Radios, a Touch, 2 SB3 Classics, a Duet and a brand new in-box Boom plus two failed Radios that when I feel the need I will make one good one out of the two, I also have new replacement screen for a Radio should we get another Radio screen failure (had two so far and one of the broken spares I picked up from eBay is a failed screen). Server wise I have switched from QNAP based to RPI based, for me not quite as reliable, but easier to maintain especially with all the latest plugins, if Digimaster's QLogitechMediaServer ever gets fully up and running with Shairtunes as well as all the good stuff he's already managed so far then I will look at switching back to a QNAP for LMS as my 4 core NAS is considerably faster than the RPI. Kev KeBul's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=32883 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=108823 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] downloading files from LMS
Cool, No worries, it can be difficult to respond to all the requests for further info and ideas for troubleshooting when receiving help on forums, of course it's a good thing that many want to help out, the ongoing community support here is great. Glad you are sorted Kev KeBul's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=32883 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=108619 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] downloading files from LMS
Ok so I'll try one more time... Have you used LMS to drill down to a working track and find the path that LMS is using? Likewise you could do the same for a non-working track and compare the two paths to see the difference (or not). To me this is crucial - if LMS can see the working files then you need to find out where LMS is looking. Kev KeBul's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=32883 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=108619 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] downloading files from LMS
In LMS if you drill down through your library to an individual track, in the left hand pane, you should get a location for that track, this may provide you with a clue as to the whereabouts of the good working file(s). Also on my system If I right click on the location I get the option to download the linked file, (also a Linux mount point to a share on a NAS) which works for me. Might be time consuming but if no better methods appear at least you might be able to get your rare mp3's safely off the NAS. Good lesson learnt here, regarding backups... even a couple of 2.5" external USB hard drives won't break the bank and would give you two separate copies to recover from. Good luck Kev KeBul's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=32883 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=108619 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Sqeezebox pushbutton remove?
Hi, The knobs are coated with a thin layer of rubber paint and this can deteriorate and become sticky, so it may not be kitchen grease residue. Anyway, just pull the knobs straight out from the radio to get them off, they are just a friction fit on the spindles. Good luck with the clean up. Kev KeBul's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=32883 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=108518 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Original Squeezebox song storage options?
I've just swapped to this setup... Cost £52 for a Raspberry Pi 2, 8gb MicroSD card, PSU and case. SqueezePlug/Max2Play is a headless setup, configure up your micro SD card with the Max2Play software on it on your PC, put the card into you Raspberry Pi and power up. Wait 20 minutes and then you've have a web interface to access max2Play and configure your new Logitech Media Server. Depending on the size of your music collection, you can either get a big enough micro SD card to store your music as well as the OS/Server or purchase a large usb flash drive and put your music on that and plug it into the Raspberry Pi. Low cost, Low power consumption, Always on and very quick. Start reading here, http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?103218-New-Complete-Web-Bases-SqueezePlug-Version-Available and no doubt there's plenty more info on these forums... as well as help if you need it. Kev KeBul's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=32883 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=103662 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Can't get a reset password email
But now fixed - woohoo, been trying to post for a couple of weeks! Thanks to whoever sorted it. Kev KeBul's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=32883 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=103482 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
