Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] [Announce] 'MediaServer' *certified* Alexa skill for LMS
Vote number 2 from a big fan of the Alexa Show. The more touch functionality the better to complement voice control, as we all have become very touch oriented when presented with a screen. Do you intend to make listing possible for other categories such as genre, year, album artist, etc.? raglencross's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=7239 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=111016 ___ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/plugins
Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] [Announce] 'MediaServer' *certified* Alexa skill for LMS
Well, I'll be damned, I never noticed that you could set the random mixes as favourites! The people who originated LMS and those who now maintain it have thought of everything. Probably why it continues to be my favourite music server for the last 20 years Just checked the audio vs screen listing and they are both now in sync with the LMS GUI. My high praise for LMS not withstanding, it does have a flaw in that you can't move items around in the favourites editor and instead have to resort to editing the OPML file to do so, as you say. As always, thanks for the great skill and your prompt and knowledgeable support of it. raglencross's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=7239 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=111016 ___ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/plugins
Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] [Announce] 'MediaServer' *certified* Alexa skill for LMS
I have not tried "play some..." and "play something by..." (Overlooked in a such a feature rich command set:confused:). They will do the trick, save for by year and all genres. The former is not particularly important to me, but I sure like to play my entire library (i.e. all genres) when using it for background music. Is there any way of doing this? Currently, I use Plex and Mymedia to do this with the Echo. Yes, the last folder is item No. 24 in the list not counting the first 2 folders. As requested, I have ask for a favourites listing twice in the last few minutes and now see why I am confused. I am using an echo show and what appears on the screen is not what Alexa is saying. Since we humans are very visual, I have been ignoring what is spoken and going with what is shown. Alexa lists all items in order in and out of folders and concludes with naming the folders. The show's screen lists the top 2 folders then all the items in and out of folders and, in my case, the third folder at the end of my LMS GUI list shows up as No. 24. If I had my "druthers", I would like the spoken list to be the same as what is on the screen, as well as folders listed together to keep the DOT notation simple(e.g. 0.1, 0.2,...0.x), if possible. It is much easier to remember that I have folders "1, 2, and 3" rather than "1, 2, and 24". raglencross's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=7239 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=111016 ___ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/plugins
Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] [Announce] 'MediaServer' *certified* Alexa skill for LMS
philchillbill wrote: > Sure. It would of course require a new Intent to be created and > therefore certification by Amazon. How do you envisage asking for it and > what exactly would it do under the hood? > > By the way, are you having issues with playing favorites by DOT > notation? I thought I saw some misfires in the logs. Just checking that > my re-factoring hasn't changed anything there accidentally... It would be great to have the same random mix functionality as the LMS GUI, so I would expect asking would take the form: "Play/stream -song/album/artist/year- random mix" This would randomly play/stream your entire library. "Play/stream -song/album/artist/year- random mix by -genre-". This would randomly play/stream only the specified genre for your entire library. Yeah, the "misfires" were probably me experimenting with how favourites are now handled per your No. 990 post and reorganizing my list (which includes folders) to conform to your "levels" approach. I was missing the point that there is a "zero" level, but once I got my head around that and with some reorganization of my favourites list, I was able to get the "dot" notation working predictably. However, there is one anomaly I have noted. My favourites list, as shown in the LMS GUI, starts with 2 folders, then a number of URL's with the final item in the list being another folder. I would have expected the 3 folders to be "0.1, 0.2 and 0.3", respectively, but in fact, the third folder at the end of the list shows up as No. 24 when Mediaserver is ask to list favourites. The contents of this folder can be access by using the dot notation (i.e. "24.x"), so no big problem, but I would be interested in hearing your thoughts on why a folder not at the beginning of the list shows up apparently randomly somewhere in Mediaserver different from it's location in the LMS GUI. raglencross's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=7239 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=111016 ___ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/plugins
Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] [Announce] 'MediaServer' *certified* Alexa skill for LMS
Would it be possible to implement play/stream random song/album/artist/year mixes from your entire library, as you can do in the LMS GUI by selecting all genres? raglencross's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=7239 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=111016 ___ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/plugins
Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] [Announce] 'MediaServer' *certified* Alexa skill for LMS
slartibartfast wrote: > My Show 1st gen is 670680920 which is higher than shown on the list. > > Sent from my Pixel 3a using Tapatalk Same here... raglencross's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=7239 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=111016 ___ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/plugins
Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] [Announce] 'MediaServer' *certified* Alexa skill for LMS
Paul Webster wrote: > Just FYI but one of my Dot devices (always connected) is at version > 94320 but that is not listed at > https://www.amazon.com/gp/help/customer/display.html?nodeId=GMB5FVUB6REAVTXY Yes, that page is what I looked at to determine the up to date software versions and, like you, I noticed discrepancies. What can you do, if even Amazon cant keep the versions straight, probably because of the torrent of new product revisions and releases?! raglencross's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=7239 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=111016 ___ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/plugins
Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] [Announce] 'MediaServer' *certified* Alexa skill for LMS
philchillbill wrote: > Interesting that it is the stereo pair that does not stream. I'll bet > they will stream individually if you unpair. > > From this post requesting that Amazon add a feature, it would seem that > it is a known problem that stereo pairs are not supported. > https://alexa.uservoice.com/forums/906892-alexa-skills-developer-voice-and-vote/suggestions/33800590-bring-multi-room-support-to-audioplayer-api-stream?category_id=322894. > But I thought it had been working for you until recently? The stereo pair AND a Gen 1 echo dont stream while an echo show and a Gen 2 echo dot do. Yes, as I previously posted, the stereo pair magically started working a while back (including Mediaserver streaming), not just for Mediaserver, but for Plex and Mymedia. Nice, but nobody knows why! I will try the unpairing, but will revert to the paired configuration because it sounds so good. As you suggested, I tried a factory reset on the Gen 1 echo which did not resolve the problem. raglencross's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=7239 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=111016 ___ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/plugins
Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] [Announce] 'MediaServer' *certified* Alexa skill for LMS
Paul Webster wrote: > Might be worth checking the device firmware versions to see if there is > a match between failure and old/new version. > > One way to see it is via Alexa app/devices/device/settings (top right > cog)/About Thanks, Paul, for your suggestion. Per post 1006, the firmware on all 4 Alexas are up to date. Two stream, an Echo Show and a Dot, and a Gen 1 Echo and two Gen 2 Echoes in a stereo pair do not. raglencross's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=7239 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=111016 ___ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/plugins
Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] [Announce] 'MediaServer' *certified* Alexa skill for LMS
philchillbill wrote: > I can see the retries in the logs and also see the successful attempts > to stream to your other Echos. Pity the retries don't help. > > I saw somebody somewhere on the Amazon dev forums saying that a start > offset other than zero milliseconds sometimes helps, so I've just modded > the code to retry a failed stream at 100ms into the stream. Maybe try > again and see if that helped at all? > > If you haven't already done so, try a factory reset of the offending > Echo. Some people say that this helped them (for a while at least). No joy on the 100ms change raglencross's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=7239 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=111016 ___ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/plugins
Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] [Announce] 'MediaServer' *certified* Alexa skill for LMS
Yeah, according to that link and others it leads to this problem has been around for a while and is definitely an Alexa firmware issue, as you have always suspected. The changes you have made there have not solved the problem, so it looks like we will have to wait for firmware updates to possibly rectify the situation (or take down the 2 working Alexas ). It would be interesting to hear if other Mediaserver users have this streaming problem; anyone? raglencross's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=7239 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=111016 ___ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/plugins
Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] [Announce] 'MediaServer' *certified* Alexa skill for LMS
"http://raspberrypi:9000/stream.mp3?player=Alexa-OSP4A; results in playback in the Chrome browser on a W10 PC with Alexa-OSP4A shown as a player in the LMS GUI. With some Googling, I was able to determine that the two offending Alexa's have up to date software (as do the 2 working ones), but there is no way to determine when the updates occurred. raglencross's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=7239 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=111016 ___ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/plugins
Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] [Announce] 'MediaServer' *certified* Alexa skill for LMS
Thanks, Phil, for checking your logs and suggestions. Short of a complete reinstall of LMS, I have tried all the usual restarts/power off-on for the problematic Alexa's and LMS, even updating and restarting the Raspberry Pi hosting LMS with no success. The devices in question behave normally in all other respects except there is no sound when streaming with Mediaserver. Unfortunately, I am unable to confirm playback using "http://:9000/stream.mp3?player=Alexa-X" because no "Alexa-X" shows up in the GUI even though Alexa has confirmed streaming. "Alexa-X" is shown for the several devices that do stream. Anyway, it's a problem I can live with until I have more time to look into it. Thanks again for your help raglencross's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=7239 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=111016 ___ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/plugins
Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] [Announce] 'MediaServer' *certified* Alexa skill for LMS
Around 16:10 UTC, I tried streaming from 4 alexa devices. The first 2, an echo and an echo stereo pair, would say they were streaming, but there was no sound. The second 2, a show 10 and a dot, streamed normally. All devices listed the players correctly when asked. Would you look at your logs there at the indicated time and see if you can figure out what is the problem? Thanks... raglencross's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=7239 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=111016 ___ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/plugins
Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] [Announce] 'MediaServer' *certified* Alexa skill for LMS
Phil, my initial testing of your revised approach has worked flawlessly with the added bonus that items appear to fetch and playback much more quickly. Keep up the good work! raglencross's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=7239 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=111016 ___ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/plugins
Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] [Announce] 'MediaServer' *certified* Alexa skill for LMS
philchillbill wrote: > The base-ID is not an end-user's concern, it's mine. Favorites in LMS > are more like a plugin-thing than a built-in. They have to be > queried/controlled via LMS' XML Browser which is basically like parsing > the UI's menu structure and figuring out which sub-item to select. Very > unlike control for e.g. songs/albums/genres/playlists. Every time I call > up XML Browser, it uses a different set of ephemeral IDs for > -everything-, but the dotted sub-parts remains the same. The base ID > changes on every call so it has to be figured out each time > (unfortunately). It's like SeaSide-FM is 1fbd2fed.2.3 now but > e2b431ac.2.3 next time. Etc. Without the base-ID I cannot apply the > correct dotted sub-ID to play it. > > Playing via dot notation used to first request all the favorites (which > was fine if your internet and LMS server are fast). Then the whole ID is > just there every time and nothing has to be fudged. I decided to change > it because lots of people have problems with nested favorites due to > slow internet or LMS. By just requesting the top level favorites and not > recursing, I can figure out what the ID of a sub-favorite would be by > fudging. And so the theory goes :rolleyes: > > I have not yet figured out why your LMS is not returning a base-ID that > I can discern. In my testing (with v8.3) it always worked just fine. > What LMS version are you on? I've added some debug lines to the code so > if you could please try a few more commands that result in the base-ID > error I can take a deeper look. > > The dotted notation indeed used to include the position of folder names > in the hierarchy but I took that out. If you want to figure out the new > dotted notation, just skip folders when counting at each level. If > that's a pain I can put the folders back in. Having them in makes > listing favorites longer than needed but probably would not be a > negative thing for playing/streaming. Would it be confusing if they were > not mentioned during listing but needed to be counted when playing? > Thoughts? > > > EDIT: In retrospect, the folder names -should- still be counted when > using the dot notation, so nothing has actually changed in that respect. > > The issue seems to be that sometimes, LMS is returning a very different > structure to the initial ["favorites", "items", 0, 1000, > "menu:favorites", "menu:1"] request, which is odd to say the least Thanks, Phil, for looking into this. I am using LMS v8.2 on a RPi 4 the Raspian OS. At approximately 11:20 am ADT, I attempted to play/stream a few items using the dot notation, as you requested, and got the base-ID error. Hopefully, you can now catch this with your additional debug code. I get what you are trying to do with the changes, but with 84 favourites organized in 4 folders (one with subfolders), and a middling internet speed (20-30 Mbps), I was having no problems retrieving content. I especially liked using the dot method based on the folder and subfolder numbers, probably because of years of conditioning using this file structure on OS's from DOS through to Linux. Just to clarify, previously the top level folders were listed first and then their contents. Next, the subfolders were listed, followed by their contents. Folders, subfolders and contents were all numbered. In the new system, only the contents are numbered with a folder header shown on the echo show where appropriate. I do like this approach, as it is a more logical way of presenting the information in a folder structure. My vote is to stick with this approach, but reinstate the folder dot notation, if possible. I favour this over using names/sequential numbers because to my mind it is easier to access "Meisterwerke der Oper" in folder 4, subfolder 1, item 5 by saying "4 dot 1 dot 5" then remembering that it is No. "42" or, God forbid, trying to get Alexa to understand the German words :confused: raglencross's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=7239 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=111016 ___ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/plugins
Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] [Announce] 'MediaServer' *certified* Alexa skill for LMS
philchillbill wrote: > MediaServer's handling of favorites has been extensively re-written to > improve the user-experience with nested hierarchies. The call-out of > ordinal numbering while listing favorite names was removed as it adds > little value. Folder names are likewise no longer called-out, as they > are not in themselves playable audio items. > > In the past, MediaServer always retrieved -all- your favorites > recursively from LMS before processing anything further. From now on, a > fuzzy-match is attempted at each retrieved level and further retrieval > stops upon a match. Top-level items therefore play/stream much quicker. > > To assist with handling very deep nesting levels, the DOT notation now > fudges a favorite ID for XMLbrowser after retrieving the base-item ID > from the top level of the hierarchy. This makes it possible to play > favorites at -any- depth without timeouts, provided you can figure out > from looking at the LMS GUI (default skin!) what the numbers between the > dots should actually be :cool: It's better than failure! > > Here's a summary of the 4 ways to play/stream favorites: > > *[NAME]* 'Play favorite "Jazz FM"' looks for a (fuzzy) match by name. > Although all hierarchical levels will be traversed if necessary, an > early match now stops unnecessary further recursion. > > *[NUMBER]* 'Play favorite number 6' / 'Play my sixth favorite' plays a > favorite from any hierarchical level, based on its position in the > overall flattened hierarchy. Useful if the favorite-name is > long/unwieldy or Alexa regularly misunderstands it. > > *[ITEM]* 'Play favorite: folder "Podcasts", item 4' plays a favorite > within a named folder, denoted by the favorite's numbered position > within that folder. Useful for targeting e.g. episodes by number when > you cannot remember their names. > > *[DOT]* 'Play favorite 5 dot 1 dot 6' if you have a -lot- of favorites > and Alexa always times out before your hierarchy is traversed, this > notation can be used as a fallback to successfully play deeply-nested > favorites. It does not request the whole hierarchy from LMS, just the > base level (for the volatile ID #) and then the favorite itself > directly. > > When it comes to *listing* favorites, there are 3 approaches: > > 'List my favorites' lists all playable audio favorites at any depth, > skipping folder names found along the way. The whole nested > favorites-hierarchy is effectively flattened to mention only > playable-audio entries. > > List level 2 favorites' / 'List second level favorites' mentions all > favorites at that level of hierarchy, even if in different parent > folders along the way. Level is level! > > 'List favorites in folder "Radio"' list playable entries in that named > folder, no matter how deep 'Radio' lies in the overall hierarchy. > > Enjoy! My favourites consist of 4 folders with the 4th folder containing 4 subfolders. When I ask MS on an echo show to list level 2 favourites, it correctly lists the contents of the first 3 folders by showing each folder and its contents in succession. A level 3 request results in the contents of the the 4th folder's subfolders and contents being listed as expected. My problem is when I request an item using the "dot" notation [e.g. Stream favourite 2 (level No.)dot 3 (level item No.)], I get an error that says the device can't determine the base ID to apply to the dotted notation. In the quoted post you also talk about a base ID which I don't understand what this is in my file structure. Just to note, the dot notation did work for me when the folders were part of the listings e.g. "Stream favourite 4 dot 2 dot 5" played the 5th item in the 2nd subfolder of folder No. 4. That 4th folder has a lot of German names and the dot notion was a neat way of getting around me trying to murder the German language ;-) I can of course access all items using their item number alone, but I would like to figure out the dot level approach. raglencross's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=7239 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=111016 ___ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/plugins
Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] [Announce] 'MediaServer' *certified* Alexa skill for LMS
Yeah, like about a year or so ago only a few of the big services would stream in stereo then without anyone doing anything apps like yours, Plex and Mymedia started to work in stereo. Perhaps we will be as lucky with lossless streams in due course... raglencross's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=7239 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=111016 ___ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/plugins
Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] [Announce] 'MediaServer' *certified* Alexa skill for LMS
philchillbill wrote: > Does any other audio from MediaServer (e.g. from LMS or a lossy stream) > play on that setup? My guess is that the combo-Echo has a different > deviceID to where I'm directing the stream. The stereo pair stream everything except lossless streams. raglencross's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=7239 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=111016 ___ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/plugins
Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] [Announce] 'MediaServer' *certified* Alexa skill for LMS
Has anyone successfully direct streamed FLAC URL's (e.g. Radio Paradise) to 2 echoes plus a bass unit paired for stereo play back? The echoes announce that they are direct streaming, but no audio ensues. FLAC streams work fine on a variety of other echo devices (Thanks, Phil!) and MP3 streams also proceed normally on the stereo echoes. Any thoughts?... raglencross's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=7239 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=111016 ___ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/plugins
Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] [Announce] 'MediaServer' *certified* Alexa skill for LMS
philchillbill wrote: > > How do the new visuals in the skill look on the Echo Show 10 (I haven't > tried one of those myself yet)? Is the artwork loading quickly enough > for you for the experience to be fluid? The Show 10 has a very high resolution screen so the skill visuals look really good with artwork being promptly displayed. It's a pity that it only displays momentarily, but as you explain in your previous post, that is on Amazon, not you. It is probably their way of getting more eyes on what they want you to see, possibly increasing their sales ;-) raglencross's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=7239 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=111016 ___ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/plugins
Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] [Announce] 'MediaServer' *certified* Alexa skill for LMS
I have a US Amazon account and sign in using DNS/VPNs. raglencross's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=7239 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=111016 ___ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/plugins
Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] [Announce] 'MediaServer' *certified* Alexa skill for LMS
Thanks, for the effort, but I am still not able to get the Naim FLAC streams to play on an Echo Show 10 using any of the URL's listed in https://www.hiresaudio.online/naim-radio. These URL's clearly meet your criterion of having FLAC in their names, so should work like the Radio Paradise ones. The Naim FLAC URL's correctly stream using SqueezePlay, a SB3 and in a web browser, so are OK URL's for Naim. What URL's are you using for the 3 FLAC streams? It may help you to know that the Show says the stream is playing, but there is no sound and the screen is the one for MP3 playback. raglencross's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=7239 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=111016 ___ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/plugins
Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] [Announce] 'MediaServer' *certified* Alexa skill for LMS
I have the Radio Paradise FLAC streams working per your instructions on a Show 2 with the noted limitations of no player shown in the GUI and no metadata on the Show, both of which are acceptable tradeoffs for the better sound quality. Interestingly, the Naim FLAC streams shown on https://www.hiresaudio.online/naim-radio do not play through an Echo device, but the MP3 ones of course do. I would assume that all FLAC streams should now play? raglencross's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=7239 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=111016 ___ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/plugins
Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] [Announce] Easy ngrok-setup for MediaServer & LMS-lite Alexa skills
This setup is a great improvement over the original one. Just one thing, could you please provide a link to the previous instructions to jog the memories of us who already have ngrok installed so that we can clean up the previous files and changes to files before doing the new setup, if and when required. Thanks... raglencross's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=7239 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=113966 ___ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/plugins
Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] [Announce] 'MediaServer' *certified* Alexa skill for LMS
Now works like a BOMB for all local and online content! Thanks... Also, appreciate your looking into the skill sign in error. Your explanation makes perfect sense. raglencross's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=7239 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=111016 ___ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/plugins
Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] [Announce] 'MediaServer' *certified* Alexa skill for LMS
I now have audio on local playlists! I don't know whether it's because of the code changes you have made there or that I disabled/re-enabled the skill which like for apps/programs can sometimes magically clear up baffling problems. From your post, I see that you are working on a solution for online playlists, so I'll await your go ahead before turning on Spotify integration. FYI, when attempting to sign in to the alexa skill on an ipad, I was getting the errors " Updating uuids for multiple skills will go wrong without tunnel names" and "Other smart skills linked with tunnel [name]. You must also include it for this skill". When I switched to https://alexa.amazon.com in a browser on a PC sign in to the skill proceeded normally. raglencross's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=7239 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=111016 ___ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/plugins
Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] [Announce] 'MediaServer' *certified* Alexa skill for LMS
Still no audio from local playlists after turning off online integration and doing a clear and complete rescan of my library. I know you have asked already, but it's worth asking again, is anyone else experiencing a problem with no audio from local playlists? raglencross's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=7239 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=111016 ___ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/plugins
Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] [Announce] 'MediaServer' *certified* Alexa skill for LMS
Thanks for continuing to look into this. I see Spotify is offering a free 3 month trial for their "Premium" tier as opposed to their free ad supported one. I don't think the latter will work with Spotty, but I'm not sure of that. raglencross's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=7239 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=111016 ___ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/plugins
Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] [Announce] 'MediaServer' *certified* Alexa skill for LMS
I will see what I can do about getting the SB3 to work. It was recently "recapped", but I think I may now have a power supply problem that will need investigation. I can still use the clock feature requiring that it be networked which is why it shows up in "list players". I understand completely the naming requirements from your setup instructions and now even better from your post. When I first subscribed to your skill, I experimented with renaming a few of my players and "assuming" them and found that everything worked perfectly. However, with LMS server and plugin updates, I have reverted to the names more meaningful to me because I rarely used your skill to stream to devices other than the Alexa ones themselves. I only use the "list" command to check the ngrok info that it gives at the end of the device list. Yes, the Daily Mix 1 and Release Radar playlists are on Spotify. When the skill was working properly, I found that I could evoke the Spotify playlists without specifying their origin because Alexa apparently knew where they were because she said, "Blah, blah, blah from Spotify." You may not know because you said you do not have Spotify, but in LMS8 when you turn on Spotify integration your online playlists are displayed along with your local ones, only differentiated as "Spotify: Playlist". And, yes, the Folk playlist is local. Just to reiterate, until recently everything would stream fine whether local or from Spotify. Now, only the playlists from either source will not work, except occasionally several minutes after they have been evoked. raglencross's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=7239 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=111016 ___ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/plugins
Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] [Announce] 'MediaServer' *certified* Alexa skill for LMS
Thanks for the reply. 1. No audio from a local non-Spotty playlist. 2. Unfortunately, my only normal Squeezebox player, a SB3, is not working right now. As well as Echoes, I am using chromecast and airplay devices instead. 3. "Alexa resume" still does not produce any audio. As I said in my OP, audio from playlists (Spotty and local) sometimes starts playing after several minutes delay. FYI, I am using LMS 8.0.0 - 1605892076. raglencross's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=7239 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=111016 ___ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/plugins
Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] [Announce] 'MediaServer' *certified* Alexa skill for LMS
I can no longer get playlists from my library or Spotify to stream without a long delay on any of my Alex devices. Alexa confirms that it is playing them, but there is no audio and "axios from Alexa" does not show as a player in the web interface until several minutes later. If I ask for an album, song, favourite, etc. to stream everything proceeds normally as it does with another server, "My Media", on the same RPi4 using the Raspbian OS. I can't say for certain, but this problem seems to have arisen with the "mediaserver" to "axios" change in player name several days back. Thoughts/suggestions? raglencross's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=7239 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=111016 ___ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/plugins
Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] BBCiPlayer V1.6 (and higher) & BBCiPlayerExtra 2.0 (and higher) Support
slartibartfast wrote: > I just leave mine with DASH as first choice. Does HLS have any benefits? > > > Sent from my Pixel 3a using Tapatalk I dont know, but that would be something bpa could answer. My file order was set to the default value which did not include DASH at all. Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk raglencross's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=7239 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=109826 ___ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/plugins
Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] BBCiPlayer V1.6 (and higher) & BBCiPlayerExtra 2.0 (and higher) Support
slartibartfast wrote: > There is a setting in Extras to disable DASH. You wouldn't have ticked > that box would you? > > Sent from my Pixel 3a using Tapatalk No, I didn't, but per the UPDATE in my above post, adding DASH to the file order in the iPlayer settings solved the problem with no adverse affects noticed so far in either plugin. raglencross's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=7239 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=109826 ___ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/plugins
Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] BBCiPlayer V1.6 (and higher) & BBCiPlayerExtra 2.0 (and higher) Support
My info: Logitech Media Server Version: 8.0.0 - 1601590552 @ Fri Oct 2 01:04:56 CEST 2020 Hostname: raspberrypi Server IP Address: 192.168.10.79 Server HTTP Port Number: 9000 Operating system: Debian - EN - utf8 Platform Architecture: armv7l-linux Perl Version: 5.28.1 - arm-linux-gnueabihf-thread-multi-64int Audio::Scan: 1.02 IO::Socket::SSL: 2.060 Database Version: DBD::SQLite 1.58 (sqlite 3.22.0) Total Players Recognized: 6 The only difference in our setups is the LMS version which could be the problem. Interestingly, the log shows the following when I attempt to play an Xtras program: [20-10-08 15:09:59.6709] Plugins::BBCiPlayer::iPlayer::scanUrl (148) Can't find a suitable media URL within the iPlayer URL that matches one of the preferred playback types: hls,mp3,flashaac,flashmp3 It looks like Xtras uses the iPlayer settings to work, so I will play around with the file type order in those settings to see if that solves the problem. raglencross's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=7239 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=109826 ___ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/plugins
Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] BBCiPlayer V1.6 (and higher) & BBCiPlayerExtra 2.0 (and higher) Support
Thanks, ronnie, for the reply. That command did install several additional packages, but did not get "Xtras" to play. Are you running LMS on a RPi under Rasbpian and getting "Xtras" to work? raglencross's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=7239 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=109826 ___ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/plugins
Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] BBCiPlayer V1.6 (and higher) & BBCiPlayerExtra 2.0 (and higher) Support
I am running LMS 8 (current version) on a RPi 4 under the updated Raspbian OS and cannot get the Xtras plugin (v3.4.0) to play on a SB3 or chromecast devices using Phillipe's Chromecast Bridge. When I click on a program link, I get the metadata, but no audio. Live and archived programming work fine with the iPlayer (v1.6.10). I thought this might be a Http/Https issue per recent discussions in this thread, but LMS Status shows "IO::Socket::SSL: 2.060". Before switching to Raspbian, Xtras was working with PiCorePlayer which leads me to believe that I am perhaps missing a package that is not part of the standard Raspbian install? raglencross's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=7239 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=109826 ___ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/plugins
Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] [Announce] 'MediaServer' *certified* Alexa skill for LMS
>From my experience, that may very well be the case. The first time I installed ngrok on a Pi4 months ago, I was able to complete Part 2 with no problems and no requirement for an authtoken until Part 3. The second time I installed ngrok after reinstalling the Raspbian OS, I couldn't get past Part 2 because I was getting the error shown in my post yesterday. The part of the error message I underlined led me to install the authtoken per Part 3 and all went well after that through Part 4. I have no idea why ngrok required an authtoken in Part 2 the second time around particularly after an OS reinstall. raglencross's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=7239 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=111016 ___ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/plugins
Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] [Announce] 'MediaServer' *certified* Alexa skill for LMS
Running "ngrok http -auth "XX:XX" 9000" resulted in: HTTP auth is only available after you sign up. Failed to bind a tunnel with HTTP authentication for an unauthenticated client. Sign up at: https://ngrok.com/signup _If_you_have_already_signed_up,_make_sure_your_authtoken_is_installed_. Your authtoken is available on your dashboard: https://dashboard.ngrok.com/auth/your-authtoken It looks to me like the the Setup Instructions assumes that you have not signed up with ngrok and have no authtoken. As I already have a free account and a token, I had to create the "ngrok.yml" file to get things working while still in Part 2 of the Setup Instructions. Thanks, Paul, for the tip that got me on the right path. raglencross's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=7239 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=111016 ___ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/plugins
Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] [Announce] 'MediaServer' *certified* Alexa skill for LMS
I've had reason to reload Raspbian on a Pi4 necessitating that I redo ngrok which was previously working. I get the following when I attempt to install ngrok per the Setup Instructions (personal info "X'd" out): pi@raspberrypi:~ $ cd /home/pi/Downloads pi@raspberrypi:~/Downloads $ sudo mv ngrok /usr/local/bin pi@raspberrypi:~/Downloads $ cd pi@raspberrypi:~ $ ngrok http -auth "XX:XX" 9000 > /dev/null 2>&1 & [1] 19258 pi@raspberrypi:~ $ curl -s http://localhost:4040/api/tunnels | grep -Po https://.+?\.io [1]+ Exit 1 ngrok http -auth "XX:XX" 9000 > /dev/null 2>&1 pi@raspberrypi:~ $ Note that the "curl" command does not give a URL and there is no ngrok online dashboard. It looks like ngrok is on the "$Path" because running "ngrok help" from the home directory works. I am using ngrokARM which is, I think, the correct one for the Pi4. Thoughts?... raglencross's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=7239 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=111016 ___ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/plugins
Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] [Announce] 'MediaServer' *certified* Alexa skill for LMS
Phil, your ruminations on network availability after rebooting as the problem with Pi's lead me to finding a solution. You are able to delay the reboot until the Pi (at least on a wired Pi4 ) determines that the network is available in the Raspbian GUI settings under "Preferences - Raspberry Pi Configuration - System - Network at Boot - Wait for network". You can do the same thing using the command "sudo raspi-config". With "Wait for reboot" enabled the updater works _without_ any changes to your instructions such as adding " ExecStartPost=/bin/sleep 90" before running the updater script. raglencross's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=7239 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=111016 ___ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/plugins
Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] [Announce] 'MediaServer' *certified* Alexa skill for LMS
I have tried running "ExecStartPost=/bin/sleep 90" before the updater script with no success. Interestingly, if I increase the sleep time to anything beyond 90s (e.g. 2m), the ngrok web gui is not accessible. I understand your "EDIT", but is it possible there is some interaction between the "sleep" and the "Restartsec" times that results in the behavior I am seeing? Regardless, I am still able to get things working by manually running the updater script several minutes after rebooting. Not as elegant as having the updater do its thing, but certainly faster than using the Alexa app. raglencross's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=7239 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=111016 ___ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/plugins
Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] [Announce] 'MediaServer' *certified* Alexa skill for LMS
Thanks for the replies, Guys. Yes, running the updater script a few minutes after the pi has booted DOES work! My question now is how to incorporate this delay in the files/script, perhaps by increasing "ExecStartPost=/bin/sleep 5"? I assume "5" equals five seconds? FYI, I get the following with "ExecStartPost=/bin/sleep 5" which did not solve the problem: pi@raspberrypi:~ $ sudo systemctl status ngrok: * ngrok.service - ngrok autostart Loaded: loaded (/etc/systemd/system/ngrok.service; enabled; vendor preset: enabled) Active: active (running) since Tue 2020-09-08 17:27:13 ADT; 3min 55s ago Process: 462 ExecStartPre=/bin/sleep 5 (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS) Process: 571 ExecStartPost=/bin/sleep 5 (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS) Process: 684 ExecStartPost=/usr/bin/python3 /home/pi/updater.py (code=exited, status=0/S Main PID: 570 (ngrok) Tasks: 14 (limit: 4915) CGroup: /system.slice/ngrok.service `-570 /usr/local/bin/ngrok start -config=/home/pi/.ngrok2/ngrok.yml mediaserver Sep 08 17:26:59 raspberrypi systemd[1]: Starting ngrok autostart... Sep 08 17:27:12 raspberrypi ngrok[684]: [] Sep 08 17:27:12 raspberrypi ngrok[684]: Fail 12 [No match between current and update data Sep 08 17:27:12 raspberrypi ngrok[684]: Finished Sep 08 17:27:13 raspberrypi systemd[1]: Started ngrok autostart. raglencross's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=7239 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=111016 ___ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/plugins
Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] [Announce] 'MediaServer' *certified* Alexa skill for LMS
I am running LMS on a Pi4 using Raspbian OS. I have been trying on and
off for several weeks now to get the updater to work with no success,
probably because I am very much a Linux novice!
1.My ngork.yml file (Autostart works.) looks like this with personal
info "X'd" out ( Command: nano ~/.ngrok2/ngrok.yml):
authtoken: X...
web_addr: 0.0.0.0:4040
inspect: false
region: us
tunnels:
mediaservertunnel:
proto: http
bind_tls: true
inspect: false
addr: 192.168.10.79:9000
auth: "XX:XX"
2. This is the service file ( Command:sudo nano
/etc/systemd/system/ngrok.service):
[Unit]
Description=ngrok autostart
Wants=network.target
After=network.target
[Service]
Type=simple
WorkingDirectory=/tmp
ExecStartPre=/bin/sleep 5
ExecStart=/usr/local/bin/ngrok start
-config=/home/pi/.ngrok2/ngrok.yml media$
ExecStartPost=/usr/bin/python3 /home/pi/updater.py
RestartSec=30 (NOTE: I have tried increasing this to 90.)
StandardOutput=syslog
StandardError=syslog
SyslogIdentifier=ngrok
[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target
3. This is the updater.py script with personal info "X'd":
#!/usr/bin/python3
# (c) smartskills.tech 2020, all rights reserved
# This script updates the ngrok tunnel details used by your LMS
skill(s)
import requests
import json
import urllib.parse
# Change these 3 parameters to match your setup
myNgrok = 'http://192.168.10.79:4040/api/tunnels'
myTunnels = ['mediaservertunnel']
myUuid = ['XXX...']
# No changes after this line
def getTunnel():
try:
subdomains = []
res = requests.get(myNgrok)
res_unicode = res.content.decode("utf-8")
res_json = json.loads(res_unicode)
for tunnel in res_json["tunnels"]:
if tunnel["proto"] != "https":
continue
if not tunnel["name"] in myTunnels:
continue
publicURL = tunnel["public_url"]
name = tunnel["name"]
subdomains.append({"name": name, "url": publicURL})
except Exception as err:
print('ngrok inspection error: ', err)
exit()
return subdomains
def performUpdate(subdomains, uuid):
url = 'https://smartskills.tech/linking/updateNgrok.php?uuid=' + \
uuid + '=' + urllib.parse.quote(json.dumps(subdomains,
separators=(',', ':')))
response = requests.get(url)
return response
subdomains = getTunnel()
print(json.dumps(subdomains))
for uuid in myUuid:
res = performUpdate(subdomains, uuid)
print(res.text)
print('Finished')
4. It appears that the script is executable (using "chmod +x) because
running "/usr/bin/python3 /home/pi/updater.py" yields:
[{"name": "mediaservertunnel", "url": "https://XXX..."}]
OK 1
Finished
The "url" agrees with the one shown on the Alexa app link page.
Any suggestions on where I am going wrong would be appreciated.
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Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] [Announce] 'MediaServer' *certified* Alexa skill for LMS
This looks useful to me as long as I can continue to use single commands (e.g. Ask mediaserver to play "album") along with "Open mediaserver", if it is my intention to issue multiple commands. You might want to run a poll to see what people think. raglencross's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=7239 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=111016 ___ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/plugins
Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce - Song info plugin for CBC/Radio-Canada (English and French services)
I would guess that these plugins go along with the CBC app which hasn't worked for me for years. Please confirm this and, if so, I'll have to look into why the CBC app is not working for me. I just assumed in was another case of changing URL's and/or lack of developer support. raglencross's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=7239 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=112177 ___ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/plugins
Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] [Announce] 'MediaServer' *certified* Alexa skill for LMS
I can't "stream favorite" Radio Paradise Flack streams to my echoes, but I am able to "play" the FLAC streams to LMS players such as a SB3 and various chromcast devices which handle FLAC natively. I am able to stream FLAC albums to the echoes which are shown in the web GUI to be transcoded to MP3 by LMS because it is set up to do so (LAME installed). It appears that LMS is not transcoding the Radio Paradise FLAC streams to MP3 for the echoes, but is doing so for music files in my library. I can of course switch to the Radio Paridise MP3 streams, but the FLAC ones do sound better. Has anyone else experienced this problem and perhaps have come up with a solution? raglencross's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=7239 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=111016 ___ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/plugins
Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] [Announce] 'MediaServer' *certified* Alexa skill for LMS
When I use an echo show as a music sink for LMS, there is no album art or song info displayed. If this is normal, do you expect to be able to display these in a future release? Otherwise, your alexa skill is a very nice addition to the LMS ecosystem. raglencross's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=7239 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=111016 ___ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/plugins
Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] [Announce] 'MediaServer' *certified* Alexa skill for LMS
Does this skill work with chromecast and airplay players with Philippe's bridge plugins installed on LMS? I have your skill working on a Raspberry Pi4 and it does list the chromecast/airplay devices, but I want to make sure they will work before I subscribe. I ask because I have only one squeezebox player which is malfunctioning and has pretty much fallen into disuse since Philippe introduced his plugins. I do have a number of Alexa devices which I see you do support as players so i suppose I could go with those. With that in mind, does you skill provide stereo output on a 2 echo plus subwoofer configuration, as allowed by Amazon for some streaming services? raglencross's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=7239 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=111016 ___ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/plugins
Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] ANNOUNCE: AirPlay Bridge = integrate AirPlay devices with LMS (squeeze2raop)
Back in the early stages of this plugin (and thread), it wouldn't work for me with a "Soundmate" and an Apple TV4 until Dev-5. I don't know what you did, Philippe, but keep up the great work and support (also, on the chromecast plugin). It is much appreciated. raglencross's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=7239 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=105198 ___ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/plugins
Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] ANNOUNCE: AirPlay Bridge = integrate AirPlay devices with LMS (squeeze2raop)
philippe_44 wrote: > Thanks - so for the soundmate, to identify the "non-connection" cause, > log should be set with "raopdebugging" Phillipe, I am holding off on sending you the requested debug file for the Soundmate because I have just found out that if I enable encryption, as you suggested to US95, I end up with exactly the same symptoms as him i.e. sound that cuts in and out and is garbled. Per your instruction to US95, I have tried setting the Radio Station Buffer to 6 seconds with no success on a local flack file and a MP3 stream. This of course is progress over having no sound at all. Do you still need a raop debug run from me to help you trouble shoot the problem? raglencross's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=7239 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=105198 ___ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/plugins
Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] ANNOUNCE: AirPlay Bridge = integrate AirPlay devices with LMS (squeeze2raop)
philippe_44 wrote: > Crap - that works w/o any problem on my config which has nothing exotic. > You're using Windows, right ? Which version ? Normally, all transcoding > are done by my plugin, unless you want to force something different in > LMS but as AirPlay only accept raw PCM or AAC (and I send raw PCM), > everything is transcoded to PCM by squeeze2raop. > > [edit]: at that point, a log with ATV and Soundmate would help. Make > sure you're starting from a fresh config file I am using Windows 7. Which debug settings to you need for the log runs? raglencross's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=7239 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=105198 ___ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/plugins
Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] ANNOUNCE: AirPlay Bridge = integrate AirPlay devices with LMS (squeeze2raop)
philippe_44 wrote: > I've found the problem for AppleTV, it is a change from the "unofficial > spec" with regard to synchronization initialization. AppleTV (and I hope > this is the same for your other device) expect the time synchronizaton > message to be sent just before the SETUP message is sent, where > previously, they where supposed to be just before the RECORD message was > sent. Which was making sense as the response to the SETUP message was > including the port number to be used for time synchronization. Now you > have to deduct it from the UDP layer - anyway, it works on my AppleTV of > which I have no use :) My AT4 now has sound (still nothing from the Soundmate) using Dev-8, but it is very garbled - probably a codec problem. I have tried playing MP3 streams and FLAC files with the same "Donald Duck" like output from the ATV which should handle MP3 natively and FLAC should be transcoded to MP3 by LMS using the installed LAME encoder, if I understand the process and the file type table correctly. Any suggestions? raglencross's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=7239 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=105198 ___ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/plugins
Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] ANNOUNCE: AirPlay Bridge = integrate AirPlay devices with LMS (squeeze2raop)
philippe_44 wrote: > I've found the problem for AppleTV, it is a change from the "unofficial > spec" with regard to synchronization initialization. AppleTV (and I hope > this is the same for your other device) expect the time synchronizaton > message to be sent just before the SETUP message is sent, where > previously, they where supposed to be just before the RECORD message was > sent. Which was making sense as the response to the SETUP message was > including the port number to be used for time synchronization. Now you > have to deduct it from the UDP layer - anyway, it works on my AppleTV of > which I have no use :) Sounds promising...I presume that this change requires an updated dev version, as I see nothing in the player or plugin settings that allow me to make the changes you propose? raglencross's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=7239 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=105198 ___ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/plugins
Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] ANNOUNCE: AirPlay Bridge = integrate AirPlay devices with LMS (squeeze2raop)
philippe_44 wrote: > I've done a 1.0.3-dev-5 that removes a parameter that is not needed when > encryption is not used. I would be very surprised that if it is the > cause of the ATV4 problem, but it's worth a quick test - can you try > that with a clean config file ? If it still does not work, I'll get me a > ATV4 during the weekend > > @epoch: this will not solve the ATV1,1 issue I gave 1.0.3-dev-5 a try with no success i.e. still no audio from the ATV4 (or the Soundmate). Hopefully, you will be able to put your new AT4 to good use other than troubleshooting this problem;) raglencross's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=7239 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=105198 ___ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/plugins
Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] ANNOUNCE: AirPlay Bridge = integrate AirPlay devices with LMS (squeeze2raop)
You will note from my post #37 that I am testing an AT4 with this plugin, also with audio problems like your ATV1 except that I have no audio O/P at all. I am sure Phillipe will sort this out in due course! In the meantime, I highly recommend the AT4, particularly because it has its own app store and the ability to sideload non app store applications using a mac computer and the Xcode developer program. raglencross's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=7239 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=105198 ___ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/plugins
Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] ANNOUNCE: AirPlay Bridge = integrate AirPlay devices with LMS (squeeze2raop)
philippe_44 wrote: > Yes but I can't know in advance if the player as multiple identities or > not, so I always choose the random Mac > > [edit]: The AppleTV rejects my 'announce' request, I've not seen that > before, let me investigate > [edit2]: Anybody with an AppleTV wanting to give that a try ? > [edit3]: Not sure if I asked before, but what is the computer you use to > run the AirPlay bridge ? > > > Envoyé de mon iPad en utilisant Tapatalk I am testing the Airplay bridge on 2 PC's, a Foxconn nt-i1200 (Windows 7) and a HP Mediasmart Server (Windows Server 2011). The debug logs are from the Foxconn. Neither PC results in any audio output from the Soundmate or the Apple TV ( the "new" one, unofficially called the ATV 4). raglencross's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=7239 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=105198 ___ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/plugins
Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] ANNOUNCE: AirPlay Bridge = integrate AirPlay devices with LMS (squeeze2raop)
20071 As you explain it, I do understand the need to assign a unique (bogus?) mac address to a device such as the Soundmate that has multiple renderer capabilities, but the Apple TV can only do airplay so I would expect it to be identified by its proper mac. If you check the config file from my previous post, you will see that it is assigned a bogus mac just like the Soundmate. Regardless, as I said in my OP the AppleTV, like the Soundmate, has no sound output. Both work with an iPad as the source. I did at one point edit the config file to try to force the use of the real mac addresses for one and/or both devices with no success. The config file I attached previously was not the edited file, but a newly generated one. I have attached the raop debug file as requested. Thanks for the help. +---+ |Filename: raop debug file.txt | |Download: http://forums.slimdevices.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=20071| +---+ raglencross's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=7239 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=105198 ___ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/plugins
Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] ANNOUNCE: AirPlay Bridge = integrate AirPlay devices with LMS (squeeze2raop)
2006020061 I can't get any sound from an Apple TV or a Soundmate using the current 1.0.2. or any previous versions. I have allowed squeeze2raop through the LMS server firewall and have even turned off the firewall with no success. Castbridge works fine as did UPnPbridge (now not installed) on the Soundmate which is capable of handling several protocols including airplay and DLNA. The one thing I note that is different about Airplaybridge is that it assigns bogus mac addresses to the Apple TV and Soundmate while the other bridges use the actual mac addresses. I have tried forcing the real Mac's through the settings and editing the config file to no avail. I have attached the debug and config files. Let me know if you need additional options set for the debug file. Thanks in advance for your help and also for this marvelous suite of "bridges". They have given the squeezebox ecosystem a new lease on life! +---+ |Filename: Debug file.txt | |Download: http://forums.slimdevices.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=20061| +---+ raglencross's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=7239 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=105198 ___ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/plugins
Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: CastBridge = integrate Chromecast players with LMS (squeeze2cast)
When I use the link from the 1st post for the stable version, I get "Phillippe's LMS Plugins" with "Pluzz" and "Youtube" options, but no "Cast to LMS" Dev 2 plugin. The "Dev" link shows a "Phillipe's Squeezecenter Plugins" header, but no entries. raglencross's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=7239 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=104614 ___ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/plugins
Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: CastBridge = integrate Chromecast players with LMS (squeeze2cast)
I can't get the link to the repository to work. After pasting the Post 1 link in the Plugins section and hitting apply, the box goes blank and no plugin is available. raglencross's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=7239 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=104614 ___ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/plugins
Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: CastBridge = integrate Chromecast players with LMS (squeeze2cast)
I did try dropping the "s" a few iterations ago with no success, but, at you prompting, gave it a go again. This time it worked! The plugin picked up my chromecast audio device OK, but I get no audio output. Probably a Squeeze2cast issue - a problem for another day! raglencross's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=7239 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=104614 ___ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/plugins
Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] no sound with prairie home companion
Sorry for the delay on getting back to you, but business called me away. The command line resulted in the following: Macmini:~ raglencross$ ls -l /Applications/MPlayer OSX.app/Contents/Resources/External_Binaries/mplayer.app/Contents/MacOS/ total 41976 -rwxr-xr-x 1 raglencross admin 21490476 Jan 12 2008 mplayer In anticipation of what next you might suggest to do, I tried the same command on the directory which contains (or which I think contains) squeezebox.exe. I just got an error message about an invalid directory. I suspect that the squeezebox file is not the correct one as it is only 115KB or so in size which seems too small to be the whole application. -- raglencross raglencross's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=7239 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=79577 ___ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/plugins
Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] no sound with prairie home companion
The ls -l command gave the following results: Macmini:~ raglencross$ ls -l total 0 drwx--+ 6 raglencross staff 204 Jul 19 14:45 Desktop drwx--+ 4 raglencross staff 136 Jul 7 20:53 Documents drwx--+ 13 raglencross staff 442 Jul 13 15:35 Downloads drwx--+ 33 raglencross staff 1122 Jul 11 00:22 Library drwx--+ 3 raglencross staff 102 Jul 7 20:53 Movies drwx--+ 5 raglencross staff 170 Jul 8 22:54 Music drwx--+ 4 raglencross staff 136 Jul 7 20:53 Pictures drwxr-xr-x+ 6 raglencross staff 204 Jul 16 10:51 Public drwxr-xr-x+ 5 raglencross staff 170 Jul 7 20:53 Sites Presumably drwx means delete/read/write/execute permission for me, raglencross, (and the group staff?) for the specified folders i.e. Desktop, Documents, etc. Don't have a clue what the number and date columns or -xr-x+ mean! You are right that the SBS and mplayer executables are installed with different ownerships. SBS's owner is unknown and mplayer is owned by me. Changing SBS to my ownership does not solve the problem, probably because, as you suggest, said ownership has to be extended to the containing folders and directories. Anyway, as a new Mac user, it looks like I will have to dig in to the whole matter of sharing, ownership and permissions as done by Apple. It seems to be every bit as complicated as for Windows, despite the hype about Mac's simplicity! In the interim, I can listen to PHC using one of my Windows servers ;) Thanks for your help in steering me in the right direction, Bpa. -- raglencross raglencross's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=7239 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=79577 ___ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/plugins
Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] no sound with prairie home companion
The mplayer executable and the directory and sub-directories which contain it show me to have read and write permission which is expected as my account is an administrative one. Other users for mplayer.exe namely admin and everyone, are read only. I changed these to read and write, but this had no effect. I don't know how to determine ownership. If I install an application as an administrator does that not make me the owner? -- raglencross raglencross's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=7239 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=79577 ___ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/plugins
Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] no sound with prairie home companion
Thanks for the reply, Bpa.
The command line produces the following:
MPlayer dev-SVN-r25648-4.0.1 (C) 2000-2008 MPlayer Team
CPU: Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo CPU P8600 @ 2.40GHz (Family: 6, Model:
23, Stepping: 10)
CPUflags: MMX: 1 MMX2: 1 3DNow: 0 3DNow2: 0 SSE: 1 SSE2: 1
Compiled for x86 CPU with extensions: MMX MMX2 SSE SSE2
Usage: mplayer [options] [url|path/]filename
Basic options: (complete list in the man page)
-vo drvselect video output driver ('-vo help' for a list)
-ao drvselect audio output driver ('-ao help' for a list)
vcd://trackno play (S)VCD (Super Video CD) track (raw device, no
mount)
dvd://titleno play DVD title from device instead of plain file
-alang/-slangselect DVD audio/subtitle language (by 2-char country
code)
-ss position seek to given (seconds or hh:mm:ss) position
-nosound do not play sound
-fs fullscreen playback (or -vm, -zoom, details in the
man page)
-x x -y yset display resolution (for use with -vm or -zoom)
-sub file specify subtitle file to use (also see -subfps,
-subdelay)
-playlist file specify playlist file
-vid x -aid yselect video (x) and audio (y) stream to play
-fps x -srate y change video (x fps) and audio (y Hz) rate
-pp qualityenable postprocessing filter (details in the man
page)
-framedrop enable frame dropping (for slow machines)
Basic keys: (complete list in the man page, also check input.conf)
- or - seek backward/forward 10 seconds
down or up seek backward/forward 1 minute
pgdown or pgup seek backward/forward 10 minutes
orstep backward/forward in playlist
p or SPACE pause movie (press any key to continue)
q or ESC stop playing and quit program
+ or - adjust audio delay by +/- 0.1 second
ocycle OSD mode: none / seekbar / seekbar + timer
* or / increase or decrease PCM volume
x or z adjust subtitle delay by +/- 0.1 second
r or t adjust subtitle position up/down, also see -vf
expand
* * * SEE THE MAN PAGE FOR DETAILS, FURTHER (ADVANCED) OPTIONS AND
KEYS * * *
This all looks pretty normal to me i.e. no error messages. Just
something else to consider while you mull this over, under the settings
for the RTSP files, PCM and WAV are realmplayer.sh, FLAC is
realmplayer.sh/FLAC and MP3 is disabled. Should the
realmplayer.sh setting not be just mplayer, like it is on a Windows
PC?
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Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] no sound with prairie home companion
bpa;554631 Wrote: From the Mplayer Extended site Since this is not the standard Mplayer - it is not installed where the shell script expected. The Plugin settings page info just checks that an mplayer is installed - it does not verify location or version. I don't have an OSX system so I can only make gueeses as to get it working. You have a choice - either 1. Uninstall current mplayer and then install an official (and probably older) build of mplayer. However the mplayer developers were very bad at building OSX builds so this may be difficult. This may be an alternative site http://haque.net/software/mplayer/mplayerosx/builds/ 2. Change the realmplayer.sh file to look for the mplayer executable on your system. I suggest doing 2 since the mplayer you have seems to be able to play RealAudio from a Terminal window. First - determine the full path of the mplayer executable (not the folder) - In a Terminal window you could try the following commands (these are guesses). which mplayer or where mplayer Bpa, I am having the same problem as the OP on a Mac mini using OSX 10.6 with an Intel processor. The only difference is that I installed the older version of mplayer that you recommended. It is installed in the path expected by realplayer.sh for an Intel CPU, namely: i386 processor /Applications/MPlayer OSX.app/Contents/Resources/External_Binaries/mplayer.app/Contents/MacOS/mplayer The playreal plugin settings show mplayer to be installed and the correct file types are activated, but when I try to stream the PHC URL you gave in an earlier post via Tune in URL, I get no audio. The SB3 shows as connecting although the web UI looks to be streaming normally. The URL plays with no problem through the mplayer GUI. I have not tried to stream the URL via a command line as you request the OP to do because, like him, I am confused whether you mean a SBS or OSX one. Regardless, I don't know the command structure for either method. I agree with your assessment that playreal can't find mplayer despite, in my case, it being exactly where it should be. I notice in the preamble to the else/if construct that the uname is set to Darwin which is not my user name or the name of my computer. Could this be the problem? Anyway, in option 2 of the above quote it looks like you were going to tell the OP how to alter realplayer.sh once you determined where his mplayer application was located. Since mine is known, I would appreciate your help in doing this. -- raglencross raglencross's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=7239 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=79577 ___ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/plugins
Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] XM radio plugin with 7.4?
erland;486685 Wrote: I've added this repository to the official list, so in the future XM Radio plugin will appear in the list of available plugins after the user has checked the Show all 3rd party plugins option in the Plugins tab. So starting now there is no reason to setup this repository manually in Squeezebox Server settings. The XM plugin does not yet show up under 3rd party plugins. When do you expect it will? -- raglencross raglencross's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=7239 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=68420 ___ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/plugins
Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] XM radio plugin with 7.4?
Working with SBS 7.4 on a Vista PC and a SB3 . Thanks, Neil. -- raglencross raglencross's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=7239 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=68420 ___ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/plugins
Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: Wave Input plugin v1.00
I changed maxversion in Install to 7.4, but still can't get Waveinput to work on a Vista PC since upgrading to SBS 7.4. It shows up correctly as a plugin, but is not displayed under Favourites. -- raglencross raglencross's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=7239 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=35718 ___ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/plugins
Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: BBCiPlayer 0.9 - with UK and Non UK Support
Since upgrading to SBS 7.4 on a Vista and XP PC's, only the World Service, Radio Wales and Local Radio links populate with days and programs. Of these, only the Local Radio entries will play. The links that don't populate give only a play option that when clicked results in nothing happening. All the live links appear to play. I am located in Canada and everything worked with this plugin under SS 7.3.4. -- raglencross raglencross's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=7239 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=67098 ___ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/plugins
Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: Wave Input plugin v1.00
Yes, it is set to 7.4.*. -- raglencross raglencross's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=7239 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=35718 ___ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/plugins
Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: Wave Input plugin v1.00
Yikes, I forgot that I had to create wavin:0 in Favorites! Having done that, I see the plugin starts to count off time in the web UI, but not on the SB3, and there is no audio out from the SB3. I think I will need to go back through the thread and refresh my memory on the intricacies of how this plugin works before I trouble you further. -- raglencross raglencross's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=7239 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=35718 ___ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/plugins
Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: BBCiPlayer 0.9 - with UK and Non UK Support
Just a note: on my Vista PC running SC 7.3.3, no notice is given in Extension Downloader that an updated version of iPlayer is available. It is necessary to uninstall the old version before the latest one is displayed under Third Party PLugins. Great plugin by the way. Much faster than Alien BBC and the icons are great. Even at 48Kbps here in Canada, it seems to sound better than Alien [R.I.P. ;)] -- raglencross raglencross's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=7239 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=67098 ___ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/plugins
Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: BBCiPlayer 0.9 - with UK and Non UK Support
I get File format unknown when I try to play a live stream or an archive on a Vista PC using SC 7.3.2 and a SB3. I am outside the UK. The increase in the speed with which the menus are displayed as compared to AlienBBC is very noticeable. I'm looking forward to getting this plugin working. Your help in resolving my file problem would be appreciated. -- raglencross raglencross's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=7239 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=67098 ___ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/plugins
Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Alien BBC WikiRadio not working
Thanks for the heads up. I brought the matter up with Logitech Support ten days or so ago. I assume Wikiradio reappearing is a result of something they did there. However, in an email from them today they said they were in effect still trying to figure out what Wikiradio was, so I am not very confident that the problem will stay fixed! -- raglencross raglencross's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=7239 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=64288 ___ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/plugins
Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] WikiRadio dumped!
Ah, good, the link works again! It ceased to do so some weeks ago, along with the corresponding Alien BBC Wiki, which prompted me and another user to post on the forum with no resolution which lead me to contact Support. It appears that they were convinced to reinstate the wikiradio page which, according to them, was dropped in the recent server migration. They seemed to have overlooked that the wikiradio plugin has being rolled into the very popular Alien BBC. I quite agree that if the current list of files is not tidied up and kept updated, Logitech can only conclude that there is insufficient interest to warrant the continued hosting of the service and it will be dropped again. A case of use it or lose it, guys! -- raglencross raglencross's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=7239 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=64656 ___ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/plugins
Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] WikiRadio dumped!
The very point I made to Support in the following exchange: Brief Summary Link to WikiRadio broken! Discussion Thread Response (Julius D.) 06/19/2009 12:48 PM RA, I've reported this to our development team and they are looking into it . I will let you know when the issue has been fixed. Thank you for your patience and understanding. Regards, Julius Customer (RA Glencross) 06/18/2009 08:28 PM I have posted part of your reply on the Squeezebox 3rd party Plugins forum under Wikiradio dumped in the hope that you receive sufficient complaints about dropping this service to warrant reinstating it on your servers. By the way, Wikiradio has a use other than being a part of a 3rd party plugin (i.e. the very popular Alien BBC). It can be used as an internet URL containing OPML files for customising station lists on Squeezenetwork and Squeezecenter, a feature that sets you apart from your competition. I would ask that you reconsider your decision and continue to host Wikiradio. -- The reps use of fixed is ambiguous so it wouldn't hurt if a few more wikiradio users chimed up in support of the wikiradio page while the development team ... are looking into it. -- raglencross raglencross's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=7239 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=64656 ___ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/plugins
Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] AlienBBC - broken link to Wiki Radio
The following is a partial quote from an email I received from Logitech Support that explains the broken Wikiradio link: At this time, this is not something we are providing anymore for the following reasons. 1. In our migration process to the Logitech servers, we did not move the Wikiradio page to the new servers. 2. This was to support a third party plugin, which support doesn't actually provide support for. Unfortunately, I am sorry to say, this is something we are just phasing out. The question is are there enough of us using Wikiradio to warrant the server space? If Logitech receives a flood of trouble tickets on the loss of Wikiradio, maybe they will reinstate the service. -- raglencross raglencross's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=7239 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=64627 ___ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/plugins
[SlimDevices: Plugins] WikiRadio dumped!
The following is a partial quote from an email I received from Logitech Support that explains the broken Wikiradio link: At this time, this is not something we are providing anymore for the following reasons. 1. In our migration process to the Logitech servers, we did not move the Wikiradio page to the new servers. 2. This was to support a third party plugin, which support doesn't actually provide support for. Unfortunately, I am sorry to say, this is something we are just phasing out. The question is are there enough of us using Wikiradio to warrant the server space? If Logitech receives a flood of trouble tickets on the loss of Wikiradio, maybe they will reinstate the service. -- raglencross raglencross's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=7239 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=64656 ___ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/plugins
[SlimDevices: Plugins] Alien BBC WikiRadio not working
WikiRadio appears to be broken in Alien BBC. Nothing happens when Wiki is clicked. This is probably because the link http://wikiradio.slimdevices.com/ no longer works. Has the WikiRadio service been discontinued or changed? -- raglencross raglencross's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=7239 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=64288 ___ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/plugins
Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Sirius no longer working
This is starting to look like an interface problem with the Canadian website. Are any Americans successfully using this plugin? -- raglencross raglencross's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=7239 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=62869 ___ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/plugins
Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Sirius no longer working
I also am a Canadian subscriber. Is this plugin working right now for anyone? If it is, it would be helpful to knowm what versions of the plugin and SC you are using and on what operating system and in which country you subscribe. -- raglencross raglencross's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=7239 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=62869 ___ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/plugins
Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] 7.3 and XM radio
wharfrat;422218 Wrote: raglencross: The artist /track data comes from two sources: 1. In the now playing window /controller screen - this comes from the feed metadata. I've seen this stop occasionally, but I can only attribute this to XM. 2. Now playing data for all channels - comes from a 60 second poll /refresh while any station is playing. There's a bug in 3.0 that keeps this data around after the poll has stopped. Not sure the channels are getting crossed, though. It looks like you have addressed most issues in the update which I have just down loaded. I'll install it shortly and get back to you. Thanks again for your efforts on this plugin. -- raglencross raglencross's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=7239 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=56497 ___ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/plugins
Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Sirius no longer working
paulisded;421821 Wrote: Works fine for me. It looks from this thread and the original one announcing the plugin that this plugin is no longer working for many people. Paulisded, what version of the plugin and SC are you using and what type of server are they running on? Also, do you subscribe to the Canadian or US service? -- raglencross raglencross's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=7239 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=62869 ___ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/plugins
Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] 7.3 and XM radio
I have had the opportunity to play around with the revised XM plugin over the last few days. Other than the lack of a XM button on the SB3 as previously noted, I see there is a problem with displaying correct track information in the web UI and on the SB3. The display of this info is slow to start and when it does, it alternates between the correct track particulars and apparently those from other channels. FYI, I am also having problems with track info on the latest versions of Squeezeplay and bpa's beta update to Softsqueeze, but that is a matter for another time. Some other points: As for Now Playing on the right side of the web UI,track info is slow to display or doesn't show up at all for the categories on the left side of the web UI, such as Presets and Browse Stations. Track info on the left side of the web UI does not update. If I remember correctly, this was also the case with earlier versions of the plugin. It would be a nice touch to have the tracks constantly refreshed, if that is possible. I of course don't know if these glitches are particular to me, so would be interested to hear your observations. -- raglencross raglencross's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=7239 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=56497 ___ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/plugins
Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] 7.3 and XM radio
pippin;420564 Wrote: Err... Much off topic, but one question since it looks like here are some people who know about Sirius and XM a bit: I understand the two merged, will they maintain both Sat constellations? It is my understanding that one of the conditions imposed by the government regulators who allowed the merger was that the new company was to maintain both satellite systems so that one set of users or the other didn't have to replace their receivers. Given that SiriusXM is still losing money big time, I expect it wil not be long before they will be asking the regulators to ditch one of the systems, probably the XM one. -- raglencross raglencross's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=7239 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=56497 ___ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/plugins
Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] 7.3 and XM radio
Neil, I have your plugin working on XP and Vista 64 machines through a SB3, Softsqueeze 3.9b1 and the beta Squeezeplay. I will give you a full report after I have had more time to put the plugin through its paces. The only thing of significance I note so far is the lack of a XMradio menu entry for the SB3 and Softsqueeze, although it is shown on the web UI. I expect that is what you meant by menu on boom and SB3 in your last post. Like the Duet, XM is a selectable menu option in Squeezeplay, but does not show up in the menu settings for the other devices. Great first effort which is much appreciated! -- raglencross raglencross's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=7239 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=56497 ___ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/plugins
Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: Wave Input plugin v1.00
Thanks for the very informative reply, Thelastman. As you suggest, I think I will have to abandon the on board sound chip and go with a discrete sound card if I am to get the wave input plugin working. Like you, I have concluded that it is probably a Vista DRM issue that keeps the stereo mixer from acting as a recording device. -- raglencross raglencross's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=7239 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=35718 ___ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/plugins
Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: Wave Input plugin v1.00
I don't know if you are still out there Lastman, but I would like to know if you finally got wave input to work under Vista with your Soundmax card. I have the same card and following your instructions, I too was able to get a stereo mixer under recording devices. Selecting it still does not give me an output via the wave input plugin except when I loop the PC's headphone output to the line input with a cable which I was able to do anyway without the mixer using headphones and line input. I am beginning to suspect that one the reason the mixer is disabled on full duplex cards is that the same thing can be accomplished by a physical loop back, although with a loss of sound quality due to analogue/digital conversions. Comments anyone? -- raglencross raglencross's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=7239 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=35718 ___ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/plugins
Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: TunerPlay for Windows plugin - FM radio from analog TV/FM Tuner card.
Not a problem! I can see from your other posts on this forum that you are a busy man. I take it that all inputs under the automatic/manual approach will be done in the settings for Tunerplay and not require going to the VLC GUI to select the required device every time the plugin is used? If so, that looks good to me. It might be advisable to put a few lines of instruction in Tunerplay settings explaining how to determine from VLC which device to manually input. I look forward to trying out the changes when you make them available. -- raglencross raglencross's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=7239 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=57692 ___ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/plugins
Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: TunerPlay for Windows plugin - FM radio from analog TV/FM Tuner card.
bpa;398098 Wrote:
Need to check further but in the recent logs it looks like
dshow-amtuner-mode is set to 1 whereas in TunerPlay I set it to 2
according to VLC help
Code:
--dshow-amtuner-mode={0 (Default), 1 (TV), 2 (FM radio), 4 (AM radio),
8 (DSS)}
AM Tuner mode. Can be one of Default (0), TV (1),AM Radio (2), FM Radio (3)
or DSS (4).
If you want to test - edit the custom-convert.conf file and change
the
:dshow-amtuner-mode=2
to
:dshow-amtuner-mode=1
Then restart SC. It may not work as I still need to enable you to
choose the audio capture ([23 device.
Any progress on getting ([23 as an audio capture choice?
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Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] 7.3 and XM radio
Yeah, it hardly makes any sense since one of the main reasons Sirius and XM gave for merging was to save money by eliminating the duplication of services. They were only saved from Chapter 11 a few weeks ago by the infusion of $500M by the group that owns DirecTV. Good luck in finding anyone at XM who knows much of anything!! -- raglencross raglencross's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=7239 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=56497 ___ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/plugins
Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: TunerPlay for Windows plugin - FM radio from analog TV/FM Tuner card.
Glad to hear that you are interested in pursuing this. I gathered from your last post that we may have reached a dead end, but obviously not. Don't to worry about the pace! I would love to get this plugin working on my kit. To that end, please find attached two zipped files containing the info you requested. Also FYI, I do the following to get a FM station to play through my PC speakers using the VLC GUI: -Select Media, Open Capture Device -Select Audio device name Hauppauge WinTV PVR PCI II ([23 -Select Advance options, check Tuner properties, set Audio input pin to 1 (because in Tunerplay settings Audio Source pin 1 = Audio Tuner In) -Select OK -Select Play and get TVTuner Property Page -Key in a FM frequency, hit OK And voila, the VLC player window pops up playing the FM station through the PC speakers. There is of course no video, but I can get this also for a TV station if I select Hauppauge WinTV PVR PCI II Capture as the video device name and the appropriate pins in the Advanced options. It is worth noting that if Tunerplay is running in SC, the audio can be heard through the SB3, as well as through the PC speakers. +---+ |Filename: VLCdebug.zip | |Download: http://forums.slimdevices.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=6982| +---+ -- raglencross raglencross's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=7239 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=57692 ___ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/plugins
Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: TunerPlay for Windows plugin - FM radio from analog TV/FM Tuner card.
Changed all three instances of :dshow-amtuner-mode=2 to :dshow-amtuner-mode=1 and still had no audio. I will leave them as =1 unless instructed otherwise. Please confirm if the next entry (dshow-audio-channels) after :dshow-amtuner-mode equals 1 or 3. Also, just a reminder to insure that our versions of Tunerplay are in sync, I am still using the revised versions of Settings.pm and Tuner.pm that you provided in an earlier post. -- raglencross raglencross's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=7239 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=57692 ___ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/plugins
Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: TunerPlay for Windows plugin - FM radio from analog TV/FM Tuner card.
Please find attached the requested zipped files. Unfortunately (or not), the 2 MP3 files (700 to 800kb's ea.) contain only lead in thunks and no other audio from 90.5. That is a valid FM frequency here. +---+ |Filename: raglendebug.zip | |Download: http://forums.slimdevices.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=6975| +---+ -- raglencross raglencross's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=7239 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=57692 ___ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/plugins
Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: TunerPlay for Windows plugin - FM radio from analog TV/FM Tuner card.
I can't find any evidence that the card is the problem plagued 150 referred to in the links you provided. Further evidence that it is not, is that I can use the VLC GUI to play video and audio from the Hauppauge card, unlike the posters to the VLC forum. Interestingly, in searching the cards nomoclature, I have discovered where the ([23 comes from. In Windows Device Manger under Properties for the Hauppauge card, it is listed as an Audio Device called Hauppauge WinTV PVR PCI II ([23\25\26]xxx) Audio Capture. Elsewhere, it is shown only as Hauppauge WinTV PVR PCI II (26xxx) which I expect is the correct name stripped of the 23 and 25 options. If this is indeed the case, I am at at loss to explain why the VLC GUI works when Hauppauge WinTV PVR PCI II ([23 is selected as the audio capture device. Probably the options box is truncating the whole name, but is using it correctly in the VLC S/W. Anyway, bpa, I appreciate very much your efforts to get my tuner card working with your plugin, but I think we have to conclude that it is its oddities, not your plugin, that is at fault and not worth putting any more effort into it. I probably will explore the matter a bit more on the VLC forum and perhaps revisit your plugin armed with more information. Thanks again. -- raglencross raglencross's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=7239 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=57692 ___ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/plugins
Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: TunerPlay for Windows plugin - FM radio from analog TV/FM Tuner card.
bpa;395802 Wrote: I got confused - the muting audio happened on a Linux version of TunerPlay - VLC unmutes the devices. The fact that you get Windows sounds implies that VLC is using the wrong capture device - it is behaving like WaveInput and using the PC audio Stereo Mix source rather than Hauppauge WinTV PVR PCI II Capture source. There are posts in 2007/8 about VLC having problem with capture on the PVR 150 and WinTV PVR cards. It is not clear if the bug has been fixed or just ignored. I'll to do a bit more looking. Can you confirm that you did get an actual FM Radio stream at some point ? If so it implies the bug was fixed. As I have said in earlier posts, I can get a FM station to stream to my SB3 if I first start up Tunerplay, open the VLC GUI, select the Hauppauge card as the capture device and then hit play. If I just use the VLC GUI without evoking Tunerplay, I can get FM through my PC speakers. This strongly suggests that any problem VLC had with Hauppauge cards has been fixed. It also occurred to me that VLC is behaving like WaveInput. With this in mind, in the Windows audio settings I tried deselecting Stereo Mix as well as manually selecting the Hauppauge card as the source with no success. I notice that when the plugin is active, the player section of the SC GUI shows 0,TunerFM. Since the settings for the plugin show the audio to be on the 1 pins and video on the 0's, shouldn't it be 1,TunerFM? It looks to me like the plugin is hooked to a video pin, not an audio one. -- raglencross raglencross's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=7239 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=57692 ___ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/plugins
Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: TunerPlay for Windows plugin - FM radio from analog TV/FM Tuner card.
bpa;396022 Wrote: 0, TunerFM - is the player info and I haven't returna bit rate so 0 is displayed. Please be more precise as Select Hauppauge card - there will be two selection boxes Video and Audio capture - which one did you use and what the is the precise name of the device selected. I am working on a batch file which will output vlc debug log so . I get the symptoms you have if the wrong capture device is selected. However rather than stop and do nothing, VLC goes off and tries to figure out for itself what stream to use so the command line options do not reflect what VLC is actually doing - only the debug log will provide this info. I think you may have nailed it! There is a slight difference in the sound source designation between the VLC GUI and the Tunerplayer settings as shown below. Tunerplay settings: Name of source to use = Hauppauge WinTV PVR PCI II Capture VLC Capture Device settings: Video device name = Hauppauge WinTV PVR PCI II Capture Audio device name = Hauppauge WinTV PVR PCI II ([23 Notice the substitution of ([23 for Capture in the Audio device name. It is this option that I select when using the VLC GUI to get FM to stream to my SB3. Hauppauge WinTV PVR PCI II ([23 is not an option in the Tunerplay settings, only Hauppauge WinTV PVR PCI II Capture. Worth noting is that I can use the VLC GUI to play audio and Video on my PC from the Hauppauge card by selecting the above VLC names for the capture devices. -- raglencross raglencross's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=7239 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=57692 ___ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/plugins
Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: TunerPlay for Windows plugin - FM radio from analog TV/FM Tuner card.
Yes, all indications are that the Video Capture device gives the video and audio from the TV section of the Hauppauge card while the audio from the FM tuner is output via the Audio capture device Hauppauge WinTV PVR PCI II ([23. Make that an option in the Tunerplay settings and I think you will have solved the problem. -- raglencross raglencross's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=7239 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=57692 ___ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/plugins
