Re: [slim] New modified SqueezeAMP batch?

2022-11-11 Thread KeBul
philippe_44 wrote: > No that would not work. The boost is a different PCB with a voltage > converter that "boosts" the input voltage to whatever is needed to > charge batteries. What can be changed on every PCB (basic and boost), by > swapping a few components, is the number of battery cells (2 o

Re: [slim] New modified SqueezeAMP batch?

2022-11-10 Thread KeBul
bengaldave wrote: > > Display like this? > https://www.pishop.us/product/0-91-inch-white-oled-display-module-i2c-interface/ > Yes bengaldave wrote: > > will we have options for boost or not? I assumed most people wanted no > boost? > Your initial interest/order will have been for basic

Re: [slim] New modified SqueezeAMP batch?

2022-11-10 Thread KeBul
bengaldave wrote: > Yes, since these will have nice acrylic cases (?) largest display that > fits in case, just the 2 line display? Or color? > > Is there anything additionally we need to purchase? > > Power supply? The SqueezeAMP Readme on github will answer a lot of questions... https://gi

Re: [slim] New modified SqueezeAMP batch?

2022-10-07 Thread KeBul
bengaldave wrote: > Question on airplay support. The description for squeezeamp shows > support for airplay. > > There is also a LMS plugin, shairtunes, which works great! Thanks! > > The author of the plugin is the same person working on squeezeamp? > > Is there a difference of capabilities

Re: [slim] New modified SqueezeAMP batch?

2022-10-07 Thread KeBul
bengaldave wrote: > Also, the squeezeamp description states support 10 band equalizer. What > is the use case and how does a user interact with the Squeezeamp to set > equalizer settings? LMS does not have equalizer settings, or does it? > There is a plugin for LMS - SqueezeESP32, it enables a

Re: [slim] UK - Spare Touchs & SBs for sale

2022-01-31 Thread KeBul
gvh wrote: > > Can't wait to type that wifi key 4 times using a remote Gotta be a case for adding a temporary SSID with short and easy passcode just for testing, if your wifi setup allows for additional SSID's Kev

Re: [slim] UK - Spare Touchs & SBs for sale

2022-01-31 Thread KeBul
gvh wrote: > > Can't wait to type that wifi key 4 times using a remote Gotta be a case for adding a temporary SSID with short and easy passcode just for testing, if your wifi setup allows for additional SSID's Kev

Re: [slim] Volume increasing to 50% randomly

2022-01-10 Thread KeBul
mherger wrote: > > I've added a change to 4.7.2 to simply ignore 49% volume for the time > being. Hopefully this will give us some slack until I've figured out > what's really going on... Thanks, in place and running This was produced by my usual method - playing through App and Connect, on

Re: [slim] Volume increasing to 50% randomly

2022-01-07 Thread KeBul
slartibartfast wrote: > In my case the volume always jumps to 49 or 50% though. It never jumps > to any other value. > Yeah sure, was aware of that it was 49% for the first two I had before I tried to reproduce it, so far not been able to replicate un-asked for jumps specifically to 49% or 50%

Re: [slim] Volume increasing to 50% randomly

2022-01-07 Thread KeBul
TomS wrote: > I believe I am seeing this issue with Spotty/Spotify Connect. My kid > uses the spotify app on her phone to kick off a playlist on her sb > radio, and various other devices seem to jump to 49%. :( Tom, If your daughter sometimes connects her App to your other players then this

Re: [slim] Volume increasing to 50% randomly

2022-01-07 Thread KeBul
Wow, I've battered my setup with testing for over 10 hours now, trying to reproduce the issue and I think I've made some sort of progress, I've gone from rough memory, trying to replicate what I'd done when the volume dropped to 49% to actively abusing the setup trying to break it. (I used to be

Re: [slim] Volume increasing to 50% randomly

2022-01-05 Thread KeBul
I've just taken up a Spotify Premium offer, so have been using Spotty v4.7.1 for 5 days. I have three players sync'd and the same three players selected for use with Spotify Connect in the Plugin settings. On my first ever listen to tracks from Spotify I only had one of those players turned on

Re: [slim] LMS 7.9.0 not recognizing my players in Windows 10

2021-09-15 Thread KeBul
jeffstake wrote: > > I cannot see a list like that which appears at the upper right of your > screen. > Am I on the wrong page? > best > jeff Yes, you are on LMS Settings, try http://localhost:9000 Kev KeBul's Profil

Re: [slim] Outside speakers wireless fed by lms and sync possible?

2021-09-14 Thread KeBul
KeBul wrote: > > > As for syncing, I remember testing syncing on my sister's SqueezeAMP > before I fitted in place, but I would guess that was using wired > speakers. Can't say for sure if I've ever tested how reliably you can > sync players when bluetooth

Re: [slim] Outside speakers wireless fed by lms and sync possible?

2021-09-11 Thread KeBul
There are a few options available to you. Some already outlined. It all depends on how much you like to play and also whether you have decent wifi signal outside. If you've got decent wifi outside then quite simply a SB Radio with battery... still available to purchase second hand, with or witho

Re: [slim] Looking for advice on Rasperry Pi piCore Player set up

2021-07-10 Thread KeBul
slartibartfast wrote: > So was the original issue just that you didn't know the IP address of > the Pi and connecting the monitor allowed you to find it? If so looking > at devices connected to your router or using a phone app like Fing would > also have allowed you to find it. I thought that wa

Re: [slim] Looking for advice on Rasperry Pi piCore Player set up

2021-07-09 Thread KeBul
Well if you're feeling a touch more masochistic, then you could always try and configure up the RPi/pCP for wifi... not as an final solution but just to see if you can get further into the process. Instructions here: https://docs.picoreplayer.org/how-to/setup_wifi_on_pcp_without_ethernet/ If y

Re: [slim] Looking for advice on Rasperry Pi piCore Player set up

2021-07-06 Thread KeBul
slartibartfast wrote: > With the Pi4 you need a micro HDMI adaptor so it isn't quite so easy. > Ah yeah! good point, had no issues setting up my 2 RPi 4s with pCP headless, so never got near needing to hook them up to a monitor. Done it many times on my 2 and 3 versions though. in these inst

Re: [slim] Looking for advice on Rasperry Pi piCore Player set up

2021-07-06 Thread KeBul
As I suspected lots of good help being offered, So far it looks like you're on the correct path, you've imaged - your directory listing looks OK, so now it's either booted up OK and you can't find its IP address in your router or it's not booting up properly/or able to join your network. So

Re: [slim] Looking for advice on Rasperry Pi piCore Player set up

2021-07-03 Thread KeBul
Obviously you can get bombarded with information in such instances as these. First of all the Pi needs to be connected to your network by being connected (wired) to a network port on your router, *not* directly wired to your PC. But as Kidstypike has queried, let's try and determine you have co

Re: [slim] Looking for advice on Rasperry Pi piCore Player set up

2021-07-03 Thread KeBul
Other important things with pCP configuration... You'll see in the web interface a lot of settings have a "Save" button either beneath the setting or at the bottom of a section of settings. Remember I mentioned pCP is running in a virtual disk created during boot, changes to configuration are m

Re: [slim] Looking for advice on Rasperry Pi piCore Player set up

2021-07-03 Thread KeBul
OK, in addition to Greg's links to the documentation and kidstypike's good simple run through... First of all, relax and enjoy the learning experience, you say you want to get it right, but it's so quick and easy to start from scratch... getting anything wrong will just be a good lesson. It take

Re: [slim] ASUS ZenWifi AX (XT8) firmware upgrade disconnects my squeezeboxes

2021-06-23 Thread KeBul
There's quite a few threads discussing wifi issues in the Squeezebox Radio forum, some similar to your issue of running the older SB hardware on new wifi 6 mesh type routers. Have a quick read through those - if I remember correctly there are posts which indicate specific features to turn off to

Re: [slim] OT - variables in CD ripping speed

2021-04-30 Thread KeBul
I use EAC for ripping and that has an indication of when it is doing error corrections for each track it is reading, in general most tracks fly through with no errors, some have a few and some fill up the indicator box completely taking quite some time to do so. It still reports 100% accurate rip

Re: [slim] Squeezebox Classic (SB3) Repair Considerations

2020-12-19 Thread KeBul
Beast Of Bodmin wrote: > Maybe it's time to throw in the towel for my SB3? > > I tried to resurrect it today. > > The WiFi card died many years ago. > > It fell into disuse after the WiFi died, because my apartment didn't > have ethernet cables in the walls to where cable modem was. Now my ma

Re: [slim] SD card unreadable after power cut

2020-11-28 Thread KeBul
Hi Jouteur, When you say you can't connect to Pi after a power fail... is that connect to LMS on the Pi? or piCorePlayer on the Pi? If it's piCorePlayer then I'd suspect your card, but you could try stopping LMS and shutting down piCorePlayer and then power cycle to see if it survives that, if

Re: [slim] Transporter for sale

2020-09-11 Thread KeBul
pkfox wrote: > Hi Paul what is nx100 n = number x = multiply 100 GBP = £100 So hundreds of pounds, for example if n=4 then £400 Kev KeBul's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=32883 View this thr

Re: [slim] Help reviving SB3 needed

2020-02-13 Thread KeBul
Here's a link to a thread discussing common SB3 hardware issues. https://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?103213-Squeezebox-3-common-faults-over-time Failing capacitors certainly seems worth looking at, no experience on SB3's but I've fixed many failed devices suffering from capacitor fail

Re: [slim] Alarm toggle

2019-09-20 Thread KeBul
slartibartfast wrote: > Can anyone having this issue check the status of the alarm in the web > interface after turning the alarm off using the power button? If you mean in Settings/Player/Alarm Clock then these settings are not changed, after my weekly test when I checked the alarm settings th

Re: [slim] Alarm toggle

2019-09-20 Thread KeBul
slartibartfast wrote: > How did you turn off the alarm? Using the Rotary knob or the Power > button? Well can't say for sure, I did it a few weeks ago, but most likely the power button. Our normal daily alarm is always turned off by either the power button or by letting it run its course set b

Re: [slim] Alarm toggle

2019-09-20 Thread KeBul
Apologies for not getting back sooner, kept forgetting to check and testing a once a week event takes... well, a week! Having set one of my Radios to alarm the same as yours (liquefy)... one day a week, brainfluid sound, repeat alarm. I can confirm the behaviour you are seeing... When initiall

Re: [slim] Alarm toggle

2019-08-28 Thread KeBul
Hi, I've used the alarm function for many years and not seen the issue you are having, but if I'm understanding your use case it's slightly different to mine. We tend to use two alarm configs, one for weekday, MTWTF and a second for weekend SS, sometimes the second is used for an earlier alarm

Re: [slim] Synchronize players: worked fine, now constant hiccups

2019-01-03 Thread KeBul
Man in a van wrote: > Required raspberry pi voltage is a tad over 5volts > > But he's running a Hifiberry AMP2 which requires 12-24v PSU (the Hifiberry AMP2 supplies the 5v power required by the RPI itself). Hifiberry recommend a minimum of 3A for an AMP2, I wonder if you are right on the li

Re: [slim] Squeezebox Radio alternative?

2018-12-08 Thread KeBul
What about a Squeezebox Radio Easy to find second user variants on a certain online auction site. Kev KeBul's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=32883 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevice

Re: [slim] (4) Squeezebox radios for sale

2018-12-08 Thread KeBul
Would be useful if you told us where you are in the world. Kev KeBul's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=32883 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=109854 __

Re: [slim] From PC to NAS

2018-11-03 Thread KeBul
As others have replied, Raspberry Pi is a good option, you can either install from scratch as it were with Raspian/Debian and download and install all the necessary packages manually or use pre-prepared packages from Max2Play or PiCorePlayer, both of these are easy to get up and running and well

Re: [slim] What are your long-term SqueezeBox solutions?

2018-03-17 Thread KeBul
drmatt wrote: > I also found the squeezebox build on Joggler wasn't so stable for long > term playback. My touch will stream iPlayer live radio for days and days > without hiccup, but the touch would regularly fail and require a power > cycle (same if it was streaming local media tbh). I suspecte

Re: [slim] What are your long-term SqueezeBox solutions?

2018-03-15 Thread KeBul
drmatt wrote: > Buy plenty of spares.. > ...^^This^^... I've been picking up spare players from eBay for a couple of years now, I look after my system of 3 Radios, 1 Boom and 1 Touch and my sister's setup with 2 Radios and a Touch. At the moment we both only listen to either our own coll

Re: [slim] downloading files from LMS

2018-01-30 Thread KeBul
Cool, No worries, it can be difficult to respond to all the requests for further info and ideas for troubleshooting when receiving help on forums, of course it's a good thing that many want to help out, the ongoing community support here is great. Glad you are sorted Kev -

Re: [slim] downloading files from LMS

2018-01-30 Thread KeBul
Ok so I'll try one more time... Have you used LMS to drill down to a working track and find the path that LMS is using? Likewise you could do the same for a non-working track and compare the two paths to see the difference (or not). To me this is crucial - if LMS can see the working files then

Re: [slim] downloading files from LMS

2018-01-24 Thread KeBul
In LMS if you drill down through your library to an individual track, in the left hand pane, you should get a location for that track, this may provide you with a clue as to the whereabouts of the good working file(s). Also on my system If I right click on the location I get the option to downloa

Re: [slim] Sqeezebox pushbutton remove?

2018-01-06 Thread KeBul
Hi, The knobs are coated with a thin layer of rubber paint and this can deteriorate and become sticky, so it may not be kitchen grease residue. Anyway, just pull the knobs straight out from the radio to get them off, they are just a friction fit on the spindles. Good luck with the clean up. Ke

Re: [slim] Original Squeezebox song storage options?

2015-05-20 Thread KeBul
I've just swapped to this setup... Cost £52 for a Raspberry Pi 2, 8gb MicroSD card, PSU and case. SqueezePlug/Max2Play is a headless setup, configure up your micro SD card with the Max2Play software on it on your PC, put the card into you Raspberry Pi and power up. Wait 20 minutes and then you've

Re: [slim] Can't get a reset password email

2015-04-21 Thread KeBul
But now fixed - woohoo, been trying to post for a couple of weeks! Thanks to whoever sorted it. Kev KeBul's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=32883 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/sh