Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: New WeatherTime Screensaver adds graphical forecasts

2008-06-11 Thread martin . rehfeld
bluegroper;310986 Wrote: > I've been using slimserver for years without any squeezebox, on an > ageing Linux distro. > Just for streaming audio to LAN and regular hi-fi gear. > Now have new SB3, and wondering whether I can get this great looking > plugin to work without upgrading absolutely eve

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Weather feeds for Duet controller?

2008-06-11 Thread peterw
GoCubs;311020 Wrote: > Does anyone by chance know what code I can use to determine if there's a > Duet controller in use? If so I can check for it at startup and start > up the data refresh timers. > Would it be good enough to check if you see a player that's a SB Receiver, ala http://forums.s

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Weather feeds for Duet controller?

2008-06-11 Thread GoCubs
radish;310862 Wrote: > My guess is related to what Howard said. If you only have an SBR as a > player then you can't assign SDT as a screensaver, so it probably isn't > running. I have SDT set as the saver for all of my players, I haven't > tried it on either a SBR-only setup or while the SBR is

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: SuperDateTime - Current Date/Temperature and/or Baseball Screensaver

2008-06-11 Thread GoCubs
madpatrick;310878 Wrote: > Ok. thanks for the explanation. > Maybe an option for the future to change the alignment of line 1&2 If I remember right the plugin has some fuzy logic to allow you to accomplish this indirectly. If the top line (line a) of the 3line text is null, it'll center line1. O

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: New WeatherTime Screensaver adds graphical forecasts

2008-06-11 Thread bluegroper
I've been using slimserver for years without any squeezebox, on an ageing Linux distro. Just for streaming audio to LAN and regular hi-fi gear. Now have new SB3, and wondering whether I can get this great looking plugin to work without upgrading absolutely everything. Current versions as follows

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: Moose 0.65 (windows front-end)

2008-06-11 Thread Howard Passman
Very,very cool interface. Thanks very much for your work on this. It's made life easier. Howard -- Howard Passman Sorry slow to respond. I don't spend that much time online. Howard Passman's Profile: http://forums.sli

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] LazySearch and rescans

2008-06-11 Thread Stuart Hickinbottom
No problem - thanks for letting us know. Stuart ipxlittle wrote: > I've just done more detective work and the process (ScannerFinder.exe) > has nothing to do with SC7 or the plugin. It is infact a watchdog > process > for a flatbed scanner which I occasionally use. Sorry again that I > misdiagno

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Alien BBC 5 live stream not working

2008-06-11 Thread Rajesh
Thanks for the speedy response. I had been searching for the whole day, but I guess I was using the wrong search string. Sorry for wasting your time. Thanks for the work around, all working fine now! -- Rajesh Rajesh's Pro

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Compatibility of Plugins with v7.1 nightly

2008-06-11 Thread Phil Meyer
>As I said: you have the choice to do so. But I wouldn't generally >recommand it. > Many plugins have not been published to officially support anything greater than 7.0. There's not much choice for casual people beta-testing new versions of SC: either hack the maxVersion in all of the plugins

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] LazySearch and rescans

2008-06-11 Thread ipxlittle
I've just done more detective work and the process (ScannerFinder.exe) has nothing to do with SC7 or the plugin. It is infact a watchdog process for a flatbed scanner which I occasionally use. Sorry again that I misdiagnosed what was going on. My machine was slow to startup and I lost the run of

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] LazySearch and rescans

2008-06-11 Thread ipxlittle
Hi Stuart, The plugin is superb. I think I was mistaken that a music library rescan was going on. I just noticed "ScannerFinder.exe" in the process list and it stays running once SC 7.0 starts up. However, it seems to be consuming very little cpu time or memory. I somehow assumed that scannerfind

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] AlienBBC and mplayer on Linkstation Pro

2008-06-11 Thread bpa
Can you post your replacement files so that other users can benefit. If you have any other useful help - please add info to AlienBBC entry in the Wiki. -- bpa bpa's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] AlienBBC and mplayer on Linkstation Pro

2008-06-11 Thread sebbe_sabb
Thanks for the input. Actually, the RC2 did compile all the subfolders, it failed on the last steps. I tried inserting the unmodified ao_pcm.c & mp_msg.c and then mplayer built ok. I then by hand modified these files by comparing the modfied ones with the original, removed the previosly compiled m

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: SuperDateTime - Current Date/Temperature and/or Baseball Screensaver

2008-06-11 Thread madpatrick
Ok. thanks for the explanation. Maybe an option for the future to change the alignment of line 1&2 GoCubs;310829 Wrote: > I'm not saying to change line 3. > > There's the 3line text (3 lines on left). > > And then there's the line 1 and line 2 text that starts next to them. > > Make the top

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Alien BBC 5 live stream not working

2008-06-11 Thread bpa
Search is your friend See post #11 in this thread for a workaround to the BBC/AlienBBC problem. http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=47760&page=2 -- bpa bpa's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?u

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Weather feeds for Duet controller?

2008-06-11 Thread radish
GoCubs;310830 Wrote: > What happens with SuperDateTime? It should work fine. > > -Greg My guess is related to what Howard said. If you only have an SBR as a player then you can't assign SDT as a screensaver, so it probably isn't running. I have SDT set as the saver for all of my players, I hav

[SlimDevices: Plugins] Alien BBC 5 live stream not working

2008-06-11 Thread Rajesh
I am having problems with getting the 5 live stream to work. All the other BBC live streams work fine, and indeed the 5 live stream option which is provided in a dos box at the end of the Alien BBC installation, in order to test that mplayer is installed correctly, also works perfectly. I have u

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Weather feeds for Duet controller?

2008-06-11 Thread GoCubs
judge404;310410 Wrote: > I tried the Info Browser option and it works well. It's not pretty and, > as noted, there are no graphics, but it gets the important info across > with a 3 day forecast. > > SuperDateTime won't work at all. I gave up on it eventually. > > I'll wait in the hope that a wi

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: SuperDateTime - Current Date/Temperature and/or Baseball Screensaver

2008-06-11 Thread GoCubs
madpatrick;310506 Wrote: > H... I like line 3 as it is. Is the alignment for line 1 not > changable ?? It looks like is is now centered. I'm not saying to change line 3. There's the 3line text (3 lines on left). And then there's the line 1 and line 2 text that starts next to them. Make th

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] TrackStat and streaming - play count for last track

2008-06-11 Thread Silver
Works fine for me :-) I am however using the latest version of trackstat beta 9. Try to upgrade your trackstat plugin /Silver -- Silver Silver's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=7420 View this thre

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] LazySearch and rescans

2008-06-11 Thread ralphpnj
Hi Ian, I have had Lazy Search installed on SC 7.0 and 7.0.1 running under Windows XP and have not experienced anything like the problems you seem to be having. Unfortunately my computer skills are not anywhere near the level required to trouble shot and solve your problems. Hopefully someone els

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] LazySearch and rescans

2008-06-11 Thread Stuart Hickinbottom
The Lazy Search plugin shouldn't cause a rescan of your music library. What it does do is check whether there have been any changes to the database that need the Lazy Search index in the database to be updated. This does not, however, cause a rescan of your music files and is entirely database-

[SlimDevices: Plugins] LazySearch and rescans

2008-06-11 Thread ipxlittle
I installed the LazySearch plugin last week (I'm running SC 7.0). It worked fine but whenever Squeezecentre restarts it now triggers a new & changed rescan of my music library. I prefer to not have auto rescanning of my music library (instead I rely on a scheduled overnight one). Also the Scanner

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: SqueezeScrobbler 1.0 for SqueezeCenter 7.0

2008-06-11 Thread gwnzen
Craig, James \(IT\);310405 Wrote: > OK so the problem is no new plugins are installing? > > What do you have in d:\squeezecenter\server\plugins\squeezescrobbler > (You should have for example an install.xml file) ? > > yes no new plugins are installing Under \Plugins\SqueezeScrobbler\ I have t

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Compatibility of Plugins with v7.1 nightly

2008-06-11 Thread Michael Herger
> Do you think that plugin developers should always release plugins with > MaxVersion set to represent the version it was last tested against, or > is it okay for developers to release plugins with MaxVersion=*? As I said: you have the choice to do so. But I wouldn't generally recommand it.

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Compatibility of Plugins with v7.1 nightly

2008-06-11 Thread Phil Meyer
>Erland doesn't like this, as it renders the check obsolete. Thus I >explained how it should be done. Which you don't like. But you've got the >choice. > I went for choice 3: I modified PluginManager.pm to ignore MaxVersion checks :-) All 35 of my plugins remained working from 7.0 -> 7.1 -> 7.

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Compatibility of Plugins with v7.1 nightly

2008-06-11 Thread Michael Herger
> However, MaxVersion should be an optional property of the plugin, as Wait... it is. Put in an asterisk, and it will always be accepted. But Erland doesn't like this, as it renders the check obsolete. Thus I explained how it should be done. Which you don't like. But you've got the choice.