Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: SharkPlay plugin - radioSHARK player

2020-05-08 Thread ditheo
ralphy wrote: > > > That's been my experience as well. I only have a shark2. > > > > Interesting, I get the following error with this tweak enabled on an > rpi3, works fine with the default 0xF. > > > Code: > > tc@rpi37-wls:~$ shark2 -fm 91.1 > hid_force_open f

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: SharkPlay plugin - radioSHARK player

2020-05-07 Thread ditheo
Working For Me. Code: [20-05-07 19:58:51.4909] Plugins::SharkPlay::Plugin::webManualTune (158) webManualTune [20-05-07 19:58:51.4914] Plugins::SharkPlay::Plugin::webManualTune (174) Manual Tune: shark://99.5 [20-05-07 19:58:51.4950] Plugins::SharkPlay::Fork::go (

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: SharkPlay plugin - radioSHARK player

2020-05-07 Thread ditheo
bpa wrote: > Does it work OK with the fractional FM frequencies such as 98.5 as > Ralphy pointed out a bug in his Jan 2016 post. > > IIRC the Shark2 AM performance was often v.poor so if it doesn't work > don't persist. FM reception can be improved by using the external > antenna. It seems th

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: SharkPlay plugin - radioSHARK player

2020-05-07 Thread ditheo
ralphy wrote: > I haven't used the radio shark plugin since I posted last. Instead I've > been using a script that the pcp-streamer extension is based on to > stream from the radio shark. > > The shark and shark2 programs only compile with specific versions of > libhid and libusb. > > Since I

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: SharkPlay plugin - radioSHARK player

2020-05-07 Thread ditheo
after a brief reading on internet. One way is to compile the old libhid package. But i did;nt have any success to do that on raspbian buster. On pcp repository yoy can find the libusb package. I have understand that both packages are required to build shark2.c, is that correct? -

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: SharkPlay plugin - radioSHARK player

2020-05-06 Thread ditheo
bpa wrote: > The shark2 executable was developed for x86 (i.e 32 bit kernel) with > libhid and probably a very early 4.x kernel - so it will definitely not > run on an Arm based system > > For different platforms users compiled the src and build a version on > their own system. > > libhid is

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: SharkPlay plugin - radioSHARK player

2020-05-06 Thread ditheo
bpa wrote: > Unfortunately, I don''t have a Shark unit on hand - it was put away in a > box for many years. > > What version of Perl ? > What is processor and OS of LMS server ? > > Before looking at plugin and trying to bring it up to date (not ralphy's > previous post said it was broken in 7

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: SharkPlay plugin - radioSHARK player

2020-05-06 Thread ditheo
bpa wrote: > Looking at the code for shark2 - it require the libhid library which has > been discontinued on many OS for many years. I have test it on RPI 3b+ with picorerplayer. I have also tested on latest raspbian ( which gave me other error). I cannot find libhid-dev package for both OSes.

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: SharkPlay plugin - radioSHARK player

2020-05-06 Thread ditheo
I have a slight problem with the plugin when i recall it i hear some noise like no reception and the log says Code: [20-05-06 16:07:30.9436] Plugins::SharkPlay::Fork::checkFork (131) FORK 19548 : /usr/local/slimserver/Cache/InstalledPlugins/Plugins/SharkPlay/Bin/shar