Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] [Announce] Spotty 4.0 - integrate local library with your Spotify collection (LMS 8+)

2020-10-17 Thread mecouc
Ah, you're right. I have to click the three dots, and then more. Doesn't seem quite so good as having it right there in the album list, but never mind. Also spotify now shows up on my android squeeze ctrl app, which it didn't earlier, so something has changed; maybe a cache somewhere.

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] [Announce] Spotty 4.0 - integrate local library with your Spotify collection (LMS 8+)

2020-10-17 Thread mecouc
It works fine if I switch to the default skin, but when I go back to the material skin Spotify is missing under each artist. So it's working for me now by that route. I disabled and re enabled material skin to no avail.

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] [Announce] Spotty 4.0 - integrate local library with your Spotify collection (LMS 8+)

2020-10-17 Thread mecouc
I tried searching for an answer but without success! I have LMS 8.0 on a piCorePlayer (6.1). Spotty is available and I can play stuff from Spotify. The Music library integration plugin is installed too. But there's no Spotify link when I browse artists, after a reboot or two as well. PS Thank

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] [Announce] 'MediaServer' *certified* Alexa skill for LMS

2020-09-10 Thread mecouc
Followers of the thread know I don't currently have a physical Alexa,. so can't subscribe yet. I don't have the auto-update working properly yest, but when I update manually I can try out voice commands. I'm about (maybe) to rip 2-300 classical CDs and tag them for my mother to play.The only

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] [Announce] 'MediaServer' *certified* Alexa skill for LMS

2020-09-08 Thread mecouc
I just got the python Updater to work on my picoreplayer (though using a module that did not survive reboot). I had to use 127.0.0.1 as the IP, not my actual IP for some reason. I also had to change the ' around the uuid to a ". Running just the updater from the command line will give you

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] [Announce] 'MediaServer' *certified* Alexa skill for LMS

2020-09-07 Thread mecouc
Thanks for all your effort. Looking forward to having a go! mecouc's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=227 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=111016

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] [Announce] 'MediaServer' *certified* Alexa skill for LMS

2020-09-07 Thread mecouc
I picked PcP because it looked easy - someone has spent a lot of time making something that works really nicely. I didn't want to spend days learning how to use linux. All my previous experience of linux has ended up taking hours or days of my time to do apparently the simplest things due to my

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] [Announce] 'MediaServer' *certified* Alexa skill for LMS

2020-09-06 Thread mecouc
I should have maybe spotted that! Now I get 500 Can't locate loadable object for module HTML::Parser in @INC (@INC contains: /usr/local/slimserver/CPAN /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.28.2/arm-linux-gnue abihf-thread-multi-64int

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] [Announce] 'MediaServer' *certified* Alexa skill for LMS

2020-09-06 Thread mecouc
OK, so I did a search and replace for those 2 changes, and now I get: perl -I /usr/local/slimserver/CPAN perl-updater.pl {"name":"mediaservertunnel","url":"https://xxx.eu.ngrok.io"} Can't locate object method "escape" via package "JSON::PP" at perl-updater.pl line 42. I really

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] [Announce] 'MediaServer' *certified* Alexa skill for LMS

2020-09-06 Thread mecouc
As suggested above, I get "Can't locate LWP/UserAgent.pm in @INC (you may need to install the LWP::UserAgent module) " When trying to run the update script on my picoreplayer mecouc's Profile:

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] [Announce] 'MediaServer' *certified* Alexa skill for LMS

2020-09-06 Thread mecouc
I'm still trying with my picore I put the ngrok executable in .ngrok2 Ngrok now works through a reboot by putting the command /home/tc/.ngrok2/ngrok start -config=/home/tc/.ngrok2/ngrok.yml mediaservertunnel in a tweak, but the perl updater script does not seem to be running. Alexa/media

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] [Announce] 'MediaServer' *certified* Alexa skill for LMS

2020-09-05 Thread mecouc
slartibartfast wrote: > You don't need ngrok autostart so I didn't bother with it. It still > works without it you just need to run it manually after a restart of > your Pi. > > Sent from my Pixel 3a using Tapatalk A manual restart is not an option for my elderly visually impaired mother

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] [Announce] 'MediaServer' *certified* Alexa skill for LMS

2020-09-05 Thread mecouc
My linux headache gets worse! I've just spent half an hour trying to set up ngrok autostart on my picoreplayer to realise that I have a problem because the /etc/systemd folder does not exist. I've read the posts now above about using the Tweaks section to start ngrok, but I have no idea what to

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] [Announce] 'MediaServer' *certified* Alexa skill for LMS

2020-09-04 Thread mecouc
Following on from my earlier posts, I decided to get a Pi to (possibly) contain music that my elderly parents can listen to by voice. After my third re-imaging of the Pi I've got that going successfully. I've copied ngrok onto the pi and given it my authtoken. I have got a tunnel! The

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] [Announce] 'MediaServer' *certified* Alexa skill for LMS

2020-08-28 Thread mecouc
slartibartfast wrote: > It would be interesting to know the distribution of LMS downloads > between Windows and Linux. I would not be surprised if an awful lot of > people with an always on LMS server use a Raspberry Pi even if they use > a Windows machine for other purposes. > > Sent from my

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] [Announce] 'MediaServer' *certified* Alexa skill for LMS

2020-08-28 Thread mecouc
philchillbill wrote: > Amazon determines from which Alexa-enabled devices (Echos, phones) and > which countries subscriptions can be started, not the skill. So > unfortunately there's no way around that. > > The skill 'discovers' all players that have isplayer:1 in the discovery > response

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] [Announce] 'MediaServer' *certified* Alexa skill for LMS

2020-08-25 Thread mecouc
Thanks! I've got it nearly working for testing at home. Now, I don't have a physical Echo (I've just given it to my mother), but for testing I have the Amazon/Alexa app on my phone which responds quite nicely. I asked for a subscription but Alexa on my phone told me I couldn't do so "on this

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] [Announce] 'MediaServer' *certified* Alexa skill for LMS

2020-08-25 Thread mecouc
This looks brilliant. I might try it myself, but I'm primarily looking for something my elderly visually impaired mother can use to play her classical music collection. I've recently given her an Echo dot to play with, but results with classical music are very disappointing with Spotify or

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] ANNOUNCE: YouTube Plugin (API v3)

2020-05-28 Thread mecouc
slartibartfast wrote: > Have you looked at the first post in this thread? > I thought I had, several times! I changed the country code from UK to GB and it works. Thanks for being so polite about it. It's amazing what your brain skips over, even when you think you're following all the steps.

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] ANNOUNCE: YouTube Plugin (API v3)

2020-05-28 Thread mecouc
I've just enabled the Youtube plugin, obtained an API key, and pasted that into the LMS settings page. Youtube is showing in the menu now, but every option is blank, and searches do not work. I've messed up somewhere! Youtube has a page asking me to configure oauth settings, and I had to guess

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] How do I play/browse podcasts?

2019-09-18 Thread mecouc
Paul Webster wrote: > Try > http://rss.acast.com/the-horne-section-podcast Thank you! So easy when you know how. mecouc's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=227 View this thread:

[SlimDevices: Plugins] How do I play/browse podcasts?

2019-09-18 Thread mecouc
In particular, I'd like to listen to these: https://play.acast.com/s/the-horne-section-podcast ..but browsing other acast podcasts would seem to be nice to do as well. I've played around with the podcast app but I can't find a feed/url that it will accept. Is there a way? Thanks!

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: Smart Mix plugin

2013-10-14 Thread mecouc
I've only just found this plugin, not having updated software in ages. It looks brilliant - thank you! I've read bits of this thread.. but not all 90+ pages I'm afraid. I'm scratching my head a bit over the list of tracks that are in the log file as not recognised. Sometimes the reason is

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Slow downer for Squeezebox?

2011-02-27 Thread mecouc
. I don't want to spend an afternoon in Audacity saving copies of multiple tracks at 6 different speeds. I'll probably do that for now, because I have a Squeezebox boom in the room I practice in, and it's the best idea so far! -- mecouc

[SlimDevices: Plugins] Slow downer for Squeezebox?

2011-02-26 Thread mecouc
Sometimes I want to play along to music on my sax. As I'm not terribly good, I usually want to slow it down. There is Windows software that will do this, but I don't suppose there's a way of doing it through a Squeezebox? -- mecouc

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: Beta version of SvrPowerControl

2009-02-09 Thread mecouc
I tested SCPowerTool on Vista Business. The PC went to sleep, but didn't wake up. Having woken up, SCPowerTool pops up every hour and says it's going to shut down in 20 seconds. I assume it'll stop when I reboot! I'll have another go with it later. -- mecouc

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] AlienBBC has stopped working.

2007-05-25 Thread mecouc
that. -- mecouc mecouc's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=227 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=35562 ___ plugins mailing list plugins

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] AlienBBC has stopped working.

2007-05-25 Thread mecouc
I've reposted here: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=35580 as it isn't just an alienbbc problem! -- mecouc mecouc's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=227 View this thread: http

[SlimDevices: Plugins] AlienBBC has stopped working.

2007-05-24 Thread mecouc
suggestions. I could try installing 6.5, but I'm nervous of spending hours getting everything as I want it, which has been my experience of previous upgrades! In any case, it worked yesterday. -- mecouc mecouc's Profile: http

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Which 3rd party plug-ins do you consider to be essential?

2007-02-19 Thread mecouc
1) AlienBBC (wouldn't have bought my two squeezeboxes if it didn't exist) 2) Lazysearch 3) AlienBBC (did I mentio that?) -- mecouc mecouc's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=227 View this thread

[SlimDevices: Plugins] Re: AlienBBC and Program description

2007-01-12 Thread mecouc
Just to add some encouragement, it would be great to have the schedules available to browse through. -- mecouc mecouc's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=227 View this thread: http

[SlimDevices: Plugins] Re: AlienBBC - can I search listen again listing?

2006-07-12 Thread mecouc
I'd missed that. OK, maybe it's not a good idea. It was just a suggestion. -- mecouc mecouc's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=227 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t

[SlimDevices: Plugins] Re: AlienBBC - can I search listen again listing?

2006-07-11 Thread mecouc
the requisite date in the URL and away you go. I fully appreciate it's a fair amount of work for someone, so I have no expectation that anyone'll do it, unless they have much more free time than I do! But if they did it'd be really useful, and I'd but them a beer or two. -- mecouc

[SlimDevices: Plugins] AlienBBC - can I search listen again listing?

2006-07-05 Thread mecouc
dig out my CDs and ditch the Squeezebox I think. -- mecouc mecouc's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=227 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=25232

[SlimDevices: Plugins] Re: A big thanks to the AlienBBC team

2006-05-26 Thread mecouc
too! -- mecouc mecouc's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=227 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=23921 ___ plugins mailing list

[SlimDevices: Plugins] Re: A big thanks to the AlienBBC team

2006-05-17 Thread mecouc
only available online for one week after broadcast, or you can listen to live output. -- mecouc mecouc's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=227 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com

[SlimDevices: Plugins] Re: AlienBBC install trouble

2006-02-11 Thread mecouc
Got it going with a newer 6.5 download now.. ! -- mecouc mecouc's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=227 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=20968

[SlimDevices: Plugins] Re: Announce: Plugins for rating and smart playlists using SQL

2006-02-10 Thread mecouc
This looks great - I'd like a 6.5 version please, as I changed to 6.5 to try and fix a bug or two I had... or I could try going back to the newest 6.2 version I suppose! Thanks -- mecouc mecouc's Profile: http

[SlimDevices: Plugins] AlienBBC install trouble

2006-02-10 Thread mecouc
place, and the 2 config files in \server. -- mecouc mecouc's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=227 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=20968

[SlimDevices: Plugins] suggestion: plugin installer

2006-01-09 Thread mecouc
. -- mecouc mecouc's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=227 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=19871 ___ plugins mailing list plugins