Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Announce: Squeeze on Arch - developer version

2014-07-05 Thread erland
I'm just going to ask here in case someone has a good idea. The only computers I have with SD card readers are based on OSX and OSX can't format/read ext4 as far as I know. So is there a good way to install Arch or more specifically Squeeze on Arch on a SD card using an OSX setup ? I can get

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Announce: Squeeze on Arch - developer version

2014-07-05 Thread Krisbee
erland wrote: I'm just going to ask here in case someone has a good idea. The only computers I have with SD card readers are based on OSX and OSX can't format/read ext4 as far as I know. So is there a good way to install Arch or more specifically Squeeze on Arch on a SD card using an

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Announce: Squeeze on Arch - developer version

2014-07-05 Thread Krisbee
Triode, I used soa-install-lms-7.9.sh to install lms 7.9 in a ARCH x86_64 test VM. Apart from the fact it dowloads a lot of data in order to build the split packages, a quick test shows LMS to be working OK. Code: Logitech Media Server Version: 7.9.0 - TRUNK @

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Announce: Squeeze on Arch - developer version

2014-07-05 Thread Triode
Krisbee wrote: Triode, I used soa-install-lms-7.9.sh to install lms 7.9 in a ARCH x86_64 test VM. Apart from the fact it dowloads a lot of data in order to build the split packages, a quick test shows LMS to be working OK. Code: Logitech Media Server

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Announce: Squeeze on Arch - developer version

2014-07-05 Thread Krisbee
Triode wrote: Thanks for testing - the hopeful advantage of doing this way is that upgrading just the server component should be less download and faster. To do this all you need to do is: Code: ./soa-update.sh logitechmediaserver-7.9-lms

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Announce: Squeeze on Arch - developer version

2014-07-05 Thread erland
erland wrote: I'm just going to ask here in case someone has a good idea. The only computers I have with SD card readers are based on OSX and OSX can't format/read ext4 as far as I know. So is there a good way to install Arch or more specifically Squeeze on Arch on a SD card using an

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Announce: Squeeze on Arch - developer version

2014-07-05 Thread Triode
Krisbee wrote: First time around the LMS download alone is around 600Mb: Code: == Making package: logitechmediaserver-lms 7.9r19236.d443fa6-1 (Sat 5 Jul 08:08:43 BST 2014) == Checking runtime dependencies... == Checking buildtime dependencies... ==

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Announce: Squeeze on Arch - developer version

2014-07-05 Thread Triode
erland wrote: The whole process would be a lot easier for Windows/OSX user if step 1 and 2 in the above instruction could be made once by someone and then redistributed. However, I'm not sure if it was this kind of distribution of complete images that brought the CommunitySqueeze project

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Announce: Squeeze on Arch - developer version

2014-07-05 Thread erland
Triode wrote: If you can stand the two stage process of booting the wandboard into another distro and then using the create-sdcard script I think it is reasonably user friendly (it also enables a couple of things which a straight arch install won't do such as enable ntp and set the number of

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Announce: Squeeze on Arch - developer version

2014-07-05 Thread Triode
erland wrote: I guess this only works as long as we are using the standard carrier board ? If we ever switch to use John's DAC board we don't have the extra SD card slot ? Or did John's DAC board also contain an extra SD card slot ? The general obstacle for me is that I have the

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Announce: Squeeze on Arch - developer version

2014-07-05 Thread erland
Triode wrote: My wandboards are not in a case so I haven't seen this problem :) - but you need to unscrew the case to get at the cd sd card anyway.. The obstacle in my case might be more related to having to keep track of two SD cards, I should probably start writing something on them to

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Announce: Squeeze on Arch - developer version

2014-07-05 Thread Krisbee
erland, As an alternative you can create your sd card image using a loop devce, e.g.: Code: Create a zero filled img file with dd. e.g: dd if=/dev/zero of=awcard.img bs=1M count=4000 Gives a 4g img file. To make sure you can access partitions in the

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Announce: Squeezelite - a small headless squeezeplay emulator for linux (alsa only)

2014-07-05 Thread scolley
Apologies for being a bother (again), but cannot play MP3 filed. AAC and FLACs play fine. All the music files are on a Samba NAS. MP3's and AAC under the same directory tree. But one plays (AACs), the other (MP3s) not. I'm running Squeezelite 1.5 Linux ALSA armv6hf, with Lame installed on an

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Announce: Squeezelite - a small headless squeezeplay emulator for linux (alsa only)

2014-07-05 Thread Triode
scolley wrote: Apologies for being a bother (again), but cannot play MP3 filed. AAC and FLACs play fine. All the music files are on a Samba NAS. MP3's and AAC under the same directory tree. But one plays (AACs), the other (MP3s) not. LMS won't transcode mp3s as it assumes all players will

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Announce: Squeezelite - a small headless squeezeplay emulator for linux (alsa only)

2014-07-05 Thread scolley
Wow! That was the easiest change ever on Arch: # pacman - S libmad Awesome. Thank you! :D scolley's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=62931 View this thread:

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Announce: Squeeze on Arch - developer version

2014-07-05 Thread kesey
Triode wrote: Thanks for testing - the hopeful advantage of doing this way is that upgrading just the server component should be less download and faster. To do this all you need to do is: Code: ./soa-update.sh logitechmediaserver-7.9-lms

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Announce: Squeeze on Arch - developer version

2014-07-05 Thread ChrisMmm
Just like to pop in here and mention using SoA on platforms other than Wandboard. I have Wandboard, Beagelbone and Rapsberry Pi. I have SoA on the Wand and BBB, my preference is the BBB (cost, form factor, access to I2S). So I humbly request that what ever mechanisms are used to create the SDcard

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Announce: Squeezelite - a small headless squeezeplay emulator for linux (alsa only)

2014-07-05 Thread luxo
Ron Olsen wrote: 1. If you entered Code: squeezelite -s localhost -o hw:CARD=S20,DEV=0 -m xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx -n S20 -d output=debug -f /var/log/squeezelite.log the process runs in the foreground, and you do not get a command prompt. You

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Announce: Squeezelite - a small headless squeezeplay emulator for linux (alsa only)

2014-07-05 Thread Ron Olsen
luxo wrote: I chose to run the process in the background. If I stop squeezelite before I enter the command how do I run music for testing without starting squeezelite? Step 4 has me starting the service after terminating the logging. Test with the background process running. Don't

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Announce: Squeeze on Arch - developer version

2014-07-05 Thread Triode
ChrisMmm wrote: Just like to pop in here and mention using SoA on platforms other than Wandboard. I have Wandboard, Beagelbone and Rapsberry Pi. I have SoA on the Wand and BBB, my preference is the BBB (cost, form factor, access to I2S). So I humbly request that what ever mechanisms are used

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Announce: Squeeze on Arch - developer version

2014-07-05 Thread Triode
I've added an upgrade script which should update all installed SoA packages - please try and let me know if it is not working for you: Code: ./soa-update-all.sh My plan is to trigger this from the web interface, so would like to check it is