Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Jivelite on a Pirate Audio 240x240 screen

2020-01-23 Thread chill
chill wrote: > That thought had crossed my mind. A replacement lid for the official > Pi Zero case seems doable. Or I could just wait until one appears on > Thingiverse :) https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:4087948

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Jivelite on a Pirate Audio 240x240 screen

2020-01-23 Thread chill
paul- wrote: > Now you just need to design a better case. :D That thought had crossed my mind. A replacement lid for the official Pi Zero case seems doable. Or I could just wait until one appears on Thingiverse :)

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] BETA: piCorePlayer6.0.0 - PI4 support

2020-01-23 Thread TinyTommy
Thank you Paul! Now that pcp-streamer is installed and I see this URL, what am I supposed to do with it? Obviously, I don't have the slightest about how BT is supposed to work! I suspect that it still won't behave like this BT speaker I was able to send audio to, right? It dawns on me that I

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Jivelite on a Pirate Audio 240x240 screen

2020-01-23 Thread piPlayer
patrick31698 wrote: > ... Do you see a chance for this kind of LCDs to dimm or switch of the > backlight? ... Some Waveshare displays have a switch for switching the backlight on and off, others control the brightness of the backlight as described in this manual: 'link'

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] ANNOUNCE: piCorePlayer 5.0.0

2020-01-23 Thread rincage
paul- wrote: > > > When prompted for reboot, reboot, > > After reboot, goto Diagnostics -> Logs -> Boot Log > > And post the contents of the boot log. Thanks. Here you go https://pastebin.com/C7tW9Dew rincage's

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Jivelite on a Pirate Audio 240x240 screen

2020-01-23 Thread paul-
Now you just need to design a better case. :D piCorePlayer a small player for the Raspberry Pi in RAM. Homepage: https://www.picoreplayer.org Please 'donate'

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Jivelite on a Pirate Audio 240x240 screen

2020-01-23 Thread chill
The basic backlight control is fully functional: [image: http://www.cjh.me.uk/MyPhotobucket/cache/DIYHifi/Jivelite/240x240/Backlight%20control%2080_640.jpg] I cut down the help text a bit so that it all fits. I'm struggling to find where the font size is defined for the label across the top -

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] BETA: piCorePlayer6.0.0 - PI4 support

2020-01-23 Thread paul-
To play from your phone via Bluetooth to your pCP device, you need to use pcp-streamer in conjunction. The player would then listen to the stream. This allows any device on your LMS system to listen to that stream. PCP streamer is on the tweaks page, and the url to stream will be shown

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Alsa mixer on picore - cannot save

2020-01-23 Thread paul-
Put a sudo in front of that. piCorePlayer a small player for the Raspberry Pi in RAM. Homepage: https://www.picoreplayer.org Please 'donate' (https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_donations=U7JHY5WYHCNRU=GB_code=USD=PP%2dDonationsBF%3abtn_donateCC_LG%2egif%3aNonHosted) if you like the

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] BETA: piCorePlayer6.0.0 - PI4 support

2020-01-23 Thread TinyTommy
Hi all, I'm new around here and would like to start with a question re sending audio from my Android device via Bluetooth to pCP. pCP 6 Beta 7 is running on a RPi3 with a HiFiBerry DAC+, everything else is running just fine, only Bluetooth is giving me a headache. After several attempts I

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Jivelite on a Pirate Audio 240x240 screen

2020-01-23 Thread chill
M-H wrote: > Hi Chill, The second approach does seem better to me too , as it would > be easier to maintain in the future. > I have the basic building blocks for this now. I have a script that calls 'pigs' as required, and I've found out how to check whether that script file exists so that I

[SlimDevices: Unix] Alsa mixer on picore - cannot save

2020-01-23 Thread kappclark
I have a picore player which never remembers the level settings, which always start out too low...I adjust the volume, then forget how high it is, then switch to TV -- ouch says my ears ! I tried alsactl store but I get an error saying the state file is locked ... FILE

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Jivelite on a Pirate Audio 240x240 screen

2020-01-23 Thread M-H
chill wrote: > > I think I favour the second approach, because the first isn't foolproof, > and would need further editing to support other displays. Hi Chill, The second approach does seem better to me too , as it would be easier to maintain in the future. And thinking of future support, we

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Howto update LMS on a Debian server?

2020-01-23 Thread Yatsushiro
In a browser, go to http://downloads.slimdevices.com/nightly/?ver=8.0 Right click on the appropriate entry, select 'copy link address'. >From your terminal, issue: Code: wget

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] ANNOUNCE: piCorePlayer 5.0.0

2020-01-23 Thread olivaar
Hi, i want to "clone" my picoreplayer SD card, but i dont want to use the dd tool, because i think my sd card has some minor errors. i have installed some extra some tcz extensions, the LMS and some official plugins and own created plugins for the LMS. in this case, i think, the normal backup

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Jivelite on a Pirate Audio 240x240 screen

2020-01-23 Thread chill
ralphy wrote: > Jivelite has been updated with Wallpaper and Clock screensaver support > for the QVGA 240 Square skin. > Thanks Ralphy. I removed and reinstalled Jivelite and updated the default skin package, and it's all working perfectly. Regarding the screen brightness control, I can't

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Jivelite on a Pirate Audio 240x240 screen

2020-01-23 Thread ralphy
chill wrote: > [image: > http://www.cjh.me.uk/MyPhotobucket/cache/DIYHifi/Jivelite/240x240/analog.jpg] > > [image: > http://www.cjh.me.uk/MyPhotobucket/cache/DIYHifi/Jivelite/240x240/digital%2024hr.jpg] > > [image: >

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] BETA: piCorePlayer6.0.0 - PI4 support

2020-01-23 Thread carsten_h
mherger wrote: > You made a mistake :-) :-) Normally I would write the same. Today I issued the same commands like yesterday (I used them from the shell-history) and everything works. Very strange! carsten_h's

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] BETA: piCorePlayer6.0.0 - PI4 support

2020-01-23 Thread Michael Herger
https://www.picoreplayer.org/how_to_upgrade_lms.shtml Just replace 7.9.2 with 8.0.0 in step 5. I tried that yesterday, but I still got 7.9.3 not 8.0.0. Why can this happen? You made a mistake :-) Post full input & output and we might be wiser. -- Michael

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] BETA: piCorePlayer6.0.0 - PI4 support

2020-01-23 Thread carsten_h
kidstypike wrote: > Sorry, struggling to find instructions, found them now - > > https://www.picoreplayer.org/how_to_upgrade_lms.shtml > > Just replace 7.9.2 with 8.0.0 in step 5. I tried that yesterday, but I still got 7.9.3 not 8.0.0. Why can this happen?

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Jivelite on a Pirate Audio 240x240 screen

2020-01-23 Thread patrick31698
This is such an interessting thread to read even though I don't understand to much. ;-) I hope that you can implement all this to an foolproof setting. I also wanted to have a PCP with a 3,5" china display at my bedside but i did not finish this "project" because the LCD backliight was to

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Jivelite on a Pirate Audio 240x240 screen

2020-01-23 Thread chill
chill wrote: > > Maximum brightness: > > Code: > > tc@piCorePlayer:~$ pigs PWM 13 255 > > > > Off: > > Code: > > tc@piCorePlayer:~$ pigs PWM 13 0 > > > > With a brightness setting of 0 or 1