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

2020-07-07 Thread Lestrad
Paul Webster wrote: > Squeezelite-X installs Squeezelite and provides an interactive front-end > to it. > > > If you want to try the command line directly then start up a cmd/dos > session > > and run it with a > -l > (minus elle) > This will list the output devices. > You then need to pick

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Alpine Linux Bluetooth and Squeezelite Experiments

2020-07-07 Thread sodface
I noticed bluetoothd throwing some errors in syslog related to uinput, a module which wasn't loaded, so I added it to /etc/modules. This was fortunate as soon after I realized I could use inotifywait to watch for event devices created by uinput when a bluetooth device connects to the system. C

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] piCorePlayer 6.x.x - Bluetooth

2020-07-07 Thread paul-
Please update your bluetooth extensions.. Version 0012 pushed. When squeezelite started, there is a 5 second delay before checking for connection to LMS. Apparently, that is not always long enough. There was supposed to be a retry loop on LMS connectionsit was broken. I fixed the loop.

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] piCorePlayer 6.x.x - Bluetooth

2020-07-07 Thread paul-
That looks as expected, I need to figure out why the local LMS is not getting found. 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&business=U7JHY5WYHCNRU&lc=GB¤cy_code=USD&

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Offline Music from USB

2020-07-07 Thread Paul Webster
pCP requires a music server application to drive it. You could install LMS from the pCP menu to be that server - but it does not auto-play a USB stick on insertion (or even index it). So pCP/LMS is probably not what you need if that is all that you want to achieve. However, there you could do s

[SlimDevices: Unix] Offline Music from USB

2020-07-07 Thread Firnefex
Hello! I've searched the last 2 weeks for Audio Players for my Raspberry Pi, but yet haven't found one that fits my purpose. In theory its really simple: My hardware includes a Pi (2 or 3) and a cheap amplifier plus speakers, there is no need for a good hifi experience. I just want an offline pl

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] piCorePlayer 6.x.x - Bluetooth

2020-07-07 Thread Richard_Watkins
paul- wrote: > Yes, send that log. But that is a condition I have not tested. Speaker switched on, pi rebooted and then speaker connected by pressing the connect button from the bluetooth setting page pCP Bluetooth extension build:0011 Starting BT Controller bcm43xx_init Flash firmware /lib/

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] piCorePlayer 6.x.x - Bluetooth

2020-07-07 Thread paul-
Yes, send that log. But that is a condition I have not tested. 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&business=U7JHY5WYHCNRU&lc=GB¤cy_code=USD&bn=PP%2dDonationsBF%

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] piCorePlayer 6.x.x - Bluetooth

2020-07-07 Thread Richard_Watkins
paul- wrote: > Where is your LMS server running? On the same Pi. Would it help to see the log of the speaker connecting and working if the pi is booted after the speaker is powered on? Richard_Watkins's Profile: http://f

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] piCorePlayer 6.x.x - Bluetooth

2020-07-07 Thread paul-
Where is your LMS server running? 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&business=U7JHY5WYHCNRU&lc=GB¤cy_code=USD&bn=PP%2dDonationsBF%3abtn_donateCC_LG%2egif%3aNonHo

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

2020-07-07 Thread Paul Webster
Squeezelite-X installs Squeezelite and provides an interactive front-end to it. Paul Webster http://dabdig.blogspot.com author of \"now playing\" plugins covering radio france (fip etc), kcrw, supla finland, abc australia, cbc/radio-canada and rte ireland --

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] piCorePlayer 6.x.x - Bluetooth

2020-07-07 Thread Richard_Watkins
paul- wrote: > Try taking the spaces out of the Bluetooth Player Name. Still got the same behaviour :( Code: pCP Bluetooth extension build:0011 Starting BT Controller bcm43xx_init Flash firmware /lib/firmware/brcm/BCM43430A1.hcd Set BDADDR UART: b8:27:eb:8b:

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

2020-07-07 Thread Lestrad
Paul Webster wrote: > The end of first post in the Squeezelite-X thread. As I said, I've tried twice and can't install it. Isn't there a Windows installer somewhere, that doesn't insist you have a Microsof account on a specific device? In any case I'd prefer to install squeezelite on my Windows

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

2020-07-07 Thread Paul Webster
The end of first post in the Squeezelite-X thread. Paul Webster http://dabdig.blogspot.com author of \"now playing\" plugins covering radio france (fip etc), kcrw, supla finland, abc australia, cbc/radio-canada and rte ireland ---

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

2020-07-07 Thread Lestrad
bpa wrote: > For windows 7 - OP may have to use the installer at end of first post. I assume you mean the first post on the Squeezelite-X thread? No? If yes, I spent quite a while earlier today (I'm in Europe) jumping through hoops to try to download it, and was never able to. The first post i

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

2020-07-07 Thread bpa
Lestrad wrote: > I'm not afraid of the command line. But I am afraid of downloading > anything from Microsoft Store... With Windows 7 I think you have to use the installer. bpa's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/mem

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

2020-07-07 Thread Lestrad
Paul Webster wrote: > It requires a few things to to typed into the command line- but try > Squeezelite-X as this provides a more familiar user interface. > > [Announce] Squeezelite-X > https://r.tapatalk.com/shareLink/topic?share_fid=813&share_tid=108550&share_pid=903953&url=https%3A%2F%2Fforu

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] ANNOUNCE: LMS Monitor 2020

2020-07-07 Thread shunte88
@JRM_PT, huge apologies for the late reply what is the screen type you're using - take a pic and post her - front and back of the display what is the command line you're using try using without the gomonitor wrapper and turn the detailed debug on ssh to you player, same as you'd have done to

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] piCorePlayer 6.x.x - Bluetooth

2020-07-07 Thread paul-
Try taking the spaces out of the Bluetooth Player Name. 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&business=U7JHY5WYHCNRU&lc=GB¤cy_code=USD&bn=PP%2dDonationsBF%3abtn_don

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] ANNOUNCE: piCorePlayer 6.0.0

2020-07-07 Thread kbeast
kidstypike wrote: > On your screen > Settings > Screen > Now Playing > Now Playing views, > put a dot in all those you require. > > This is assuming you're controlling the Squeezelite player on the same > RPi as the screen. You won't see "Spectrum Analyzer" or "Analog VU > meters" options if yo

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

2020-07-07 Thread bpa
Paul Webster wrote: > It requires a few things to to Tyler into the command line- but try > Squeezelite-X as this provides a more familiar user interface. > > [Announce] Squeezelite-X > https://r.tapatalk.com/shareLink/topic?share_fid=813&share_tid=108550&share_pid=903953&url=https%3A%2F%2Fforu

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] ANNOUNCE: piCorePlayer 6.0.0

2020-07-07 Thread kbeast
kidstypike wrote: > On your screen > Settings > Screen > Now Playing > Now Playing views, > put a dot in all those you require. > > This is assuming you're controlling the Squeezelite player on the same > RPi as the screen. You won't see "Spectrum Analyzer" or "Analog VU > meters" options if yo

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

2020-07-07 Thread Paul Webster
It requires a few things to to Tyler into the command line- but try Squeezelite-X as this provides a more familiar user interface. [Announce] Squeezelite-X https://r.tapatalk.com/shareLink/topic?share_fid=813&share_tid=108550&share_pid=903953&url=https%3A%2F%2Fforums%2Eslimdevices%2Ecom%2Fshowpo

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

2020-07-07 Thread Lestrad
Paul Webster wrote: > In your case install Squeezelite (or try Squeezelite X) on your PC. > "Local playaer" is local to the LMS system not local to where you happen > to be sitting when you installed the plugin via a web browser. Thanks. I've downloaded squeezelite-x64.exe and when I run it it

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

2020-07-07 Thread Paul Webster
In your case install Squeezelite (or try Squeezelite X) on your PC. "Local playaer" is local to the LMS system not local to where you happen to be sitting when you installed the plugin via a web browser. Paul Webster http://dabdig.blogspot.com author of \"now playing\" plugins covering radio f

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

2020-07-07 Thread Lestrad
Hello, and please forgive me for not wanting to read through all 359 pages to make sure my question hasn't been covered. I installed Local Player via the LMS Web interface on my PC, which is what I use to control LMS. But LMS itself is in fact installed on a Wandboard Quad (and works fine). But

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] piCorePlayer 6.x.x - Bluetooth

2020-07-07 Thread Richard_Watkins
Thank you to the team for producing this software, I'm really happy with it (mostly) I've got one problem which I will post details about below. (I can't post it here as I'm not allowed links in my first post). Richard. Ri

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] ANNOUNCE: piCorePlayer 6.0.0

2020-07-07 Thread kidstypike
kbeast wrote: > I somehow lost the VU Meters and dancing bars from the Now Playing Views > and is only showing artwork. > > Not sure how to get these back, would hate to have to do this from > scratch again.. On your screen > Settings > Screen > Now Playing > Now Playing views, put a dot in al

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] ANNOUNCE: piCorePlayer 6.0.0

2020-07-07 Thread kbeast
I somehow lost the VU Meters and dancing bars from the Now Playing Views and is only showing artwork. Not sure how to get these back, would hate to have to do this from scratch again.. kbeast's Profile: http://forums.slim

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] piCorePlayer 6 - configuring NTP server ?

2020-07-07 Thread paul-
Since we don't run a syslog, verbose only works when not daemonizing. Add the -n option to see what's up. Secondly, you telling ntpd to use "-d" as your server. Your server needs to follow the -p sudo /usr/sbin/ntpd -n -d -p 0.uk.pool.ntp.org piCorePlayer a small player for the Raspberr

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] piCorePlayer 6 - configuring NTP server ?

2020-07-07 Thread mr-b
I tried running the cmd sudo /usr/bin/getTime.sh but it outputs nothing. I searched for help on the ntpd cmd but I'm afraid I was lost rather. cat getTime.sh #!/bin/busybox ash # bmarkus - 26/02/2014 NTPSERVER=$(cat /etc/sysconfig/ntpserver) /usr/sbin/ntpd -q -p $NTPSERVER Then I tried runnin

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] piCorePlayer | Issues with native playback of WMA Lossless and WMA Pro files

2020-07-07 Thread bpa
CJS wrote: > FYI, I noticed that in the mean time bpa has updated his PlayWMA plugin > to v1.1, see screenshot below. Good that it is available now. The update also allows installation on 8.* Did the update yesterday but wasn't sure when it would appear in the 3rd party listing.

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] piCorePlayer | Issues with native playback of WMA Lossless and WMA Pro files

2020-07-07 Thread CJS
FYI, I noticed that in the mean time bpa has updated his PlayWMA plugin to v1.1, see screenshot below. 30938 The updated plugin comes with an updated custom-convert.conf file that defines that ffmpeg is used for server side transcoding of WMA files to (for example) flac. With the updated plugin