Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Ubuntu 20.4

2020-08-07 Thread slartibartfast
davidscrat wrote: > Wow... > So nobody installed Logitechmediaserver with perl 5.30? > Is it possible to install an older version of perl or another solution > to open the webbrowser (port 9000 doesnt appear with netstat - tlpn)This was > a similar issue. https://github.com/Logitech/slimserver

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Ubuntu 20.4

2020-08-07 Thread Roland0
davidscrat wrote: > > So nobody installed Logitechmediaserver with perl 5.30? > It runs on x86_64 (i.e. AMD / Intel) davidscrat wrote: > > Is it possible to install an older version of perl or another solution > to open the webbrowser (port 9000 doesnt appear with netstat - tlpn) > The po

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Ubuntu 20.4

2020-08-07 Thread davidscrat
Wow... So nobody installed Logitechmediaserver with perl 5.30? Is it possible to install an older version of perl or another solution to open the webbrowser (port 9000 doesnt appear with netstat - tlpn) davidscrat's Profi

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Ubuntu 20.4

2020-08-07 Thread Roland0
davidscrat wrote: > I have perl 5 v30. > Ubuntu 20.4 on the pi4. > Logitechmediaserver 7.9.3 > Install with dpkg-i file arm.deb, and access refused on webbrowser... > Any ideas? perl >= 5.30 on the Arm architecture (which all RPIs are based on) is not 'supported' (https://github.com/Logitech/sl

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] piCorePlayer Online Help

2020-08-07 Thread Viragored
Viragored wrote: > I've had a look at the github page for turndown - and to me it might as > well be in Greek or Russian! 'Fraid I'm just a long-time Windows > user I'll start from scratch to knock together a markdown document, > emulating my web page on Bluetooth. Here's a sample Markdown

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] piCorePlayer Online Help

2020-08-07 Thread Viragored
Greg Erskine wrote: > That looks very good. > > I don't know if we'll get to that detail. > > I try to use minimal pictures because they can get out of date quickly. > There was a big change going from pCP 5 to pCP 6 and it might all change > again. > > I am making sure all pages get dated an

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] ANNOUNCE: piCorePlayer 6.0.0

2020-08-07 Thread paul-
corrobor wrote: > Sorry I'm newbi. > I'm on 6.0 into Raspberry 0. > If i update to 6.1 i Will lose my settings? > Thanks Most settings should be retained. But there can be some changes if you have a lot of the extras installed. piCorePlayer a small player for the Raspberry Pi in RAM. Homep

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] ANNOUNCE: piCorePlayer 6.0.0

2020-08-07 Thread Greg Erskine
:) Thanks for reporting. It can be easy! Greg Erskine's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=7403 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=111787 __

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] ANNOUNCE: piCorePlayer 6.0.0

2020-08-07 Thread gstalnaker
piCorePlayer team (you know who you are :-) Thank you, truly, for such an excellent bit of software. I set up, this morning, an old RPi2B as a player, added a WiFi dongle, and connected it's 1/8" jack to a BillBoard bluetooth speaker using it's AUX input. Had to do the wap_supplicant.conf to get

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] ANNOUNCE: piCorePlayer 6.0.0

2020-08-07 Thread corrobor
Sorry I'm newbi. I'm on 6.0 into Raspberry 0. If i update to 6.1 i Will lose my settings? Thanks corrobor's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=69872 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/sho

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] piCorePlayer Online Help

2020-08-07 Thread d6jg
Greg Erskine wrote: > I worked for a large company (in Australian terms) and they had a no > graphics policy for their documentation because it was always getting > out of date within a relatively sort time. The theory was having, > accurate text based help was better than out of date graphics.

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] piCorePlayer Online Help

2020-08-07 Thread Greg Erskine
I worked for a large company (in Australian terms) and they had a no graphics policy for their documentation because it was always getting out of date within a relatively sort time. The theory was having, accurate text based help was better than out of date graphics. As you know there is a lot mo

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Feature request picoreplayer: Play state to GPIO

2020-08-07 Thread Greg Erskine
hi sakos, Generally speaking the "pcp commands" are only a simple interface into LMS commands. They can only respond as LMS responds. Having said that, reading the documentation we should get an "undefined" value. Maybe we have coded a default value of stop. Code: mo

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] piCorePlayer Online Help

2020-08-07 Thread d6jg
Greg Erskine wrote: > Thanks for the suggestion. > > I saw the Material help a few weeks ago and was impressed. It prompted > me to investigate HelpnDoc. Looks good but... > > We have to use tools that are not tied to one OS and the collaboration > component was a stumbling block. > > I am hop

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] piCorePlayer Online Help

2020-08-07 Thread Greg Erskine
Thanks for the suggestion. I saw the Material help a few weeks ago and was impressed. It prompted me to investigate HelpnDoc. Looks good but... We have to use tools that are not tied to one OS and the collaboration component was a stumbling block. I am hoping using markdown as the document sou

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] piCorePlayer Online Help

2020-08-07 Thread d6jg
Greg Erskine wrote: > Yeah, most of the documentation/help systems I have been involved with > used Microsoft Word or html as source. Most people don't format word > consistently enough. Even in a controlled commercial environment where > the authors were required to use styles sheet, formatting

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Ubuntu 20.4

2020-08-07 Thread davidscrat
I have perl 5 v30. Ubuntu 20.4 on the pi4. Logitechmediaserver 7.9.3 Install with dpkg-i file arm.deb, and access refused on webbrowser... Any ideas? davidscrat's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=7

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Feature request picoreplayer: Play state to GPIO

2020-08-07 Thread sakos
Greg Erskine wrote: > hi Axel, > > Although not a good as an interrupt solution a simple loop inquiry of > LMS may be OK. > > The command "pcp mode" returns "play" or "stop". Do the inquiry every > second and set relay appropriate. This only create a 1% load on CPU and > little network traffic

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] ANNOUNCE: piCorePlayer 6.0.0

2020-08-07 Thread Paul Webster
Yes - that would work well. 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 Paul Webster's Pr

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] ANNOUNCE: piCorePlayer 6.0.0

2020-08-07 Thread RobbH
Paul Webster wrote: > The main reason I do not go for full capacity is (was) to make it easier > to copy partitions between SD cards to make backups. > I had found in the past that 2 different 4GB cards had a different > amount of real capacity and I could not copy the bigger 4GB to the > smalle

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Ubuntu 20.4

2020-08-07 Thread Yatsushiro
Either can be used, but the arm specific is a much smaller download. Yatsushiro's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=66935 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=112707

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] ANNOUNCE: piCorePlayer 6.0.0

2020-08-07 Thread kit1cat
Clausi wrote: > I had the same problems. I had a SSD in an USB enclosure and connected > directly to my Raspberry Pi4 it was not possible to read my music files. > At this time I was using max2play. Then I bought a USB hub and > everything worked fine. The Raspberry obviously didn't supply enoug