Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] piCorePlayer 7.0.0 - Public Beta

2020-12-16 Thread sckramer
a, to be able to http://pcp.local you guys discover http://pcp.local:9000/material yet? I vote for this plugin installed by default, the default player/control button in pCP, and dead easy to get to, however you do that. Scott Kramer

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Jivelite for piCorePlayer

2020-12-16 Thread Howard Passman
Thanks Paul. I'll give that a shot in the a.m.. Have a great evening. Howard paul- wrote: > Its likely the interface change that is messing up jivelite. When on > wifi only, try to use the pCP interface to reset jivelite. If that > makes the vu meters to work, we might be able to get crea

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Jivelite for piCorePlayer

2020-12-16 Thread paul-
Its likely the interface change that is messing up jivelite. When on wifi only, try to use the pCP interface to reset jivelite. If that makes the vu meters to work, we might be able to get creative with a virtual interface. piCorePlayer a small player for the Raspberry Pi in RAM. Homepage

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Jivelite for piCorePlayer

2020-12-16 Thread Howard Passman
Thanks Greg, Squeezelite is running. I get all the different screensaver views except for any of the VUs or Visualizer. Hook it back up to the Internet and they all work. Howard Greg Erskine wrote: > The only limitation I know of is the "VU meters" only work on pCP that > has squeezelite run

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Jivelite for piCorePlayer

2020-12-16 Thread Greg Erskine
The only limitation I know of is the "VU meters" only work on pCP that has squeezelite running, which sort of make sense as the meters need to tap into the output of ALSA to work out the volume of the stream. Greg Erskine'

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Raspberry Pi/Linux Getting started

2020-12-16 Thread Redrum
I enjoyed remembering the old days and hearing similar experiences of the "technology breakthroughs" of the 80's. Back to my OP, got it, thank you. I thought Python, but appreciate the confirmation and the suggestion of Perl. I wanted to avoid effort down the wrong path. For example, back in the

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Raspberry Pi/Linux Getting started

2020-12-16 Thread Paul Webster
bpa wrote: > They were modified telex system which were circuit switched devices - so > when ,message were sent there was a "copper loop" between device,IIRC > signalling was done via current not volts and so guaranteed messages. > The company I worked, one of their products was a compatible ter

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Jivelite for piCorePlayer

2020-12-16 Thread Howard Passman
I've noticed that the VU Meters do not work when there's no Internet connection. I use my pi in my car and cannot get the VU meters to display. They will however when I bring it in and connect it to the internet. Is there any work around I could try? Thanks, Howard RPI4 pCP 6.1 LMS 8 7" scree

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Raspberry Pi/Linux Getting started

2020-12-16 Thread d6jg
Paul Webster wrote: > > I think that the only one that we did that was airline related was for > Iceland Air Traffic Control. > Surprisingly busy because of all of the routing over the north pole - > they had control of flights over the airspace and there were a lot. > I was sent over there onc

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Raspberry Pi/Linux Getting started

2020-12-16 Thread bpa
Paul Webster wrote: > IATA messages ... although most of our systems were in places that used > similar format but were not airlines. They were modified telex system which were circuit switched devices - so when ,message were sent there was a "copper loop" between device,IIRC signalling was done

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Raspberry Pi/Linux Getting started

2020-12-16 Thread philchillbill
At college (EE) we had a VAX 11/780 with 4MB of RAM. I remember when it was upgraded to 8MB and student users got bumped from 1200 baud VT100s to 9600. Started out in DEC Basic, Fortran and Pascal. After getting my first Squeezeboxes in 2008 I decided to learn a 'modern' language like Perl. When

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Raspberry Pi/Linux Getting started

2020-12-16 Thread Paul Webster
IATA messages ... although most of our systems were in places that used similar format but were not airlines. I think that the only one that we did that was airline related was for Iceland Air Traffic Control. Surprisingly busy because of all of the routing over the north pole - they had control

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Raspberry Pi/Linux Getting started

2020-12-16 Thread bpa
Paul Webster wrote: > > ZCZC ABC123 > RR CHICAGO MILAN > .123 > THE QUICK BROWN FOX ... > This was secure text messages on original teletype TTY ! All message began ZCZC and ended . I did work with Airline networks and with such a message you could halt a flight. The ASR33 was hand

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Raspberry Pi/Linux Getting started

2020-12-16 Thread Paul Webster
I remember the paper tape reader being PR: as a device (papertape reader) ... and this one looks similar https://www.vintagecomputer.net/browse_thread_record.cfm?id=737&tid=1 from the back it looks like it could handle 60 characters a second. I remember the tape whizzing through it. In fact I wa

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Wireless access point on piCorePlayer?

2020-12-16 Thread paul-
I'm running a TPlink TL-WN722N stick. 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%3aN

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Raspberry Pi/Linux Getting started

2020-12-16 Thread bpa
Paul Webster wrote: > For my first professional work we wrote on coding sheets and then about > a week later we received punched paper tapes with the result of our > scrawl. > After loading them into the mini computer, the paper tapes went into the > fire safe for backup. Paper tape - and an AS

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Raspberry Pi/Linux Getting started

2020-12-16 Thread Redrum
Paul Webster wrote: > I used punched cards at university (first year only). > > and a 2nd cheer some considerable time later when we could use cursor > keys to move around in a full screen editor! ohhh.., I had forgotten about that! Writing fortran on a PC in DOS when a small canadian company

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Raspberry Pi/Linux Getting started

2020-12-16 Thread Paul Webster
I used punched cards at university (first year only). For my first professional work we wrote on coding sheets and then about a week later we received punched paper tapes with the result of our scrawl. After loading them into the mini computer, the paper tapes went into the fire safe for backup.

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] 'Official' docker container for LMS?

2020-12-16 Thread Michael Herger
Is the docker file available on github? I can’t find it in the lmscommunity? It's in the "platforms" repository: https://github.com/Logitech/slimserver-platforms/tree/public/8.0/Docker -- Michael ___ unix mailing list unix@lists.slimdevices.com http

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] 'Official' docker container for LMS?

2020-12-16 Thread Michael Herger
Did you add LAME to all versions? I started with 8.0.0 (which reported no LAME so I added it manually) but I am trying the 8.1.0 build right now. Ah, that could be it. It certainly was a late addition. 8.0.0 might indeed be missing lame. -- Michael ___

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Memory Leak in Perl Engine on piCorePlayer?

2020-12-16 Thread Michael Herger
OK - i've moved to the dev release - Logitech Media Server Version: 8.1.0 - 1608064080 @ Tue Dec 15 22:13:24 CET 2020 - should that have the changes in? Will let you know what I find. That's the latest build. It should have all the changes committed today :-). -- Michael _

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] piCorePlayer 7.0.0 - Public Beta

2020-12-16 Thread Howard Passman
Gave it a shot this morning and it didn't change. Here's my bootlocal.sh #!/bin/sh # put other system startup commands here GREEN="$(echo -e '\033[1;32m')" echo echo "${GREEN}Running bootlocal.sh..." #pCPstart-- /usr/local/etc/init.d/pcp_startup.sh 2>&1 | tee -a /var/log/pcp_boot.log #pCPs

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Raspberry Pi/Linux Getting started

2020-12-16 Thread reinholdk
Could add Algol and Cobol to the list. And I had the experience of using punch cards. The fact that they had no automatic sequence numbers on it called for trouble every once in a while... reinholdk's Profile: http://forum

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Raspberry Pi/Linux Getting started

2020-12-16 Thread Redrum
paul- wrote: > Pascal yes, but otherwise I avoided that other stuff. I'm a mechanical > engineer, so coding is just for fun. > > I was lucky enough not to have to use punch cards. The university > installed the mainframe a year or two before I got there. I am an EE but also got a CS degree l

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] 'Official' docker container for LMS?

2020-12-16 Thread Christian Schoepplein
I am not aware of a stable tag in the Docker world, only latest is common. And using the latest tag is bad practice..., better is always to use tags that represent real versions like 8.1, 8.00, thats the way we do it at work. However, if the latest tag should be used, the tag should point

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Memory Leak in Perl Engine on piCorePlayer?

2020-12-16 Thread psketch
mherger wrote: > > That's interesting. I used to find that I'd get stuttering with > older > > hardware players with flac, due I think to tidal flac being highly > > compressed. So, I have a flac to flac re-encode with -1 to make it > less > > hard work for my boom and transporter. Does your

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Memory Leak in Perl Engine on piCorePlayer?

2020-12-16 Thread mvordeme
bpa wrote: > mvordeme's persistence "a voice in the wilderness" and narrowing > problem down to network was essential.It was something that annoyed me almost > every day, but that made it reproducible and easy to investigate. If I knew Perl, I would even had looked at the code, but as it seem

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] 'Official' docker container for LMS?

2020-12-16 Thread Rainer Krug
Is the docker file available on github? I can’t find it in the lmscommunity? ___ unix mailing list unix@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/unix

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] 'Official' docker container for LMS?

2020-12-16 Thread HeadBanger
mherger wrote: > > Is this the wrong one? > > There's no right or wrong :-). But no, that one's the "official" one. > Did it not find lame without you adding it? I thought I added it on a > user's request, and that user didn't complain after the addition :-). > > Is your NAS Intel based or A

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] 'Official' docker container for LMS?

2020-12-16 Thread Rainer Krug
Stable is the default tag, when nothing else is specified - in any commands. So I would suggest to point it to the last ‘stable' released version - so ’stable’ - the nightly? Referring to the nightly releases as “stable” might be confusing to new users. I use always the nightly and had no probl

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] 'Official' docker container for LMS?

2020-12-16 Thread Michael Herger
OK - Point one is that the default tag is `latest`, which apparently does not exist. The same problem comes into running the image with the run command. When adding e.g `8.1.0-dev` as the tag, it works. Oh... is "latest" a tag which is expected to exist? I removed it recently because 8.0.1 wou

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] 'Official' docker container for LMS?

2020-12-16 Thread Rainer Krug
OK - Point one is that the default tag is `latest`, which apparently does not exist. The same problem comes into running the image with the run command. When adding e.g `8.1.0-dev` as the tag, it works. But there is still the problem with the `timezone`. Rainer > On 16 Dec 2020, at 11:38, Ra

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] 'Official' docker container for LMS?

2020-12-16 Thread Michael Herger
Is this the wrong one? There's no right or wrong :-). But no, that one's the "official" one. Did it not find lame without you adding it? I thought I added it on a user's request, and that user didn't complain after the addition :-). Is your NAS Intel based or ARM? -- Michael __

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Memory Leak in Perl Engine on piCorePlayer?

2020-12-16 Thread Michael Herger
That's interesting. I used to find that I'd get stuttering with older hardware players with flac, due I think to tidal flac being highly compressed. So, I have a flac to flac re-encode with -1 to make it less hard work for my boom and transporter. Does your comment mean that I don't need that w

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Memory Leak in Perl Engine on piCorePlayer?

2020-12-16 Thread Michael Herger
The fix is now in the 8.1 branch. I wondered if this was going to make its way into the 8.01 branch as well in a while. I'd rather avoid running the dev branch on my main system, particularly at this time of year when it seems to be running pretty much full time. And I prefer to have slightly

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Memory Leak in Perl Engine on piCorePlayer?

2020-12-16 Thread psketch
mherger wrote: > > FLAC would play without transcoding - until we > introduced transparent transcoding for TIDAL(?) to work around the > stuttering reported before LMS 8. > > Michael Hi Michael That's interesting. I used to find that I'd get stuttering with older hardware players with flac

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Memory Leak in Perl Engine on piCorePlayer?

2020-12-16 Thread bpa
psketch wrote: > I wondered if this was going to make its way into the 8.01 branch as > well in a while. I'd rather avoid running the dev branch on my main > system, particularly at this time of year when it seems to be running > pretty much full time. I think it may need to be "tested" and al

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Memory Leak in Perl Engine on piCorePlayer?

2020-12-16 Thread bpa
mherger wrote: > Yep. And before LMS8 we would not transcode AAC, would we?l LMS would transcode HTTP/AAC only for internet streams - so no EOF. For MPEG4/AAC no standard LMS for streams. To trasncode MPEG-4 podcasts/streams probably used ffmpeg with input from $URL$ not stdin.

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Memory Leak in Perl Engine on piCorePlayer?

2020-12-16 Thread psketch
paul- wrote: > The fix is now in the 8.1 branch. I wondered if this was going to make its way into the 8.01 branch as well in a while. I'd rather avoid running the dev branch on my main system, particularly at this time of year when it seems to be running pretty much full time. -

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Memory Leak in Perl Engine on piCorePlayer?

2020-12-16 Thread Michael Herger
Looking at the code fix and as it is so "central" - why was it not prevalent before now and can it explain any other "bugs" with streaming services. I'm not sure we did a lot of (or any at all!) transcoding single tracks from online sources in the past. AAC transcoding was added in 8.0, wasn't

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] 'Official' docker container for LMS?

2020-12-16 Thread HeadBanger
mherger wrote: > > I searched for SOX in the Docker config folder and found a version in > > the AirPlay Bridge plugin. I then copied LAME from a Synology package > > that pinkdot had supplied into the same folder and it worked - LMS > finds > > and uses it. > Which Docker image are you using? T

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Memory Leak in Perl Engine on piCorePlayer?

2020-12-16 Thread bpa
mvordeme's persistence "a voice in the wilderness" and narrowing problem down to network was essential. Looking at the code fix and as it is so "central" - why was it not prevalent before now and can it explain any other "bugs" with streaming services. The code path with EOF would only have h

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Wireless access point on piCorePlayer?

2020-12-16 Thread tparvais
paul- wrote: > That output looks normal, but some wifi sticks do not support AP mode. > Unfortunately its hard to tell without doing alot of manual commands. > > Try selecting a different channel and see if the AP comes up. Do you > have any other wifi sticks? any idea of a wifi dongle that