Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] ANNOUNCE: piCorePlayer 7.0.0

2021-02-03 Thread paul-
soundcheck wrote: > Hi there. > > Is there an explanation why the access to the pCP repos is (or can be) > rather shaky. > mherger wrote: > pCP is using Cloudflare, one of (if not the) biggest CDNs. Why this > repeatedly causes issue I don't know. > There are actually two pCP

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Squeezelite aborts when playing specific Apple lossless files

2021-02-03 Thread Merrill Aldrich
Never mind - I found the line in the Announce thread about ALAC being broken in the published image. As instructed a "Full Update" of Squeezelite from the main page and a reboot fixed it. Nothing to see here :-P Merrill

[SlimDevices: Unix] Squeezelite aborts when playing specific Apple lossless files

2021-02-03 Thread Merrill Aldrich
Hi - I have an otherwise working piCorePlayer 7.0.0 / Squeezelite / LMS setup, freshly installed today. I have some of my music as purchased downloads on a network share - and there's one record that consistently causes Squeezelite to abort. The file info is like this example: File Format:

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Kernel panic

2021-02-03 Thread Merrill Aldrich
Merrill Aldrich wrote: > Thanks for the reply - I just have the card that HiFiBerry shipped me as > part of the AMP2 bundle. The Pi is powered through the Amp2 instead of > the USB-C port with this kit, but it has a BIG 20V power supply that is > designed for that purpose. It's hooked up

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Network dropout with pCP 7.0.0

2021-02-03 Thread Greg Erskine
Did you reboot after removing the network cable? I believe Squeezelite/LMS uses the MAC address to create a unique player on LMS. Greg Erskine's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=7403 View this

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

2021-02-03 Thread Simonef
mherger wrote: > > I tryed to set (server.memory) logging to debug to find out the cause > of > > the memory leak but I get: > > Slim::bootstrap::tryModuleLoad (286) Warning: Module > > [Slim::Utils::MemoryUsage] failed to load: > > You'll need to install Devel::NYTProf for your Perl. And then

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] ANNOUNCE: piCorePlayer 7.0.0

2021-02-03 Thread Greg Erskine
cburbs wrote: > Trying to upgrade one of my Players and get this - > WARNING: The resize partition 2 option has been disabled to prevent > damage to your SD Card. > > You have: > > partition 1 labelled "PCP" should be labelled "PCP_ROOT". > partition 2 labelled "" should be labelled

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] ANNOUNCE: piCorePlayer 7.0.0

2021-02-03 Thread soundcheck
mherger wrote: > > @mherger -- a rock solid 130MBit/s VDFE link. > What does VDFE mean? I mentioned German cable internet because we've had > > reports of users with some of them (don't remember the name, but > basically THE German cable provider) having problems accessing the pCP >

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

2021-02-03 Thread Michael Herger
I tryed to set (server.memory) logging to debug to find out the cause of the memory leak but I get: Slim::bootstrap::tryModuleLoad (286) Warning: Module [Slim::Utils::MemoryUsage] failed to load: You'll need to install Devel::NYTProf for your Perl. And then run with above parameter. Please

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] ANNOUNCE: piCorePlayer 7.0.0

2021-02-03 Thread Michael Herger
@mherger -- a rock solid 130MBit/s VDFE link. What does VDFE mean? I mentioned German cable internet because we've had reports of users with some of them (don't remember the name, but basically THE German cable provider) having problems accessing the pCP repository. We never figured out why,

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Network dropout with pCP 7.0.0

2021-02-03 Thread pputzer
Some new information. I've since booted the device with an ethernet cable attached and it now has two IPs (one for wired and one for wireless). Everything looks fine while accessing the wireless IP so, I remove the cable. Some time later, a dropout again. No pinging the wireless IP, despite the

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Lost sound after upgrading to pCP 7

2021-02-03 Thread paul-
LMS should not matter muchunless you are streaming radio feeds. There have been lots of issues around ALAC and MP4 with LMS8.0.0 LMS would also not have anything to do with mixer controls. piCorePlayer a small player for the Raspberry Pi in RAM. Homepage: https://www.picoreplayer.org

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Getting HDMI CEC to work on pCP 7.0

2021-02-03 Thread Paul Webster
Update: the conversion of the key strings to scancodes is by keytable v4l-utils/utils/keytable/parse.h ... now off to see if I can build myself a special one Paul Webster http://dabdig.blogspot.com author of \"now playing\" plugins covering radio france (fip etc), kcrw, supla finland, abc

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] ANNOUNCE: piCorePlayer 7.0.0

2021-02-03 Thread cburbs
Trying to upgrade one of my Players and get this - WARNING: The resize partition 2 option has been disabled to prevent damage to your SD Card. You have: partition 1 labelled "PCP" should be labelled "PCP_ROOT". partition 2 labelled "" should be labelled "PCP_BOOT". Filesystem

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

2021-02-03 Thread Simonef
mherger wrote: > > Before every test written below I restarted LMS, to have a sort of > > baseline. > > Player: squeezelite-x on windows and squeezelite-R2 on linux. Under > file > > types Flac->PCM is selected. > > Could you please try again with all custom transcoding disabled? > > What

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] ANNOUNCE: piCorePlayer 7.0.0

2021-02-03 Thread Fiendish
I too am having problems getting files from the servers. This morning I was able to do and 'in-situ' update (6.1 to 7.0) on one of my piCorePlayers, (pi 3b). But this afternoon, whilst trying to update a second piCorePlayer (running LMS), all I get is -error retrieving -messages: There was a

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] piCorePlayer v7.0.0: network disk mount -- retry settings not working

2021-02-03 Thread chrober
Hi Paul, thanks for looking into this! I have just rebooted pCP with my NAS (from where I mount the shares) still in its boot phase. Here's the log file: /var/log/33225 I have currently configured my shares using CIFS (just for testing purposes). Originally, I was using NFS but that did not

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Getting HDMI CEC to work on pCP 7.0

2021-02-03 Thread Paul Webster
Slowly unpicking things ... I rebuilt sdltest and modified the make file to use local include files - and this changed things a bit. Instead of seeing it reporting a scancode of 0 for the media keys it is now showing a non-zero number. So - more on what I found. background - to make sure I

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] ANNOUNCE: piCorePlayer 7.0.0

2021-02-03 Thread soundcheck
Greg Erskine wrote: > Check there are no file remnants before trying again. I usually save and then restore the original state. I noticed the shaky behavior early on when downloading e.g. compiletc with all its dependencies. A 2nd try usually solved it. But currently it's pretty much

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] ANNOUNCE: piCorePlayer 7.0.0

2021-02-03 Thread Greg Erskine
Check there are no file remnants before trying again. Greg Erskine's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=7403 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=113512