Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Shairport Problem

2022-11-26 Thread CJS
tdave81 wrote: > what is the correct plug-in to install in LMS? I'll try it :) I suppose it is the plugin called ShairTunes2, by Philippe. This plugin is listed on the LMS Plugins tab, under 3rd party plugins. | LMS 8.3.1 | Squeezebox Boom | RPi0W + pCP 8.2.0 + HiFiBerry DAC Zero | SqueezeAMP

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Announce: piCorePlayer 8.0.0

2021-12-05 Thread CJS
Man in a van wrote: > Likely a typo (or a special dev version :):):p) I think you are right. At this moment the latest version of squeezelite-armhf at 'Ralphy's LMS client page' (https://sourceforge.net/projects/lmsclients/files/squeezelite/linux/) is indeed 1.9.9.1392. | LMS 8.3.0 | Squeezeb

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Announce: piCorePlayer 8.0.0

2021-12-05 Thread CJS
Thanks paul. I did a succesful insitu update from pCP 8.0.0 to pCP 8.1.0, and have now: SqueezeBerry | piCorePlayer v8.1.0 | www v00017 | linux 5.10.77-pcpCore (32) | piCore v13.1 | Squeezelite v1.9.9-1392-pCP So I have Squeezelite v1.9.9-1392-pCP while the 'release note' (https://forums.slimde

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] ANNOUNCE: piCorePlayer 7.0.0

2021-06-01 Thread CJS
kappclark wrote: > Done ! Thanks for the pointer. > 34876 As indicated by carsten_h, you can update your Squeezelite version by clicking "Full Update" at the top of the pCP main page. This should give you Squeezelite v1.9.9-1386-pCP. And the latest version of www (web interface) is v00016. I thi

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] ANNOUNCE: piCorePlayer 7.0.0

2021-05-19 Thread CJS
trans_lux wrote: > > System-LMS: 8.1.1 piCorePlayer v7.0.1 | linux 5.4.83-pcpCore-v7 | piCore > v12.0pCP | Squeezelite v1.9.8-1287-pCP I don't know if you are using piCorePlayer as a player or as LMS server or both, but I see that your Squeezelite version is not up to date. On my RPi ZeroW pla

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] ANNOUNCE: piCorePlayer 7.0.0

2021-02-23 Thread CJS
psketch wrote: > I just tried the new mono mode with Squeezelite v1.9.9-1356-pCP, pcp > 7.0.1 and the latest LMS 8.2 nightly, but when I select Mono in the > Audio settings, I get no output at all. Setting Both or Left I get just > the left channel as I'd expect. I've taken a default asound.co

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

2020-12-29 Thread CJS
mvordeme wrote: > I found a test track, if you are interested. When you play the live > album "Showtime, Storytime" by Nightwish, the last three seconds of the > second track "Wish I Had an Angel" go missing. On which branch are you > intending to fix it? Just out of curiosity, I tried to reprod

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] ANNOUNCE: piCorePlayer 7.0.0

2020-12-24 Thread CJS
Paul Webster wrote: > Keyboard, mouse and IR to Pi GPIO/USB ... unless this change made its > way in as the basis for using the TV remote control via CEC > https://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?111787-ANNOUNCE-piCorePlayer-6-0-0&p=970826&viewfull=1#post970826 You can also use an RF (wire

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

2020-10-10 Thread CJS
paul- wrote: > I just pushed up Bluetooth extension v0013, which contains a change to > allow setting the LMS server IP. This will use the LMS IP (-s) field > from the squeezelite page. This should resolve issues for those that > their LMS server is not discoverable. I think that there is a mi

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

2020-10-10 Thread CJS
OK, thanks | LMS 8.0 | Squeezebox Boom | RPi0W + pCP 6.1.0 + HiFiBerry DAC Zero | SqueezeAMP | CJS's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=68700 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthrea

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] ANNOUNCE: piCorePlayer 6.0.0

2020-09-27 Thread CJS
gizmo1990 wrote: > I've been setting up my squeezebox and pi0 but am getting stumped at the > last samba set up section. After following the instructions to setup the > network location in windows 10, I can't gain access to it. :( I just > get, Windows cannot access \\piCoreLMS\LMSfiles Not an a

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

2020-09-07 Thread CJS
paul- wrote: > Install the streamer option on the tweaks page. Yes it will do what you > are asking, LMS can be running anywhere. Thank you very much Paul-, after installing the "Streamer for Audio Input" on the pCP Tweaks page the Bluetooth Streamer mode is indeed working. It was not immediate

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

2020-09-07 Thread CJS
The first post in this thread explains that pCP has following three Bluetooth operating modes: paul- wrote: > > > > > - Speaker - A2DP Source - Play from piCorePlayer to a bluetooth > connected speaker. - Player - A2DP Sink - Play directly from your phone or other > bluetooth musi

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] piCorePlayer 6.1.0 issues

2020-08-24 Thread CJS
dkskl wrote: > > Fresh insallment on the SD and most recent updates. > piCorePlayer | piCorePlayer v6.1.0 | www v0009 | linux > 4.19.122-pcpCore_v7 | piCore v10.3pCP | Squeezelite v1.9.7-1269-pCP > Logitech Media Server Version: 8.0.0 - 1596714594 @ Thu Aug 6 14:24:42 > CEST 2020 I am not an ex

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] [piCorePlayer] Customization of RF remote control keys?

2020-08-23 Thread CJS
ralphy wrote: > I've uploaded a new test jivelite extension that should fix the > picoreplayer applet and as an added incentive to try it, I've remapping > the PLAYPAUSE key to PAUSE just for the test build. Use my previous > instructions to install it. Hi Ralphy, good news! I have installed th

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] [piCorePlayer] Customization of RF remote control keys?

2020-08-22 Thread CJS
CJS wrote: > > => I will check what happens when I start from scratch using the > downloaded pCP6.1.0 image, only install jivelite on the Tweaks page, and > then update to the test jivelite. I will report back in this thread what > is the result of this experiment. I did

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] [piCorePlayer] Customization of RF remote control keys?

2020-08-22 Thread CJS
ralphy wrote: > This is the commit for your changes. And I've confirmed that the > strings.txt file in that test jivelite extension has those two lines. Yes, that is also what I see. ralphy wrote: > I'm not sure why you can no longer navigate into the picoreplayer menu, > it works for me. I

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] [piCorePlayer] Customization of RF remote control keys?

2020-08-21 Thread CJS
Thanks Ralphy for spending time on making KEY_PLAYPAUSE functional! I followed your instructions for installation of the test pcp-jivelite extension. Unfortunately it does not work as expected. These are my observations: 1) The PLAYPAUSE button still does not work, i.e. audio playback is not pa

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] [piCorePlayer] Customization of RF remote control keys?

2020-08-20 Thread CJS
ralphy wrote: > You should be able to fix the KEY_POWER behaviour in jivelite go to > settings->picoreplayer->enable power on button when powered off and save > and restart jivelite. After enabling the Power On button in Settings -> Picoreplayer the Power button behaviour is indeed as I want it.

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] [piCorePlayer] Customization of RF remote control keys?

2020-08-19 Thread CJS
One more question about the response of Jivelite/LMS on pressing button KEY_POWER on my RF/USB remote control. The response on pressing this button is not as I expected. I made following observation: In file InputToActionMap.lua, keys["q"] and [KEY_POWER] are both mapped on action "power": char

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] [piCorePlayer] Switch off HDMI output when turning off player?

2020-08-17 Thread CJS
paul- wrote: > The only reason to use the -C option is when using things like > Shairport-sync, or playing from a bluetooth phone to your device. The > -C option tells squeezelite to release the audio hardware (So other > applications can use it). Thanks for this information. I do have the Blue

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] [piCorePlayer] Switch off HDMI output when turning off player?

2020-08-16 Thread CJS
paul- wrote: > Pause alone would not call the script, unless you are using the -C > function in squeezelite. Which purposely closes the output when no > data is flowing. The -C option was indeed active, value was set to 5. I don't remember that I set this value myself, so I think the -C option

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] [piCorePlayer] Switch off HDMI output when turning off player?

2020-08-16 Thread CJS
WadDad wrote: > Useful script. But script not recognize if screensaver sets on. On > screensaver run screen goes to turn off state. Maybe it will be better > to run script via cron? Good point. The only disadvantage that I see with the existing script is that the HDMI output is switched off in c

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] [piCorePlayer] Turn off USB output when turning off player?

2020-08-15 Thread CJS
'This post' (https://raspberrypi.stackexchange.com/questions/5407/how-can-i-cut-power-coming-out-of-the-pis-usb-ports) on raspberrypi.stackexchange.com refers to a tool called 'uhubctl' (https://github.com/mvp/uhubctl) that should be able to power on and off USB ports of Raspberry Pi models B+, 2

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] [piCorePlayer] Switch off HDMI output when turning off player?

2020-08-15 Thread CJS
eezelite sets $1 to: # 0: off # 1: on # 2: initialising #---- # Version: 0.2 2020-08-15 CJS case $1 in 0) sudo vcgencmd display_power 0 >/dev/null 2>&1 ;; 1) sudo vcgencmd display_

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] [piCorePlayer] Switch off HDMI output when turning off player?

2020-08-15 Thread CJS
Hi paul-, paul- wrote: > Make sure the script exits quickly and cleanly, otherwise it can hang > squeezelite. You might want to redirect any possible output from > vcgencmd to null, I forget what causes problems, and error handling is > not perfect. What you say here is beyond my understandi

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] [piCorePlayer] Switch off HDMI output when turning off player?

2020-08-14 Thread CJS
--- # Version: 0.1 2020-08-14 CJS case $1 in 0) sudo vcgencmd display_power 0 ;; 1) sudo vcgencmd display_power 1 ;; 2) sudo vcgencmd display_power 1 ;; esac The picture below shows where the path to the script is entered on the p

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] [piCorePlayer] Switch off HDMI output when turning off player?

2020-08-13 Thread CJS
paul- wrote: > vcgencmd needs to run with root access. Pretty much everything in pCP > is running under root anyway. Which is why we don't have a ton of udev > rules to change device permissions. Hi Paul and paul-, Thanks for your help. I can confirm that when I run vcgencmd as root I can tu

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] [piCorePlayer] Customization of RF remote control keys?

2020-08-13 Thread CJS
Howard Passman wrote: > I, for one, would like to thank you for this primer. > Thank you very much. > Howard You are welcome. | LMS 7.9.3 | Squeezebox Boom | RPi0W + pCP 6.1.0 + HiFiBerry DAC | CJS's Profile: http://for

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] [piCorePlayer] Customization of RF remote control keys?

2020-08-13 Thread CJS
ralphy wrote: > Maybe I could remap KEY_PLAYPAUSE to KEY_PAUSE for the next picoreplayer > release, but I don't have a remote that generates a KEY_PLAYPAUSE > event. > What are the scancodes reported by evtest for it? It would be very nice if you could consider this for the next pCP release. R

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] [piCorePlayer] Switch off HDMI output when turning off player?

2020-08-13 Thread CJS
Thanks Paul for your help. It appears that extension rpi-vc.tcz is uninstalled when HDMI power is set to "on" on the Tweaks page: rpi-vc.tcz is in the list of uninstalled extensions under Main Page => Extensions. This might explain why the HDMI output stays turned on when turning off the player.

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] [piCorePlayer] Customization of RF remote control keys?

2020-08-13 Thread CJS
can be set on the front panel of the Squeezebox Boom. Is this something that could be implemented in a next release of tcz-jivelite without breaking existing functionality? Kind regards, CJS. | LMS 7.9.3 | Squeezebox Boom | RPi0W + pCP 6.1.0 + HiF

[SlimDevices: Unix] [piCorePlayer] Switch off HDMI output when turning off player?

2020-08-13 Thread CJS
Hi all, I am using piCorePlayer 6.1.0 on a Raspberry Pi ZeroW. I installed Jivelite for displaying the "Now Playing" screen on a monitor or TV via HDMI, and control piCorePlayer via an Android App or via a RF (USB) remote control. It appears that the HDMI output of my ZeroW stays active when I

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] [piCorePlayer] Customization of RF remote control keys?

2020-08-11 Thread CJS
to SD Card This saves piCorePlayer settings to SD card, including all files under /home/tc. These settings are restored when booting PiCorePlayer 11) Reboot piCorePlayer by selecting "Reboot piCorePlayer" in the same piCorePlayer menu 12) Double check that the modified keys

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] [piCorePlayer] Customization of RF remote control keys?

2020-08-10 Thread CJS
ralphy wrote: > There is a Quit menu item at the bottom of the main menu in jivelite. > Alternatively, you can press the small letter o to quit immediately. > Picoreplayer will restart jivelite automatically. Thanks Ralphy. I had earlier hidden Quit from the HOME menu, that is why I did not se

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] [piCorePlayer] Customization of RF remote control keys?

2020-08-08 Thread CJS
Hi Ralphy, ralphy wrote: > 'This post' > (https://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?103330-Jivelite-for-piCorePlayer&p=938026&viewfull=1#post938026) > documents how to find the keycode generated for the keys you want to > change ... With the help of your instructions and the evtest program

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] [piCorePlayer] Customization of RF remote control keys?

2020-08-06 Thread CJS
ralphy wrote: > 'This post' > (https://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?103330-Jivelite-for-piCorePlayer&p=938026&viewfull=1#post938026) > documents how to find the keycode generated for the keys you want to > change and 'this one' > (https://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?105117-lir

[SlimDevices: Unix] [piCorePlayer] Customization of RF remote control keys?

2020-08-05 Thread CJS
Dear Squeezebox community, I have a few question about the possibility to customize RF remote control keys in piCorePlayer. But let me start with describing my pCP setup. I built a Squeezebox player using a Raspberry Pi ZeroW board in combination with piCorePlayer. I can control pCP with a smar

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

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

2020-07-01 Thread CJS
bpa wrote: > My guess is during the editing spaces replaced tabs. Other possibility > is the editor - for example editing the file on Windows and saving it on > pcp. > > Save attached file and rename to get rid of the ".txt" extension and > put into PlayWMA directory. Do NOT edit. Hi bpa, G

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

2020-07-01 Thread CJS
Hi bpa, all bpa wrote: > I'd advise checking whether ffplay can play the WMa files before > starting any transcode work. My WMA files (normal WMA, WMA Lossless and WMA Pro) play fine with ffplay. bpa wrote: > > The following could replace the custom-convert.conf in PlayWMA plugin. > It assum

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

2020-06-30 Thread CJS
ralphy wrote: > For squeezelite, going forward wma, wma pro and wmalossless will need to > be decoded in LMS using the PlayWMA plugin, unless your LMS is running > on windows in which case the server includes wma decodiing support. For information: the PlayWMA plugin also has issues. After inst

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

2020-06-30 Thread CJS
ralphy wrote: > For squeezelite, going forward wma, wma pro and wmalossless will need to > be decoded in LMS using the PlayWMA plugin, unless your LMS is running > on windows in which case the server includes wma decodiing support. > I'm happy to accept patches to squeezelite which fix the depre

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

2020-06-29 Thread CJS
Thanks Paul for the info. FYI, native playback of WMA Lossless and WMA Pro files is not really important to me. Apart from the test files that I created I don't use these formats in my music collection. I would prefer however that future versions of piCorePlayer still support normal WMA 9.2 fil

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

2020-06-29 Thread CJS
paul- wrote: > WMA has been broken for sometime. keeping up with ffmpeg as they break > and fix it is too difficult..ralphy can elaborate more. > > We are going to drop support for WMA in the future versions of > squeezelite. You will still be able to transcode, assuming you can find > a

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

2020-06-29 Thread CJS
Hi All, Since a week I have piCorePlayer running on a Raspberry Pi ZeroW, and am very pleased with it. I encountered a few issues however with native playback of WMA files (to be specific: WMA Lossless and WMA Pro files) that I want to report here. For native playback of ALAC and WMA files I in

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] SqueezePlay on Linux does not connect to Logitech Media Server

2018-12-04 Thread CJS
To Action From -- -- 1024:65535/udp (jive) ALLOW INAnywhere 1024:65535/udp (jive (v6)) ALLOW INAnywhere (v6) A screenshot of Squeezeplay running on my Lubun

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] SqueezePlay on Linux does not connect to Logitech Media Server

2018-12-04 Thread CJS
bpa wrote: > Can you not do > Squeezeplay >Settings > Advanced > Networking > Remote Libraries > Add > New Library > input the IP address of the server you wish to connect to? This indeed works. After setting the IP address of the LMS server in Squeezeplay, Squeezeplay can connect to LMS with f

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] SqueezePlay on Linux does not connect to Logitech Media Server

2018-12-03 Thread CJS
Thanks again BosseJ and bpa for the suggestions. I will try them later this week. I noticed that it is also possible to define application based rules in ufw. I am now thinking about defining a rule in ufw that allows incoming traffic on all ports for Squeezeplay, which is shown as process "jive

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] SqueezePlay on Linux does not connect to Logitech Media Server

2018-12-03 Thread CJS
Thanks for the suggestions. After entering firewall rules for ports 3483 and 9000 and enabling ufw, command Code: sudo ufw status verbose shows the following: Code: Status: active Logging: on (low) Default: deny (incom

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] SqueezePlay on Linux does not connect to Logitech Media Server

2018-12-02 Thread CJS
FYI, I figured out what the problem was. It appears that a firewall called ufw was enabled on my Lubuntu system, that blocked incoming traffic on ports 3483 and 9000 that are used by Logitech Media Server. I should have thought of that. To allow communication between SqueezePlay and LMS, I needed

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Latest version of Squeezeplay for Linux ?

2018-12-02 Thread CJS
FYI, I opened a new thread on this forum with title 'SqueezePlay on Linux does not connect to Logitech Media Server' (https://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?109829). Suggestions for solving my problem are much appreciated. -

[SlimDevices: Unix] SqueezePlay on Linux does not connect to Logitech Media Server

2018-12-02 Thread CJS
possibility to enter the IP address of the LMS server manually. Can somebody help me with troubleshooting this connection problem with SqueezePlay on Linux? Regards, CJS +---+ |Filename: SqueezePlay_Lub_screenshot_01.png