[SlimDevices: Unix] Community hardware status

2014-10-28 Thread JohnSwenson
The last you all heard from me I was working with a company that was going to take over the legal issues with the hardware and do the distribution etc. Unfortunately that company has had a major restructuring and is no longer interested in perusing a community project. I have tried to take some

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Community Squeeze OS F19 Release 1

2014-05-05 Thread JohnSwenson
erland wrote: > For what it's worth, something like this would make me upgrade my > Wandboard a lot more often. > > However, I'm not sure if it's worth it if the problem will be solved > when we all are using the Community Squeeze DAC board ? Or will we also > have to open the box to upgrade the

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Bluetooth Circle of Hell - Vol. 2

2014-04-22 Thread JohnSwenson
I was able to get BT working on wandboard under CSOS F19 but it wasn't easy. The main problem I kept on running into is that different versions of Bluez have radically different interfaces making things very difficult when you get scripts off the internet, they will only work with one specific ve

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Community Squeeze OS F19 Release 1

2014-04-16 Thread JohnSwenson
JackOfAll wrote: > Clarity It's specifically DoP that needs testing, not that I'm too > lazy to test anything. (I've tested PCM output from DSF64. DFF64, DSF128 > and DFF128, via a Transporter. But my DoP capable DAC is hooked up to > something else, in a way that makes this impossible to tes

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Community Squeeze OS F19 Release 1

2014-04-15 Thread JohnSwenson
Gandhi wrote: > That's interesting, John. I don't think that I've ever heard a DAC > without a reconstruction filter. Is there a mechanism somewhere for > dealing with the ultrasonic noise, which otherwise usually is removed > with an LP filter? > > Do you have any idea how much processing power

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Community Squeeze OS F19 Release 1

2014-04-15 Thread JohnSwenson
kesey wrote: > Sounds great John. Is there a timeline at this time for production of > CSP1? > > best regards, > > kesey The hardware design has been ready to go for quite a few months. Currently we are waiting for the driver to be available. I built a couple test boards a while back, I want

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Community Squeeze OS F19 Release 1

2014-04-14 Thread JohnSwenson
Gandhi wrote: > I was referring to the reconstruction filter; surely we need one of > those. > > Right now I cannot find information about whether it's supposed to be > done in hw (ISTR that the DAC chip has a built-in DSP) or sw (SoX), > perhaps someone remembers? The DAC chip in the CSP hard

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Community Squeeze OS F19 Release 1

2014-04-10 Thread JohnSwenson
Triode wrote: > The 100% limit is my fault - it's in the validation code. Is there a > valid upper bound it should check for? What about start and phase > settings too? As far as I can tell the actual limits for passband and stopband are 200, the real limit is that stopband has to be greater th

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Community Squeeze OS F19 Release 1

2014-04-08 Thread JohnSwenson
I finally got around to installing F19-R7 on my WB dual, it worked great out of the box. The new GUI is wonderful, much faster almost instantaneous, I thought something was broken when it popped up milliseconds after typing in the address in the browser. Starting up wifi worked perfectlty, it au

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Community Squeeze OS F19 Release 1

2014-04-01 Thread JohnSwenson
jemhayward wrote: > I don't seem to have an advanced part in the squeezelite settings, and > setting log level to debug just upset the interface and prevented > restart. Setting Max sample rate to 9600 resulted in 16bit 48khz > according to my MDAC. Not sure what to make of that! I'll get my >

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Community Squeeze OS F19 Release 1

2014-03-05 Thread JohnSwenson
MarkLP wrote: > Hi there, > > Quick question regarding CSOS, am I able to run this through > ssh/terminal instead of the web gui? As I will be running multiple > instances of squeezelite. > > Thanks, > Mark > > EDIT - The download link will not work for me on the homepage? Hi Mark, some clari

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Musical Fidelity V-DAC II on CommunitySqueeze

2014-03-02 Thread JohnSwenson
Hi John, you are almost there, some critical pieces of information from the data you posted: it is full speed async. This means you have to use a hub, which it sounds like you are already doing. It uses S24_3LE, this is the particular data format, you have to set that in the alsa params. The als

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Community Squeeze OS F19 Release 1

2014-02-18 Thread JohnSwenson
Pascal Hibon wrote: > Update... I attempted to change the boot device today by re-configuring > these 3 resistors. But I managed to kill a trace in the process and > couldn't get the WB to boot anymore. Luckily I successfully managed to > reverse the process and my WB is again booting from the SD

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Community Squeeze OS F19 Release 1

2014-02-14 Thread JohnSwenson
JackOfAll wrote: > You will always be able to see the router if it broadcasts the SSID. > Whether what you call "guest access" affects that or not, I can't say, > I'm not familiar with "guest access". > > Dave, don't really have time to go into this until tomorrow, but I've > seen you talking ab

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Community Squeeze OS F19 Release 1

2014-02-13 Thread JohnSwenson
Triode wrote: > I have one of these now. Using the supplied dongle it looks like we can > get the key codes, but we will need to patch sdl to process them and > then patch jivelite. The one thing i notice is that although there is a > separate play and pause button, they both send the same code

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Community Squeeze OS F19 Release 1

2014-02-05 Thread JohnSwenson
JJZolx wrote: > I would expect many external USB drives to be formatted FAT32. > > Why do you expect SATA to be least likely for storing music, other than > the planned case not being able to hold a disk drive? If I were to set > up a Wandboard Quad to function as both a server and player, I'd w

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Community Squeeze OS F19 Release 1

2014-02-05 Thread JohnSwenson
JackOfAll wrote: > I'm not going to go back to a clean F19 image right now, but IIRC we > already have samba configured out-of-the-box to work on the assumption > that your media drive/share is mounted to /storage and using the > VortexBox directory structure. Cant remember whether nfs was > pre-

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

2014-02-03 Thread JohnSwenson
Triode wrote: > I would recommend use of hw: as the alsa device, and to target it to a > specific card rather than be subject to devices getting renumbered > (which is likely with usb device if you hotplug them), then use > hw:CARD=X, where is the card name. > > The listing from squeeze

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Community Squeeze OS F19 Release 1

2014-01-22 Thread JohnSwenson
Last night I tried the ONOFF Button on the iMX6. The docs show a pin for an ONOFF button that is supposed to generate an interrupt which can be used to do a graceful shutdown of the system. The wandboard carrier board does not have a button for this, but it IS on the EDM connector, it just goes to

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Community Squeeze OS F19 Release 1

2014-01-16 Thread JohnSwenson
bakker_be wrote: > Of course we won't leave anyone behind, I was only joking ;) Will Johns > DAC solution even do DSD? It's of no interest to me, I'm not planning on > getting any DSD. With much of the music I listen to I consider myself > lucky to find decently mastered redbook, but I can imagin

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Community Squeeze OS F19 Release 1

2014-01-15 Thread JohnSwenson
obee wrote: > Hi, > I have tried the CSOS F19 on my wandboard dual. Thanks jackOfAll's help. > Regarding the power down of CSOS/Wandboard, I have read the FAQ: > http://www.communitysqueeze.org/quick_start_guide.jsp#Powering_Down > > The FAQ suggested going to the web interface to shutdown. Is i

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Setting up a linux squeezebox server - any advice?

2014-01-10 Thread JohnSwenson
Guut_Boy wrote: > Thanks for all the advice. I think I will give vortexbox a try. Only > problem is the Aspire Revo does not have a CD-drive, but I guess I can > use external one. I'm running VB software on a FIT-PC2 which does not have an optical drive, so I did the installation from a USB driv

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Setting up a linux squeezebox server - any advice?

2014-01-08 Thread JohnSwenson
Guut_Boy wrote: > I did read a little about that. It seems pretty cool. I like the > Auto-ripping thing, I might get an external drive to so I can use that. > However, I got the sense that vortexbox is quite a lot of work to deal > with and get set up right. Would you say that is wrong? Vortexbo

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Community Squeeze OS F19 Release 1

2014-01-07 Thread JohnSwenson
JackOfAll wrote: > No, I didn't. That might explain it! I've got this idea in my head that > their globes and maps have one land mass marked "USA" and anything else > marked, "non-USA". ;) > > Which reminds me of standing at a bar in a Las Vegas casino. Start > talking to a Texan couple, hi

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Community Squeeze OS F19 Release 1

2014-01-07 Thread JohnSwenson
JackOfAll wrote: > It's only temporary! > > > > Even if you are using it as a doorstop. If it makes you happy. > Fine, by me. What's really sad, and this is not funny, when it gets to > the point that I need to start every sentence with, "no warranty, > express or implied", that's sad!

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Community Squeeze OS F19 Release 1

2014-01-02 Thread JohnSwenson
Pascal Hibon wrote: > Happy New Year to everyone - best wishes for 2014 !! Hopefully a lot of > great CSOS stuff ! > > I just finished my third project with CSOS and the Wandboard. Just for > fun I created a little website for it (still work in progress). > More details can be found 'here' (http

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Community Squeeze OS F19 Release 1

2013-12-06 Thread JohnSwenson
Pascal Hibon wrote: > Thank you castalla. > I'm on Fedora 19. As far as I understand this, there is some Bluez stuff > already installed (like hciconfig) on the Wandboard. > You are right, this BT thing is very poorly documented and is very very > confusing. > When you say that you had to copy so

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

2013-11-28 Thread JohnSwenson
JRatron wrote: > Thanks. I'll give that a go :) > I get the impression that this is right on the borderline of what the Pi > can do, especially with its shared USB/Ethernet bus. Are there any other > low cost, small format devices which have been proven to run squeezelite > nicely? Beaglebone Bla

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Community Squeeze OS F19 Release 1

2013-11-09 Thread JohnSwenson
I finally got my bluetooth headphone adapter (BlueAnt Ribbon) working with the wandboard and CSOS. The initial problem was pairing the device. I could not get the CLI tools to work. Simple-agent required libraries that were missing and it was a never ending game trying to get everything it needed

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Community Squeeze OS F19 Release 1

2013-11-09 Thread JohnSwenson
JackOfAll wrote: > Eric, > > The original problem with spdif on the Dual was due to a hardware > implementation error on the carrier board, voltage and signal > transposed, to the TOSLINK transceiver. The Quad doesn't have that > issue. I believe that Dual's are now shipping with the later revis

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Community Squeeze OS F19 Release 1

2013-10-30 Thread JohnSwenson
JJZolx wrote: > I haven't been following the thread closely, but I'm about to purchase a > Wandboard quad. Could I get some clarification of what's included? Does > the image also include LMS server? > > Edit: Found the answer in one of the earlier threads. Is the LMS service > still disabled by

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Community Squeeze OS F19 Release 1

2013-10-14 Thread JohnSwenson
ian_heys wrote: > I've been watching this thread daily for months. > The OS is starting to look very stable. > I'm not very interested in development but very interested in buying a > finished product. > What is the position WRT the customised hardware? Is it likely to be > available soon (say be

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

2013-09-18 Thread JohnSwenson
paulster wrote: > Does anybody know if the SA9023 USB receiver is a good candidate to use > with Squeezelite on Arm? These DACs would be nice to add to my spare > PogoPlugs if they're going to work out and also offer 88.2kHz sampling > rate. >From what little I can gleen from the net on the SA9

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Community Squeeze OS F19 Release 1

2013-09-05 Thread JohnSwenson
JackOfAll wrote: > KERNEL-WAND-3.0.35-CM61 > > Another kernel update, this time adding support (kernel module) for the > Future Electronics 'Adapter Board for LCD Screen' > (http://www.futureelectronics.com/en/technologies/development-tools/development-tool-hardware/Pages/9032471-FWBADAPT-7WVGA-

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Community Squeeze OS F19 Release 1

2013-09-05 Thread JohnSwenson
JackOfAll wrote: > John, before I weigh-in with my 2p on the can of worms, (aka. > Bluetooth), what is it you want to get working, audio over Bluetooth? I have a bluetooth headphone adapter (BlueAnt Ribbon) which is pretty decent, I would like to get it connected to the wandboard so I can listen

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

2013-09-04 Thread JohnSwenson
ChrisMmm wrote: > Thanks, that brought up the volume to my reference CD player level. But > how do you make it stick? Each time I re-boot it goes back to -20db > which seems to be the default level. Both the Wandboard and Raspberry Pi > are doing the same now so I am confused as to why the RPi wa

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

2013-09-04 Thread JohnSwenson
Rotte2 wrote: > Hi > > I am running Squeezeplug and Squeezelite player on a Raspberry Pi with a > Hifimediy Sabre USB-DAC but the sound is crackling. > Running > Code: > > /usr/bin/squeezelite -l > > result in the following output: > > > Code: --

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Community Squeeze OS F19 Release 1

2013-09-04 Thread JohnSwenson
I've been running F19-R1 for about a week now, it has been extremely stable and responsive. As mentioned before I've been doing DAC development where I need to reconfigure squeezelite parameters frequently and connect and disconnect DACs. The previous R7 version was somewhat unstable with this. Ev

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Community Squeeze OS F19 Release 1

2013-09-04 Thread JohnSwenson
vzs wrote: > I finally connected/configured everything and have my Wandboard Dual > all-in-one system running smoothly so far. > > All-in-one system: Wandboard Dual [running LMS + Squeezelite with > upsampling: vM:::28:87.5 ] + 4x USB HUB with USB HDD & Amanero Combo384 > connected to it + Andr

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

2013-09-02 Thread JohnSwenson
vzs wrote: > Hi Triode, > > I was using LMS for upsampling so far but since I configured my > Wandboard I want Squeezelite to do the same but have some minor issues > understanding/correlating the fifth and sixth fields with SoX rate > effect. > I used one of SoX rate settings shown here: > http

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Community Squeeze OS F19 Release 1

2013-08-21 Thread JohnSwenson
I'm having a similar issue with the webgui for squeezelite, I'm testing multiple USB DACs in different configurations which require restarting squeezelite frequently. Sometimes when I do the restart (or stop or save and restart) the logo shows for awhile then the page goes blank. It will never com

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Community Squeeze OS R3

2013-08-13 Thread JohnSwenson
While we are doing DACs, the HRT Music Streamer II works very well with wandboard and CSOS. It is a UAC1 asynch interface so it does require a hub. The max rate is 96KHz. John S. JohnSwenson's Profile: http://forums.slimd

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Community Squeeze OS R3

2013-08-11 Thread JohnSwenson
I'm sorry I didn't get the SPDIF tests done this weekend, but Friday I plugged my wandboard into 12V, for some reason it didn't like it. I'm getting a new one Monday. John S. JohnSwenson's Profile: http://forums.slimdevice

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Community Squeeze OS R3

2013-08-08 Thread JohnSwenson
Squeezed_Rotel wrote: > John, was the upsampling that you did accomplished by using the > upsampling feature of CSOS's Squeezelite Player? > > TIA > John Yes, it was using the upsampling in squeezelite. I did some quick experimentation a while back and liked mI:::28. The 352.8 is important, be

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Community Squeeze OS R3

2013-08-06 Thread JohnSwenson
So I ran the optical out from the SWAMP board into my AVR and it works. (Boy have I gotten spoiled by the upsampling to 352 into the DAC I'll be using fro CSP, the AVR sounded terrible in comparison) So it works into the AVR, but not the EMU_0404USB. The optical out from the Touch works fine on

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Community Squeeze OS R3

2013-08-05 Thread JohnSwenson
Triode wrote: > It should be emphasis none if that patch is applied. Are you seeing it > on the output - if so we should check the patch is still being applied? Sorry I read it wrong, it looks like it is being set to none by default. I have a SPDIF receiver in FPGA, I can fairly easily use that

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Community Squeeze OS R3

2013-08-05 Thread JohnSwenson
JohnSwenson wrote: > Yes, I am using the same module and SDcard so it should not matter what > carrier board is used. I can't test the wand carier since I have A0. > > I have been thinking it could be SCMS since I have been feeding it into > a EMU-0404USB which is desi

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Community Squeeze OS R3

2013-08-05 Thread JohnSwenson
Triode wrote: > Spdif should have no copyright asserted - > https://github.com/CommunitySqueeze/CSOS/blob/master/kernel/patches/csos0005-as-patch4-spdif-pll4.patch > line 110 > > Shouldn't this be the same for the Wandcarrier and SWAMP anyway? > > Maybe we need to look at the other bits in the

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Community Squeeze OS R3

2013-08-05 Thread JohnSwenson
The SWAMP board has a correct optical connection, but I have not been able to get sound out of it. The receiver locks onto the stream, gets the sample rate correctly but no sound. I had forgotten about SCMS. I'll try it into a different receiver and see if it plays on that. John S. -

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Community Squeeze OS R3

2013-07-26 Thread JohnSwenson
I finally got around to trying R7 tonight, it is working well, the jivelite is working well, I haven't had any freezes, I like the grid view. I'm using an 8G class 10 card (patriot brand), I picked up several at my local computer store for about $8 a piece. The squeezelite part is working great

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Community Squeeze OS R3

2013-07-20 Thread JohnSwenson
This wait for network to start jivelite may be problamatic. I know there are going to be a fair number of people that will want to run with the embedded LMS and have no network connection at all. Their only interface to the system will be with jivelite. That is going to make it difficult for those

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Community Squeeze OS R3

2013-07-19 Thread JohnSwenson
I finally got around to trying out the HDMI on R6 and get the same problem others have mentioned. When it comes up Jivelite is either frozen or works for a couple keystrokes then freezes. I tried two different cards and two installs and always have the same results. This just seems to affect the

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Community Squeeze OS R3

2013-07-19 Thread JohnSwenson
JackOfAll wrote: > Out of the people who have a QUAD board, is anyone else using it it > headless and with ethernet networking? Which is a roundabout way of me > asking, if I were to release a kernel image based on main-line kernel > development source, ie. 3.11, (rather than the Freescale 3.0.35

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Community Squeeze OS R3

2013-07-17 Thread JohnSwenson
soundcheck wrote: > Hi guys. > > > Compulab seems to launch a microPC called Utilite in August. It'll start > at 99$. The heart is a Freescale-i.MX6 quad. 4GB RAM. 4 USB2. 2 > ethernet. WLAN-n. Hdmi, SPDIF and even bluetooth. > > CSOS might work on this fellow. Can you confirm it?? Obviously

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Community Squeeze OS R3

2013-07-14 Thread JohnSwenson
Hi Clive, is the new libsoxr in the R6 image? When I do a ls -l libsox* in /usr/lib I get : Code: lrwxrwxrwx. 1 root root 20 Jul 11 08:19 libsoxr-lsr.so.0 -> libsoxr-lsr.so.0.1.9 -rwxr-xr-x. 1 root root 18658 Jun 10 02:35 libsoxr-lsr.so.0.1.9 lrwxrwxrwx. 1

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] "Can't connect to server" -- although detects server during setup

2013-07-12 Thread JohnSwenson
flavor8 wrote: > From my laptop I can telnet to both of the ports on the server (9000 and > 3483). That would seem to rule out networking issues... The components of the SB system use UDP multicast to find each other. A lot of linux firewalls turn off UDP by default. If you haved upgraded your

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Community Squeeze OS R3

2013-07-10 Thread JohnSwenson
JackOfAll wrote: > Another loose end > > Zsolt, > > Have just connected the Amanero via a different hub than I was using > last time. I can't reproduce the problems. I was using a powered USB2 7 > port hub, which if I recall correctly wasn't cheap. Which I seem to > have misplaced for t

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Community Squeeze OS R3

2013-07-07 Thread JohnSwenson
I have put a post in the other thread in the General forum about eSATA, those of you that want to discus the hardware issues of that please respond over in that thread, it is where other hardware discussions have taken place, lets keep it all in the same thread. I'm going to stop responding to p

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Community Squeeze OS R3

2013-07-05 Thread JohnSwenson
erland wrote: > I'm still interested to hear if JackOfAll had a reason for having a > drive that isn't related to local media storage and development speed. > > With the exception for this, my feeling based on your post is that it > might be better to look into solutions where we can have an ext

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Community Squeeze OS R3

2013-07-05 Thread JohnSwenson
Here is what I'm thinking of with respect to internal drives. First off I never thought of the device as having an INTERNAL drive. The idea was to build a networked player that had USB jacks on the back so that if people wanted to use it standalone they could plug in USB drives. People seemed to

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Community Squeeze OS R3

2013-07-04 Thread JohnSwenson
When I made the original plans the Quad module with SATA did not exist, now that it does I have been convinced to add the SATA connector and a drive power connector. Its going to be a female 4pin "Molex" type (although Molex doesn't actually make one!) There are many male molex to SATA power conne

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Community Squeeze OS R3

2013-07-04 Thread JohnSwenson
One thing I would like to have tested if at all possible is some of those external interfaces people have been requesting. I'm providing a lot of USB ports on this, just so people CAN plug in things like IR receivers, relay boxes to turn amps on and off, stuff like that. The first version is not

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Community Squeeze OS R3

2013-07-01 Thread JohnSwenson
castalla wrote: > As far as I know there are no Bluez-utils for fedora. I tried a lot of > variations to get pairing (i.e. autopairing) but none worked. The only > way I got bt working was to do the pairing in debian and then copy over > the device profile files. > > If someone came up with a

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Community Squeeze OS R3

2013-07-01 Thread JohnSwenson
For some unknown reason I'm wanting to try a bluetooth headhpone receiver with CSOS (A2DP profile). I'm trying to figure out what I need to make this work. I understand that the driver for the bluetooth on the Dual is already installed and running. Is this using BlueZ? If yes are the BlueZ util

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Community Squeeze OS R3

2013-06-30 Thread JohnSwenson
I have just started a thread in the Audiophile section for talking about listening impressions when using different upsampling parameters. Let's keep this one for dealing with how to get it working and discuss sonic impressions in the one in the Audiophile section. http://forums.slimdevices.com/

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Community Squeeze OS R3

2013-06-24 Thread JohnSwenson
I've been trying to get the optical out on the swamp board to work. I'm currently using R4, with just the squeezelite upgrade for sampling. When I have squeezelite setup for the spdif out and boot the board I get red on the output for a couple seconds, then it goes black for about a minute, then c

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

2013-06-21 Thread JohnSwenson
ab.wagener wrote: > Hallo Adrian! > > Found now time to test resampling in windows and it works without > problems. I have a older Core2Duo processor E8600 and a M-Audio Delta > 2496 > Soundcard. Using Microsoft Soundmapper the CPU consumption of > squeezelite goes from 0.3 % up to 1.4 % by upsa

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Community Squeeze OS R3

2013-06-17 Thread JohnSwenson
JohnSwenson wrote: > Is it possible to get boot messages on the serial port? I think CSOS did > this at one point, but it is not doing it now. I built another SWAMP > board and I can't SSH into it, it would be nice to see the boot messages > on the serial port so I can try

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Community Squeeze OS R3

2013-06-17 Thread JohnSwenson
Is it possible to get boot messages on the serial port? I think CSOS did this at one point, but it is not doing it now. I built another SWAMP board and I can't SSH into it, it would be nice to see the boot messages on the serial port so I can try and debug what is happening. It's not completely de

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Community Squeeze OS R3

2013-06-17 Thread JohnSwenson
JackOfAll wrote: > Yep, strange. Serial console has always worked, right since the first > kernel image I built. > > I always leave a user logged in on it from my PC desktop and I just > rebooted the WB to make sure the kernel messages were shown at start-up. > They were. Which image are you us

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Community Squeeze OS R3

2013-06-13 Thread JohnSwenson
Can the posters that asked about CSP hardware issues please repost in the other thread, I'd like to keep this thread focused on the CSOS software. Thanks, John S. JohnSwenson's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/memb

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Boom style user interface for Community Squeeze OS

2013-06-13 Thread JohnSwenson
rpress wrote: > I'd like to do a Boom type user interface using the Wandboard and > Community Squeeze OS. > > The hardware will consist of a 256x64 OLED display along with an RF > remote control. > > The display interface with the SPI port will be easy enough; the remote > is USB. The software

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Community Squeeze OS R3

2013-06-13 Thread JohnSwenson
Squeezed_Rotel wrote: > Is this the correct thread John? > > http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?97881-Community-Funded-Squeezebox-Replacement-Would-you-be-interested Yes, that is the thread where we have been discussing what should be in the community player hardware. Thanks, John

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Community Squeeze OS R3

2013-06-11 Thread JohnSwenson
albertone74 wrote: > Hi Chunkywizard, > > I can't do that as I have assigned a static IP address to the WB, that's > why I was thinking to edit those two files (on a different linux > machine) in order to reset the previous network settings I still don't understand why having a static addre

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Community Squeeze OS R3

2013-06-10 Thread JohnSwenson
JJZolx wrote: > How would someone customize SqueezeOS to support such a display and user > interface? Would it simply be an application running at the OS level and > communicating with LMS via the CLI? Or is there some support for Lua > scripting, as with the Touch? Jivelite IS a lua interpreter

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Community Squeeze OS R3

2013-06-10 Thread JohnSwenson
Squeezed_Rotel wrote: > If one were so inclined, would the CSOS Wand (CSP 1 or 2) be able to > play DSD? If no native support, might there be a plugin? I ask because > I'm considering the purchase of either a Mytek or Benchmark DAC, both > 192PCM and DSD capable. > It's a somewhat humorous and tr

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Community Squeeze OS R3

2013-06-10 Thread JohnSwenson
Thanks Adrian and Clive, I got the resampling working today. (loaded R4 then updated squeezelite and webgui) It really works and does make a significant improvement over the builtin interpolation filters. It even works when still using a builtin filter but still upsampling 2x or 4x. Even with jus

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Community Squeeze OS R3

2013-06-06 Thread JohnSwenson
JackOfAll wrote: > SQUEEZELITE-1.1-2.10.20130605GITA0A1828 > GREAT! Hopefully I can have some time Thursday night to test this. Just one question: what is the definition of the "flags" field? Thanks, John S. JohnSwens

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Community Squeeze OS R3

2013-06-06 Thread JohnSwenson
Triode wrote: > Squeezelite resample branch should now support all codecs and > dynamically load the library. > > John - I think we are at the stage where we can assume resampling is > available from squeezelite - seems to work well, but interested if you > have managed to test? Hi Triode, I ha

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Community Squeeze OS R3

2013-06-06 Thread JohnSwenson
JohnSwenson wrote: > GREAT! Hopefully I can have some time Thursday night to test this. Just > one question: what is the definition of the "flags" field? > > Thanks, > > John S. Are these flags by any chance the flags in the "soxr_quality_spec" struc

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Community Squeeze OS R3

2013-06-06 Thread JohnSwenson
JackOfAll wrote: > I have another patch (which I need to test) which allows setting all the > quality options directly. Sooner or later, (even if John doesn't ask for > it), someone will want to set precision, passband, stopband, phase > values directly, rather than using the recipe defines. > >

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Community Squeeze OS R3

2013-05-29 Thread JohnSwenson
dsdreamer wrote: > And earlier you said. > > > > Is your objection to having filters design using interpolated FIR > methods like the response I pasted below? Would this be considered > "complex" per your post above? Are you planning to use a filter that is > just a truncated (possibly window

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Community Squeeze OS R3

2013-05-28 Thread JohnSwenson
Triode wrote: > I think Clive is already using sox to upsample to 384 on the server. > Clive - does this work in real time if the server is on the wandboard? > > We can probably include libsoxr or libsox in squeezelite if it needs to > be in the player. Do you know if libsoxr will do what we n

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Community Squeeze OS R3

2013-05-28 Thread JohnSwenson
erland wrote: > Was the plan to have a SATA port on the Community Squeeze carrier board > ? CSP1 definitely does not have a SATA port. There is probably room on the board to add one, but then you need room in the box to put the drive, and power for the drive. As currently conceived there is no r

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Community Squeeze OS R3

2013-05-28 Thread JohnSwenson
Recent tests on the DAC chip I'm using in the CSP hardware have determined that it is not possible to adjust the interpolation filter characteristics. This is one of the prime reasons for wanting to use that chip in the first place, it was supposed to have fully adjustable parameters. Well it does

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Community Squeeze OS R3

2013-05-07 Thread JohnSwenson
Triode wrote: > We can definately add a set clock applet for jivelite and also something > from the web interface if this is the likely problem area - really > depends on the long term accuracy of the clock too though. I don't > think this should distract us from our initial build though. I pro

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Community Squeeze OS R3

2013-05-07 Thread JohnSwenson
Triode wrote: > I wouldn't add an RTC for dhcp usage... There are plenty of devices > which support dhcp and they should either be used to allowing the > address to change or the server should be preconfigured to hand out a > static address. If there are other reasons then lets discuss (not sur

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Community Squeeze OS R3

2013-05-07 Thread JohnSwenson
This RTC stuff is interesting. On my system I just automatically set up a reserved address in my router so it gets the same IP address all the time. Anything I'm going to be SSHing into or accessing a webgui on I just put in a reserved address for and I never worry about it again. On the RTC i

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Community Squeeze OS R3

2013-05-01 Thread JohnSwenson
JackOfAll wrote: > Not that I really needed any confirmation about keeping images of wiring > and uncased circuit boards well away from anywhere where the "general > public" might accidentally stumble into them on a website, if you want > to be taken seriously... > > A guy contacted me out o

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Community Squeeze OS R3

2013-04-26 Thread JohnSwenson
garym wrote: > ah yes. Wordstar, VisiCalc.my first computer was an Apple ][. Still > have it. My first computer was an 8080 based homebrew monster. I spent a month wire wrapping that thing after school. I had an OLD Tecktronix tube based scope I used to debug it. The first incarnation just

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Community Squeeze OS R3

2013-04-25 Thread JohnSwenson
Chunkywizard wrote: > Hi JackOfAll, > > A really basic question (which I'll add to the FAQ). When ever you do an > update you write 'sudo ...'. I'm guessing this is a command line > instruction you need to run on the Wandboard to update it. How do you > input this? Do you do aomthing like Telnet

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Community Squeeze OS R3

2013-04-24 Thread JohnSwenson
Pascal Hibon wrote: > That’s not really an issue. In my case they need to play the same thing. > And I guess that no one else would want to play different things on both > outputs at the same time. > > Other question: From what I gather here in various responses, I guess > John’s board will need

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Community Squeeze OS R3

2013-04-23 Thread JohnSwenson
Pascal Hibon wrote: > I started experiencing audio drop outs from time to time. In my search > for the cause I have increased the Alsa buffer till 1 second. It’s > probably safe to say that it’s not caused by a buffer issue. I need to > do more research on it. A couple of events happened more or

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Community Squeeze OS R3

2013-04-23 Thread JohnSwenson
Triode wrote: > Not looked at the source yet, but P842 suggests SPDIF0_CLK_SEL can be > set to use pll4 which is the audio clock? Yes that is correct, set the SPDIF clock root to come from PLL4 the audio PLL, then you can set PLL4 to the frequencies listed in that table to get an audio frequency

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Community Squeeze OS R3

2013-04-22 Thread JohnSwenson
JackOfAll wrote: > Triode, > > Was trying to figure out the logic behind the magic numbers, 23 and 37, > found this > > > Code: > > > /* > * spdif0_clk will be 454.7MHz divided by ccm dividers. > * > * 44.1KHz: 454.7MHz / 7 (ccm) / 23 (spdif) = 44,128 Hz ~

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Community Squeeze OS R3

2013-04-18 Thread JohnSwenson
I finally had a little time to get R3 loaded and do some testing. At first I was just using webUI and USB DAC over ethernet. This worked very well. I finally got the right HDMI cables and adapters so I could try the jivelite interface (BTW what are we calling that? "jivelite interface" seems a l

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Community Squeeze OS R3

2013-04-14 Thread JohnSwenson
JJZolx wrote: > $23? What would a built-in IR receiver add to the cost of the > Squeezeboard?- RAW IR receivers only cost a few dollars, the problem is getting them into the computer and a linux driver to talk to them. A raw IR receiver doesn't send out messages, its a complex stream of high freq

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Plastic Box Which Plays Noises

2013-04-05 Thread JohnSwenson
Triode wrote: > What server version? 176 and 192 are only supported for pcm playback > with more recent 7.8 servers. Is this streaming as pcm or as flac to > the player? I'm using 7.7.2. Yep that was it, the server was set to FLAC->FLAC and WAV->PCM. The 176 and 192 files I was trying to use w

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Plastic Box Which Plays Noises

2013-04-04 Thread JohnSwenson
I've been running RC2 tonight on my wandboard with an XMOS based UAC2 board. The web interface seems to work as desired. I do wind up with strangeness when playing 176 and 192 files. I have set the max sample rate to 192000, but when I try and play 176 or 192, something is resampling to 44.1 (/p

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Plastic Box Which Plays Noises

2013-03-30 Thread JohnSwenson
I'm wondering if this is a clock synchronization issue.HDMI uses the video clock to clock the samples at the receiver, IF the CPU happens to be setup so that it is using the audio clock to generate the audio data stream rather than the video clock, you might get strangeness in the receiver when an

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