Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Announce: piCorePlayer 8.0.0

2022-01-23 Thread Narcos
Paul Webster wrote: > Squeezelite is fine alongside LMS. > Possibly on a 512MB Pi you would separate them but try it for yourself > and be pleasantly surprised. Can you please elaborate on what you mean by “possibly on a 512MB Pi”, I have two RPI4, 8gb & 4gb. Hence I’m curious to know, My plan

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Announce: piCorePlayer 8.0.0

2022-01-23 Thread Narcos
Paul Webster wrote: > It is normal to have a different MAC for WiFi and Ethernet. > If you really want to block/accept access via MAC address then add both > on your router - or only add the one the WiFi one (but be prepared to be > confused one day when you put the Ethernet cable back in and it

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Announce: piCorePlayer 8.0.0

2022-01-22 Thread Narcos
sbp wrote: > I think you have configured your router wrongly, you only allow the > Ethernet address 192.168.1.6 whereas the wlan seems to have this IP > address 192.168.1.3. Also please notice that the MAC is different > between the Ethernet adaptor and the wlan adaptor. Have a look at the >

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Announce: piCorePlayer 8.0.0

2022-01-21 Thread Narcos
Paul Webster wrote: > Did you reboot with the Ethernet cable already removed? > > Edit: > Or have you set the Ethernet link with a static IP address in pCP? Rebooted with & without Ethernet cable removed, but I loose the connectiion when I removed the cable. Yes, I have configured the

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Announce: piCorePlayer 8.0.0

2022-01-21 Thread Narcos
paul- wrote: > The password has to be entered anytime you want to make change. Thanks Paul that worked, finally I was able to correct the SSID & save the changes. However, I still can't connect over wifi :( as soon as I disconnect the Ethernet cable.

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Announce: piCorePlayer 8.0.0

2022-01-19 Thread Narcos
agburnsky wrote: > Are you sure you have the SSID input correctly, in the list of > available networks, it is fuzzy, but it looks like capital letters in > GHz and lower case in the SSID part? > > Anthony Well spotted Anthony :) I was hoping this would solve my problem, but . :(

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Announce: piCorePlayer 8.0.0

2022-01-14 Thread Narcos
jd68 wrote: > If possible I would use DHCP but define in the router to assign always > the same IP address to these RPi's. I'm unable to connect the PCP/LMS via wifi , "wifi information" shows "wifi IP- is missing" can someone please help me with this

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Announce: piCorePlayer 8.0.0

2021-12-21 Thread Narcos
Pommes wrote: > If I were you, I would just cancel the order of the second raspberry. > You can run hundreds of audio streams via Wi-Fi. And usually there is no > maintenance to do, once your set up is finished, or maintenance is done > via the web interface. If you worry about degrading of

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Announce: piCorePlayer 8.0.0

2021-12-21 Thread Narcos
Man in a van wrote: > Also assign each client squeezelite 127.0.0.1 IP to stop it going AWOL > :) > > ronnie I will be assigning an IP address for each Rpi's MAC address. Would I still need to do this Narcos's

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Announce: piCorePlayer 8.0.0

2021-12-21 Thread Narcos
Gents, Thank you for your replies slartibartfast wrote: > Yes, I just reserve IP addresses on the router. It's easier than using > static IP addresses. jd68 wrote: > If possible I would use DHCP but define in the router to assign always > the same IP address to these RPi's. @slartibarfast,

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Announce: piCorePlayer 8.0.0

2021-12-21 Thread Narcos
As I intend on running 2 RPI4’ (server+client configuration) do I have to give both RPI’s a seperate Static IP address? The existing Pi has 192.168.1.6. ? Narcos's Profile:

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Announce: piCorePlayer 8.0.0

2021-12-21 Thread Narcos
slartibartfast wrote: > Well I am pretty sure lots of users here use piCoreplayer as both server > and player on the same Pi, some even connecting the server over WiFi. If > you don't try it yourself you will never know if any of that stuff you > quoted is important. > > Sent from my Pixel 3a

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Announce: piCorePlayer 8.0.0

2021-12-21 Thread Narcos
Pommes wrote: > Maybe I am not understanding you right, but I have a PCP with LMS on > pi4. And attached to that PI is my USBDAC. No need for an extra PI > client, you can run all on one PI Here’s an excerpt from Klaus’ (Soundcheck) blog, “ Keeping the server separate from my experience is a

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Announce: piCorePlayer 8.0.0

2021-12-20 Thread Narcos
Pommes wrote: > Maybe I am not understanding you right, but I have a PCP with LMS on > pi4. And attached to that PI is my USBDAC. No need for an extra PI > client, you can run all on one PI Sure you can run everything on one Pi, but I’m trying to achieve a Server + Client architecture, the

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Announce: piCorePlayer 8.0.0

2021-12-20 Thread Narcos
garym wrote: > click on the LMS tab in piCorePlayer web GUI and it will allow you to > automatically install LMS. And you don’t need to partition your HDD to > attach to rPi. I didn’t. > > I assume you’ve seen all these instructions. > https://docs.picoreplayer.org/how-to/ Thanks Gary,

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Announce: piCorePlayer 8.0.0

2021-12-19 Thread Narcos
Greetings everyone, My first post on the forum. I’m trying to build a Rpi4 based server/client setup with PCP + LMS, so far I’ve been able to burn the PCP image on a SD card and applied a few tweaks to it. I need to download LMS (the latest nightly v8.1) and integrate it with PCP, but before