Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] LMS very unresponsive after upgrade from 7.9.1 to 7.9.2

2021-02-22 Thread drmatt
Well I can tell you it's not doing system calls while it's hung, it's purely spinning in user code: # strace -fp 24410 strace: Process 24410 attached [..tens of seconds elapse..] ^Cstrace: Process 24410 detached -- Hardware: 3x Touch, 1x Radio, 2x Receivers, 1 HP Microserver NAS with

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] LMS very unresponsive after upgrade from 7.9.1 to 7.9.2

2021-02-22 Thread drmatt
CypherMK wrote: > I think this may have solved the freezing issue. Will test further. I > did enable "rescan refresh" and disabled "enable musicbrainz tags". What surprises me is just that one plugin is able to lock the whole server. I didn't expect that to be the case, I thought LMS ran

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Picoreplayer plays too fast

2019-07-26 Thread drmatt
What's the source file formats and sample rates, and what's your target DAC model and chipset? -Transcoded from Matt's brain by Tapatalk- -- Hardware: 3x Touch, 1x Radio, 2x Receivers, 1 HP Microserver NAS with Debian+LMS 7.9.0 Music: ~1300 CDs, as 450 GB of 16/44k FLACs. No less than 3x

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] BETA: piCorePlayer6.0.0 - PI4 support

2019-07-11 Thread drmatt
chill wrote: > From 'here' > (https://raspberrypi.stackexchange.com/questions/1219/how-do-i-determine-the-current-mhz) > I found: > > > Code: > > > sudo cat /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/cpufreq/cpuinfo_max_freq > sudo cat

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] BETA: piCorePlayer6.0.0 - PI4 support

2019-07-08 Thread drmatt
If you can watch the CPU clock speed that will give you an idea of when the CPU is throttled too. -Transcoded from Matt's brain by Tapatalk- -- Hardware: 3x Touch, 1x Radio, 2x Receivers, 1 HP Microserver NAS with Debian+LMS 7.9.0 Music: ~1300 CDs, as 450 GB of 16/44k FLACs. No less than 3x

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] ANNOUNCE: piCorePlayer 5.0.0

2019-07-02 Thread drmatt
The Pi4 uses the performance oriented A72 arm cores instead of the efficiency-oriented A53 cores its predecessors used. This means the thermal envelope is going to be pushed hard. Theoretically they will run passive cooled just fine but you will experience throttling. My only concern is heat

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Upgrading LMS

2019-05-11 Thread drmatt
(well, one remaining issue, which I don't think is related, is that on a restart it will hang for a lng time, many minutes, running 100% cpu with this being the final message in the logs: [19-05-11 20:40:21.1934] Plugins::TrackStat::Storage::refreshTracks (1242) TrackStat: Synchronizing

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Upgrading LMS

2019-05-11 Thread drmatt
Well, that was fun. The answer? MANY MANY ".dpkg-new" and ".dpkg-tmp" files scattered throughout the /usr/share/perl5/Slim/ tree. Once I'd trawled through these and renamed the most recent one to the correct name, LMS is starting up just fine and running perfectly, with all plugins in place.

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Upgrading LMS

2019-05-11 Thread drmatt
Don't know if its' relevant but on enabling debug for "server.plugins" I'm getting lots of: [19-05-11 17:07:30.8917] Slim::Utils::Strings::string (526) Error: missing string PLUGIN_FAVORITES_ADD [19-05-11 17:07:30.8923] Slim::Utils::Strings::string (526) Error: missing string

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Upgrading LMS

2019-05-11 Thread drmatt
Hmm, so the explanation for port 9090 not working is simple .. the CLI interface runs as a plugin, and no plugins are currently working .. ! Any ideas on debugging that? -- Hardware: 3x Touch, 1x Radio, 2x Receivers, 1 HP Microserver NAS with Debian+LMS 7.9.0 Music: ~1300 CDs, as 450 GB of

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Upgrading LMS

2019-05-11 Thread drmatt
So on startup I got the following: 2019-05-11 16:52:31 squeezeboxserver_safe started. [19-05-11 16:52:31.9410] main::init (387) Starting Logitech Media Server (v7.9.2, 1557550305, Sat May 11 07:16:51 CEST 2019) perl 5.028001 - i686-linux-gnu-thread-multi-64int [19-05-11 16:52:32.1993]

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Upgrading LMS

2019-05-11 Thread drmatt
Yuck. Well, LMS has started, but I'm not happy about the mess of perl modules all over my box (well, this OS was built nearly 20 years ago and upgraded ever since, I guess it's time to do a reinstall!), and it looks like I need to reinstall the skin to get the webserver interface looking nice

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Upgrading LMS

2019-05-11 Thread drmatt
More perl nonsense: # /usr/sbin/squeezeboxserver "my" variable $err masks earlier declaration in same scope at /usr/share/squeezeboxserver/CPAN/AnyEvent/Handle.pm line 1773. Compilation failed in require at /usr/share/perl5/Slim/Web/HTTP.pm line 12. BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Upgrading LMS

2019-05-11 Thread drmatt
Well, I found the slimserver-vendor CPAN git libraries and ran "buildme.sh" and tried to copy in the arch/5.28/i686-.. folder to the base /usr/lib/squeezeboxserver/CPAN/arch folder. This works to a point, as root I get this: # /usr/sbin/squeezeboxserver [19-05-11 15:30:22.6350] main::init (387)

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Upgrading LMS

2019-05-11 Thread drmatt
Hi all, Can anyone remind me the process for rebuilding LMS for a new perl release? I wound up with perl 5.28.1 while trying to get something else working on my i386 server and even the latest nightlies don't seem to support it yet .. :( I downloaded from here

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] squeezeboxserver wants older versions of Perl modules

2018-10-06 Thread drmatt
The guys don't always automatically build the latest perl modules for i386. I'm about the one and only other person on the planet who needs them. I really, really, need to rebuild my box in 64b mode... -Transcoded from Matt's brain by Tapatalk- -- Hardware: 3x Touch, 1x Radio, 2x Receivers,

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Google Drive mounted with google-drive-ocamlfuse

2018-09-29 Thread drmatt
mherger wrote: > > But I can't set LMS music folder directory to it, it's just not > visible > > in the drop down directory dialog. Other folders in my /home/user are > > selectable so I am assuming this is not security. > > The LMS user is not allowed to access your home folder. > > And do

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] ANNOUNCE: piCorePlayer 4.0.0

2018-09-17 Thread drmatt
Iirc the transition to "sdxc" occurs at 64GB in size. Can't see how that would be relevant but just mentioning it .. -Transcoded from Matt's brain by Tapatalk- -- Hardware: 3x Touch, 1x Radio, 2x Receivers, 1 HP Microserver NAS with Debian+LMS 7.9.0 Music: ~1300 CDs, as 450 GB of 16/44k

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] ANNOUNCE: piCorePlayer 4.0.0

2018-09-16 Thread drmatt
Greg Erskine wrote: > Hi drmatt, > > Funny thing is we have not changed the Resize FS code for a long time, > so it is weird that it just stops working. :mad: > > Also, when we set the size to a given value it works. Probably if we > added an option for 63.5GB it wou

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] ANNOUNCE: piCorePlayer 4.0.0

2018-09-15 Thread drmatt
32 bit int being used to calculate the partition size? -Transcoded from Matt's brain by Tapatalk- -- Hardware: 3x Touch, 1x Radio, 2x Receivers, 1 HP Microserver NAS with Debian+LMS 7.9.0 Music: ~1300 CDs, as 450 GB of 16/44k FLACs. No less than 3x 24/44k albums..

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] ANNOUNCE: piCorePlayer 4.0.0

2018-09-03 Thread drmatt
Ge Ba wrote: > But yes, finally the channel I used (ch13) was the issue. Glad I could > get it solved so fast with you guy's help. Yes, iirc the Pi built-in wi-fi does not support ch13. -Transcoded from Matt's brain by Tapatalk- -- Hardware: 3x Touch, 1x Radio, 2x Receivers, 1 HP

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] would like to check PiCorePlayer CPU temp

2018-05-25 Thread drmatt
For what it's worth the Pi processor will clock itself down to avoid overheating, so it's quite safe to run fanless. And note that it's unlikely it would ever clock down so far it becomes unable to run a media streamer as it would essentially have to turn off.. -Transcoded from Matt's brain by

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Does piCorePlayer 3.22 work on the Raspberry Pi 3B+?

2018-03-14 Thread drmatt
Ooo, nice little upgrade on network bandwidth. PXE boot too, no more crappy SD cards with a netboot setup. Buy one anyway, I'm sure PcP will be updated with a suitable kernel before long. :) -Transcoded from Matt's brain by Tapatalk- -- Hardware: 3x Touch, 1x Radio, 2x Receivers, 1 HP

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] 16x2 LCD info for LMS?

2018-03-09 Thread drmatt
Information on LMS state would be queried from the server cli via IP (e.g "echo command | nc server:9000”). For other things you'd use vgencmd to get pi temp data, or grab some code that pulls weather data from an internet service or something. Or even get a cheap hat/am2320 sensor and measure

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Debian packages update - Possible dpkg failure

2018-03-02 Thread drmatt
I did read that apt does not document its ability to install from files, but it wouldn't surprise me if the Raspbian version was a few steps behind. -Transcoded from Matt's brain by Tapatalk- -- Hardware: 3x Touch, 1x Radio, 2x Receivers, 1 HP Microserver NAS with Debian+LMS 7.9.0 Music:

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Debian packages update - Possible dpkg failure

2018-02-22 Thread drmatt
People installing from scratch like this will have the same issue too, plus many other dependencies. You can also use: apt install ./file.dpkg .. to get apt to install the specific file and resolve deps in one step. -Transcoded from Matt's brain by Tapatalk- -- Hardware: 3x Touch, 1x

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Pi or Pi Zero for player?

2018-02-07 Thread drmatt
Lmgtfy.. https://www.pidramble.com/wiki/benchmarks/power-consumption ;) 260mA.. i.e. same as a pi zero w plus USB hub, twice as much ram and four faster cores. FWIW 1.4w equates to approx £1.40 per year in electricity. -Transcoded from Matt's brain by Tapatalk- -- Hardware: 3x Touch, 1x

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Pi or Pi Zero for player?

2018-02-06 Thread drmatt
Imho the only products that make sense are the pi zero w and the pi 3. The pi zero w adds comms capabilities and the pi 3 costs the same as a pi 2 (if you can still get one). By the time you factor the cost of a PSU, SD card, case, and whatever accessories you need the saving between different

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Pi or Pi Zero for player?

2018-02-05 Thread drmatt
PiZ: I find the WiFi better than expected - for me it works from the bottom of the garden to the bottom of the drive, and every room in the house (and the loft). (Single draytek access point, fwiw.) Creating an image with pre-configured WiFi to flash onto the SD card is pretty straightforward

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Pi or Pi Zero for player?

2018-02-05 Thread drmatt
Lack of proper USB ports is the only downside. Also a bit slower than a Pi3 would be given the reduced ram and CPU capability but more than enough as a music player. -Transcoded from Matt's brain by Tapatalk- -- Hardware: 3x Touch, 1x Radio, 2x Receivers, 1 HP Microserver NAS with Debian+LMS

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Xubuntu 14.04 & startup sequence of LMS

2018-01-25 Thread drmatt
Add LSB tags to the init.d script, or fix the links in /etc/rc?.d so it comes up last, or write a systemd unit file for it that explicitly says "requires: network". -Transcoded from Matt's brain by Tapatalk- -- Hardware: 3x Touch, 1x Radio, 2x Receivers, 1 HP Microserver NAS with Debian+LMS

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Xubuntu 14.04 & startup sequence of LMS

2018-01-24 Thread drmatt
The correct solution is to tell systemd that LMS requires network. It will then start it after it starts the network successfully. -Transcoded from Matt's brain by Tapatalk- -- Hardware: 3x Touch, 1x Radio, 2x Receivers, 1 HP Microserver NAS with Debian+LMS 7.9.0 Music: ~1300 CDs, as 450 GB

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] piCorePlayer as time machine drive?

2017-12-30 Thread drmatt
PCP is an excellent LMS server. The hardware is more than adequate for music streaming. -Transcoded from Matt's brain by Tapatalk- -- Hardware: 3x Touch, 1x Radio, 2x Receivers, 1 HP Microserver NAS with Debian+LMS 7.9.0 Music: ~1300 CDs, as 450 GB of 16/44k FLACs. No less than 3x 24/44k

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] piCorePlayer as time machine drive?

2017-12-30 Thread drmatt
Raspberry Pi also makes a mediocre file server. Network and storage both run over the same USB2 30MB/s bus and the CPU can't even saturate that if you want to encrypt either stream so performance for secure cifs would be tolerable for small files only (such as music!). -Transcoded from Matt's

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Linux VMs running on Win10+VMwareWorkstationPro

2017-12-19 Thread drmatt
Which is entirely why I suggested hgfs mount in the first couple of posts... -Transcoded from Matt's brain by Tapatalk- -- Hardware: 3x Touch, 1x Radio, 2x Receivers, 1 HP Microserver NAS with Debian+LMS 7.9.0 Music: ~1300 CDs, as 450 GB of 16/44k FLACs. No less than 3x 24/44k albums..

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Linux VMs running on Win10+VMwareWorkstationPro

2017-12-13 Thread drmatt
You could use two vmdks... ;) Yeah I would generally say that's a better idea than lumping it all in one big image. You could also get the shared folders stuff working. That will always consistently mount the same windows content in the same place anytime you power up the VM. -Transcoded from

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Linux VMs running on Win10+VMwareWorkstationPro

2017-12-12 Thread drmatt
d6jg wrote: > Thats going to result in a very very large VMDK File which I would > suggest will be impossible to back up as a single entity. > > If the host was Linux and not Windows things would be dead easy,Yes. Or > several glued together in an LVM volume group (I wouldn't create vmdks

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Linux VMs running on Win10+VMwareWorkstationPro

2017-12-05 Thread drmatt
You can fix #2 by either using "shared folders" in vmware to present local filesystems to the VM (then mount the hgfs volume inside the VM), or what I'd probably do is move all the files into the VM anyway, and have *it* serve them with samba. Then it does indeed become self contained and

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

2017-12-03 Thread drmatt
And of those that do they are not all that reliable.. I've had mixed experiences running generic consumer chipsets as APs. -Transcoded from Matt's brain by Tapatalk- -- Hardware: 3x Touch, 1x Radio, 2x Receivers, 1 HP Microserver NAS with Debian+LMS 7.9.0 Music: ~1300 CDs, as 450 GB of

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Playing Bluetooth audio via piCorePlayer

2017-11-20 Thread drmatt
The author of PCP doesn't think so, istr a thread talking about this before. Personally, I've never had much success even getting a rpi3 to remain paired with a Bluetooth keyboard let alone offering anything more complex reliably. -Transcoded from Matt's brain by Tapatalk- -- Hardware: 3x

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Playing Bluetooth audio via piCorePlayer

2017-11-20 Thread drmatt
It's a bit of a black art getting the Bluetooth stack to do anything useful on Linux, so the odds of getting a working Bluetooth audio receiver in software on a bluetooth-equipped rpi3 is low. So you are still looking at a secondary Bluetooth receiver with PSU. I recently swapped a kitchen amp

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Playing Bluetooth audio via piCorePlayer

2017-11-20 Thread drmatt
Technically yes (wavinput plugin if you have an audio capture device) but you may be as well to buy a Bluetooth-enabled amp or active speaker instead. -Transcoded from Matt's brain by Tapatalk- -- Hardware: 3x Touch, 1x Radio, 2x Receivers, 1 HP Microserver NAS with Debian+LMS 7.9.0 Music:

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Debian package fails to run

2017-11-12 Thread drmatt
bullgod wrote: > So why not bundle it up with a single version of perl and save the > support grief?Bundle the entire perl interpreter? This is the kind of tactic > people have to use for java where it's "write once run nowhere", but perl is totally compatible you just have to compile the rest.

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] LMS on Ubuntu Server 17.10

2017-10-30 Thread drmatt
Sorry, I'm running 32 bit too. Deep down the long list of jobs to migrate my server to 64 bit.. :) -Transcoded from Matt's brain by Tapatalk- -- Hardware: 3x Touch, 1x Radio, 2x Receivers, 1 HP Microserver NAS with Debian+LMS 7.9.0 Music: ~1300 CDs, as 450 GB of 16/44k FLACs. No less than 3x

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Debian package fails to run

2017-10-29 Thread drmatt
Didn't say it was Ubuntu's problem. They upgrade, you have to upgrade. The LMS already ships with huge blobs of precompiled code supporting many different versions of perl, that's the main reason it's huge in the first place. One more required (two if people want i386 aswell). You are welcome to

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Debian package fails to run

2017-10-29 Thread drmatt
Well, yeah. Can't prevent Ubuntu from upgrading perl, and you can't ship LMS with a version of perl embedded that hasn't yet been broadly released, at least not until it does release anyway. -Transcoded from Matt's brain by Tapatalk- -- Hardware: 3x Touch, 1x Radio, 2x Receivers, 1 HP

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] LMS not starting after upgrading Ubuntu to 17.10 from 17.04.

2017-10-22 Thread drmatt
If it's perl version then you'll need to build the perl modules from the LMS sources. There is a procedure for this kicking around somewhere.. -Transcoded from Matt's brain by Tapatalk- -- Hardware: 3x Touch, 1x Radio, 2x Receivers, 1 HP Microserver NAS with Debian+LMS 7.9.0 Music: ~1300

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] A door chime system for Squeezebox players with PCP 3.22. Or something.

2017-10-07 Thread drmatt
Indeed. Lots of ways to extend an idea like this for all sorts of use cases. -Transcoded from Matt's brain by Tapatalk- -- Hardware: 3x Touch, 1x Radio, 2x Receivers, 1 HP Microserver NAS with Debian+LMS 7.9.0 Music: ~1300 CDs, as 450 GB of 16/44k FLACs. No less than 3x 24/44k albums..

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] A door chime system for Squeezebox players with PCP 3.22. Or something.

2017-10-06 Thread drmatt
Nice. How about sending a URL to a web server with a audio jingle file on it..? -Transcoded from Matt's brain by Tapatalk- -- Hardware: 3x Touch, 1x Radio, 2x Receivers, 1 HP Microserver NAS with Debian+LMS 7.9.0 Music: ~1300 CDs, as 450 GB of 16/44k FLACs. No less than 3x 24/44k albums..

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] PiCodePlayer + piZero + justBoomAmp zero poor synch

2017-10-06 Thread drmatt
Let's not get hung up on the percentage value. This is what the people who write iwconfig have determined is the most meaningful way to report WiFi connection strength. There are other measures, but anything reporting 60% should be usable. -Transcoded from Matt's brain by Tapatalk- --

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] PiCodePlayer + piZero + justBoomAmp zero poor synch

2017-10-05 Thread drmatt
How's the WiFi signal there? Most likely network issues. Have you capped the audio bitrate? -Transcoded from Matt's brain by Tapatalk- -- Hardware: 3x Touch, 1x Radio, 2x Receivers, 1 HP Microserver NAS with Debian+LMS 7.9.0 Music: ~1300 CDs, as 450 GB of 16/44k FLACs. No less than 3x 24/44k

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Running 2 different external DACs from the same Pi using piCorePlayer

2017-10-01 Thread drmatt
Well I had assumed the DACs were self powered, but that's true if they are bus powered you will need a powered hub. -Transcoded from Matt's brain by Tapatalk- -- Hardware: 3x Touch, 1x Radio, 2x Receivers, 1 HP Microserver NAS with Debian+LMS 7.9.0 Music: ~1300 CDs, as 450 GB of 16/44k

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Running 2 different external DACs from the same Pi using piCorePlayer

2017-10-01 Thread drmatt
muggo wrote: > > I'll give it a try using the current USB feed from Pi to DAC #1 into DAC > #2. I can mess around with settings in UI if required. If that works, > I'll try both together. If that fails, I'll have to get another Pi, > unless I can get advice on how & what to do at the shell

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Running 2 different external DACs from the same Pi using piCorePlayer

2017-09-30 Thread drmatt
Well, doesn't matter really you could call it a separate stream and leave the two virtual players permanently synced anyway. From what I recall to add a second audio output from PcP you would need to make changes at the shell prompt, I'm not sure there's configuration for that in the UI.

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Running 2 different external DACs from the same Pi using piCorePlayer

2017-09-30 Thread drmatt
To play a different stream, we assume...? -Transcoded from Matt's brain by Tapatalk- -- Hardware: 3x Touch, 1x Radio, 2x Receivers, 1 HP Microserver NAS with Debian+LMS 7.9.0 Music: ~1300 CDs, as 450 GB of 16/44k FLACs. No less than 3x 24/44k albums..

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] picoreplayer without network

2017-09-18 Thread drmatt
It is normal for a UNIX system to require an operating 127.0.0.1 address and TCP/IP stack for normal running. Windows is the same, as are 90% of general use operating systems. -Transcoded from Matt's brain by Tapatalk- -- Hardware: 3x Touch, 1x Radio, 2x Receivers, 1 HP Microserver NAS with

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] WiFi USB dongle

2017-09-06 Thread drmatt
Anything by a brand will do; it's on a USB 2 bus so anything over ~300Mbit is pointless. I have a pihut one and a edimax one. They've both proven stable and as fast as can be expected. -Transcoded from Matt's brain by Tapatalk- -- Hardware: 3x Touch, 1x Radio, 2x Receivers, 1 HP Microserver

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] picoreplayer + usb hd

2017-09-05 Thread drmatt
Everyone has their right price/performance compromise. As the price creeps up you're heading towards Intel NUC territory and genuine hardware x86 processors. Hell, you can pick up a Celeron based HP microserver with four 6gb sata 3.5" drive bays, two gig-e ports and a bunch of USB3 for £120. No

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] picoreplayer + usb hd

2017-09-03 Thread drmatt
I would stick to a proper NAS, for use as a NAS. A raspberry pi will cope as an LMS node. -Transcoded from Matt's brain by Tapatalk- -- Hardware: 3x Touch, 1x Radio, 2x Receivers, 1 HP Microserver NAS with Debian+LMS 7.9.0 Music: ~1300 CDs, as 450 GB of 16/44k FLACs. No less than 3x 24/44k

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] picoreplayer + usb hd

2017-09-03 Thread drmatt
d6jg wrote: > Personally I think using a USB is a retrograde step. The Pi's USB > implementation is probably its weakest point. I predict issues where the > USB drive just disappears for no apparent reason. I'd stick with a > network mount. A NAS is going to be far more resilient unless it is >

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] picoreplayer + usb hd

2017-09-03 Thread drmatt
Except .. most USB HDD go to sleep pretty aggressively so the latency on spin up (particularly for high platter count drives) can be in the region of 6-8 seconds. Would bet the qnap will manage this better than a USB HDD firmware does. Network latency should add relatively little to the

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] LMS stop/start/restart on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS - how to do it without root password?

2017-09-01 Thread drmatt
It's a fair question. Quite often the PID of a Daemon is tracked in /var/run/thingy and changing the PID of the process without using the official start/stop scripts means they lose track of which process to kill or check the status of. -Transcoded from Matt's brain by Tapatalk- -- Hardware:

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] LMS stop/start/restart on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS - how to do it without root password?

2017-09-01 Thread drmatt
Systemd uses logind to create a cgroup for the whole shebang, so it keeps track of all the process and child processes that get spawned by the start script. The stop/start actions will still work as they are invoked blind by running /etc/init.d/logitechmediaserver as normal. -Transcoded from

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Allo BossMini Player

2017-08-31 Thread drmatt
Pretty sure you can buy all the bits already, but they just cost more..! Even if you buy it off the website in $US and ship to the US, you would have to pay sales taxes on top of the quoted price. -Transcoded from Matt's brain by Tapatalk- -- Hardware: 3x Touch, 1x Radio, 2x Receivers, 1 HP

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Allo BossMini Player

2017-08-31 Thread drmatt
You've obviously never tried to get stuff into the country.. there is usually a £10 or £15 handling fee for the shipping agent to deal with customs charges, which goes on top of the duty (not sure on the rate, but could be 5% of total cost), plus Vat on top (17.5%), makes about £93. -Transcoded

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Using Jivelite standalone and mixed Success using USB devices with 3.11

2017-08-29 Thread drmatt
vfat is the name of the Microsoft FAT filesystem driver in Linux kernel that supports non-8.3 filenames. Sounds like your USB devices have multiple filesystems on them. -Transcoded from Matt's brain by Tapatalk- -- Hardware: 3x Touch, 1x Radio, 2x Receivers, 1 HP Microserver NAS with

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] LMS on ARM Goflex Home with Debian 9 Start Error

2017-08-04 Thread drmatt
It's also gonna be pretty slow I would say. But agree with the above guys, you need to build the full perl blob for your architecture. I've done it on x86 and it took half an hour or so; on there it might take days. -Transcoded from Matt's brain by Tapatalk- -- Hardware: 3x Touch, 1x Radio,

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Persistent network mount possible?

2017-07-29 Thread drmatt
edwin2006 wrote: > More than 4 day's working now. I've now added 1 boom playing internet > radio. So in total 1x pcp, 1x radio and 1x boom connected to LMS pi. No > network changes due to family veto this weekend.Sheesh do you have to submit > change requests to the family to work on the

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Persistent network mount possible?

2017-07-24 Thread drmatt
Windows clients always transparently reconnect on bad links by the way, they hide the failure from view. I don't have any further experience at home, my servers are all Linux and I only have windows as client. In the past I've not had the issue you mention however. Random comment but is there

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Persistent network mount possible?

2017-07-23 Thread drmatt
But others can mount windows shares without drops.. I can. It's just a cifs mount in the Linux kernel, this is not rocket science. -Transcoded from Matt's brain by Tapatalk- -- Hardware: 3x Touch, 1x Radio, 2x Receivers, 1 HP Microserver NAS with Debian+LMS 7.9.0 Music: ~1300 CDs, as 450 GB

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Persistent network mount possible?

2017-07-23 Thread drmatt
Simple answer: mount the Nas to the windows box and you have a single point of storage.. :) -Transcoded from Matt's brain by Tapatalk- -- Hardware: 3x Touch, 1x Radio, 2x Receivers, 1 HP Microserver NAS with Debian+LMS 7.9.0 Music: ~1300 CDs, as 450 GB of 16/44k FLACs. No less than 3x 24/44k

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Persistent network mount possible?

2017-07-23 Thread drmatt
Two things. What distro on the pi and how did you setup the cifs mount? Typically a cifs mount involves you storing the password in the fstab. If you do this it will always reconnect after any network glitch. If you don't do this, it will not reconnect after a reboot, but should still maintain

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] LMS stop/start/restart on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS - how to do it without root password?

2017-07-11 Thread drmatt
Your user account would normally already be in sudoers file after an Ubuntu install so you should be able to do "sudo service LMS restart" and it will prompt for *your* password not root's. -Transcoded from Matt's brain by Tapatalk- -- Hardware: 3x Touch, 1x Radio, 2x Receivers, 1 HP

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Has anybody tried one of these yet ?

2017-07-05 Thread drmatt
I thought its audio was "good enough" for non-critical listening until I tried a genuine Logitech Squeezebox in the same system and I'd never go back. -Transcoded from Matt's brain by Tapatalk- -- Hardware: 3x Touch, 1x Radio, 2x Receivers, 1 HP Microserver NAS with Debian+LMS 7.9.0 Music:

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Has anybody tried one of these yet ?

2017-07-05 Thread drmatt
O2 joggler are awful in my experience. Slow and unreliable. And fgs don't use its own audio output as it's really really bad. -Transcoded from Matt's brain by Tapatalk- -- Hardware: 3x Touch, 1x Radio, 2x Receivers, 1 HP Microserver NAS with Debian+LMS 7.9.0 Music: ~1300 CDs, as 450 GB of

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Vortexbox suspending when laptop lid closed

2017-06-29 Thread drmatt
What desktop environment *is* running? There will be a power options thing for it. -Transcoded from Matt's brain by Tapatalk- -- Hardware: 3x Touch, 1x Radio, 2x Receivers, 1 HP Microserver NAS with Debian+LMS 7.9.0 Music: ~1300 CDs, as 450 GB of 16/44k FLACs. No less than 3x 24/44k albums..

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] PCP3.2 - Need to inject sound from aplay while squeezelite runs

2017-06-19 Thread drmatt
jackd might be able to do that. Transcoded from Matt's brain by Tapatalk -- Hardware: 3x Touch, 1x Radio, 2x Receivers, 1 HP Microserver NAS with Debian+LMS 7.9.0 Music: ~1300 CDs, as 450 GB of 16/44k FLACs. No less than 3x 24/44k albums..

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] piCoreplayer Raspberry Pi 2 to 3

2017-06-18 Thread drmatt
Early pi2 kernels did not include support for Pi3 hardware (including the CPU itself!) but that was ages ago now, you shouldn't have issues. Good news is the one huge difference you will note is that the Pi3 is screamingly fast by comparison! :) Transcoded from Matt's brain by Tapatalk --

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Transcoding requirements on a Pi?

2017-06-13 Thread drmatt
I was looking forward to having a separate 5ghz WiFi at home, then I noticed it doesn't go through walls as well as 2.4ghz... and now I find i actually don't use it much.. -- Hardware: 3x Touch, 1x Radio, 2x Receivers, 1 HP Microserver NAS with Debian+LMS 7.9.0 Music: ~1300 CDs, as 450 GB of

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Transcoding requirements on a Pi?

2017-06-13 Thread drmatt
Well that's on the assumption that all the Pi are wired. Maybe I missed that statement. The LMS server would be sending 9 times that stream out, which still isn't much in reality I agree, about 7 Mbit/s. Transcoded from Matt's brain by Tapatalk -- Hardware: 3x Touch, 1x Radio, 2x Receivers, 1

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Transcoding requirements on a Pi?

2017-06-13 Thread drmatt
Lame encoding a single stream for a single group of players will run fine on a Pi. If you want separate streams all separately encoded then you might run into trouble. I might suggest setting a bandwidth limit on the SB3 to force stepping down the bitrate when it joins the group. Then unsync that

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Transcoding requirements on a Pi?

2017-06-13 Thread drmatt
s2kiwi wrote: > I'm not sure I understand that comment on the software stack vs > hardware... > > Do you meant that (ignoring the SB3) running Squeezelite on the Pi's > means they will all appear to the server as being able to handle > basically anything... and the Pi will handle any codec

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Transcoding requirements on a Pi?

2017-06-12 Thread drmatt
Codec support on the Pis depends on the software stack not hardware, and the SB3 is likely to be your limiting factor in terms of codec support anyway. Sent from my ONEPLUS A3003 using Tapatalk -- Hardware: 3x Touch, 1x Radio, 2x Receivers, 1 HP Microserver NAS with Debian+LMS 7.9.0 Music:

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] RPi Zero W Service running but no web interface

2017-06-08 Thread drmatt
I don't recall raspbian having a firewall enabled by default, but I would suspect the server has not successfully started. A) check the LMS log file (tail it) B) check the port: fuser 9000/tcp Sent from my ONEPLUS A3003 using Tapatalk -- Hardware: 3x Touch, 1x Radio, 2x Receivers, 1 HP

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Manual install of Squeezelite fails

2017-05-04 Thread drmatt
He's not wrong, the CPU is native 64 bit so you may as well use it that way. Virtual address spaces for badly written software can still take advantage even if you don't actually have more than 4GB physical ram plus swap. I suspect that you'd wind up supporting both for an extended period,

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Manual install of Squeezelite fails

2017-05-04 Thread drmatt
I have had similar on a banana pi running binaries built for raspberry pi. The ARM abi has to match. You will probably have to grab sources and compile for yourself. Sent from my ONEPLUS A3003 using Tapatalk -- Hardware: 3x Touch, 1x Radio, 2x Receivers, 1 HP Microserver NAS with Debian+LMS

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Manual install of Squeezelite fails

2017-05-04 Thread drmatt
"file " at the shell prompt will tell you exactly what you downloaded. -- Hardware: 3x Touch, 1x Radio, 2x Receivers, 1 HP Microserver NAS with Debian+LMS 7.9.0 Music: ~1300 CDs, as 450 GB of 16/44k FLACs. No less than 3x 24/44k albums..

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Manual install of Squeezelite fails

2017-05-04 Thread drmatt
Sourceforge is usually sources not binaries.. (the clue is in the question...) Sent from my ONEPLUS A3003 using Tapatalk -- Hardware: 3x Touch, 1x Radio, 2x Receivers, 1 HP Microserver NAS with Debian+LMS 7.9.0 Music: ~1300 CDs, as 450 GB of 16/44k FLACs. No less than 3x 24/44k albums..

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Two USB DAC initialisation problems

2017-03-09 Thread drmatt
I would agree with you, but I'd be guessing as to what the exact cause is. I've seen devices behave like this before, and it's very much device-specific. Unless you can show that Alsa is kicking off a stream and sending garbage I would definitely think it's the DAC driver. As a general comment I

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Two USB DAC initialisation problems

2017-03-09 Thread drmatt
Based on what OS, kernel, and software stack? The udev system should handle initialisation of the DAC if it's plugged in post boot. You should at least see a kernel log message when the DAC joins the USB bus, even if no driver subsequently loads to manage it. -- Hardware: 3x Touch, 1x Radio,

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Announce: piCorePlayer 3.10

2017-03-01 Thread drmatt
Frankly I don't have issues with pi3 WiFi, but acknowledge it's not the best for marginal reception. -- Hardware: 3x Touch, 1x Radio, 2x Receivers, 1 HP Microserver NAS with Debian+LMS 7.9.0 Music: ~1300 CDs, as 450 GB of 16/44k FLACs. No less than 3x 24/44k albums..

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] PCP3.11 Pi Model B USB DAC Arcam IRDAC II issues

2017-02-26 Thread drmatt
The USB bus does also run all connectivity, ethernet included. Could be that. But I would say it would struggle to resample high bitrate media live. -- Hardware: 3x Touch, 1x Radio, 2x Receivers, 1 HP Microserver NAS with Debian+LMS 7.9.0 Music: ~1300 CDs, as 450 GB of 16/44k FLACs. No less

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] piCorePlayer with Jivelite on Pollin Touch TFT

2017-02-22 Thread drmatt
Iirc piCorePlayer has most of its filesystem in ram to save SD card wear, there are more procedures required to make file changes permanent. -- Hardware: 3x Touch, 1x Radio, 2x Receivers, 1 HP Microserver NAS with Debian+LMS 7.9.0 Music: ~1300 CDs, as 450 GB of 16/44k FLACs. No less than 3x

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Announce: piCorePlayer 3.10

2017-02-09 Thread drmatt
kidstypike wrote: > Depends what you change, I've just changed an album incorrectly tagged > k.d. Lang to k.d. lang and did a "look for new and changed" scan. > > Under new music I now have this album listed as being by "Various > Artists". If I click on k.d. Lang (the original incorrect name)

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Announce: piCorePlayer 3.10

2017-02-09 Thread drmatt
Easytag is not fully automatic, it gives you the ability to calculate the cddb disc id from a directory full of files (assumed to be a single album) then do a lookup. It's up to you to choose the right match. It's quite powerful and can fill tags from filenames or name files from tags etc. I use

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] piCore 3.10 linux - how to ignore cec

2017-02-08 Thread drmatt
Normally /boot/config.txt. I have a gaming console version of raspbian that trigger HDMI input switch every thirty seconds. Very, very annoying.. -- Hardware: 3x Touch, 1x Radio, 2x Receivers, 1 HP Microserver NAS with Debian+LMS 7.9.0 Music: ~1300 CDs, as 450 GB of 16/44k FLACs. No less than

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Announce: piCorePlayer 3.10

2017-02-02 Thread drmatt
It only checks on mount for journalled filesystems, and this is not a full check it's just a replay of the log. and many USB drives are formatted with FAT32 anyway, so no journal and no log to replay. -- Hardware: 3x Touch, 1x Radio, 2x Receivers, 1 HP Microserver NAS with Debian+LMS 7.9.0

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Announce: piCorePlayer 3.10

2017-01-31 Thread drmatt
merlinus wrote: > Update: The RPi can connect only at 2.4G, but at least it is working! Nothing wrong with 2.4 GHz. Range is better than 5 GHz. It's just a bit crowded for some people. As others have said, also avoid chan 12/13, the pi wifi does not support it. Once configured it should be

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Can't connect to LMS after reboot

2017-01-24 Thread drmatt
Ok I think we are getting away from the point a little here. A couple of things: init.d still works, systemd is required to run non-compliant init.d scripts just like before. Unless someone has modified the LMS startup to deliberately bolt into systemd then its behaviour will still be dictated

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Can't connect to LMS after reboot

2017-01-24 Thread drmatt
(I believe LMS_safe is the parent script that kicks off the main daemons. It's what you might see in the process table if LMS main thread fails to start. I've seen this a few times when I was fighting Perl version mismatches.. :) ) -- Hardware: 3x Touch, 1x Radio, 2x Receivers, 1 HP

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