Rensie wrote:
> It is when the wife wants to play some music and it doesn't work, then
> questions the time and money you've spent on digitizing everything.
I had that same problem. She seemed so angry all the time and told me
if I didn't get things fixed she was going to take the dog and leave
I thought that the ENCORE ENUWI-N wifi adapter that I have was based on
the Ralink driver set and would work with the firmware provided in
Microcore. Unfortunately I was not able to set up using the
Picoreplayer menu script (received the standard "Device busy, does not
support scan" type message
Follow up to my post #541.
I thought that I would attempt to commit my changes to make the wifi
adapter work. After getting the adapter to connect, I used "sudo
filetools.sh -b" which I assumed would preserve the changes I've made
over reboot. However on reboot, this was not the case. There
kingswindsor wrote:
> Follow up to my post #542
> Is this the same problem I was having trying to preserve the wifi
> settings after re-boot? Any advice appreciated.
I'm not completely sure if it is related. This is definitely new ground
for me. I was able to eventually get my wifi adapter to
I believe Steen is spending a lot of time with the microcore architects
on the upcoming V5 release. I believe it is targeted to helping with
many of the WiFi setup challenges.
I most certainly agree on the piCoPlayer. I've had mine running
continuously for the last 5 hours. It is my intent t
I may not understand your objective completely, but I use Shairport with
my Windows LMS install (via the WaveInput plugin) to allow for Airplay
input to the LMS and then playback on the appropriate player. See
http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?100048-Announce-Airplay-on-squeezebox-(for
Are you attempting to have each player (SqueezeLite instance) become an
airplay device?
I made a similar attempt (back in the days of SqueezeSlave). IIRC the
main stumbling block was gaining access to the Apple Bonjour protocol
for discovery and capabilities negotiation. While many clever min
For the Windows flavor - (see the link in post #551 for more detailed
instructions)
1) Install Shairport on LMS server machine. Verify you can see a local
Airplay device and can play music through local speakers of LMS.
2) Install LMS Wavinput plugin. Configure to redirect LMS sound device
that
paulcull wrote:
> Hi
>
> I've got audio speaker cable runs from a central point, so I can put the
> audio client and amps in a central location. Thanks
On Fedora, I could run multiple instances of Squeezelite. You need to
name each instance unique so that you can tell which player to select.
Yo
kingswindsor wrote:
> New question: is there a way to set up the wireless config manually so I
> can send it to my son ready to go? Where he is, he has access to wifi
> but no ethernet.
If it is an open wireless network, then all you need is the SSID. That
can be preconfigured at your place.
Thanks for the shout out:-) I'll load it tomorrow and let you know.
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I have tested V1.08 on both RevA and RevB Pi boards with my three
wireless routers with the three different wireless adapters (still
waiting to compile rtl8188eu for TP-Link adapter). I am only using the
3.5mm out for audio. So far it has worked well in my environment for
all the test cases.
So
Hello Steen. I've been away from the boards for quite a while to take
care of unexpected relocations of my parents. I'm just now starting to
catch up on all the things that have happened while I've been away. It
really looks like you've made some amazing strides in your project since
the early
Hello Steen. Having piCoPlayer has made my limited spare time so much
more enjoyable. I made the mistake of showing my brother and sister the
piCoPlayer/Vortexbox combination I use for my system. They are not the
most computer advanced, but are very much in to music. I helped them
get their Vo
I'd be interested. Would make an interesting project.
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Hello Steen. I've been able to exercise 1.14d for a bit. All of the
wifi cards I have work out of the box with this release. Certainly a
good step forward. I have two things to share for your consideration.
1) Using the picoreplayer.sh script approach to setup: If your intent
is to abandon
@koymoy - I won't put words in Steen's mouth, but IMHO the beauty of
this project is the ability to leverage Tiny Core Linux with a SD card
image specifically targeting the Raspberry Pi platform as a player. The
whole project depends on having a working LMS. Given the architecture
of the ASUS bo
sbp wrote:
> I'm not sure I quite understand what you are suggesting here.
> What is the problem with the current way it works?
> /Steen
There is a subtle difference in the squeezelite command line options.
The "-n" option (lowercase) provides a player name that is persistent.
While it is sti
sbp wrote:
> Thanks, you are absolutely right.
> The SSH piCoreplayer script has been neglected for some time, as I have
> been focused on the web-GUI stuff. Therefore, I have not added the
> functionality of saving changes made by the SSH script to the config.cfg
> file - so as you describe ch
mudlark wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Just an interesting question.if the answer's obvious be kind.
>
> I start up the picoreplayer using a wifi connection. Then using a web
> browser access LMS. I then change the server from say 192.168.1.102 to
> 192.168.1.113 and the web gui fails. The player works f
notben wrote:
> Has anyone been able to establish a connection to a hidden network.
> I did some searching and reading and found one person who tried, but
> didn't post if he was successful. I read one of Steen's replies that it
> was not supported in one of the scripts.
>
> I am using 1.14d an
sbp wrote:
>
> As you might know I had some difficulties in dealing with SSID names
> with space in (that is the reason for the SED escape character - but
> will your script handle a SSID with space ?
>
All the parameters should preserve spaces. The only risk taken is that
wifi.db must exist
mudlark wrote:
> no. I can change sever either way, but using the LMS screen leaves the
> picoreplayer gui inoperative.
>
> The obvious way to deal with this problem is to make sure that any
> changes of LMS machine must be put in place in the picoreplayer web gui,
> but this means noting the r
sbp wrote:
> That made me laughing - often I also don't know precisely what is going
> on. But now you have seen how it is made, and as you probably knew
> already I'm not a programmer.
> Thanks for your addition which I will add to piCorePlayer. I'm actually
> trying to make a new version with
sbp wrote:
> Hi Randy.
>
> I tried to use your set_wifi.sh file, but I have a small problem.
>
> Originally my config.cfg file contains this info:
> >
Code:
> >
> SSID="Cisco04554"
> PASSWORD="smiley12"
> ENCRYPTION="WPA"
> >
>
> Then I us
sbp wrote:
> Hi Randy.
>
> I tried to use your set_wifi.sh file, but I have a small problem.
>
> I hope you have a good idea.
> Steen
Hello Steen. It was interesting in trying to troubleshoot. It seems
that the field separator rules work differently in x86 versus ARM
environments (or at leas
Hello. I am using the latest Vortexbox 2.3 (LMS 7.8) and trying to
utilize the powercenter plugin to fire a script rather than the
bottlerocket executable. I can see in the LMS logs that the plugin is
trying to send the command. However it gets a 256 return code and never
seems to execute. I'v
Thanks for the suggestion. I'll give it a shot when I get home.
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I thought I would share the solution I stumbled upon for those who might
be in a similar search.
Some background: I use an old-school 4-zone amp to drive 4 zones of
audio for my players. It's a hog, so leaving it running all day long
wastes energy and can overheat in the closet. I found the Pow
I am using Steen's piCorePlayer on a raspi running Tiny Core Linux. I
would like to log the wireless strength over time. I'm not really
wanting to go the full rsyslog route and was hoping there was a simple
way to get LMS to log messages to it's log file and send them from shell
scripts on the r
Hello Triode. I am using both squeezelite and your Spotify plugin on a
Vortexbox appliance. I have been working on a problem over on the
Vortexbox forum concerning synchronization of the local VBA player with
other players (a classic SBR and a piCorePlayer squeezelite) playing
back a Spotify str
Man in a van wrote:
> > alephnull wrote:
> > Would it be possible to have a radio button on one of the config menus:
> > "Start automatically playing on boot ON /OFF",
> > - followed by a box where i could enter a url for the picoreplayyer to
> > start playing: "http://stream-uk1.radioparadise
alephnull wrote:
> > mcdudeabides wrote:
> >
> >
> >
> > I see what that does, but I'd rather not have to enable telnet I
> > hoping the thread will get someone to put a simple fix in - especially
> > if this fuctionailty was there o
Greg Erskine wrote:
> > mcdudeabides wrote:
> >
> >
> > hi mcdudeabides,
> >
> > Have you activated the simple "controls" in piCorePlayer 1.17? (by
> > adding LMS server IP address in Squeezelite settings)
> >
> > We are
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