Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Jivelite for piCorePlayer

2021-02-10 Thread mr-b
Hi I'm trying out the clock display freezing issue workaround of a cron job to restart it nightly. 0 2 * * * /usr/bin/pkill -15 jivelite However after doing this, I find the display says this in the morning. Playback is fine though. How do I get the display back (other than a reboot?) 33315

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Jivelite for piCorePlayer

2021-02-10 Thread mr-b
Tx, yes I know jivelite is the UI, I was just saying that the player works as an indication that nothing else was wrong. Also I was just going on the advice from below which says that the cmd should restart jivelite. https://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?103330-Jivelite-for-piCorePlayer&

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Jivelite for piCorePlayer

2021-02-10 Thread mr-b
@jd68 Tx - will give it a go. mr-b's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=10044 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=103330 ___

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Jivelite for piCorePlayer

2021-02-11 Thread mr-b
jd68 wrote: > You probably have not just killed the jivelite process but also the > shell script that controls its startup and spossible restarts. > > > Code: > > ~$ ps -eaf | grep jivelite > root 5852 1 0 Feb09 ?00:00:00 /bin/sh /opt/jivelite/bin/

[SlimDevices: Unix] New sd-card image backup feature in pCP 7.0.1

2021-02-11 Thread mr-b
This looks really useful as it's a PITA fiddling about removing the sd-card to back it up separately. I had a few questions: - the first box says 'Disk Information'. So is this about the source i.e. sd-card or the destination i.e. a disk? The info looks like it's the sd-card partition info. -

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] New sd-card image backup feature in pCP 7.0.1

2021-02-11 Thread mr-b
I've discovered that if I mount a writable share under LMS Network Mount then that mount will appear in the image location drop-down, so that looks promising. It's managed to write a 0 byte file so far but Resource Monitor doesn't indicate any file writing activity. Will do some more digging. Th

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] New sd-card image backup feature in pCP 7.0.1

2021-02-11 Thread mr-b
I loaded the parallel gzip pigz.tcz extension and got much better results after rebooting. Net transfer speed was about 15-20MB/s, but it dropped to 200KB/s for quite a while. Rpi4 on GigE switch. It took about 15min to write 4300MB gzip file, but it's odd that it says "Writing 1760mb image". [

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] New sd-card image backup feature in pCP 7.0.1

2021-02-12 Thread mr-b
Tx. It'd be good to flag that the process is run in the background as the web page spins, so it's not obvious. Also about LMS ideally needing to be shutdown, unless it can do that too. I'll see how cron works out with pcp ic. And is there any reason why pigz.tcz isn't included by default? Why wo

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] New sd-card image backup feature in pCP 7.0.1

2021-02-12 Thread mr-b
In case it helps on the image size calc, my partition info from Resize FS Code: FilesystemSize Used Available Use% Mounted on /dev/mmcblk0p2 29.2G 4.0G 24.8G 14% /mnt/mmcblk0p2 5.5T 2.4T 3.0T 44% /mnt/music //

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] New sd-card image backup feature in pCP 7.0.1

2021-02-13 Thread mr-b
paul- wrote: > Printing a dot every 5 seconds is what it does. The only way to know > for sure if it is successful, is to wait for the "DONE". If you leave > the page, it will finish, but you don't know for sure when it finishes. > I completely missed the increasing dots on the web page! Cou

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] New sd-card image backup feature in pCP 7.0.1

2021-02-14 Thread mr-b
Tx for adding the LMS warning. It'd also be useful to say what navigating away from the page will do. I only saw a progress % counter on FF with no bar. I had to do a shit Reload (override cache) to get the bar to display. The image size makes a lot more sense now, though an old storage pedant

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] piCorePlayer 6 and watchdog timer?

2021-04-22 Thread mr-b
After 26d of working fine, my time display has just locked up. Cron has this: 30 2 5,21 * * pkill -x /opt/jivelite/bin/jivelite Any suggestions for diagnosis/remedy before I reboot it? mr-b's Profile: http://forums.slim

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] piCorePlayer 6 and watchdog timer?

2021-04-24 Thread mr-b
Tx - I've enabled the weekly PCP reboot option now too. Yes the UI works fine, just the display is frozen. I'd no idea what to look for though when it did happen, but I might enable syslog for S&G if I get the time. mr-b's

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] piCorePlayer 6 and watchdog timer?

2021-04-25 Thread mr-b
Tx Ralphy for keeping this in mind for all this time! Your news sounds very promising. :) mr-b's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=10044 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] ANNOUNCE: piCorePlayer 7.0.0

2021-06-20 Thread mr-b
Hi I experienced some odd instability recently on PCP 7.0.1 with LMS 8.1.1, and had the dreaded empty library. A rescan didn't work so I restarted LMS and I could browse the network mount again but the PCP kept dropping off the LAN, even after a reboot, even though ping was working fine. Another

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] ANNOUNCE: piCorePlayer 7.0.0

2021-06-20 Thread mr-b
After some digging I tried this: tc@PCP-XLR-LMS:~$ sudo fsck -fvn /dev/mmcblk0p2 fsck (busybox 1.31.1) e2fsck 1.45.6 (20-Mar-2020) Warning! /dev/mmcblk0p2 is mounted. Warning: skipping journal recovery because doing a read-only filesystem check. Pass 1: Checking inodes, blocks, and sizes Pass 2

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] ANNOUNCE: piCorePlayer 7.0.0

2021-06-21 Thread mr-b
Ok so how does one do that? The "User Commands" seem to run after LMS so I'm guessing that's no good. It'd be handy to have something like this run periodically to get some advance warning of potential issues. mr-b's Prof

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] ANNOUNCE: piCorePlayer 7.0.0

2021-06-21 Thread mr-b
Ok so I mounted the boot partition, added forcefsck to the end of the line below, restarted but I can't see any evidence in dmesg. tc@PCP-XLR-LMS:/temp-boot$ cat cmdline.txt host=PCP-XLR-LMS tz=GMT0BST,M3.5.0/1,M10.5.0 dwc_otg.fiq_fsm_mask=0xF dwc_otg.lpm_enable=0 console=tty1 root=/dev/ram0 ele

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] ANNOUNCE: piCorePlayer 7.0.0

2021-06-22 Thread mr-b
paul- wrote: > Then you must not have mounted and saved the correct file.If for > sure would show on on the commandline call out in dmesg. > > no need to create a directory to mount. There is a mount point setup > by default at /mnt/mmcblk0p1 It's there: ktc@PCP-XLR-LMS:/mnt/mmcblk0p1$ c

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] ANNOUNCE: piCorePlayer 7.0.0

2021-06-23 Thread mr-b
paul- wrote: > Well it seems that somewhere along the line the path for e2fsck moved, > so the script is not working. Your best bet is to pull the card out and > check it in another linux machine. But back to the actual error > messages, those are not likely caused by a file system problem.

[SlimDevices: Unix] Picoreplayer and VPN clients

2019-03-31 Thread mr-b
I'd like to have a picoreplayer with access to my home LMS via a VPN. It would save me having to keep syncing my library to an sdcard. I've seen some details on how to configure one for OpenVPN https://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?106895-Running-picoreplayer-over-a-VPN but it'd be a lot

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Picoreplayer and VPN clients

2019-04-01 Thread mr-b
As opposed to using a hosted VPN? Yes I could run my own VPN server but it's a lot more complex and the hosted ones are very easy to setup on clients. My Linux is very rusty so I was just wondering if PCP would support a Linux app like ZeroTier One. The latter's install instructions mention GPG

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Picoreplayer and VPN clients

2019-04-01 Thread mr-b
edwin2006 wrote: > Got me thinking... > What if I run lms at location A > On the router of location A running an vpn server > Then, > Take an pcp in location B that connects to location A via a build in vpn > client. > Kind of portable music solution. > > Bit strange would the control of pcp in

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Picoreplayer and VPN clients

2019-04-03 Thread mr-b
Thanks that's great info. I wonder how it compares with the one in the OP ... I've ordered a RPI so will post back how I get on with the hosted VPN install, but at least I know that I have OpenVPN as a fall back option. :-) --

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Announce: piCorePlayer 3.5.0

2019-04-14 Thread mr-b
Hi I'm trying to map a remote network share on LMS installed on PCP v4.1.0 but it refuses, pointing to the share name saying "Please match the requested format ...". The Windows share name is "My-name's music" (my quotes). Does the space or apostrophe matter? They don't with an existing LMS (on

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] ANNOUNCE: piCorePlayer 4.0.0

2019-04-14 Thread mr-b
Hi I'm trying to map a remote network share on LMS installed on PCP v4.1.0 but it refuses, pointing to the share name saying "Please match the requested format ...". The Windows share name is "My-name's music" (my quotes). Does the space or apostrophe matter? They don't with an existing LMS (on

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] ANNOUNCE: piCorePlayer 4.0.0

2019-04-14 Thread mr-b
Ok tx. I made another share name minus the apostrophe, mounted under /mnt/music and it seemed to accept it this time. But when I go to the LMS UI, it just presents two local mount points and no apparent network share. It's all a bit different from the Windows LMS and my Unix is very rusty! ---

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] ANNOUNCE: piCorePlayer 4.0.0

2019-04-15 Thread mr-b
Hmm, I fell at the next fence. I left LMS to scan the library (I confirmed it was seeing music files under Info) but the next time I looked at it it had stopped. I checked the logs and it's crashed with a disk I/O error. [19-04-15 10:35:45.4685] Slim::Schema::Storage::throw_exception (122) Err

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] ANNOUNCE: piCorePlayer 4.0.0

2019-04-15 Thread mr-b
OK I found the issue - the filesystem was full: [19-04-15 12:53:36.4723] main::main (332) Error: Skipping post-process & Not updating lastRescanTime! [19-04-15 12:53:36.4788] Slim::Schema::Storage::throw_exception (122) Error: DBI Exception: DBD::SQLite::db commit failed: database or disk is ful

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] ANNOUNCE: piCorePlayer 4.0.0

2019-04-16 Thread mr-b
In case it helps anyone, I ended up having to expand the filesystem to 1000MB to cope with the library scan. Code: FilesystemSize Used Available Use% Mounted on /dev/mmcblk0p2 964.4M650.8M269.4M 71% /mnt/mmcblk0p2 -

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] ANNOUNCE: piCorePlayer 4.0.0

2019-04-16 Thread mr-b
https://www.picoreplayer.org/how_to_install_lms.shtml suggested 300MB so I thought it couldn't be that much bigger than that. Plus I guessed that if I expanded the filsystem to fill the card then it might not be usable for anything else. Though as it's the start of my experience of PCP, RPi etc.

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] ANNOUNCE: piCorePlayer 4.0.0

2019-04-16 Thread mr-b
I used the Resize partition function - as per the link in my post. I would add that LMS was unhappy afterwards with errors like the below in the log: [19-04-16 10:10:31.8259] Slim::Web::Template::SkinManager::_fillTemplate (337) Error: file error - failed to create compiled templates directory:

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] ANNOUNCE: piCorePlayer 4.0.0

2019-04-19 Thread mr-b
More fun and games with the library scan. It's crashing with a disk full error again, even though I've not added any music and only added a few plugins. Also the filesystem doesn't appear to be full. Any ideas what to do? Code: [19-04-19 16:15:43.7932] Slim::Music:

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] ANNOUNCE: piCorePlayer 4.0.0

2019-04-19 Thread mr-b
It's strange as it's scanned the library Ok for the past couple of days so I thought it was all working ... I just did a (new/changed) rescan - disk full errors again. Code: [19-04-19 22:04:32.9691] Slim::Schema::forceCommit (2161) Warning: Couldn't commit transac

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] ANNOUNCE: piCorePlayer 4.0.0

2019-04-20 Thread mr-b
paul- wrote: > Not when your cache is that large..artwork alone is 328MB. Increase > it to at least a 2GB partition. I resized it to 2000MB. The library scan seems to have completed Ok for now, but there's still >1GB space left, so I presume some working space may have been req'd. Also, so

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] ANNOUNCE: piCorePlayer 4.0.0

2019-04-25 Thread mr-b
Another strange one - I've configured the Rescan Library plugin to do a daily full scan but it doesn't appear to work. It worked fine on Windows (TM). ;-) I can't see anything amiss in the server or scanner logs. Any ideas what could be wrong? --

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] ANNOUNCE: piCorePlayer 4.0.0

2019-04-26 Thread mr-b
OK - very strange. I did some digging and uncovered something about how LMS used a different location for config or somesuch after resizing the partition - https://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?109404-ANNOUNCE-piCorePlayer-4-0-0&p=921571&viewfull=1#post921571 Since I'd resized it previou

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] ANNOUNCE: piCorePlayer 4.0.0

2019-04-26 Thread mr-b
Tried changing the log level but there's nothing there - nor in server.log. The pCP time is correct. mr-b's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=10044 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/sho

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] ANNOUNCE: piCorePlayer 4.0.0

2019-04-26 Thread mr-b
mr-b wrote: > OK - very strange. I did some digging and uncovered something about how > LMS used a different location for config or somesuch after resizing the > partition - > https://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?109404-ANNOUNCE-piCorePlayer-4-0-0&p=921571&v

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] ANNOUNCE: piCorePlayer 4.0.0

2019-04-30 Thread mr-b
Hi What does this button do exactly on the LMS page and under which circumstances should I run it? The help isn't very clear. I searched but couldn't find an answer to this. mr-b's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/m

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] ANNOUNCE: piCorePlayer 4.0.0

2019-05-01 Thread mr-b
Thanks - I am wary of just blindly updating code with no version info or release notes, or obvious way of reverting. Would a reinstall have the "old" libraries? Also why would I update the libraries? mr-b's Profile: http:/

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] ANNOUNCE: piCorePlayer 4.0.0

2019-05-04 Thread mr-b
i've just changed network subnet address and changed the library file server's mount point ip address, but when I click "Set NET point" it says: [ INFO ] Unmounting Old Mount Point: /mnt/music. [ INFO ] New Mount Point /mnt/music is not in use. What does "not in use" mean? ---

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] ANNOUNCE: piCorePlayer 4.0.0

2019-05-18 Thread mr-b
+1 for a wiki, that'd be easy for folks to contribute content. As a recent newcomer to RPI & PCP but not Squeezeboxes, I've found it quite frustrating finding out info that I'm sure has been covered before but it's a huge forum to sift through with only long release-specific threads for PCP. The

[SlimDevices: Unix] Disk Mount Error , Try to Reboot with LMS on pCP

2019-05-19 Thread mr-b
I used to have a mount point for my music library on my Windows server working just fine, but since I had some server crashing issues (since fixed) I cannot get pCP to remount my network drive. Before I got: [INFO] mount -v -t cifs -o username=bruno,password=[snip],uid=1001,gid=50 //192.168.1.3

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Disk Mount Error , Try to Reboot with LMS on pCP

2019-05-19 Thread mr-b
Doh! Of course the different mobo's net adapter has taken a DHCP address instead of static - and my 'net use' was using the netbios name. Tx! mr-b's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=10044 View this

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] ANNOUNCE: piCorePlayer 5.0.0

2019-10-02 Thread mr-b
Hi Every now and again my PCP touchscreen's clock becomes stuck. Any ideas how to diagnose what is wrong? A reboot last time "fixed" it, but since it's happened again there's obvs an issue somewhere. (piCorePlayer v5.0.1 | linux 4.19.40-pcpCore_v7 | piCore v10.1pCP | Squeezelite v1.9.2-1158-pCP)

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] ANNOUNCE: piCorePlayer 5.0.0

2019-10-03 Thread mr-b
No the touch screen is frozen (if that's what you mean by jivelite), though the player still outputs sound if I control it remotely. I can't repro it on demand, it just keeps happening. Anything I shoud try? mr-b's Profile

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] ANNOUNCE: piCorePlayer 5.0.0

2019-10-03 Thread mr-b
Yes, me too! mr-b's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=10044 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=110642 ___ unix mailing list

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] ANNOUNCE: piCorePlayer 5.0.0

2019-10-04 Thread mr-b
Jivelite Update doesn't give you a choice! It says that it is checking pcp-jivelite.tcz and libcofi.tz with the result "Extension version Matches", greys the results out and then prompts straight away to reboot. So, I'm not quite sure what that all means. If it was the same version wouldn't it no

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] ANNOUNCE: piCorePlayer 5.0.0

2019-10-13 Thread mr-b
My system comprises a PCP and LMS running on a RPi with my library files stored on a Windows share. PCP was playing fine and then later a certain track wouldn't play. I saw that my PCP couldn't connect to the LMS (also running on the RPi) and so I rebooted it. I noted it flagged it couldn't moun

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] ANNOUNCE: piCorePlayer 5.0.0

2019-10-13 Thread mr-b
Got it in one! :-) I updated the mount point to use the MS longform use...@domain.com or whatever they call it and it mounts fine now! Thanks for the prompt response! mr-b's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.p

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Announce: piCorePlayer 8.0.0

2021-07-24 Thread mr-b
Hi Does 8.0.0 have the ability to do fsck at boot? Or even badblocks? After the flaky problems I'd had a few weeks ago, my LMS PCP finally died yesterday and so I installed an Ubuntu VM so I could finally check the sd card. Code: sudo fsck -fv /dev/sdc2 fsck from

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Announce: piCorePlayer 8.0.0

2021-07-25 Thread mr-b
So that would take care of p1 FAT, how about checking p2? And badblocks? mr-b's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=10044 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=114828 __

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Announce: piCorePlayer 8.0.0

2021-07-25 Thread mr-b
My OP for 7.0.0 is at https://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?113512-ANNOUNCE-piCorePlayer-7-0-0&p=1025785&viewfull=1#post1025785 and I tried adding forcefsck to /mnt/mmcblk0p1/cmdline.txt but it didn't work, so I was wondering if things were different in 8.0.0. Do I need to install one of

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Announce: piCorePlayer 8.0.0

2021-07-25 Thread mr-b
I *think* from the below that forcing fsck on boot with TC will not be possible, unless it's done from a safe mode boot (presumably with no network). http://forum.tinycorelinux.net/index.php/topic,13750.0.html mr-b's Profi

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Announce: piCorePlayer 8.0.0

2021-07-26 Thread mr-b
Tx. I tried it via: Code: $ sudo tune2fs -l /dev/mmcblk0p2 | grep count Inode count: 3899392 Block count: 7773184 Reserved block count: 82880 Mount count: 10 Maximum mount count: -1 $ tune2fs -c 1 /dev/mm

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Announce: piCorePlayer 8.0.0

2021-07-27 Thread mr-b
Well it certainly works fine on another PCP with a screen: 35359 Though the boot says PCPCore-v7. But on my other one, fsck still shows incorrect free counts, which I'd assumed fsck would correct. Code: tc@PCP-XLR-LMS:~$ e2fsck -n /dev/mmcblk0p2 e2fsck 1.45.6 (2

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Announce: piCorePlayer 8.0.0

2021-07-27 Thread mr-b
Huh? Sorry I don't understand. mr-b's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=10044 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=114828 ___

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Announce: piCorePlayer 8.0.0

2021-07-27 Thread mr-b
Yup, no argument on that front! But there's no point passing just 'y' to fsck since the vol is mounted i.e. tc@PCP-XLR-LMS:~$ e2fsck -y /dev/mmcblk0p2 e2fsck 1.45.6 (20-Mar-2020) /dev/mmcblk0p2 is mounted. e2fsck: Cannot continue, aborting. I'm confused as to what you're suggesting. My questi

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Announce: piCorePlayer 8.0.0

2021-07-28 Thread mr-b
paul- wrote: > You cannot run fsck to make repairs on a mounted file system. When fsck > runs at boot, the file system is not mounted, so it can run normally. > If your filesystem won’t get repaired, it is likely a failing sdcard. Ok I found the issue. I pulled the sd-card, and remember that I

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] piCorePlayer and USB Audio

2021-08-06 Thread mr-b
Hi Can anyone help with with my USB DAC as I'm at a loss what to enter for the output field? I selected USB audio, Save but not sure what do to next. I tried seting output to 'default' but nothing happened, then hw:CARD=Audio,DEV=0 resulted in a 'squeezelite not running' error. In dmesg thes

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] piCorePlayer and USB Audio

2021-08-06 Thread mr-b
Yup I saw that and as before I tried a few (now up to 6) that either had no audio or else "[ ERROR ] Squeezelite not running." so I wondered if there was a more informed way of stabbing in the dark! bluealsa default plugequal equal hw:CARD=Headphones,DEV=0 plughw:CARD=Headphones,DEV=0 sysdefault

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] piCorePlayer and USB Audio

2021-08-06 Thread mr-b
It's the EMU 0404 USB, as alluded to by the aforementioned dmesg entries: [ 3.210551] usb 1-1.2: Product: E-MU 0404 | USB [ 3.210558] usb 1-1.2: Manufacturer: E-MU Systems, Inc. [ 3.210564] usb 1-1.2: SerialNumber: E-MU-63-3F04-07D80A0E-03EC6-STATION 01 I have a Justboom DAC HAT also but am try

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] piCorePlayer and USB Audio

2021-08-07 Thread mr-b
Tx for the suggestions, Man in a van's suggestion worked but was distorted at higher bit rates. Then I discovered the Squeezelite Output devices section on the Diags page with the detailed descriptions of each output and tried the simplest setting i.e. 'sysdefault:CARD=USB- E-MU 0404

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] piCorePlayer and USB Audio

2021-08-08 Thread mr-b
Sure, but I'd never seen that method of selecting a field's value before and it just looked like plain text. It'd be clearer if it said "Select one of the below entries". A combination of old eyes and a small screen didn't help either! ;-) But it would have helped a lot though if the descriptive

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Jivelite for piCorePlayer

2021-08-24 Thread mr-b
Hi My VU meters have all disappeared after I switched to wifi from ethernet. I checked jivelite was pointing to the correct new player (same name) and music plays fine but there are just no VU meters at all when you switch views. I tried switching VU meters and saved, then restarted PCP but stil

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Jivelite for piCorePlayer

2021-08-24 Thread mr-b
Howard Passman wrote: > Uninstall Jivelite and reinstall with the interface that you will be > using. ie: Ethernet or wifi. It's how Jivelite works unfortunately. VU > meters will be back fter you do that. > That's great - thanks! VU meters are working again (well after I've figured out which s

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Jivelite for piCorePlayer

2021-08-25 Thread mr-b
I have a Justboom DAC HAT and am trying out some monitor speakers which are showing up clicks/glitches whenever I change volume or pause playback. I'd not noticed these before but I was connected to a basic AV amp, and via ethernet (now wifi) - so maybe the monitors are just more sensitive. How d

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Jivelite for piCorePlayer

2021-08-25 Thread mr-b
Tx, but the clicking is still present. Also I tried disconnnecting the screen power and the boot-up noises are still audible. mr-b's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=10044 View this thread: http://f

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Jivelite for piCorePlayer

2021-08-25 Thread mr-b
The active speakers don't have vol controls, just trim pots for various freq corrections and RCA and XLR inputs, so it's just PCP (squeezelite/jivelite?) that is doing vol control. Hmm - maybe wrong thread! The ALSA mixer settings were at the those you mentioned already. The noises are: 1) Boot

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Jivelite for piCorePlayer

2021-08-26 Thread mr-b
Hi With this system I'm running Focal Shape 65s monitors with XLR & RCA inputs. I've got XLR-RCA and minijack-RCA adapters to try out different inputs so I can run most combos. Also an old Denon AV amp (RCA input) plus B&W bookshelf speakers Players & DACs available: Rpi3 with Justboom DAC - wi

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Jivelite for piCorePlayer

2021-08-27 Thread mr-b
Man in a van wrote: > So you are using the jack outputs from the dac direct into the speakers > and controling the volume via alsamixer ? > No, I'm just using the Material/Squeezelite-X apps to control volume. I've not delved into Alsamixer before. Looks like some more light reading! > > As J

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Announce: piCorePlayer 8.0.0

2021-09-11 Thread mr-b
Hi I'm having trouble getting my new Rpi4 with a Hifiberry DAC2 Pro XLR to work. No audio comes out of the XLR or even minijack outputs. I searched and found a few posts back about some settings for this HAT but was rather confused by them as I've not seen an Extra HATS setting. Also I found thi

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Announce: piCorePlayer 8.0.0

2021-09-12 Thread mr-b
Tx - HifiberryOS just worked (after I'd worked out that it doesn't support USB booting) with BT (HAT LED lights up and audio is heard fine) but I can't see any way to integrate it with LMS. I did like the Volume Limit dB setting though as this acts as a very useful eardrum/speaker protector with

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Announce: piCorePlayer 8.0.0

2021-09-12 Thread mr-b
Tx Ronnie Following https://docs.picoreplayer.org/how-to/edit_config_txt/ I couldn't find config.txt, or anything else unfortunately. mount says it's mounted: /dev/mmcblk0p1 on /mnt/mmcblk0p1 type vfat (rw,nosuid,nodev,relatime,uid=1001,gid=50,fmask=,dmask=,allow_utime=0022,codepage=43

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Announce: piCorePlayer 8.0.0 - Network Timing Protocol

2021-10-19 Thread mr-b
Very nice to have this in the UI, and I'd say it should be a mandatory feature for LMS which can get really screwed up with the wrong time and will save lots of head scratching. Also if you have a clock screensaver. However I'd completely missed this new feature - could beta feature updates be a

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Announce: piCorePlayer 8.0.0

2021-12-02 Thread mr-b
I've experienced another mysterious Library "Empty" after a daily full scan. Nothing has changed AFAIK on the Win10 server where the library is stored. All shares are visible from another PC. Also my image backups do not list the backup folder (vol1) on the server as a destination so something is

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Announce: piCorePlayer 8.0.0

2021-12-03 Thread mr-b
Tx - the only thing that had changed was a new drive in the server which meant the remote image backup share name in my net mounts was invalid. The music share didn't change. The new drive went in with no LMS activity ongoing. Before I'd spotted that share name issue I then added "vers=2.0" to th

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] piCorePlayer 6 and watchdog timer?

2022-01-02 Thread mr-b
ralphy wrote: > If jivelite is frozen and the pcp web interface still works, any logging > you enable won't likely help. I've been chasing this issue for years > and the only helpful log messages are only written to the console when > you run /opt/jivelite/bin/jivelite from an ssh session. I r

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] piCorePlayer 6 and watchdog timer?

2022-01-02 Thread mr-b
ralphy wrote: > Yes, it's in the repository. > > However, if you did an institue upgrade of pcp then jivelite does not > get updated as part of the process. You need to manually upgrade > jivelite from the tweaks tab in the webgui. Yes I normally do in situ upgrades. The update page says "Ad

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] piCorePlayer 6 and watchdog timer?

2022-01-03 Thread mr-b
ralphy wrote: > Yes, both jivelite and shairport are not upgraded automatically. > > Tinycore doesn't support version info directly, only the extension > checksum is used to determine if an update is needed. There is version > info available in the repo for extensions, however, it's not downlo

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] piCorePlayer 6 and watchdog timer?

2022-01-04 Thread mr-b
Ok great - my filename is the same as yours so I'm going back to the first workaround again i.e. for the 24d bug. mr-b's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=10044 View this thread: http://forums.slimde

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Announce: piCorePlayer 8.0.0

2022-01-21 Thread mr-b
Hi I did search but couldn't find an answer to this ... Is there any way to have a notification of pCP updates ( or other component updates) e.g. like LMS? I don't tend to update on a whim but it's be great to at least have some notice of updates that one could review. Currently I seem to disco

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Announce: piCorePlayer 8.0.0

2022-01-22 Thread mr-b
paul- wrote: > LMS has a notification system, built into its web UI. pCP has a > release page https://docs.picoreplayer.org/releases/ But nothing for > small incremental extension updates Trouble is I'd have to keep checking the release page for updates which quite frankly I'm going to f

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Announce: piCorePlayer 8.0.0

2022-01-22 Thread mr-b
pgf wrote: > If you have a way of monitoring a website for changes (there are free > services for this, and android apps, and fairly simple shell scripts), > then you could set up to be notified when either > https://docs.picoreplayer.org/releases/ or > https://repo.picoreplayer.org/insitu/ is m

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Announce: piCorePlayer 8.0.0

2022-01-22 Thread mr-b
Tx, it eventually accepted both sites so I'll see if it works. But I still think something like this would be reliable and a lot easier to setup (just subscribe the the thread), with a new post for each release (or important other update). ;-) https://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?98711-

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Announce: piCorePlayer 8.0.0 - Network Timing Protocol

2022-02-06 Thread mr-b
Greg Erskine wrote: > Thanks. > > Not often needed but its now there when required. > > I use it on my LMS pCP as the time drifted a minute or two over many > months. > > I think my Duet controller time was wrong because of that?? >From various forum postings it appears there's an ever growin

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Announce: piCorePlayer 8.0.0 - Network Timing Protocol

2022-02-06 Thread mr-b
Greg Erskine wrote: > thanks mr-b, > > I read your recommendations. > > These "things" often just end up in [Extras]. It is just a result of my > haphazard process. > > In the meantime, I fixed the typos, ready for the next release. > Great tx. It&#x

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] piCorePlayer 8.0.0 - Bluetooth Discussion

2022-09-30 Thread mr-b
Hi Does anyone have *exact* instructions on how to pair a PCP with Windows11? I've tried various incantations of pairing, discovering etc. on both ends but neither device sees the other, even though "unknown devices" are seen and my PCP pairs fine with Android devices.

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] piCorePlayer 8.0.0 - Bluetooth Discussion

2022-10-01 Thread mr-b
I deleted all the existing paired devices and started again. This time Win11 could see the PCP but it couldn't connect. "Try connecting your device again". Another laptop with Win10 and an Android tablet pair and connect fine. Code: 10-01 22:14 BST INFO Cau

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] piCorePlayer 8.0.0 - Bluetooth Discussion

2022-10-02 Thread mr-b
OK. I'll see if I can spin up a VM on my Win10 laptop. But meanwhile I've now found that BT seems to be completely hosed on that PCP. It won't even power up the BT controller now. Turning the BT Controller power on... I've removed BT and reinstalled to no avail. Show Bluetooth logs [ INFO ]

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] piCorePlayer 8.0.0 - Bluetooth Discussion

2022-10-18 Thread mr-b
After trying out Win11 which I thought had messed up my existing tabet BT pairing, I decided to do an image restore. After that the tablet worked fine. Then before trying out Win11 again tonight I thought it prudent to update BT. How wrong I was! First of all my tablet would no longer connect to

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] piCorePlayer 8.0.0 - Bluetooth Discussion

2022-10-18 Thread mr-b
I tried on another PC and was able to replicate this i.e. udate BT s/w and the tablt can still connect but no audio is heard. Then I wwent back to the old BT s/w and tried it with Windows 11. Wi11 could see the PCP but it couldn't connect. Event Log says "The mutual authentication between the lo

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] piCorePlayer 8.0.0 - Bluetooth Discussion

2022-10-19 Thread mr-b
Tx, I've worked out some of what was going wrong. After I'd updated my second PCP and BT stopped working, I spotted there was a new status bullet "Bluealsa is running". Then I saw a new section with a "BT Output Device" setting which was blank. The possible values looked similar to the Squeezeli

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] piCorePlayer 8.0.0 - Bluetooth Discussion

2022-10-20 Thread mr-b
Well I've got Win11 to work on one PCP! But it was an arduous journey and I still can't get it to work on the other PCP. :-( To be fair I've had similar symptoms with Win10 but on a different laptop so I can't completely blame Win11. It's working on a rPi 4B and piCorePlayer v8.2.0 | www v00017

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] piCorePlayer 8.0.0 - Bluetooth Discussion

2022-10-20 Thread mr-b
castalla wrote: > I've given up using the pcp Bluetooth feature in its present iteration > (the previous version worked flawlessly) - too many lost and/or missing > paired instances (apart from a permanent Samsung TV which I don't want! > ). Not quite your issue, I know. CAn you say which vers

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Announce: piCorePlayer 8.0.0

2022-11-19 Thread mr-b
Hi LMS on my PCP seems to be unresponsive both from players and the PCP LMS UI page just hangs. The main PCP admin pages are fine though. Diagnostics shows quite few of these (though my music lib server is working and accessible via CIFS from another machine): [5433590.068175] CIFS: VFS: \\19

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Announce: piCorePlayer 8.0.0

2022-11-19 Thread mr-b
Tx for that. I should have mentioned that this is a RPi 4B/4GB and LMS has 100k tracks and Database Memory Config = max. Will keep an eye on it, but have had no issues before. mr-b's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Announce: piCorePlayer 8.0.0

2022-11-22 Thread mr-b
I recall the last time I had some issues with the LMS update process regarding notifications in the player and then the actual upgrade of LMS on pCP, but this time around I saw the notification of an LMS update to 8.3.0 available, then followed the link. The link had a lot of scary stuff about so

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Announce: piCorePlayer 8.0.0

2022-12-21 Thread mr-b
Hi Is there any way that the Diagnostics page 'dmesg' section could be converted to human readable time? I find trying to diagnose various things very difficult when I've no idea when they happened. I tried the CLI and thought I'd found an option to do it but it doesn't work. $ sudo dmesg -T dm

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