Greg Erskine wrote:
> Thanks for the info gordonb3.
>
> Most of my USB drives are far older than 2 years, but all but one are
> backup drives so they are not powered up very often.
>
> The LMS USB drive only has only the music files on it, nothing is
> written to it during normal operation. Th
I have used USB HDD for my LMS music for 15 years. In that time 2 drives
have failed so I just plug in the backup USB drive and buy a new one.
:)
I have found unpowered backup drives don't fail (none yet). I don't
think a NAS is any safer than that. All powered drives will fail
eventually.
I my
I dont subscribe at all to the idea that your music library should be
on any kind of USB drive. In my experience running a pCP LMS with files
on a quality NAS is just as quick and massively safer and robust.
The idea that an SSD in a USB enclosure is somehow the way to go is a
waste of an SSD in
Thanks for the info gordonb3.
Most of my USB drives are far older than 2 years, but all but one are
backup drives so they are not powered up very often.
The LMS USB drive only has only the music files on it, nothing is
written to it during normal operation. Thru chance I have probably
cycled my
Greg Erskine wrote:
> I just realised I am probably deaf. I'm sitting in a sea of 4 USB drives
> and can't hear them. 3 are within arm's reach and 1 a metre away. It's a
> bit unusual for me to have more than 1 USB drive powered up at once. I
> can hear a fan in my NUC. :)
>
> Or I think my
I think it's very device specific. I have an old Western Dig 2TB USB
drive, and hdparm won't spin it down. I know hd-idle on raspbian would
spin it down OK from previous experience, but I tried a chunk of messing
around to get it to spin down on pcp with no luck (but didn't find the
hd-idle thr
I just realised I am probably deaf. I'm sitting in a sea of 4 USB drives
and can't hear them. 3 are within arm's reach and 1 a metre away. It's a
bit unusual for me to have more than 1 USB drive powered up at once. I
can hear a fan in my NUC. :)
Or I think my small USB drives spin down autom
I guess either you need or you don't care at all.
I tried Hdparm first but it didn't cut it. It simpy couldn't reach the
disk through the USB-Sata controller in the enclosure.
Without HD-Idle I probably would have ditched pCP in a few weeks as I
don't really have anywhere where noise doesn't ma
Greg Erskine wrote:
> I've managed to use pCP/LMS for many years without it. :)Try it you might
> like it [emoji3]
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I've managed to use pCP/LMS for many years without it. :)
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Muele wrote:
> It does!!
>
> And it works. For testing purposes I set the idle timer to 120 seconds
> /home/tc/hd-idle -i 120
>
> I have already done some testing across rebooting, playing files,
> switching to radio etc and it seems to just work as intended.
> I cannot explain how irrationall
slartibartfast wrote:
> Does this help?
> https://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?p=947791
>
>
It does!!
And it works. For testing purposes I set the idle timer to 120 seconds
/home/tc/hd-idle -i 120
I have already done some testing across rebooting, playing files,
switching to radio
slartibartfast wrote:
> Does this help?
> https://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?p=947791
>
> Sent from my Pixel 3a using Tapatalk
That's interesting. I must admit I gave up and just ended up moving my
drive to another pi running dietpi and share it from there, but it might
be interest
I agree that modern technologies have become available that now even my
grandmother is launching an ordinary server. I love Linux myself and
enjoy its optimization
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Muele wrote:
> So. I thought I was done setting this new server-thing up.
>
> But the main disk does suffer from the problem of not spinning down. I
> had decided to just ignore it. But it makes a small noise that somehow
> resonates in my ear and actually causes a slight headache after a few
>
psketch wrote:
> The only problem I ran into was that I couldn't get my disk to spin down
> when not in use (old WD drive with lots of known funniness in that
> area).
So. I thought I was done setting this new server-thing up.
But the main disk does suffer from the problem of not spinning d
d6jg wrote:
> An overnight reboot isnt a bad idea. A number of people report SQ
> deterioration over time which is sorted by a full system reboot. I get
> it on 2 pis very occasionally. Both are Pi2 and both use USB Dacs. A
> reboot always sorts it.
Yep, like I said - "unless you want to reboo
psketch wrote:
> Now you've got the commands sorted, you could add them to a .sh file in
> /home/tc and run it using a custom cron command in the cron section in
> Tweaks maybe, unless you actually want to reboot each day of course.
An overnight reboot isnt a bad idea. A number of people report
Now you've got the commands sorted, you could add them to a .sh file in
/home/tc and run it using a custom cron command in the cron section in
Tweaks maybe, unless you actually want to reboot each day of course.
psketch's
Thanks to all that have replied.
Regarding the use of a rpi4 instead of something hardware. I got the pi
in a nice cabinet for free. So it seemed obvious to go for that.
When I got SSH to work, things got much easier.
I think I'm done setting up. Maybe some minor tweaking remains.
I'm sure i
If you want to navigate the file structure and move files from A to B
and you are predominantly a Windows person then WinSCP is going to be
easier - https://winscp.net/eng/index.php
Use the same credentials as you do for ssh - make sure connection type
is scp
VB2.4[/B] STORAGE *QNAP TS419P (N
Muele wrote:
> Damned. Case sensitivity in the file system. I feel so stupid now.
>
> Edit: that and not knowing if the smb share (which maps deeper in the
> file structure) or the actual mount is used.
Non-native file systems are always mounted with single user write
permissions. When mountin
Damned. Case sensitivity in the file system. I feel so stupid now.
BR Mogens
2 Radios (1 battery), 2 Controllers, 2 Receivers, SqueezeCommander,
OrangeSqueeze and SqueezePlayer on Samsung Galaxy Nexus.
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Greg Erskine wrote:
> It should be simple if pCP is connected to the network.
>
> Are you following this how-to ? "'Access piCorePlayer via ssh'
> (https://docs.picoreplayer.org/how-to/access_pcp_via_ssh/)"
Yes, that very How-to.
I always got a login error. But now all of a sudden I get in. W
It should be simple if pCP is connected to the network.
Are you following this how-to ? "'Access piCorePlayer via ssh'
(https://docs.picoreplayer.org/how-to/access_pcp_via_ssh/)"
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I don't think the user commands is the way to go, I would focus on
sorting out the ssh instead. I might have missed it earlier but how are
you connecting with ssh and what's the error message?
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Oh yeah, I have also tried putting a $ in front of rsync but then it
shows some parse errors instead
BR Mogens
2 Radios (1 battery), 2 Controllers, 2 Receivers, SqueezeCommander,
OrangeSqueeze and SqueezePlayer on Samsung Galaxy Nexus.
psketch wrote:
> pcp does have rsync.tcz extension available (from the Main
> Page/Extensions/Available). That's likely what you want I think. Then
> you could add a cron job as a user command on the Tweaks page to
> schedule the rsync.
>
So I read a bit about rsync. And it doesn't seem very
Another possibility is an Intel NUC:
https://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?113492-Throwing-in-towel-on-LMS-on-Mac-OS-Does-it-run-OK-on-Windows-10-or-is-Linux-better&p=1000374&viewfull=1#post1000374
By the time you get a case and PSU for a pi4 you're in the ballpark of
the Celeron NUC...
Muele wrote:
> I do actually think my router has two USB ports, so I might be able to
> work something out with that.
I used to use an HDD plugged into a USB port on my router, but found it
too slow and clunky (but routers may vary, I guess).
> But for now i see no reason to not just use cPC f
Muele wrote:
> I do actually think my router has two USB ports, so I might be able to
> work something out with that.
>
> But for now i see no reason to not just use cPC for both fileserver and
> LMS. My only concern is that file throughput might be too small for some
> movies. But time will t
Greg Erskine wrote:
> In a recent thread one pCP user is using a USB HDD plugged into his
> router's USB port as a "cheapish" NAS.
>
> Not as functional as a real NAS but probably easier to maintain than
> having your USB HDD on pCP if you want to access it from other devices
> for other purpos
In a recent thread one pCP user is using a USB HDD plugged into his
router's USB port as a "cheapish" NAS.
Not as functional as a real NAS but probably easier to maintain than
having your USB HDD on pCP if you want to access it from other devices
for other purposes.
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psketch wrote:
> rsync.tcz
Found it. Looks like I need to study a bit to set it up. That'l be
another day. Maybe I'll have to ask a question or two here.
But for now I have everything else running and I have actually switched
off the old server.
I would never have imagined it could be so
Muele wrote:
> I have setup up one the the backupdisks as datamount for pCP (as the
> main one still lives inside the old server) and it does spin down after
> a while not in use. It´s an WD btw.
>
> So, if only pCP can do the backup it would seem I am golden much more
> easily than I have dream
psketch wrote:
> I have a similar set of requirements, and were managing them all fine
> using PCP with LMS running on that, using SAMBA for file sharing of USB
> disks attached to the Pi. The only problem I ran into was that I
> couldn't get my disk to spin down when not in use (old WD drive w
d6jg wrote:
> I have a slightly different approach - a piCoreplayer based LMS with
> storage on a NAS mounted via NFS.
Thanks. It's amazing what cheap computers can be used for these days.
But the old server really has to go. Too much noise and power
consumption.
BR Mogens
2 Radios (1 batte
bpa wrote:
> What are your needs that are missing with picoreplayer ? It will help
> provide a baseline for answers.
Backup of the data.
BR Mogens
2 Radios (1 battery), 2 Controllers, 2 Receivers, SqueezeCommander,
OrangeSqueeze and SqueezePlayer on Samsung Galaxy Nexus.
I have a slightly different approach - a piCoreplayer based LMS with
storage on a NAS mounted via NFS.
The NAS is question is an old Qnap that is now incapable of running LMS
natively but as a file stoarage device it still works perfectly and of
course I can use it for non LMS file storage, amon
I have a similar set of requirements, and were managing them all fine
using PCP with LMS running on that, using SAMBA for file sharing of USB
disks attached to the Pi. The only problem I ran into was that I
couldn't get my disk to spin down when not in use (old WD drive with
lots of known funni
Muele wrote:
> Yesterday I got piCorePlayer up and running on the pi. Impressive how
> easy that was. But it doesn't seem to be able to serve all of my needs.
What are your needs that are missing with picoreplayer ? It will help
provide a baseline for answers.
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So here goes:
I have a rather old server running. HP proliant micro. It consumes 40w
and runs Windows Home server 2011. It gets a bit noisy every few months
when it needs vacuuming.
All
Thanks for your suggestions, I just tried the suggestion from agillis -
and everything upgraded also squeezeboxserver.
For your information my version of Vortexbox 1.4 had squeezecenter
7.5.0 (Vortexbox downloaded 22 august) but now it is updated to 7.5.1-
r30861.
Thanks
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VortexBox 1.4 comes with SqueezeBox 7.5.1. If you need to update any
software go to the web GUI and click on the software update icon. Click
on update and you will be updated to the latest code.
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rip, tag, get cover art
All you do is insert the CD!
http://vortexbox.org
agillis
Lead
Do you know how to get to the CLI? If yes:
You can update to the version using this from the command line.
yum update
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Hi I have just installed Vortexbox 1.4 but the squeezebox server is
7.5.0 - and my Duet is 7.5.1.
So how do I update the Squeezebox server on the vortexbox?
I have never used Linux before - so please tell me step by step
Thanks
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Dear Mnyb,
You were right to ask a basic question, 'cause I did in fact overlook
it. I allowed the connection and it lit right up!
I really want to thank everyone for their advice and generous help in
weaning me off of Windoze.
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odruud;288209 Wrote:
> Thanks. My music is stored in the folder home/usr/Music on the
> harddrive. In Squeezecenter settings in tab Basic Settings under Music
> Folder it says /home/usr/music.
Under Unix (and Linux) /home/usr/Music and /home/usr/music are not the
same directory--it is case-sens
As your playing with linux did you start the firewall/ or is it on ?
I'm also a Linux noob so i find it easy to mess with firewall with
something called firestarter which you can get trough synaptic.
As I understand it port 9000 and 3483 should be open maybe 9090 as well
? ( a search can show up
Dear Millwood,
I tried powering down twice. Both times, it connected to the wireless
network, obtained and IP address, and when it indicated that it was
trying to connect to Squeezecenter, it just went blank.
I am able to ping the player, Squeezecenter is running, and I can
browse my music libra
If squeezecenter is running and can't see the squeezebox, first thing to
do is to restart the squeezebox by holding power down till it reboots.
Make sure is connects to the network etc.
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Well, I booted up this morning and now Squeezecenter can't find my
player. I did the same thing I did last time (I think...).
I opened a terminal window and pasted the second startup script into a
terminal window (both as a sudo in my regular account and as root) with
no results:
#!/bin/sh
# sl
Thanks. My music is stored in the folder home/usr/Music on the
harddrive. In Squeezecenter settings in tab Basic Settings under Music
Folder it says /home/usr/music. When I click browse I am not able to see
any of the subfolders which contains the artist. When performing rescan
squeezenter does n
odruud;288074 Wrote:
> ...when I use squeezecenter to locate my music files they are not
> recognized. I can find them when using Computer as a explorer. I have
> my music files both on the internal hard drive and on an external
> disc...
Not sure what you mean by 'they are not recognised'. D
As a newbie maybe you can help me out. I have installed all needed
software, can access squeezecenter trough Firefox, the squeezebox are
up and running. However when I use squeezecenter to locate my music
files they are not recognized. I can find them when using Computer as
a explorer. I have my
buelligan;288012 Wrote:
> ... I am able to receive internet radio and my connection is stable...
Great! I bet you're really pleased to have sorted this out
> ...The SB3 can browse the library, but it gets connection timed out
> errors. I am guessing that there is some permissions problem.
First of all thanks to everyone for helping me out. I am connecting my
computer (desktop) to my wireless router with a wired connection. And
now, the embarrassing part; it appears that my wireless connection to
my Squeezebox was working and I didn't know it. My router sits behind
my monitor so
buelligan;287986 Wrote:
> ...My third problem is that I can't figure out how to make Ubuntu see my
> Linksys WRT54GS router, but that's an Ubuntu issue.
Although we've started talking about wireless, I'm still not clear how
your computer is connected to your router - is it connected with a
cable
In Ubuntu you have an icon besides the clock that looks like 2 small
computers, thats the "manual Network Configuration" you have a manual
configuration option at the bottom when you scrool, it also show's
wireless network's if any.
As comparison it doesn't look like you have any working wifi on
Dear pfarrell and SuperQ,
I am able to see all of my music files by clicking the HD Part icon on
my desktop. I can navigate through all my music and play them on
Amarok by clicking on the files and selecting Open with Amarok as well
as by opening them through Amarok and going to /media/HD Part/M
Dear Super Q,
Here is what I got:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ iwconfig
lono wireless extensions.
eth0 no wireless extensions.
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$
I must confess that I have very little Linux experience. What there
has been hasn't been that good. Anyway, thanks for responding,
buelliga
buelligan wrote:
> My second (of three that I know of) problem is that I use an Acommdata
> USB hard drive to store my library. The drive is accessible from
> Ubuntu (I can see all of the music files) but the music library
> selection doesn't show the /media/HD Part in its listing. (My USB
> driv
Squeezecenter may not be able to see the music library on boot because
the disk may not be mounted until you login. It may be better to keep
your music on the internal drive.
How are you trying to connect to the WRT54GS? Wireless or wired
ethernet?
What kind of computer is this?
What do you se
Dear pfarrell,
Thanks for responding so quickly. I assumed (always a good idea!) that
because there was no symbol in the system tray that it wasn't working.
But I tried it in Firefox and it loaded right up.
My second (of three that I know of) problem is that I use an Acommdata
USB hard drive
buelligan wrote:
> I have successfully installed Squeezecenter on Ubuntu 7.10, and I just
> found the Startup scripts. Can anyone give a poor helpless noob some
> guidance as to how to implement them?
What do you need?
Did you use apt-get or Synaptic to do the install? if so, its normally
is do
I have successfully installed Squeezecenter on Ubuntu 7.10, and I just
found the Startup scripts. Can anyone give a poor helpless noob some
guidance as to how to implement them?
Thanks in advance for any help.
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AubreyCTurnerJr;194730 Wrote:
> The Debian distribution of Slimserver uses "root:root" for ownership of
> the files and installs them into /usr/share/slimserver (and I
> understand that Ubuntu is derived from Debian).
>
No sure if it's changed recently, but my ubuntu (fiesty) installation
seems
The Debian distribution of Slimserver uses "root:root" for ownership of
the files and installs them into /usr/share/slimserver (and I
understand that Ubuntu is derived from Debian).
The "standard" RPM uses "slimserver:slimserver" and installs into
/usr/local/slimserver.
I've got both a openSUSE
So SuperQ, what is your preferred method for writing to the slimserver
directory, for example to install plugins? gksudo nautilus, as I did?
Is there not a more direct way (GUI) to call up an administrative level
file manager, than via the command line?
Thanks for the clarifications Patrick. Of c
nicketynick;194502 Wrote:
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ ls -al /usr/share/slimserver
> total 636
> drwxr-xr-x 10 root root 4096 2007-04-09 15:31 .
> drwxr-xr-x 253 root root 8192 2007-04-09 15:31 ..
> drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 2007-04-09 15:31 Firmware
> drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 2007-0
nicketynick;194589 Wrote:
> Hi Patrick,
>
> I went the nautilus route - it is a Special GUI file browser, in that
> it has root permissions.No - it's invoking it with the gksudo bit that gives
> it root
permissions! Nautilus is just the gui file browser bit.
nicketynick;194589 Wrote:
> What e
Hi Patrick,
I went the nautilus route - it is a Special GUI file browser, in that
it has root permissions.
What exactly would your suggestion have accomplished?
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Easiest way to fix it is to do
sudo chown -Rf slimserver:nogroup /usr/share/slimserver
in a terminal (shell)
nautilus is the gui file browser (window explorer equivalent) IIRC
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Patri
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ ls -al /usr/share/slimserver
total 636
drwxr-xr-x 10 root root 4096 2007-04-09 15:31 .
drwxr-xr-x 253 root root 8192 2007-04-09 15:31 ..
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 2007-04-09 15:31 Firmware
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 2007-04-09 15:31 Graphics
drwxr-xr-x 16 root
nicketynick;194492 Wrote:
> I'd prefer to do this with the GUI file manager - what's the best way?
> Do I login as 'root' temporarily?
You can issue the 'gksudo nautilus' command from a terminal window but
you probably need to correct the folder ownership/permissions problem.
The files in the di
Now I'm trying to get some plugins installed - I'm using Ubuntu Dapper.
I've unzipped SuperDateTime, but it won't let me write it to
usr/share/slimserver/plugins - it says the owner of the directory is
root, so I don't have permission as my normal user, 'test'. I'd prefer
to do this with the GUI f
On 5-Jul-06, at 8:05 AM, jimbres wrote:
My system monitor shows slimserver & slimserver_safe, but I
can't connect to localhost:9000.
what about 127.0.0.1:9000 ?
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After replacing my hard drive, I reinstalled Ubuntu 6.06. I then added
the debian.slimdevices.com repository to my sources.list & reinstalled
slimserver. My system monitor shows slimserver & slimserver_safe, but I
can't connect to localhost:9000.
I'd be grateful for any suggestions. Please keep i
I'm trying to install the mipsel-tools and the mipsel-servermodules on a
Linkstation II.
Having the mipseltools unpacked in a shared folder I'm doing this:
I enter the mipseltools folder by:
cd /mnt/hda/shared/tools
Next I try to install the tools by:
./install.sh
bash-2.05a# ./install.sh
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