Re: [slim] Problem connecting one Touch to the LMS/Vortexbox

2014-05-31 Thread donmacn

Mnyb wrote: 
 Some routers have a setting to limit the amount of devices conected ,
 check it's web-UI . 

I didn't know that.  It's quite a 'high end' domestic router though, so
I'd have thought this wasn't the case. I will check.

Mnyb wrote: 
  Touch can loose its static settings if you poke around in the network
 settings part of the UI , can't remember what exact menu that provokes
 that behaviour .

Obviously static IPs are set up with DHCP temporarily disabled on the
router. Would it be the case that, as soon as you try to reconnect the
Touch to the network when DHCP has been re-enabled, that it would
default to a dynamic address? 

Knowing next to nothing about how things work, if a static device had
disconnected, and was being reconnected, I'd have expected the router to
'say': OK, I know this MAC address, it should get this static IP
address. That just doesn't seem to be working consistently.

In that case, I'd have thought that once a MAC/static IP address had
been set up in the router, that it wouldn't matter whether you did a
factory reset of the Touch?

(As a 'ps' to this. I was trying to reconect a problem Touch via wifi
again yesterday. Several times, no success. There happens to be a
powerline ethernet cable right next to it. Popped that in, and it was
through to the network and LMS like greased lightning. )



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Re: [slim] Problem connecting one Touch to the LMS/Vortexbox

2014-05-31 Thread Mnyb

donmacn wrote: 
 I didn't know that.  It's quite a 'high end' domestic router though, so
 I'd have thought this wasn't the case. I will check.
 
 
 
 Obviously static IPs are set up with DHCP temporarily disabled on the
 router. Would it be the case that, as soon as you try to reconnect the
 Touch to the network when DHCP has been re-enabled, that it would
 default to a dynamic address? 
 
 Knowing next to nothing about how things work, if a static device had
 disconnected, and was being reconnected, I'd have expected the router to
 'say': OK, I know this MAC address, it should get this static IP
 address. That just doesn't seem to be working consistently.
 
 In that case, I'd have thought that once a MAC/static IP address had
 been set up in the router, that it wouldn't matter whether you did a
 factory reset of the Touch?
 
 (As a 'ps' to this. I was trying to reconect a problem Touch via wifi
 again yesterday. Several times, no success. There happens to be a
 powerline ethernet cable right next to it. Popped that in, and it was
 through to the network and LMS like greased lightning. )

No static should stick I have no problems with that , on the other hand
I have edited the files manually on my Touches via SSH rather than using
the setup .
However you should setup the DHCP range on your router to not include
these static adresses so that the DHCP won't dole out an used address to
something else .

What settings did you put in your static setup exactly . the Touch can
also tell you it's current settings somewhere in the network menus .




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Misc use: Radio (with battery)
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Re: [slim] Problem connecting one Touch to the LMS/Vortexbox

2014-05-31 Thread Mnyb

Hmm trying to see your picture . Your network has more than one wifi ap
?

Is your network really one network , if have done the mistake of setting
up my router to an Adsl modem ( really a router ) in series so that it
DHCP my router rather than my ISP doing it meaning I got two network in
series :) meaning that one of my routers really was a client on the
other router and thus having it's own little network .
There can be completely legit and good reasons to have several networks
but if do this unitentionally you rarely know what's going on .




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Kitchen: Touch + powered Fostex PM0.4
Misc use: Radio (with battery)
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Re: [slim] JRiver Id: New Media Player?

2014-05-31 Thread johnas

Sonos uses UPNP for much of it's functionality,  they have sync figured
out - I wouldn't pass judgement on this until more details are known.





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Re: [slim] Yet another thread on replacing squeezebox devices

2014-05-31 Thread toby10

PasTim wrote: 
 ..  I had to go to vtuner websites to create the stream for each of
 my players

vTuner is just an internet radio stream aggregator like Reciva or
TuneIn.  As such it likely only supports MP3, WMA (lossy), and AAC.  Not
too long ago it didn't even support AAC.



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Re: [slim] Problem connecting one Touch to the LMS/Vortexbox

2014-05-31 Thread Julf

donmacn wrote: 
 Obviously static IPs are set up with DHCP temporarily disabled on the
 router. Would it be the case that, as soon as you try to reconnect the
 Touch to the network when DHCP has been re-enabled, that it would
 default to a dynamic address? 
 
 Knowing next to nothing about how things work, if a static device had
 disconnected, and was being reconnected, I'd have expected the router to
 'say': OK, I know this MAC address, it should get this static IP
 address. That just doesn't seem to be working consistently.
 
 In that case, I'd have thought that once a MAC/static IP address had
 been set up in the router, that it wouldn't matter whether you did a
 factory reset of the Touch?

There are two ways of setting up a static address. The first one
involves configuring the Touch with a fixed address (this gives you a
real static address), but you must not re-enable DHCP on the Touch, and
you must select an addres that is not part of the router DHCP pool, but
still part of the address space the router lets through and routes. The
other way involves using DHCP, but configuring the router to always give
out the same address. In this method, the Touch gets a dynamic address,
but the router ensures it is always the same one.

The router does not listen to all network traffic to keep track of which
addresses are in use unless it is addresses it itself has given out
using DHCP.



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Re: [slim] JRiver Id: New Media Player?

2014-05-31 Thread bluegaspode

johnas wrote: 
 Sonos uses UPNP for much of it's functionality,  they have sync figured
 out - I wouldn't pass judgement on this until more details are known.

Some stuff from Sonos is based on UPnP protocol but it's definitely not
UPnP compliant. You cannot reliably control it (except very basic stuff)
via a generic UPnP controller. 
Syncing on Sonos is totally custom (and even patented)



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Re: [slim] JRiver Id: New Media Player?

2014-05-31 Thread johnas

Which is my point about the jriver box:  even though UPNP is the listed
spec,  wait to see what it can do.





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Re: [slim] Problem connecting one Touch to the LMS/Vortexbox

2014-05-31 Thread get.amped

Maybe a quick IP and DHCP primer is needed. I'll make it the simplified
version appropriate to most home networks.

Every device (host in traditional TCP/IP speak) on your network has a
unique 48 bit Media Access Control (MAC) address, usually described as
six groups of hexadecimal bytes, e.g. 00:11:22:33:44:55 with the first
part of the address representing the manufacturer of the device and the
latter part assigned to individual devices. MAC addresses do not provide
any information about what network segment a device is on. It's worth
noting that many (most?) devices allow their MAC address to be manually
configured, in effect appearing on the network as a different device
which can present some considerable security and management concerns.

An IP address (version 4, unicast, what you are likely still using) is a
32 bit number generally described as a dotted group of 4 octets, e.g.
192.168.1.1 which, in the context of a subnet mask, provides the
location of a device on a specific network segment. Most home networks
use a subnet mask of 255.255.255.0 which indicates that the first 3
octets identify the network segment and the last octet identifies
individual hosts on that segment (up to 254). Your home network is a
private network that uses IP numbering not routed on the public
Internet. Instead, your router performs a trick called Network Address
Translation (NAT) to manage communications between Internet hosts and
the devices on your network. How NAT works is not relevant to this
discussion but it turns out that very few home routers actually do any
routing as they only handle communications between a single internal,
private network segment and the Internet.

IP networking has to be configured properly for all hosts to communicate
with each other. By far the most important rule is each IP address is
uniquely assigned to one host. A host can have multiple IP addresses,
but no hosts can be assigned the same IP address (we aren't going to go
into the configuration of fault-tolerant clusters which share a virtual
IP address). 

All hosts on the same network segment should have the same subnet mask,
gateway address (typically the router's internal IP address) and DNS
servers (typically those provided by your ISP and/or your router's
internal IP address). The gateway is the IP address of the device that
should receive data for hosts not on the local network segment, i.e.
anything that doesn't start with 192.168.1. Domain Name System (DNS)
servers are hosts which provide name resolution to allow us to use
human-friendly names for hosts instead of numbers. That's why you can
get here using forums.slimdevices.com instead of 107.21.6.57. Unless you
have a computer on your internal network running DNS, you will only use
it to resolve public Internet names. 

As the network administrator, you are responsible for planning and
configuring your network. You will decide what network addressing to use
and will assign individual IP addresses to hosts with the appropriate
subnet mask, gateway and DNS entries. You have options as to how to
accomplish this.

You could assign manually IP addresses to all devices on your network
and maintain a list of them. These are static addresses and the
configuration for each is stored on the individual devices. New devices
have to be manually configured as needed. If you assign the same address
to more than one device they will not function properly. If you mistype
any of the configuration entries the device will not function properly.
For small networks that rarely change, assigning static IPs may be
tolerable but for most people it quickly becomes unmanageable.

So you can use a Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP) server to
manage the configuration for you. In this scenario you still need to
have one static IP address (typically your router which is also the DHCP
server), and you configure DHCP to assign IP addresses to devices
configured to use DHCP. When those devices initialize their network
interface, they broadcast a DHCP request and negotiate an IP address
with the DHCP server that responds. The DHCP server provides the IP
address, subnet mask, gateway, DNS and a lease duration (and potentially
other configuration options not generally found on a home router).
Unfortunately, most of these items are not configurable on most home
routers (including yours). You will only be able to assign a range of IP
addresses to use (the scope). The other information is based on the
configuration of the router. Your router does not allow you to exclude
IP addresses from the scope, so make sure you do not use the whole range
(2 - 254) if you want to assign any other static IPs.

Of particular interest is the lease duration, an important DHCP feature
that is rarely addressed specifically by home routers. In the
negotiation between the DHCP server and the network device, the server
only provides an IP address that it considered available within its
scope; one that does not have a current 

[slim] Power Switch II for LMS in Mac OS X

2014-05-31 Thread vett93

I just switched to Mac from Windows and need some help on the power
switch control plugin, Power Switch II. I have been using Power Switch
II to turn off the amplifier and so I can listen to the music using SB3
before falling into sleep. The plugin Power Switch II on my Windows PC
has been working great in the last 7 years. However, the Mac version of
LMS does not seem to have this plugin.

Can anyone suggest what I can do? I usually set the timer for 30 minutes
and then listen to the music and fall into sleep. Thanks.



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Source: Transporter, modded by ModWright:
http://www.modwright.com/modifications/transporter-truth-mods.php 
Preamp: Dude from Tube Research Labs:
http://www.tuberesearchlabs.com/products/dude.html
Amp: NP100 Platinum from AltaVista Audio:
http://www.altavistaaudio.com/np100.html
Speakers: Alto Utopia Be from Focal-JMLab:
http://www.focal.com/en/home-audio-loudspeakers/hifi-speakers/floorstanding-speakers/alto-utopia-be.php

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Re: [slim] Announce track

2014-05-31 Thread epoch1970

I've had the same moment.
http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?98024-How-to-determine-the-language-of-a-song-or-album-name

The SBS server will send an event when a song starts I think, so you
could imagine having the machine say stuff from time to time. 

Using squeezelite I was in fact simply checking what was playing every
so often and saying that, just like my SB3 which switches between
displaying song and showing the analog VU meter. The script would lower
the audio before speaking aloud, and bring the volume back right after.
It wasn't working too bad, given it was made with a simplistic perl
script querying the SBS server with the CLI. 

However I abandoned the project because of issues with pronunciation. 
Would you use an English or a Swedish speaker to speak this text:
Esbjörn Svensson Trio - Live in Stockholm 19.Jun.99 - 3. Announcement
by Esbjörn ?
Believe it or not, I tried switching languages, for artist/title/album
or even for words... But what I got was a patchwork of different voices,
not of different accents with the same voice... The result was worse
than sticking to one single voice. With mostly good results, marred with
excruciatingly poor ones, unfortunately.



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(Debian 7.5)  with plugins: CD Player, WaveInput by bpa • IRBlaster by
Gwendesign (Felix) • Server Power Control by Gordon Harris • Smart Mix
by Michael Herger • PowerSave by Jason Holtzapple • Song Info, Song
Lyrics by Erland Isaksson • WeatherTime by Martin Rehfeld • ShairTunes
by SuartUSA • Local Player, BBC iPlayer, SwitchPlayer by Triode • Auto
Dim Display, SaverSwitcher, ContextMenu by Peter Watkins.

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Re: [slim] Olive One - any downsides?

2014-05-31 Thread GeeJay

Still monitoring

Communication has been awful.  They haven't updated their Facebook page
(where they encourage folks to go for news) since March.  If you check
out the Olive One user forum, you'll see a lot of folks asking for
updates on delivery.  Many of these folks contributed to the original
Kickstarter campaign back in 2011.  It leads one to believe that Olive
has been having problems on the manufacturing end.  That surprises me
given that Olive is an established company.

The good news, however, is that some units appear to be getting
delivered.  A few user reviews have been posted, although not enough
detail to get a good feel for the product's capabilities.  Assuming
these are legitimate users, at least they aren't encountering setup
issues.

Checking out the feature requests, it appears that syncing multiple
devices is still on the drawing board.  I think the software is pretty
rudimentary (compared to LMS and it's suite of plug-ins).  This is based
on several questions I posted on the Facebook page about features I
consider must haves for any device I adopt.  The company at least is
asking for input on future development, so if they ever get this thing
off the ground, maybe they'll do a better job on that front than I've
seen with Sonos.

I'd be curious if anyone has observed anything different than what I've
seen to date?



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Re: [slim] Problem connecting one Touch to the LMS/Vortexbox

2014-05-31 Thread garym

I'm not 100% certain about this, but I vaguely recall that the WIFI and
ethernet  connections of the TOUCH would have separate IP addresses,
etc. So if doing static IP, one would set this up for the TOUCH for
ethernet network connection and also setup for WIFI connection.  (I
could be entirely wrong about this as I haven't setup networks on my
players in years).

I think its been mentioned already, but worth noting that some folks get
sideways with their networks when all of a sudden their player is on one
local network (e.g., the WIFI guest network) and the server is on the
regular network. And these two don't talk to each other. That sort of
thing is worth checking out.



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Radio w/Battery (all ethernet except Radio)
*Office:* Win7(64)  LMS 7.8  Squeezelite
*Spares:* VBA 4TB, SB3, Touch (3), Radio (3), CONTROLLER
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Re: [slim] Problem connecting one Touch to the LMS/Vortexbox

2014-05-31 Thread get.amped

garym wrote: 
 I'm not 100% certain about this, but I vaguely recall that the WIFI and
 ethernet  connections of the TOUCH would have separate IP addresses,
 etc. So if doing static IP, one would set this up for the TOUCH for
 ethernet network connection and also setup for WIFI connection.  (I
 could be entirely wrong about this as I haven't setup networks on my
 players in years).
 
 I think its been mentioned already, but worth noting that some folks get
 sideways with their networks when all of a sudden their player is on one
 local network (e.g., the WIFI guest network) and the server is on the
 regular network. And these two don't talk to each other. That sort of
 thing is worth checking out.

The Wifi and ethernet connections have distinct MAC addresses. As long
as only one interface is connected, a single static IP address can be
assigned for the device. However, if you are creating reservations in
the DHCP server, each MAC address should get its own entry and separate
IP address. Unless you are really only going to ever use just one
interface or the other. In which case the reservation should be for the
MAC address of interface you are going to use. Considering how many IPs
are available, it certainly wouldn't hurt to create both reservations to
make it easier to move things around.

On Don's router, both the primary and guest wifi networks can be
configured to not communicate with the switch ports on the router
(wireless isolation). It has the additional little gotcha that there's a
setting to schedule when to turn the wireless radio on and off. Enabling
wireless isolation and/or scheduling the wireless to turn off would
certainly wreak havoc with connectivity.



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Re: [slim] Problem connecting one Touch to the LMS/Vortexbox

2014-05-31 Thread donmacn

Guys,
Too long! Too long a post, but I am really keen to acknowledge the
suggestions I’ve received, and I very much appreciate the continued
interest and suggestions.

In ‘real  life’ I’m a member of a Pipe Band (Scottish bagpipes). We’re
not exactly renowned for our sobriety,:o and the band were playing at a
wedding today. In that respect I’m a little’ below par’, but I did want
to come back and reply to the latest posts rather than leave too much of
a gap.

Mnyb wrote: 
  However you should setup the DHCP range on your router to not include
 these static adresses so that the DHCP won't dole out an used address to
 something else.What I did, following advice received here (and absolutely no 
 question
of any criticism being implied or inferred) was to set the DHCP range on
the router to 192.168.0.100 and upwards – i.e. xx.101; 102. etc. This
leaves  192.168.0.000 to 099 for ‘static’ addresses. I did set this up
in the router admin settings. I’m happy this has ‘stuck’ as it shows up
on the router’s admin pages – whether the router is actually
implementing this is something else.

Mnyb wrote: 
  Your network has more than one wifi ap ? 

I don’t think so. Currently the router is the only real WAP. There is a
powerline WAP, but it was set to the same SSID and password as the main
router. I do wonder if this is a weakness, but I suspect this only
potentially affected one device (a Touch) and I also suspect this Touch
was bypassing this WAP anyway and looking directly at the main
router/WAP.

My network is currently built around one device,  Netgear D6200,
performing the function of ADSL modem; router; and WAP.

Mnyb wrote: 
  There are two ways of setting up a static address. The first one
 involves configuring the Touch with a fixed address (this gives you a
 real static address), but you must not re-enable DHCP on the Touch, and
 you must select an addres that is not part of the router DHCP pool, but
 still part of the address space the router lets through and routes. I’m not 
 sure I’m following this precisely. 
As above, using the router’s admin pages I did set it to a DHCP range
beyond xx.xx.xx.100. I then disabled DHCP on the router, and went around
all the devices, one by one, setting up ‘static’ IP addresses in the
sub-100 range. When this process was complete, I re-enabled DHCP on the
router. My understanding is that this then allocates IP addresses above
xx.xx.xx.100 on a DHCP basis, but keeps the addresses ‘below’ that for
specified static routes?
I thought DHCP was ‘enabled’ by both the device (asking for a specific
address) and the router (being unable to allocate a dynamic address in a
specified range?). I didn’t think I could disable DHCP on the Touch
alone?

Julf wrote: 
 The other way involves using DHCP, but configuring the router to always
 give out the same address. In this method, the Touch gets a dynamic
 address, but the router ensures it is always the same one. 
This is ‘reserved’ DHCP addresses? I think I did try that first, then
went to  ‘proper’ static addresses as above. But  I’m just not sure the
router is managing this correctly, or might be faulty.

get.amped wrote: 
  I hope this was helpful. 
Definitely! As I’ve said, I’m not at my best, but I sincerely appreciate
this. I’ll just select specific bits at the moment, but I will use the
totality to develop my understanding.

get.amped wrote: 
  IP networking has to be configured properly for all hosts to
 communicate with each other. By far the most important rule is each IP
 address is uniquely assigned to one host. .
 All hosts on the same network segment should have the same subnet mask,
 gateway address (typically the router's internal IP address) and DNS
 servers (typically those provided by your ISP and/or your router's
 internal IP address). The gateway is the IP address of the device that
 should receive data for hosts not on the local network segment, i.e.
 anything that doesn't start with 192.168.1. 

I’m quite sure that I have got this set up right – that the subnet mask
is the same, the gateway address in each case is the router’s internal
IP address, and my DNS server setting is 1) the router’s internal IP
address – 192.168.0.1 or 2) the ‘google’ one of  8.8.8.8

get.amped wrote: 
  As the network administrator, you are responsible for planning and
 configuring your network 
 You could assign manually IP addresses to all devices on your network
 and maintain a list of them. These are static addresses and the
 configuration for each is stored on the individual devices. New devices
 have to be manually configured as needed  For small networks that
 rarely change, assigning static IPs may be tolerable but for most people
 it quickly becomes unmanageable. 

As above, I really think I did set this up properly – and it did work
for a significant length of time – several weeks. 

get.amped wrote: 
  Of particular interest is the lease duration, an important DHCP feature
 that is rarely addressed 

Re: [slim] Problem connecting one Touch to the LMS/Vortexbox

2014-05-31 Thread donmacn

get.amped wrote: 
 The Wifi and ethernet connections have distinct MAC addresses. As long
 as only one interface is connected, a single static IP address can be
 assigned for the device. However, if you are creating reservations in
 the DHCP server, each MAC address should get its own entry and separate
 IP address. Unless you are really only going to ever use just one
 interface or the other. In which case the reservation should be for the
 MAC address of interface you are going to use. Considering how many IPs
 are available, it certainly wouldn't hurt to create both reservations to
 make it easier to move things around.
 
 On Don's router, both the primary and guest wifi networks can be
 configured to not communicate with the switch ports on the router
 (wireless isolation). It has the additional little gotcha that there's a
 setting to schedule when to turn the wireless radio on and off. Enabling
 wireless isolation and/or scheduling the wireless to turn off would
 certainly wreak havoc with connectivity.

Wireless isolation is definitely 'off'. I did come across this issue
previously. My 'guest' network is also switched off - no need to have it
available.

However I hadn't considered the different MAC addresses for wi-fi or
ethernet connections. Given that the Touch which was failing to connect
via wi-fi went straight through on ethernet, I'm wondering if the fault
here isn't in the allocation of IP addresses for wireless clients/hosts?
That's why I'm considering a factory reset of the router - to try and
wipe away any conflicting settings.



SB user since 2000...
3 x Touch; 2 x Boom ; 3 x Classic; 1 x Controller
Spares - 1xClassic; 2xSB1
Controlled by iPad using 'Squeezepad'
Vortexbox appliance running LMS version 7.8

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Re: [slim] LMS Extractor Is Now Available

2014-05-31 Thread Dogberry2

JJZolx wrote: 
 Does this do anything that Mp3tag's Export configurations can't do?
I don't know about MP3Tag's Export configurations, so I can't answer
that. It seems that to sort and filter the data, MP3Tag would first have
to read all the track files and build its own internal database from the
tags. Since LMS has already scanned the track tags and built a database,
to me it was the obvious place to go after the data. Comme ci comme ça.



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Re: [slim] LMS Extractor Is Now Available

2014-05-31 Thread Dogberry2

get.amped wrote: 
 I thought it might be useful to know the table structures. Here's some
 screen shots from SQLite Expert:
 Nice of you to post those shots. There used to be some basic table
structure info in the Wiki, but that was from back in the MySQL days,
and I'm sure nothing has been updated since the switch (back) to SQLite.
I'm not aware that there was ever any real documentation or ER diagrams
or anything like that.



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Re: [slim] Community Funded Squeezebox Replacement - Would you be interested?

2014-05-31 Thread GeeJay

Reading between the lines of the last several pages of that thread, it
sounds as if there could be some for-profit enterprise that may be
getting involved.  I'm keeping my fingers crossed that is the case, as
that would seem more viable than an all-volunteer effort.



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