Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Linux VMs running on Win10+VMwareWorkstationPro
DJanGo wrote: > To use e.g \\DESKTOP\music - you'll need an active local dns > Server. > Most of the homeusers / people who think they need "that" sort of howto > didnt know nothing about setting up a DNS Server. WINS name resolution will take care of that, its built in Windows machines. No need for a DNS server. (Not that it's superior in any way, but at some point in time MS thought they could own networking and the internet. They created WINS and its still there, AFAIK.) 3 SB 3 Libratone Loop, Zipp Mini iPeng (iPhone + iPad) LMS 7.9 (linux) with plugins: CD Player, WaveInput, Triode's BBC iPlayer by bpa IRBlaster by Gwendesign (Felix) Server Power Control by Gordon Harris Smart Mix, Music Walk With Me, What Was That Tune? by Michael Herger PowerSave by Jason Holtzapple Song Info, Song Lyrics by Erland Isaksson AirPlay Bridge by philippe_44 WeatherTime by Martin Rehfeld Auto Dim Display, SaverSwitcher, ContextMenu by Peter Watkins. epoch1970's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=16711 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=108357 ___ unix mailing list unix@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/unix
Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Linux VMs running on Win10+VMwareWorkstationPro
epoch1970 wrote: > 3. If the SMB shares use names, e.g \\DESKTOP\music or \\MYVM\newstuff > then there shouldn't be a problem. If sharing/mounting by IP address, > there could be a problem across installs? To use e.g \\DESKTOP\music - you'll need an active local dns Server. Most of the homeusers / people who think they need "that" sort of howto didnt know nothing about setting up a DNS Server. DJanGo's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1516 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=108357 ___ unix mailing list unix@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/unix
Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Linux VMs running on Win10+VMwareWorkstationPro
pablolie wrote: > 3 things don't migrate well: > > 1. Network configuration. Go for bridged. It'll save you a lot of issues > with LMS. You have to set that up in the VM management sw, not the vm > itself. > 2. Music directory visibility to LMS. I have no idea why that is. I > would have assumed if you have the same NTFS drive connected to the > exact same vm running ubuntu, hey, the fastab stuff should work right > away when you connect the external NTFS drive. But that is not so. > You'll have to mess about with your fstab again. > 3. Network accessibility of your music collection aka Samba > configuration. Gone too when you migrate the vm. Odd. I like to have > that because I tend to rip new CDs on my Win10 dbPoweramp app, and then > easily drop them into the music directory (owned by the Ubuntu VM). I don't use VMWare and I don't like Ubuntu all that much, but in general: 1. Yes bridge the guest to a physical network card on the host, and set the guest to DHCP. *Make sure the hypervisor assigns the same MAC address to the guest across different VMWare installs*, otherwise the ubuntu machine is going to create "eth1" where "eth0" was formerly used. (If you run into that, go to /etc/udev/rules.d/, remove file 70-persistent-net.rules and reboot. The network card will be called eth0 again.) Same problem if the Ubuntu guest uses the so-called Predictable Network Interface Names. Actually the problem is possibly worse since there are different naming schemes for PNIN... In the guest I would try disabling that junk or use the ludicrous "device name is enxMAC_address" policy, along with specifying the same MAC in VMWare across installs. Now the guest normally will only change network IP address across installs, e.g. IP 192.168.0.45 in one install, 10.240.0.150 in another, etc. 2. I understand this is a physical USB drive exported by VMWare to the guest? It is quite possible that the device path/name inside the guest changes from install to install. However a mount in fstab that would use higher-level information like UUID= (will change if you reformat the partition) or LABEL= (not available on all filesystems, ok on NTFS AFAIK) should work across instances. If the drive is exported as an USB device (and not as, say, a SATA device) then in addition the guest might feel like being smart, mount the volume to /media/somename and disregard your fstab entry. I would export the physical device as a SATA/SCSI device if possible, otherwise expel from the guest OS any pesky "USB mount helper" 3. If the SMB shares use names, e.g \\DESKTOP\music or \\MYVM\newstuff then there shouldn't be a problem. If sharing/mounting by IP address, there could be a problem across installs? 3 SB 3 Libratone Loop, Zipp Mini iPeng (iPhone + iPad) LMS 7.9 (linux) with plugins: CD Player, WaveInput, Triode's BBC iPlayer by bpa IRBlaster by Gwendesign (Felix) Server Power Control by Gordon Harris Smart Mix, Music Walk With Me, What Was That Tune? by Michael Herger PowerSave by Jason Holtzapple Song Info, Song Lyrics by Erland Isaksson AirPlay Bridge by philippe_44 WeatherTime by Martin Rehfeld Auto Dim Display, SaverSwitcher, ContextMenu by Peter Watkins. epoch1970's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=16711 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=108357 ___ unix mailing list unix@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/unix
Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Experimental: Bluetooth Speaker support in piCorePlayer 3.22
On the rpi3 it is a Hardware implementation limitation. But there are also driver incompatibilities for other chipsets. Some might work. paul-'s Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=58858 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=108037 ___ unix mailing list unix@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/unix
Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Experimental: Bluetooth Speaker support in piCorePlayer 3.22
Great, thanks, I'll have a play! Just a quick confirmation of something, you wrote "Rpi onboard wifi for sure wont work.", I assume that to mean that WiFi and Bluetooth can't be used at the same time? Is that a radio or a driver limitation? a WifI Bluetooth piCorePlayer would be pretty cool! squeezeGoose's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=67658 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=108037 ___ unix mailing list unix@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/unix
Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Linux VMs running on Win10+VMwareWorkstationPro
ok... Since he only wrotes "Ubuntu" you would think of Ubuntu Desktop and me on Ubunti Server. > For someone that just wants to enjoy their music on LMS Those should go the > Windows Way... *lol* Must be a reason to run a lms on linux on a Windows System. > Takeaway: don't expect your OVA vm files to transparently work > elsewhere, even when you bring the exact same external drive to the > table... And that isnt fixed by just using another "distribution" its a "design" challenge...:p DJanGo's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1516 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=108357 ___ unix mailing list unix@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/unix
Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Linux VMs running on Win10+VMwareWorkstationPro
DJanGo wrote: > Hi, > your 1.st and 2.nd statement didnt match together... > And its not helping any further to this topic - you need to adjust > things whenever something outside changes. > > There is a lot more brain involved to handle a task like that as just > use a out of the box fedore type of "distribution". How so? Vorterbox by default installs a working LMS server. You can add samba and other utilities if you want or need additional functionality. Vortexbox is a very lightweight distribution -based -on Fedora. Is does not install a GUI. You use the web interface to interact with it. It has a very small install footprint compared to an Ubuntu workstation install as a result. It is simple to setup. It is simple to run. So yes statement 1 and 2 match together fine. As to your comment "its not helping any further to this topic" Well, again, I respectfully disagree. Instead of going the route the OP chose, Vortexbox offers a super simple way to run LMS in a virtualization environment. Ubuntu is an option of course. But I am offering an -alternative -to what OP did that might help other users thinking of virtualizing LMS. Based on OP's comments he found setting up LMS on Ubuntu to be a frustrating and likely time consuming. It is great he persevered and got LMS running to his satisfaction on Ubuntu. But for a lot of users they will give up if the learning curve is too steep. Vortexbox does all the heavy lifting and would have addressed all three of his big roadblocks with minimal effort. For someone that just wants to enjoy their music on LMS, Vortexbox is an option that I strongly recommend. Zounder1's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=63225 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=108357 ___ unix mailing list unix@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/unix
Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] piCorePlayer IR support
Zounder1 wrote: > Hi, > I'm troubleshooting getting IR working in PiCorePlayer. (It was working > but I just did an upgrade to the newest PiCorePlayer version out. > > I installed LIRC using the web interface. I manually set it to use > LIRC1. Reboot. > > When I go to command line and run "irw" the program registers the remote > key presses. So LIRC is working properly. But piCorePlayer is not > reacting to the key presses. > > I have a reasonable amount of lirc on Linux. So I did a search for a > LIRCRC file that is required to pass on keystrokes to any running > application. > > I found > /usr/local/share/lirc/files/lircrc-squeezebox (which is linked to > /tmp/tcloop/lirc/usr/local/share/lirc/files/lircrc-squeezebox) > A quick look at the file shows the entry > -prog = squeezelite-armv6hf- > > Well for those key presses to be passed to Squeezelite correctly I think > it should actually read > -prog = squeezelite- > > Unfortunately this is a read only file that I can't edit it. > > Anyone care to explain how I can edit this file in PiCorePlayer? > > Or am I completely wrong to look this file? > > This all seem wonky to me as the way things are setup by default I can't > see lirc working for anyone? > > Help?!? What part of pcp are you trying to control with the IR remote? Through jivelite or squeezelite directly? What IR remote are you using? Have you read through the 'original lirc for pcp thread' (http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?105117-lirc-rpi-gpio-IR-support-for-picoreplayer)? If not, please do. It gives a good overview of all the pieces, however most of what is discussed predates the lirc integration into the base install. /usr/local/share/lirc/files/lircrc-squeezebox is provided as an example it is not required when using a slimdevices remote to control squeezelite blind or jivelite. We renamed the squeezelite binary recently and I never updated the example lirc files. It should be squeezelite as you noted. Ralphy *1*-Touch, *5*-Classics, *3*-Booms, *1*-UE Radio 'Squeezebox client builds' (https://sourceforge.net/projects/lmsclients/files/) 'donations' (https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_donations=LL5P6365KQEXN=CA_name=Squeezebox%20client%20builds_code=USD=PP%2dDonationsBF%3abtn_donate_SM%2egif%3aNonHosted) always appreciated. ralphy's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=3484 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=108410 ___ unix mailing list unix@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/unix
Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] PiCorePlayer extension descriptions
Bitlogger wrote: > Hi, > > Loving picoreplayer so thanks to the developers Paul, Steen, Ralphy and > Greg. I'm using this as a way to stream audio wirelessly to some powered > desktop speakers + subwoofer. It seems clean and reliable unlike other > similar applications I've tried briefly. > > I would like to know if there is anywhere that describes the purpose of > each extension? There's a long list available and it's tempting to > experiment but it would save me a lot of time knowing what they did. > > I've also noticed a recent ad-hoc network extension has been created. > This is a function I'd been hoping would be possible for a while. > Particularly useful if I was to build my own set of powered, portable > speakers. Thing is I wouldn't have known this was available had I not > encountered the thread about it within this forum. Basically, I need to > imagine the concept first before searching for it. All you need to do most of the time is google the name of the extension without the ".tcz" IE rsync.tcz http://bfy.tw/1gSU openvpn http://bfy.tw/5WPj *Players:* SliMP3,Squeezebox3 x3,Receiver,SqueezeLiteX,PiCorePlayer x3,Wandboard *Server:* LMS Version: Latest Nightly on Centos 7 VM on ESXi 6.5.0U1 on Dell T320 *Plugins:* AutoRescan/BBCiPlayer/PowerSave/PowerSwitchIII/Squeezecloud/Spotty *Remotes:* iPeng9/Orangesqueeze/PC/Jivelite/SqueezeLiteX *Music:* 383GB,1346 albums with 18894 songs by 4501 artists mostly FLACs *Want a webapp ?* See http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?104305-Webapp-for-LMS Jeff07971's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=49290 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=108413 ___ unix mailing list unix@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/unix
[SlimDevices: Unix] PiCorePlayer extension descriptions
Hi, Loving picoreplayer so thanks to the developers Paul, Steen, Ralphy and Greg. I'm using this as a way to stream audio wirelessly to some powered desktop speakers + subwoofer. It seems clean and reliable unlike other similar applications I've tried briefly. I would like to know if there is anywhere that describes the purpose of each extension? There's a long list available and it's tempting to experiment but it would save me a lot of time knowing what they did. I've also noticed a recent ad-hoc network extension has been created. This is a function I'd been hoping would be possible for a while. Particularly useful if I was to build my own set of powered, portable speakers. Thing is I wouldn't have known this was available had I not encountered the thread about it within this forum. Basically, I need to imagine the concept first before searching for it. Bitlogger's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=67414 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=108413 ___ unix mailing list unix@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/unix
Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Linux VMs running on Win10+VMwareWorkstationPro
Zounder1 wrote: > Vortexbox is a super simple lightweight Linux distribution *that > includes LMS, Samba shares and a bunch of useful utilities.* It is dead > simple to install and setup. > > I have used Virtualization for over 10 years and* I always try and setup > VMs that are as lightweight as possible*. Each VM is dedicated to one > specific purpose. It makes upgrades and maintenance much easier than > trying to maintain LMS installed on something like a full install of > Ubuntu running a variety of other packages. > Hi, your 1.st and 2.nd statement didnt match together... And its not helping any further to this topic - you need to adjust things whenever something outside changes. There is a lot more brain involved to handle a task like that as just use a out of the box fedore type of "distribution". DJanGo's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1516 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=108357 ___ unix mailing list unix@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/unix
Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Linux VMs running on Win10+VMwareWorkstationPro
pablolie wrote: > Takeaway: don't expect your OVA vm files to transparently work > elsewhere, even when you bring the exact same external drive to the > table... You cant expect a funtion from a tool thats never designed for this function... Using the Network in Bridge Mode: The origin LMS was installed in a Network called 192.168.1.0/24 - whenever someone else who runs his Network under eg. 10.11.12.0/24 you have to "change" something somewhere. You cant expect a VMWareplayer under win/tux/osx to use the same methods (and devicenames) to find a "external" usb Harddisk. DJanGo's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1516 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=108357 ___ unix mailing list unix@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/unix
