Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Jivelite on Alpine Linux
sodface wrote: > I haven't tried with the latest, just git as of 6 days ago when I opened > the issue. Since he commented that he hadn't had a chance to look at the > redraw issue, I kind of assumed any commits since then wouldn't help, > unless by accident. I can try again. Yes, I rebuilt the dependencies > against sdl12-compat too when I was testing. > > The workspace switch redraw delay I'm seeing is long. I think a couple > times I've seen it finally display jivelite without me doing anything > but most of the time I have to press a key to force the redraw. > > What WM are you testing with? Do you think that matters? I tested with > bspwm and herbstluftwm and both acted the same way. Several of the changes since your fix was applied seem to be related to rendering. I'm using fvwm2 on the debian system, which I know doesn't help you. I also created a build of squeezeplay for macos using sdl12-compat to see if there's a similar behaviour to what you're seeing, but again, not issues with redraw. The source code I'm using for the sdl dependencies; SDL_gfx-2.0.15, SDL_image-1.2.5 and SDL_ttf-2.0.11 are from my 'squeezeplay sources ' (https://github.com/ralph-irving/squeezeplay/tree/master/src) and in most cases are not the latest releases. I've had display problems in the past after updating them to the latest versions, so I've stuck with what works on all the platforms for which I provide binaries. Ralphy *1*-Touch, *5*-Classics, *3*-Booms, *2*-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=111488 ___ unix mailing list unix@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/unix
Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Jivelite on Alpine Linux
I haven't tried with the latest, just git as of 6 days ago when I opened the issue. Since he said in the issue that he hadn't had a chance to look at the redraw issue, I kind of assumed any commits since then wouldn't help, unless by accident. I can try again. Yes, I rebuilt the dependencies against sdl12-compat too when I was testing. The workspace switch redraw delay I'm seeing is long. I think a couple times I've seen it finally display jivelite without me doing anything but most of the time I have to press a key to force the redraw. sodface's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=19057 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=111488 ___ unix mailing list unix@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/unix
Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Jivelite on Alpine Linux
sodface wrote: > I'm not 100% sure but I think @Yatsushiro might just be using my lms > packages, not jivelite. I'm seeing some issues on my end with the > sdl12-compat rebuilds of jivelite and dependencies. Specifically, > jivelite launches ok but when I switch workspaces and then switch back > the display doesn't repaint which makes it appear like you didn't > actually switch workspaces until you press a key that jivelite would > normally respond to (eg the arrow keys, spacebar etc.) and then the > screen displays jivelite. > > Additionally, on the armv7 chromebase, touching the screen doesn't > repaint it, only pressing a key does so that's even more problematic. On > aarch64 and x86_64, I'm seeing that plus other graphics issues depending > on which skin / resolution you select. > > I guess I need to rebuild the native SDL 1.2 packages and see if it > still works there and then figure out how to host those packages in a > way that Alpine doesn't clobber them when you do upgrades. Have you tried with the latest sdl12compat from git? There have been a lot of changes committed in the last week. I finally had a chance to play with sdl12compat today using the latest and can't reproduce redraw issues. I had to rebuild sdl-ttf, sdl-image and sdl-gfx against the sdl12-compat library before jivelite worked correctly. I don't have access to my arm based alpine dev system ATM so I've been using a 32bit intel debian for testing but jivelite has been stable. I do notice a redraw lag when I switch workspaces and go back to jivelite. I can see the other workspace in the jivelite windows for a second or less but then jivelite updates with the correct window contents. Ralphy *1*-Touch, *5*-Classics, *3*-Booms, *2*-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=111488 ___ unix mailing list unix@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/unix
Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Jivelite on Alpine Linux
Alpine is working on moving all aports that use SDL 1.2 over to SDL 2 either directly I guess or via sdl12-compat. The sdl package has been moved from the community repo to testing. See this Alpine GitLab commit: https://gitlab.alpinelinux.org/alpine/aports/-/merge_requests/32951 I'm not 100% sure what the impact of this is for anyone running jivelite on Alpine. Right now, for me and anyone using the packages at sodface.com/repo we are pulling the sdl dependencies from both the Alpine repos and my repo for those that Alpine proper didn't have. I guess worst case is that I'll need to build and host all the sdl related packages that are needed once Alpine drops sdl 1.2 completely from it's repos. I've tinkered a bit trying to get jivelite working with sdl12-compat (and SDL2) but got in over my head pretty quick. sodface's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=19057 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=111488 ___ unix mailing list unix@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/unix
Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Jivelite on Alpine Linux
I looked at those attached APKBUILD files again, and while functional, I've learned a bit more about what the Alpine devs look for in a user contributed package and if I submitted those as-is I'd be sent packing. I really should clean those up some and re-post them. sodface's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=19057 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=111488 ___ unix mailing list unix@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/unix
Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Jivelite on Alpine Linux
blackbird wrote: > Thank you. > I have successfully built the jivelite package with the APKBUILD file > you provided. I have connected a 7" touchscreen to an HP Thinclient t420 > and it is working fine. > Cool, that's a nice setup! sodface's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=19057 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=111488 ___ unix mailing list unix@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/unix
Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Jivelite on Alpine Linux
sodface wrote: > I had a request for the APKBUILD files to build the packages needed for > jivelite on Alpine and which aren't in the official Alpine repos - > namely, jivelite, sdl_gfx, and sdl_ttf. I still have repos for aarch64, > x86_64, armv7, armhf and armel up on sodface.com but I haven't been very > good at keeping them maintained. For example, right now it looks like I > only have a jivelite package for x86_64 and armv7. I know I had it for > at least armhf as well but I think some rsync operation I did (with > --delete) purged them and I didn't realize what I had done at the time. > > Anyway, the request was for x86, which I've never had a repo for and > don't really see a future need for so I don't really want to setup a > builder for it. Attached are the APKBUILD files for the jivelite and the > two sdl packages so you can build them yourself. Hopefully this is > helpful. Thank you. I have successfully built the jivelite package with the APKBUILD file you provided. I have connected a 7" touchscreen to an HP Thinclient t420 and it is working fine. 37031 +---+ |Filename: 2022-01-25 21.01.39.jpg | |Download: http://forums.slimdevices.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=37031| +---+ blackbird's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=70562 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=111488 ___ unix mailing list unix@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/unix
Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Jivelite on Alpine Linux
I had a request for the APKBUILD files to build the packages needed for jivelite on Alpine and which aren't in the official Alpine repos - namely, jivelite, sdl_gfx, and sdl_ttf. I still have repos for aarch64, x86_64, armv7, armhf and armel up on sodface.com but I haven't been very good at keeping them maintained. For example, right now it looks like I only have a jivelite package for x86_64 and armv7. I know I had it for at least armhf as well but I think some rsync operation I did (with --delete) purged them and I didn't realize what I had done at the time. Anyway, the request was for x86, which I've never had a repo for and don't really see a future need for so I don't really want to setup a builder for it. Attached are the APKBUILD files for the jivelite and the two sdl packages so you can build them yourself. Hopefully this is helpful. +---+ |Filename: jivelite-sdl-apkbuild-files.tar.gz | |Download: http://forums.slimdevices.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=36996| +---+ sodface's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=19057 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=111488 ___ unix mailing list unix@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/unix
Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Jivelite on Alpine Linux
I received a helpful reply to my question about the permitted rate of image requests from the Fourmilab Earth viewer. Although the 'service denial' message tells me that I've made too many requests within a 10-minute period, the rule itself is apparently that if you make 100 requests without a 10-minute gap then you are locked out. I ran it overnight with one request every 15 minutes and I was not locked out. This still works rather well as a screensaver, because the cloud imagery only updates every few hours anyway, and the day/night boundary doesn't move very far in 15 minutes. chill's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=10839 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=111488 ___ unix mailing list unix@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/unix
Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Jivelite on Alpine Linux
sodface wrote: > Quoting without comment other than, hard to believe this was written in > 2003, could have been penned yesterday... Indeed - quite a character. I too had a better look around his website - he's clearly been creative and prolific for a long time, and there's a lot to like on his site. Unfortunately, I don't think his Earth Viewer server is intended to be used to feed a real-time screen saver. Even at one image every 5 minutes I eventually fell foul of the service denial. Playing back the 8 hours of 5-minute images that I was able to collect before being shut out I realised that the cloud cover images only update roughly every 2 hours, so the main thing that changes more rapidly is the day/night overlay. The Fourmilab site has a downloadable Windows executable that could provide the same images without a rate limit, but I don't have a Windows machine, except a creaky old laptop that is only powered up when absolutely necessary. A job for another day could be to set up a virtual Windows server in the cloud somewhere to run this software. chill's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=10839 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=111488 ___ unix mailing list unix@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/unix
Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Jivelite on Alpine Linux
chill wrote: > :) > > I spoke too soon regarding the 2-minute updates. After a few hours this > rate also triggered the 'too many in 10 minutes' service denial. So I > guess the acceptable rate might vary depending on the server load. I've > messaged the site to see what's acceptable for a regular update. I > discovered that the person who runs the fourmilab site is also a the > founder of Autodesk and co-author of AutoCAD (of which I'm a huge fan) - > wow, a seriously talented individual! Thanks for the reference chill. Quoting without comment other than, hard to believe this was written in 2003, could have been penned yesterday... https://www.fourmilab.ch/documents/digital-imprimatur/ wrote: > > Over the last two years I have become deeply and increasingly > pessimistic about the future of liberty and freedom of speech, > particularly in regard to the Internet. This is a complete reversal of > the almost unbounded optimism I felt during the 19941999 period when > public access to the Internet burgeoned and innovative new forms of > communication appeared in rapid succession. In that epoch I was firmly > convinced that universal access to the Internet would provide a > countervailing force against the centralisation and concentration in > government and the mass media which act to constrain freedom of > expression and unrestricted access to information. Further, the > Internet, properly used, could actually roll back government and > corporate encroachment on individual freedom by allowing information to > flow past the barriers erected by totalitarian or authoritarian > governments and around the gatekeepers of the mainstream media. > sodface's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=19057 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=111488 ___ unix mailing list unix@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/unix
Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Jivelite on Alpine Linux
sodface wrote: > Excellent, no apologies necessary either, I'm just thrilled to have a > reply to a thread :) I spoke too soon regarding the 2-minute updates. After a few hours this rate also triggered the 'too many in 10 minutes' service denial. So I guess the acceptable rate might vary depending on the server load. I've messaged the site to see what's acceptable for a regular update. I discovered that the person who runs the fourmilab site is also a the founder of Autodesk and co-author of AutoCAD (of which I'm a huge fan) - wow, a seriously talented individual! chill's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=10839 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=111488 ___ unix mailing list unix@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/unix
Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Jivelite on Alpine Linux
chill wrote: > In case anyone else is interested (and my apologies for polluting your > Alpine Linux thread), note that the Fourmilab site has a limit on the > rate that images can be requested. I exceeded this a couple of times > during testing, and instead of an image I was served up a file that said > I had exceeded the number of images that can be downloaded within a 10 > minute period. At that point, in order to be 'unlocked', you have to > stop all requests for a while. > > I found that one image per minute seemed acceptable, but overnight I was > again locked out - I'm guessing that small variations in the cron > interval meant that I had actually asked for 11 images in one 10-minute > period. Anyway, the images seem to update by one pixel in just over 2 > minutes, so I've adjusted my cron job accordingly. It seems that the > syntax to run every second minute (1/2 * * * *) isn't supported by cron > under pCP, so instead I used 0,2,4,6,8...54,56,58 for the minutes. So > far so good - not locked out yet. Excellent, no apologies necessary either, I'm just thrilled to have a reply to a thread :) I ran into a lot of problems with the weather data pulls, not rate limits yet, just things like "null" values in the returned json or the site returning a 503 error rather than a json response, changes to the METAR text and order of fields etc. Computers are supposed to be good at repetition, seems they get bored too and like to mix it up a bit. sodface's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=19057 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=111488 ___ unix mailing list unix@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/unix
Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Jivelite on Alpine Linux
In case anyone else is interested (and my apologies for polluting your Alpine Linux thread), note that the Fourmilab site has a limit on the rate that images that can be requested. I exceeded this a couple of times during testing, and instead of an image I was served up a file that said I had exceeded the number of images that can be downloaded within a 10 minute period. At that point, in order to be 'unlocked', you have to stop all requests for a while. I found that one image per minute seemed acceptable, but overnight I was again locked out - I'm guessing that small variations in the cron interval meant that I had actually asked for 11 images in one 10-minute period. Anyway, the images seem to update by one pixel in just over 2 minutes, so I've adjusted my cron job accordingly. It seems that the syntax to run every second minute (1/2 * * * *) isn't supported by cron under pCP, so instead I used 0,2,4,6,8...54,56,58 for the minutes. So far so good - not locked out yet. chill's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=10839 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=111488 ___ unix mailing list unix@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/unix
Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Jivelite on Alpine Linux
chill wrote: > It seems like local storage for the image works the same way - updating > a single file in the specified folder results in the screensaver > updating to that new image. So I don't need a local http server - I'll > just have the cron job run my script for fetching the updated file into > that local folder. Cool! sodface's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=19057 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=111488 ___ unix mailing list unix@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/unix
Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Jivelite on Alpine Linux
It seems like local storage for the image works the same way - updating a single file in the specified folder results in the screensaver updating to that new image. So I don't need a local http server - I'll just have the cron job run my script for fetching the updated file into that local folder. chill's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=10839 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=111488 ___ unix mailing list unix@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/unix
Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Jivelite on Alpine Linux
Excellent - thank you. I'll give that a go. The cron job is a much better idea than running my own script in the background. And it's handy that the Image Viewer screensaver will handle the image updates by itself. I'll only need to update my image whenever the sunlit part moves by one pixel, so I'll do a little sum to work out how often that needs to be. chill's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=10839 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=111488 ___ unix mailing list unix@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/unix
Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Jivelite on Alpine Linux
Hi chill, as with most things I do, my approach is a bit hacky but it's working pretty well. The basic operation (ignoring the mechanics of generating the image) is: - Have jivelite configured to use image viewer as the screen saver, configuring the delay times as desired - I have separate http server running on my LMS server for other things already so I'm used that to serve the image list file and image(s) - Point jivelite to the url of the image list file (http://10.0.0.10/res/photos/photos.lst) - I have just a single entry in the image list file (http://10.0.0.10/res/photos/wx.png) - The wx.png file is actually a symlink to the real file which is in ram instead of on disk: wx.png -> /dev/shm/wxd/png/wx.png - I have a cron job on the server which runs every minute to regenerate the wx.png, every run it: updates the time updates the current temperature 3 times an hour on minutes 20,40, and 00 updates the 5 hour forecast at the bottom once an hour on minute 00 I'm pulling the weather data from a couple weather.gov sites (US) the forecast is json and the currect observation is a METAR text file. I was concerned that having a single file in the image list would result in image viewer just downloading it once and never updating it, but it looks like based on my server log, that image viewer downloads the list file and then runs through the list until it gets to the end and then starts again by starting the process over - so since my list only has the single entry, my log shows alternating requests, first for the list file, then for the image, then the list file, then the image, etc. over and over. And since jivelite does a bit of a fade between images, the minute changing actually looks pretty cool. I've still got some improvements I want to make to the image generation script, sort of thinking about rewriting it altogether to get rid of some of the heavier tools I'm using, like jq for the json file parsing. sodface's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=19057 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=111488 ___ unix mailing list unix@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/unix
Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Jivelite on Alpine Linux
For instance, I'd quite like the real-time cloud cover global map as a constantly updating screensaver. This string returns that: https://www.fourmilab.ch/cgi-bin/Earth?img=cloudy.bmp=640=y=-p=0 [image: https://www.fourmilab.ch/cgi-bin/Earth?img=cloudy.bmp=640=y=-p=0] chill's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=10839 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=111488 ___ unix mailing list unix@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/unix
Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Jivelite on Alpine Linux
sodface wrote: > Working on a weather screensaver for jivelite, using the image viewer. This looks interesting. I wish my weather forecast looked like that! Is your screensaver ready for sharing? I'm interested in doing something with the Earth View Images that can be created here: https://www.fourmilab.ch/cgi-bin/Earth/action?opt=-p My thought is to have the image update once or twice a minute via a script that's either running continuously in the background or is started and stopped by the screensaver. I'm guessing you're doing something similar by generating the displayed image frequently in the background in order to keep the displayed time correct. I never got far with a dedicated screensaver to do this (displaying the image was straightforward, but triggering updates eluded me), but your mention of the image viewer makes perfect sense. Do you simply point to a specific folder and just make sure that that folder only contains the current image? Does the current image have to have a constantly updated filename in order for the screensaver to switch to the current image? chill's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=10839 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=111488 ___ unix mailing list unix@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/unix
Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Jivelite on Alpine Linux
Jivelite on Alpine on a HP RP9 touchscreen point of sale machine I got off ebay. +---+ |Filename: IMG_20210110_083649040_HDR.jpg | |Download: http://forums.slimdevices.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=32915| +---+ sodface's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=19057 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=111488 ___ unix mailing list unix@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/unix
Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Jivelite on Alpine Linux
Working on a weather screensaver for jivelite, using the image viewer. +---+ |Filename: IMG_20201226_110846391_HDR.jpg | |Download: http://forums.slimdevices.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=32681| +---+ sodface's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=19057 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=111488 ___ unix mailing list unix@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/unix
Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Jivelite on Alpine Linux
I live in an apartment and didn't want to mount shelves or brackets to the wall so I attached some standard 1" diameter black posts used with wire shelving to the rear of my desk, tied them together with a cross bar, mounted the speakers and shelf etc. Sort of a rig job but it's working ok. I've go the 10" HP touchscreen on a bar that I can swivel flush to the wall or pull out as shown. Since my desk is just off the kitchen, I can see it clearly while I'm standing at the island prepping dinner or whatever. I have a squeezebox radio in the kitchen too, so synchronizing the desk and kitchen radio, which is about 15 feet away, works nicely. I tried a bunch of different configs which I won't go into but none of them worked quite right for driving all 3 monitors. The Wyse 5070 you can see behind the center monitor, has 3 onboard display ports so it's driving all three. The two bigger desk monitors are left and right and small touchscreen is center top in the display config. I'm running xfce4 on Alpine and jivelite is running in a window with frame and title hidden. It's working out ok so far. Picture is blurry, I just can't seem to get a decent monitor shot with my phone. +---+ |Filename: IMG_20201120_170439807_HDR.jpg | |Download: http://forums.slimdevices.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=32290| +---+ sodface's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=19057 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=111488 ___ unix mailing list unix@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/unix
Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Jivelite on Alpine Linux
Nice ! *Want a webapp ?* Get SqueezeLite-X ! https://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?108550-Announce-Squeezelite-X=903953=1#post903953 Jeff07971's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=49290 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=111488 ___ unix mailing list unix@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/unix
Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Jivelite on Alpine Linux
Some quick tests with Jivelite running on a Wyse 3040 and a 10.1" HP touchscreen. +---+ |Filename: IMG_20201003_092655876.jpg | |Download: http://forums.slimdevices.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=31749| +---+ sodface's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=19057 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=111488 ___ unix mailing list unix@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/unix
Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Jivelite on Alpine Linux
A few notes to self on getting the x86_64 working:
Coaxing Alpine to set the correct screen resolution took me a bit longer
than I'd like to admit. The default grub command line has "nomodeset"
which I don't think actually does anything for this specific device
(Wyse 3030) with the i915 based video I think you also have to add
"i915.modeset=0" to really disable KMS, so the resolution kept getting
set to 1920x1080 which resulted in tiny text on the 800x480 Uctronics 5"
display. I added the video= argument to the grub command line:
Code:
jl-01:~# cat /etc/default/grub
GRUB_TIMEOUT=2
GRUB_DISABLE_SUBMENU=y
GRUB_DISABLE_RECOVERY=true
GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="modules=sd-mod,usb-storage,ext4 nomodeset quiet
rootfstype=ext4 video=800x480M@60mD"
To start Jivelite on boot, I ended up with what feels like an ugly
solution, but it is working. I commented out the existing tty1 line in
/etc/inittab and added the /bin/login one per an entry I found in the
Alpine wiki:
Code:
#tty1::respawn:/sbin/getty 38400 tty1
tty1::respawn:/bin/login -f root
So this auto logs in root, then I have a .profile file in /root that
runs a jivelite.sh script:
Code:
jl-01:~# cat /root/.profile
/root/jivelite.sh &
The jivelite.sh script figures out which device the touchscreen is,
since it's not the same every boot, sets some env variables, clears and
blanks the framebuffer and starts jivelite:
Code:
jl-01:~# cat jivelite.sh
#!/bin/sh
for dev in /dev/input/event*
do
tsdev=$(ts_finddev ${dev} 1 2> /dev/null)
if printf "${tsdev}" | grep -q caught
then
break
fi
done
fbset -g 800 480 800 480 32
export TSLIB_FBDEVICE=/dev/fb0
export TSLIB_TSDEVICE=${dev}
export TSLIB_CALIBFILE=/etc/pointercal
export TSLIB_CONFFILE=/etc/ts.conf
export TSLIB_PLUGINDIR=/usr/lib/ts
export SDL_MOUSEDRV=TSLIB
export SDL_MOUSEDEV=$TSLIB_TSDEVICE
export JIVE_NOCURSOR=1
dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/fb0
/usr/bin/jivelite &
This in addition to the calibration and ts.conf edits documented above.
As I said, feels ugly, but it's booting up to Jivelite without user
intervention. There must be a better way to determine the touchscreen
device file, but that's what I came up with for now.
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Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Jivelite on Alpine Linux
I had a second one of these Uctronics 5" screens, it's as dark and dull as the other one. This is with Alpine x86_64 on a Wyse 3030 thin client. +---+ |Filename: IMG_20200915_191650626.jpg | |Download: http://forums.slimdevices.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=31560| +---+ sodface's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=19057 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=111488 ___ unix mailing list unix@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/unix
Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Jivelite on Alpine Linux
Here's the "prototype" (that's what I'm calling it so I don't feel so bad about the botched execution) player based on the Uctronics 5" touchscreen, pi zero, squeezelite and jivelite on Alpine Linux. I'm probably going to rip it apart and redo it all in a couple of weeks when I come back from work travel. +---+ |Filename: Uctronics_Jivelite_3.jpg | |Download: http://forums.slimdevices.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=29165| +---+ sodface's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=19057 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=111488 ___ unix mailing list unix@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/unix
Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Jivelite on Alpine Linux
That's great! Too bad about the brightness. Hopefullly, you find a way to improve it. 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=111488 ___ unix mailing list unix@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/unix
Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Jivelite on Alpine Linux
Ok thanks to Ralphy, Jeff, Chill, et al, this is now working quite well, though the screen brightness (lack of) probably is what it is. My currently working settings: Code: alps:/home/sodface# cat /etc/ts.conf # generated by libts module_raw input (null) module pthres pmin=1 module dejitter delta=100 module linear (null) module skip nhead=2 Starting Jivelite with: Code: export TSLIB_FBDEVICE=/dev/fb0 export TSLIB_TSDEVICE=/dev/input/event0 export TSLIB_CALIBFILE=/etc/pointercal export TSLIB_CONFFILE=/etc/ts.conf export TSLIB_PLUGINDIR=/usr/lib/ts export SDL_MOUSEDRV=TSLIB export SDL_MOUSEDEV=$TSLIB_TSDEVICE export JIVE_NOCURSOR=1 /opt/jivelite/bin/jivelite Alpine includes the file usercfg.txt at the end of config.txt, they want you to leave config.txt alone: Code: alps:/home/sodface# cat /media/mmcblk0/usercfg.txt gpu_mem=128 dtparam=audio=on hdmi_cvt=800 480 60 6 hdmi_group=2 hdmi_mode=87 hdmi_drive=2 sodface's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=19057 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=111488 ___ unix mailing list unix@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/unix
Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Jivelite on Alpine Linux
Well the recompiled SDL seems to be working with tslib. Touch point accuracy is good but it's just constantly bringing up the context menu like I've done a long click instead of just a tap. Probably a knob that needs turning in /etc/ts.conf? I'll mess with it more tomorrow. I'm starting to second guess the screen a little, it seems a little dark. sodface's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=19057 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=111488 ___ unix mailing list unix@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/unix
Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Jivelite on Alpine Linux
ralphy wrote: > There is no way to know what was causing the segfault without building a > debug version of jivelite and running it in gdb. Even then if the crash > is happening within the lua interpreter it becomes even harder to track > down. > > Calibration in jivelite won't work unless libSDL 1.2 was compiled with > libts support. That should be the only library you need to recompile. > I 'helped chill through this for the joggler' > (https://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?110040-Jivelite-on-a-Joggler/page11). Thanks for the support Ralphy, recompiling sdl as we speak. I think the seg fault was just due to not having libjpeg-turbo installed. sodface's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=19057 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=111488 ___ unix mailing list unix@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/unix
Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Jivelite on Alpine Linux
There is no way to know what was causing the segfault without building a debug version of jivelite and running it in gdb. Even then if the crash is happening within the lua interpreter it becomes even harder to track down. Calibration in jivelite won't work unless libSDL 1.2 was compiled with libts support. That should be the only library you need to recompile. I 'helped chill through this for the joggler' (https://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?110040-Jivelite-on-a-Joggler/page11). 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=111488 ___ unix mailing list unix@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/unix
Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Jivelite on Alpine Linux
Touch is actually working so I'm not sure what the ldd check above means. Calibration is off in Jivelite even after running ts_calibrate. I guess that's the next issue to resolve. sodface's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=19057 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=111488 ___ unix mailing list unix@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/unix
Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Jivelite on Alpine Linux
Ok, duh, I installed libjpeg-turbo and things improved dramatically! No crashing and I'm getting album art. I'll let it run over night. Now to get touch working. I think I'm going to have recompile something against tslib. sodface's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=19057 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=111488 ___ unix mailing list unix@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/unix
Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Jivelite on Alpine Linux
Thanks to Ralphy and Jeff I got a little further. I set the framebuffer and deleted the .jivelite folder but same thing happened when I started jivelite, splash screen and that's it. Next I enabled logging and changed the skin file that Jeff indicated in his post to HD_GRID_SKIN_1080 - Bingo! The splash screen stayed up a lot longer then it went to icons, very big icons, but icons nonetheless. I was able to navigate around with the keyboard and change players. When I went to new music jivelite locked up. Via SSH I could see that the process was not even listed anymore even though the screen was still stuck on the new music page and hadn't dropped back to the command prompt. Attached is the log file ending in a segmentation fault. +---+ |Filename: jivelite.log.tar.gz | |Download: http://forums.slimdevices.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=29069| +---+ sodface's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=19057 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=111488 ___ unix mailing list unix@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/unix
Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Jivelite on Alpine Linux
Thanks Gents!! Thinking about faking an illness and going home to try it! I'll update this evening. sodface's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=19057 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=111488 ___ unix mailing list unix@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/unix
Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Jivelite on Alpine Linux
sodface wrote: > Thanks Jeff. I am starting it via the local console with a logitech > wireless keyboard connected (don't think a wireless keyboard should be > an issue) - I don't get anything after the splash screen, no initial > setup or anything. Not sure how to set a skin without the initial setup > screens showing up - I assume there's a config file I could drop > somewhere, I just have researched that bit yet and have basically zero > experience with jivelite. > > //edit now that I re-read your post, you are setting DISPLAY on the > jivelite system and X forwarding over SSH to your windows (that's > running an X server?)? Does that work without X stuff installed on the > jivelite machine? linux graphics is really not my thing but I started with Debian minimal and did not add any X I use Mobaxtrem as my (windows) ssh client which has built in X server for forwarding. Has jivelite populated its settings ? 29058 29059 Other than that I'll leave you with Ralphy, he'll be far better than me ! Jeff +---+ |Filename: 2020-01-16 14_30_21-Window.jpg | |Download: http://forums.slimdevices.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=29059| +---+ *Players:* SliMP3,Squeezebox3 x3,Receiver,SqueezeLite-X,PiCorePlayer x3 *Server:* LMS Version: Latest Nightly on Centos 8.0 VM on ESXi 6.5.0U3 on Dell T320 *Plugins:* AutoRescan/BBCiPlayer/PowerSave/PowerSwitchIII/Squeezecloud/Spotty/Player Groups *Remotes:* iPeng9/Orangesqueeze/PC/Jivelite/SqueezeLite-X *Music:* 522GB,1.5K albums with 25K songs by 5K 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=111488 ___ unix mailing list unix@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/unix
Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Jivelite on Alpine Linux
sodface wrote: > Thanks Jeff. I am starting it via the local console with a logitech > wireless keyboard connected (don't think a wireless keyboard should be > an issue) - I don't get anything after the splash screen, no initial > setup or anything. Not sure how to set a skin without the initial setup > screens showing up - I assume there's a config file I could drop > somewhere, I just have researched that bit yet and have basically zero > experience with jivelite. > > //edit now that I re-read your post, you are setting DISPLAY on the > jivelite system and X forwarding over SSH to your windows (that's > running an X server?)? Does that work without X stuff installed on the > jivelite machine? No it doesn't work for the console. To set a custom skin resolution for the console; Delete the $HOME/.jivelite folder. Set the console to 1920x1080 using fbset Set these two environment variables. # Define custom JogglerSkin size export JL_SCREEN_WIDTH=1920 export JL_SCREEN_HEIGHT=1080 Start jivelite as select GridSkin (1920x1080) that matches what you set in the envars. 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=111488 ___ unix mailing list unix@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/unix
Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Jivelite on Alpine Linux
Let's try turning on all logging. Copy the attached file as logconf.lua into $HOME/.jivelite/userpath/logconf.lua Try to run jivellite. +---+ |Filename: jivelite-logconf.lua.txt | |Download: http://forums.slimdevices.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=29057| +---+ 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=111488 ___ unix mailing list unix@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/unix
Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Jivelite on Alpine Linux
Jeff07971 wrote: > When I have built Jivelite on systems from git I've always had to > redirect jivelite display (over ssh) to my windows machine and set a > skin that is the resolution of the "local display" to the jivelite > before jivelite will work OK > > Not sure if this is the problem you are seeing > > Jeff Thanks Jeff. I am starting it via the local console with a logitech wireless keyboard connected (don't think a wireless keyboard should be an issue) - I don't get anything after the splash screen, no initial setup or anything. Not sure how to set a skin without the initial setup screens showing up - I assume there's a config file I could drop somewhere, I just have researched that bit yet and have basically zero experience with jivelite. sodface's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=19057 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=111488 ___ unix mailing list unix@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/unix
Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Jivelite on Alpine Linux
Thanks for the reply Ralphy. I kind of thought I could ignore those warnings but wasnt 100% sure. The bigger problem is the blank screen after the Jive Lite splash screen, in other words, it ain't working. I found an older post by you with a log config file and put it in ~/.jivelite/userscripts (or something, I'm not at the pi now) and redirected the output, which seems to have worked except, in order to get jivelite to build successfully against Alpine's musl libc I had to fix one issue with calls to backtrace. My "fix" was to completely remove the print_trace function from platform_linux.c and the two calls to it within that file. I'm not sure how that affects what I should see in the logfile but other than the libpng warnings I don't see anything else. Jivelite is running and not immediately crashing, I just don't get anything other than the splash screen and then nothing after that. sodface's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=19057 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=111488 ___ unix mailing list unix@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/unix
Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Jivelite on Alpine Linux
When I have built Jivelite on systems from git I've always had to redirect jivelite display (over ssh) to my windows machine and set a skin that is the resolution of the "local display" to the jivelite before jivelite will work OK Not sure if this is the problem you are seeing Jeff *Players:* SliMP3,Squeezebox3 x3,Receiver,SqueezeLite-X,PiCorePlayer x3 *Server:* LMS Version: Latest Nightly on Centos 8.0 VM on ESXi 6.5.0U3 on Dell T320 *Plugins:* AutoRescan/BBCiPlayer/PowerSave/PowerSwitchIII/Squeezecloud/Spotty/Player Groups *Remotes:* iPeng9/Orangesqueeze/PC/Jivelite/SqueezeLite-X *Music:* 522GB,1.5K albums with 25K songs by 5K 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=111488 ___ unix mailing list unix@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/unix
Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Jivelite on Alpine Linux
I recently installed debian 9.11 on my wandboard and built jivelite and noticed the same 2 messages logged on the console. The warnings are from the system libpng v1.6. When I build jivelite against the squeezeplay purpose built libraries in /opt/squeezeplay/lib, which uses an older version of libpng the messages are gone. If you google the warnings you'll see that the warnings are common to many applications and not specific to jivelite. You could redirect stdout and stderr to a file to squelch the warnings. ./jivelite >> /var/log/jivelite.log 2>&1 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=111488 ___ unix mailing list unix@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/unix
