Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Help with Multi-Library Plugin

2014-12-15 Thread PasTim
arthurb wrote: Hello PasTim, Maybe you are right, and frustrated rants are not helpful. However, looking at it the other way, when someone is totally confused, often by errors and problems that manifest themselves in somewhat inconsistent ways, it can actually be both useful, and a

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: SuperDateTime - Current Date/Temperature and/or Baseball Screensaver

2014-12-15 Thread bluetdi
tcutting wrote: This version takes a cut at implementing the long weather forecasts which were not present in the previous 5.10.x (weather underground API) versions. Since I did not previously use the long weather functionality, I'm not really sure how it worked previously, so this might

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: SuperDateTime - Current Date/Temperature and/or Baseball Screensaver

2014-12-15 Thread phred
bluetdi wrote: have an overlay with a questionmark. What does it mean considering the wetherforcast? I haven't seen the question mark on the local icons, but WU uses it on 'rain' and 'snow' to indicate that there's a -chance- of rain. Or snow.

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: SuperDateTime - Current Date/Temperature and/or Baseball Screensaver

2014-12-15 Thread tcutting
bluetdi wrote: *This is really great.* I get (at 9AM) a long weatherforecast for tonight, tomorrow, tomorrow night, day after tomorrow and day after tomorrow night in celsius + km/h with weather, temperature and wind forecast - *in german language*! Never had it that comfortable before. And

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: Smart Mix plugin

2014-12-15 Thread Pascal Hibon
I have setup smartmix to only play music from my local library. Obviously, the plugin will need an Internet connection during library scanning. I'm using a Wandboard with a local hard drive in my car and I'm curious if the smartmix plugin also need an Internet connection when playing music (from

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Looking for plugin which parses stream for sample rate/bits per sample

2014-12-15 Thread mike_b16
A bit of background would help here I'm sure. I have 3 Raspberry Pi units. One has a Wolfson audio card on it, and the other two have HiFiBerry DACs attached to them. I have a high quality audio source (capable of outputting 24/192/2ch analog audio) which I want to be able to pipe to the rest of

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: ShairTunes Plugin

2014-12-15 Thread Wolfy
Is there a step by step guide to install shairtunes, shairport, airport in a FreeNAS jail running LMS 7.8.0? What to install on the server if something needs to be installed on the players or so? Wolfy's Profile:

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Looking for plugin which parses stream for sample rate/bits per sample

2014-12-15 Thread Mnyb
Thats a feature Squeezeboxes always lacked to be able to route analog inputs trough the house , quite usefull , for exqample LP playback (but that wont need 24/192 ) . If LMS is running on one of RPi you get exaclty that if you suceed :)

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Looking for plugin which parses stream for sample rate/bits per sample

2014-12-15 Thread bpa
mike_b16 wrote: A bit of background would help here I'm sure. This info has helped greatly. Since this is a analog source - why did you mention multi channel multiplexing in the other thread - I had assumed you were recording from the digital input. If the recording is fixed at 192/14/ch

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Help with Multi-Library Plugin

2014-12-15 Thread erland
arthurb wrote: In that regard, I would just add that this stuff does require experimentation, and patience, as you may have guessed from my exasperated posts. I am going to try and post some points based on my, very limited, experience in a day or two, but after much effort I have

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Multi Library random playback AFTER ibrary is selected?

2014-12-15 Thread erland
Juke wrote: One question though, why are there tags to include and tags to exclude sections? Just wondering as if you tick to include why to you need an exclude? Include means that at least one of the selected tags has the be part of the file. Exclude means that it's excluded if any of

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] How do I get the bloody ickstream working?

2014-12-15 Thread erland
Zombie wrote: search still rudimentary... In which way, is the the fact that album/artist information isn't included or something else ? Zombie wrote: I'm actually prepared to pay to get an interface like Wimp:s own application, but maybe Santa does not exist. For the Squeezebox

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Looking for plugin which parses stream for sample rate/bits per sample

2014-12-15 Thread mike_b16
bpa wrote: why did you mention multi channel multiplexing in the other thread Apologies here, this was due to my idiocy in the first two thirds of the last thread where I read into your description of the plugin too much and thought I literally needed local playback on the card in order to

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Looking for plugin which parses stream for sample rate/bits per sample

2014-12-15 Thread bpa
mike_b16 wrote: So can I simply remove the lines that deal with PCM and mp3 in your custom-convert.conf file and leave the two lines that deal with converting the stream to FLAC? Or is there a better way to modify it? Remove the PCM line as there is no easy way this is going to work. Remove

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: SuperDateTime - Current Date/Temperature and/or Baseball Screensaver

2014-12-15 Thread tcutting
bluetdi wrote: *This is really great.* I get (at 9AM) a long weatherforecast for tonight, tomorrow, tomorrow night, day after tomorrow and day after tomorrow night in celsius + km/h with weather, temperature and wind forecast - *in german language*! Never had it that comfortable before. And

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: SuperDateTime - Current Date/Temperature and/or Baseball Screensaver

2014-12-15 Thread bluetdi
tcutting wrote: Re-reading your post, I noticed you did NOT mention that you had a long weatherforecast for TODAY... you should (until about sunset -90 minutes or so). First text forecast should be: during a given day (from about 90 minutes before sunrise to about 90 minutes before sunset)

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: SuperDateTime - Current Date/Temperature and/or Baseball Screensaver

2014-12-15 Thread bluetdi
phred wrote: I haven't seen the question mark on the local icons, but WU uses it on 'rain' and 'snow' to indicate that there's a -chance- of rain. Or snow. Thanks phred, I assumed something like that, but you and tcutting assured me now. 2x Odroid U3 + Max2play + LMS 7.9, 2x Touch, 2x

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Looking for plugin which parses stream for sample rate/bits per sample

2014-12-15 Thread philippe_44
mike_b16 wrote: A bit of background would help here I'm sure. I have 3 Raspberry Pi units. One has a Wolfson audio card on it, and the other two have HiFiBerry DACs attached to them. I have a high quality audio source (capable of outputting 24/192/2ch analog audio) which I want to be able

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Looking for plugin which parses stream for sample rate/bits per sample

2014-12-15 Thread Mnyb
bpa wrote: This info has helped greatly. Since this is a analog source - why did you mention multi channel multiplexing in the other thread - I had assumed you were recording from the digital input. If the recording is fixed at 192/14/ch and it never changes then using Flac as the

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: Local Player plugin and Squeezelite for Linux/Windows/OSX

2014-12-15 Thread ralphy
marcoc1712 wrote: The PPC version started and is now playing via the onboard speaker, I'm going to connect the USB DAC an see what appen. I think You could forget 10.4 if just for me, I'm not going to restore it. I think should be more usefull to have a 32bit built for 10.5.8 to try.

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Multi Library random playback AFTER ibrary is selected?

2014-12-15 Thread Juke
erland wrote: Include means that at least one of the selected tags has the be part of the file. Exclude means that it's excluded if any of the selected tags is part of the file. To compare with genres, it's the typical Christmas + Pop problem. If you have tagged a file with both

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: SuperDateTime - Current Date/Temperature and/or Baseball Screensaver

2014-12-15 Thread jallison
This may be a bit off topic but there's such an active discussion of SDT going on that I can't help asking about it. I'm using Custom Clock Helper to define a skin for Custom Clock on my Touch. It works pretty well, showing current weather, short forecast, and sports scores for teams I'm

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: SuperDateTime - Current Date/Temperature and/or Baseball Screensaver

2014-12-15 Thread tcutting
jallison wrote: This may be a bit off topic but there's such an active discussion of SDT going on that I can't help asking about it. I'm using Custom Clock Helper to define a skin for Custom Clock on my Touch. It works pretty well, showing current weather, short forecast, and sports

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Looking for plugin which parses stream for sample rate/bits per sample

2014-12-15 Thread bpa
philippe_44 wrote: Sorry for the dumb question, but the audio source is only available in analogue format ? Other than that, would creating a source stream using (eg) vlc work ? that source stream could then be a radio feed fed back for LMS - if you are not sensitive to delay, that would

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Looking for plugin which parses stream for sample rate/bits per sample

2014-12-15 Thread mike_b16
If you wish to support downsampling - you should look at main convert.conf file to how to do downsampling using flac. Downsampling is not needed in my case; all of the players support 24/192/2ch. Sorry for the dumb question, but the audio source is only available in analogue format ? Other

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Looking for plugin which parses stream for sample rate/bits per sample

2014-12-15 Thread bpa
Mnyb wrote: Yes op has LMS a running on the RPi he intends to stream from , but your idea with netcat sounds good indeed . But you need inputs analog or digital , so some USB add on or this special board for RPi is needed . Personally I have reduced all my source components to digital ones.

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Looking for plugin which parses stream for sample rate/bits per sample

2014-12-15 Thread bpa
mike_b16 wrote: Does anyone know why the flac conversion is crapping out like this at 24 bits? The Wolfson card can definitely support 24/192/2ch capture/playback. IIRC Alsa can do conversion if application and driver don't match. Did you run the hw_params program I suggested in

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Looking for plugin which parses stream for sample rate/bits per sample

2014-12-15 Thread mike_b16
Hey bpa, I'll run it tomorrow and post the results. Thanks for digging around with this. Cheers, Michael mike_b16's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=63606 View this thread:

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: SuperDateTime - Current Date/Temperature and/or Baseball Screensaver

2014-12-15 Thread phred
tcutting wrote: I think what you want is possible. The SuperDateTime plugin provides effectively 3 different period sets of weather information (not including the long weather forecast, which is seperate, and I'm not sure if that's currently supported through the Custom Clock / Custom Clock

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: SuperDateTime - Current Date/Temperature and/or Baseball Screensaver

2014-12-15 Thread phred
jallison wrote: Also, I'd like to have some simple text below the icon showing projected high and low for that forecast period. Is that possible? - Jeff I use D1 through D5 to give me a rotating five days of forecasts. By using H %_5 / L %_7 for each Dx, I get the output of H 42 / L 21 but

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Spotify trial?

2014-12-15 Thread boolittlek
Spotify's currently running a promotion where you can get 3 months of Premium for $0.99--if you don't cancel prior to the end of the 3 months, they'll start charging the usual monthly rate. I'm giving it a try. I've had no luck with the official Spotify app (getting not available in your region

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Looking for plugin which parses stream for sample rate/bits per sample

2014-12-15 Thread philippe_44
bpa wrote: User wants lossless 192Khz/24 bit stream. I have never been able to create a http/flac stream using vlc btu perhaps vlc has been updated recently. MP3 stream can be created easily. If you have a vlc command line for creating a http/flac stream - please share. Sorry, I don't

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: SuperDateTime - Current Date/Temperature and/or Baseball Screensaver

2014-12-15 Thread phred
tcutting wrote: This version (5.10.5) takes a cut at implementing the long weather forecasts which were not present in the previous 5.10.x (weather underground API) versions. @tcutting - seems like the local night icons have disappeared in this latest version. 10:29pm and clear, but the

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: SuperDateTime - Current Date/Temperature and/or Baseball Screensaver

2014-12-15 Thread tcutting
phred wrote: @tcutting - seems like the local night icons have disappeared in this latest version. 10:29pm and clear, but the current icon is full sun. Going back to 5.10.4 restores the night icons. (Sorry about the size of the image. I can't figure out how to reduce it for the forum

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Rescanning and Multi-Library

2014-12-15 Thread Michael Herger
LMS (7.9) has a habit of rescanning items if it sees they have changed. This behaviour should not have changed in 7.9 compared to 7.8. How is this being triggered? Does it discover those changes automatically (then disable auto scan)? Or when you BMF to a changed file? This causes it to

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: SuperDateTime - Current Date/Temperature and/or Baseball Screensaver

2014-12-15 Thread BoomX2
mbonsack wrote: I've been having trouble getting any college hoops scores for Illinois. I see that Big Ten is (still) ID 7, but when I look at an Illini score on the ESPN website itself, the URL looks like http://espn.go.com/mens-college-basketball/team/_/id/356/illinois-fighting-illini

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: Smart Mix plugin

2014-12-15 Thread Michael Herger
I'm using a Wandboard with a local hard drive in my car and I'm curious if the smartmix plugin also need an Internet connection when playing music (from local library)? Yes, you'll need internet access to create the actual mixes. There's little smarts in the plugin itself, all the mix creation

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: SuperDateTime - Current Date/Temperature and/or Baseball Screensaver

2014-12-15 Thread BoomX2
Fix for NCAA Basketball scores. Added American Conference (AAC) to NCAA basketball conference selections. +---+ |Filename: SuperDateTime5-9-21.zip | |Download:

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Rescanning and Multi-Library

2014-12-15 Thread erland
mherger wrote: LMS (7.9) has a habit of rescanning items if it sees they have changed. This behaviour should not have changed in 7.9 compared to 7.8. How is this being triggered? Does it discover those changes automatically (then disable auto scan)? Or when you BMF to a changed file?

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Rescanning and Multi-Library

2014-12-15 Thread erland
I wonder if this bug is still not fixed and could cause this ? http://bugs.slimdevices.com/show_bug.cgi?id=17274 Not sure if this might have been fixed already ? Erland Isaksson ('My homepage' (http://erland.isaksson.info)) (Developer of 'many plugins/applets (both free and commercial)'

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Rescanning and Multi-Library

2014-12-15 Thread Michael Herger
I wonder if this bug is still not fixed and could cause this ? http://bugs.slimdevices.com/show_bug.cgi?id=17274 Not sure if this might have been fixed already ? That's a new one to me. But I'm still not sure why there would even be a scan without the user triggering it. The rescan done