Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: Radio Now Playing plugin

2021-10-13 Thread ian_heys
Paul, I've managed to install latest beta but it initially slowed down my LMS to a crawl. Opening the Radio Now Playing App took 15 seconds to display the stations, and most times didn't work at all. Similar problem getting to Settings/Plugins. Discovered that the delay is greatly reduced

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: Radio Now Playing plugin

2021-10-13 Thread Paul Webster
Beta 0.0.9a now available with an attempt to handle things for installations without a working HTML::TreeBuilder The only consequence, for now at least, is that you will not see track details for RadioBlues Flac. In which case you should disable that station in the plugin settings and restart

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Native VPN Client Plugin for Squeezbox Radio

2021-10-13 Thread Squeeza
Ok. In that case i will have to type the Server-Adress manually, because the server may not be found automatically (different Subs). How can I type in - after already being connected to a (maybe foreign) WIFI - manually a Server-IP or - in other cases - where can i type in a DNS-Name f. i.

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: Radio Now Playing plugin

2021-10-13 Thread ian_heys
Paul Webster wrote: > I have had a look at this one and I think I can do something with it. > > They do not have cover art available. > I'm happy without the cover art. The music is great. *Music Store and VPN Server: *Synology DS215J NAS *Study Server:* LMS 8.2.0 on Pi 4B pCp 8.0.0/IQ

[SlimDevices: Plugins] Spotty App not visible on the browser LMS GUI

2021-10-13 Thread CosiBone
Dear all, recently I have a strange issue with SPOTTY (latest version) on my debian LMS installation. The Spotty-App does not show up on the LMS menu. On the devices as such this is working fine. Any idea to make the app visible on the browser frontend again? Thanks Cosi

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Native VPN Client Plugin for Squeezbox Radio

2021-10-13 Thread mrw
Squeeza wrote: > > In that case i will have to type the Server-Adress manually, because the > server may not be found automatically (different Subs). > How can I type in - after already being connected to a (maybe foreign) > WIFI - manually a Server-IP or - in other cases - where can i type in

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: Radio Now Playing plugin

2021-10-13 Thread Paul Webster
Try 0.0.9b ... now with Europa Radio Jazz I have had it playing while testing and I suspect someone there is going on a trip soon or their randomiser is a bit broken 13/10/2021 12.16 - Take "A" Train - Henghel Gualdi Orchestra 13/10/2021 11.17 - Take The " A " Train - Stuff Smith 13/10/2021

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Native VPN Client Plugin for Squeezbox Radio

2021-10-13 Thread Jeff07971
No I don't think there is a way to do that. I do this with pCP with a VPN back to my firewall which works well. You may be able to do this with a travel router Jeff *Want a webapp ?* Get SqueezeLite-X !

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Native VPN Client Plugin for Squeezbox Radio

2021-10-13 Thread Jeff07971
Squeeza wrote: > Ok. > > In that case i will have to type the Server-Adress manually, because the > server may not be found automatically (different Subs). > How can I type in - after already being connected to a (maybe foreign) > WIFI - manually a Server-IP or - in other cases - where can i

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] [Announce] Radio Paradise Lossless Streamingv3

2021-10-13 Thread Redrum
slartibartfast wrote: > If you want to hear a really loud radio station try JB Radio. Replaygain > on that was -6.69dB, nearly 10dB louder than WQXR [emoji1787] > > Sent from my Pixel 3a using Tapatalk yes it is...:) I agree with @ab though, I have found allot of internet station's "gain

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: Radio Now Playing plugin

2021-10-13 Thread ian_heys
Paul Webster wrote: > Let's see if others report the same thing. I've moved the cache onto a USB Samsung SSD connected to one of the Pi's USB3 ports. It's very fast for scanning and general LMS running. Wondered whether the plugin might be using a single core of the processor. *Music Store

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: Radio Now Playing plugin

2021-10-13 Thread ian_heys
I have Putty and ran TOP but couldn't see any unusual CPU usage when loading the plugin. It's working fine now. Albeit with only two stations enabled. Will carry on as is and see if anybody else reports a problem. Thanks for this great plugin, will definitely be including Europa Radio Jazz if

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: Radio Now Playing plugin

2021-10-13 Thread Paul Webster
Let's see if others report the same thing. On startup it iterates through the stationdata files in the plugin to ingest the configuration. I suppose that a very very slow disk could make that take a few seconds at most. >From then on the station data is held in memory. When you go to the

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: Radio Now Playing plugin

2021-10-13 Thread Paul Webster
ian_heys wrote: > I've moved the cache onto a USB Samsung SSD connected to one of the Pi's > USB3 ports. It's very fast for scanning and general LMS running. > Wondered whether the plugin might be using a single core of the > processor. If you have command line access to the box then you might

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: Radio Now Playing plugin

2021-10-13 Thread ian_heys
Paul the App is working fine now. Quick start with all Radio stations and no slow down of the settings page. I think it might have been a DNS issue. I have a static IP on pCp with 8.8.8.8 selected as my primary DNS source. *Music Store and VPN Server: *Synology DS215J NAS *Study Server:*

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: Radio Now Playing plugin

2021-10-13 Thread Paul Webster
ian_heys wrote: > > I have a request for an additional radio station (for when it works > again) > > Europa Radio Jazz - https://www.europaradiojazz.org/ > > A great jazz radio station with occasional announcements in English, > based in the South Of France. I don't believe it has album art

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: Radio Now Playing plugin

2021-10-13 Thread Paul Webster
I just tried their iOS app ... and it has cover art. I suspect it is getting it from Apple though. I have not checked but there is an easy API from Apple that can be fed artist/track and it comes back with cover art. However, there is restrictions on its use and my first reading was that I could

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] [Announce] Squeezelite-X

2021-10-13 Thread pmendiuk
I woke up my desk PC this morning and SLX settings window was open. It looks like there was a SLX update. Squeezelite player (Desk) aborted. Check Squeezelite parameters. -n Desk -s 192.168.1.170 -C 60 There is also a dialog box open: 35931 In the dark log window in SLX. Thanks very

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: CastBridge = integrate Chromecast players with LMS (squeeze2cast)

2021-10-13 Thread Cut-Throat
SamY wrote: > It just occurred to me that, for your purposes, you should look into > using the Squeeze Ctrl Android client app, which supports casting the > visual metadata of the currently playing track of any player to a > Chromecast device. The app costs $5 but is well worth it for unique >

[SlimDevices: Plugins] Spotty connection - Spotty Helper app

2021-10-13 Thread ericheartsu
Hi all, i've read through a bunch of the posts, and couldn't find an answer, so i hope i'm not double posting a solved issue. We've used Spotty since it was built, but i'd say every couple months have a week or so, where we lose connection, and through sheer luck, somehow get it re-connected.

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] [Announce] Squeezelite-X

2021-10-13 Thread pmendiuk
I rebooted again and everything is fine. Thanks for all your efforts!!! pmendiuk's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=62342 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=108550

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: CastBridge = integrate Chromecast players with LMS (squeeze2cast)

2021-10-13 Thread Cut-Throat
SamY wrote: > It just occurred to me that, for your purposes, you should look into > using the Squeeze Ctrl Android client app, which supports casting the > visual metadata of the currently playing track to any Chromecast device. > The app costs $5 but is well worth it for unique features such

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: Radio Now Playing plugin

2021-10-13 Thread ian_heys
Paul Webster wrote: > Try 0.0.9b ... now with Europa Radio Jazz > > I have had it playing while testing and I suspect someone there is going > on a trip soon or their randomiser is a bit broken > 13/10/2021 12.16 - Take "A" Train - Henghel Gualdi Orchestra > 13/10/2021 11.17 - Take The " A "

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: Radio Now Playing plugin

2021-10-13 Thread Paul Webster
0.0.9 Released - Add ZOG - Add Europa Radio Jazz - Handle running on installations without Perl HTML::TreeBuilder module Paul Webster http://dabdig.blogspot.com author of \"now playing\" plugins covering radio france (fip etc), planetradio (bauer - kiss, absolute, scala, jazzfm etc), kcrw,

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: CastBridge = integrate Chromecast players with LMS (squeeze2cast)

2021-10-13 Thread SamY
Cut-Throat wrote: > Well, it has gotten better, but I still can not get it to perform > 'without a hitch' for over an hour.. I have been listening this > afternoon and after about 45 minutes, the 'pause' symbol appeared on my > TV and the Music Stopped. I clicked to the next track and it

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] iPeng support thread

2021-10-13 Thread pippin
guptaas wrote: > > Have you tried the small one? > > > > > > > I assume the player reads ahead and attempts to cache the next queued > > song but do not see any way to manually download anything to the phone. > > A desirable feature, if feasible, could be caching an entire playlist to > >

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] iPeng support thread

2021-10-13 Thread pippin
ftlight wrote: > On the desktop LMS interface, all details of the alarm settings are > shown on the All Alarms screen: > > 35576 > > This includes the selected Alarm Sound. > > But on iPeng the alarm sound is not shown, and while it is easy to > change this setting there is no easy way to

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] [Announce] LMS Announce - play announcements / notifications

2021-10-13 Thread Roland0
mots wrote: > > If I do something like "resume living room music", rhasspy will detect > that and try to continue playback on the relevant player. However, it > will also send a "request recognized" sound to the squeezebox using > aforementioned rhasspy plugin that uses this LMS plugin. > This

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Spotty App not visible on the browser LMS GUI

2021-10-13 Thread garym
CosiBone wrote: > Dear all, > > recently I have a strange issue with SPOTTY (latest version 4.6.2) on > my debian LMS installation. > The Spotty-App does not show up on the LMS menu. > > On the devices as such this is working fine. > > Any idea to make the app visible on the browser

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] [Announce] LMS Announce - play announcements / notifications

2021-10-13 Thread mots
Roland0 wrote: > > I suspect the race condition is > - rhasspy sends "announce" command > - plugin saves player state (paused) and returns > - rhasspy sends "play" command > - plugin finished announcement and restores player state (paused) Yes, this is the condition I

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Spotty App not visible on the browser LMS GUI

2021-10-13 Thread CosiBone
Hello garrym, Spotty is gone. A restart of LMS did not solve the trick. Even reinstalling Spotty did not help. CosiBone's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=72126 View this thread:

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Spotty App not visible on the browser LMS GUI

2021-10-13 Thread slartibartfast
garym wrote: > have you looked under the radio menu item on LMS?Is that possible? Sent from my Pixel 3a using Tapatalk slartibartfast's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=35609 View this thread:

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Spotty App not visible on the browser LMS GUI

2021-10-13 Thread garym
slartibartfast wrote: > Is that possible? > > Sent from my Pixel 3a using Tapatalk can't recall exactly, but in the past there were some apps (BBC and others, maybe Spotty) that had some options on where they showed up in the menu (one option was under "Radio" rather than under "my apps").

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Spotty App not visible on the browser LMS GUI

2021-10-13 Thread garym
garym wrote: > can't recall exactly, but in the past there were some apps (BBC and > others, maybe Spotty) that had some options on where they showed up in > the menu (one option was under "Radio" rather than under "my apps"). > Not sure about Spotty, but figured it was worth looking just in

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Spotty App not visible on the browser LMS GUI

2021-10-13 Thread slartibartfast
garym wrote: > can't recall exactly, but in the past there were some apps (BBC and > others, maybe Spotty) that had some options on where they showed up in > the menu (one option was under "Radio" rather than under "my apps"). > Not sure about Spotty, but figured it was worth looking just in

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: CastBridge = integrate Chromecast players with LMS (squeeze2cast)

2021-10-13 Thread SamY
Cut-Throat wrote: > > There are a few limitations... Correct me if I'm wrong.. > > 1.) The phone Has to have the Squeeze Ctrl Ap displaying (It cannot work > as a back round app) > 2.) The phone cannot go to sleep. > > The answer is "no" to both. Just go to Preferences->General and turn on

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: CastBridge = integrate Chromecast players with LMS (squeeze2cast)

2021-10-13 Thread Cut-Throat
SamY wrote: > The answer is "no" to both. Just go to Preferences->General and turn on > the "Always Connected" option. In addition, there are lots of other > options in the Preferences you might want to take a look at. Also make > sure you are running a recent version of the app. Mine is

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: CastBridge = integrate Chromecast players with LMS (squeeze2cast)

2021-10-13 Thread SamY
> This might be useful to you - the developer mode options on Android > include the ability to keep the phone awake when charging. > > Go to settings, about phone. Scroll to the bottom and start tapping on > the "build number" section - after a while you will get a countdown to > unlock

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: CastBridge = integrate Chromecast players with LMS (squeeze2cast)

2021-10-13 Thread BoxOfCables
Cut-Throat wrote: > > 2.) The phone cannot go to sleep. > 35933 This might be useful to you - the developer mode options on Android include the ability to keep the phone awake when charging. Go to settings, about phone. Scroll to the bottom and start tapping on the "build number" section -

[SlimDevices: Plugins] [Announce] LMS Noixer - ambient noise mixer

2021-10-13 Thread Roland0
A plugin / helper application for generating / playing ambient noise. Heavily inspired by 'Noixer' (https://github.com/abetusk/noixer), which has an' online version' (https://abetusk.github.io/noixer) illustrating the concept and the results. More information on the 'homepage'