I am unused to Shortcuts. A more detailed look revealed that the WOL app
has an action to send the packet, which is all I need. On first lookI
only found the option to open the app.
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Thanks to all for the advice.
I have now created an iPhone shortcut that does the following:
Opens a WOL app.
Waits a while,
Opens Material skin.
During the waiting period I can manually get the WOL app to send the
wake command.
I would really like to do without the manual action. I wonder
I've just installed Material Skin on my iPhone. Looks nice. I'm
wondering if there is a clever way to do one thing I want.
My LMS runs on my Mac Mini (using Big Sur). If the Mac is asleep then
using the power button on the remote wakes up the server and connects.
If I am using the iPhone, I
Shozzer wrote:
> You should see a separate option to Add bookmark. It appears, for me,
> just above Save to Favourites.
So that means I do understand what the contextual menu is.
But I don't see that option.I am running Mac OS 10.15.4 (Catalina), LMS
7.9.2, but my Squeezebox is a very old
I have only just discovered this bookmark. I note that it can be used to
bookmark a remote item. I take it this means that I can bookmark a BBC
program that I have been listening to using BBC iPlayer.
sternenjaeger wrote:
> If you want to bookmark a remote track, album or playlist then click
Man in a van wrote:
> https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00hg8dq/broadcasts/2019/03
And this explains the situation.
Archive on 4 is broadcast once a week on Radio 4, but episodes from the
past appear frequently on Radio 4 Extra and can push the Radio 4 item
down the list. Also, I see that the
slartibartfast wrote:
> The episodes are listed in "A-Z Radio 4 and 4 extra" in iPlayer Extras.
> The latest episode is at the top of the list.
>
>
Right, that's where I found Archive on 4, I should have known.
But the item at the top of the list is NOT the latest (February 23rd, as
the
Archive on 4 is a BBC Radio 4 weekly series (Saturdays at 8 p.m.). At
one time it was visible in the BBC iPlayer listings. I think it's no
longer there, certainly when I looked for last week's episode it wasn't
present. I thought it might be among the podcasts shown under iPlayer
Extras, but the
Thanks again. I'll ask if I continue to have trouble.
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Guess it must have been a BBC issue, as I've now had about eighty
minutes with no problems, three different streams.
It can be hard to tell where problems come from.
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cpd73 wrote:
> It'll be seconds since 1st Jan 1970 (see
> https://www.unixtimestamp.com/index.php) So, 1523349116 == Tue, 10 Apr
> 2018 08:31:56
I thought that must be it. Is there an easy way (website, or program on
Mac) to convert?
bpa wrote:
> First usual log & setup info helps.
> * any BBCiplayer message in the log file such as "long delay"
> * any network related mesages in log - eg. cannot access
> mysqueezebox.com
> * Type of programe - live or on demand
> * any correlation with day/time (e.g. if at weekends - BBC
Paul Webster wrote:
> I think the release number rx is a timestamp ... so it would be
> 2018-04-10T08:31:56+00:00
I also think it is a time stamp. But not in a form that is easily read
by a human. That is, not as if 2018-04-10 made the release number be
180410 at the start.
Lately I have not been able to listen comfortably to BBC on demand
streams because they keep rebuffering. Not just once or twice in a
program but frequently.
What's causing this, what further information can I give you, and how
can I resolve this?
As far as I am aware, there are no obvious
mrw wrote:
> And here's my revised menu.opml, in full, for normal people who don't do
> patches. I'm not sure if this is in sync with the current version of the
> plugin, though, but it might help some.
Works for me (with an old Squeezebox, so no artwork could be available).
Many thanks.
I
bpa wrote:
> What are the BBCIplayerExtra settings ?
The only setting is
Select if you do not want DASH streams
and the box is UNchecked
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I'm getting the 404 error with BBC iPLayer (Mac OS 10.13.6, LMS
7.9.1/r1523349116, iPlayer 1.5.3). I am in the UK.
Installed BBC iPlayer Extras 2.0.0. Had some trouble due to my error.
Tried to play several programs on Radios 4 and 2 using the A-Z menus.
Found the items OK, but when I tried to
bpa wrote:
> The changes are small but I was worried that a change might break
> something else or might not work on a different platform. The fix to
> cutoff uses a POSIX library function and floating point repesentation
> which can vary from Windows, Linux, OSX, ARM, x86, etc. I did basic
>
Only had time to try one item so far. Working fine and goes to the end
instead of cutting off a few seconds early. Many thanks.
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So far I have only had the time to check a single program. That was cut
short on Squeezebox. But when I downloaded using get_iplayer it played
to the end.
Will check others later.
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bpa wrote:
> When I get time I'll check.
> What sort of player ? Transcoding and internal buffer may affect this.
>
> Have you checked is the same true on the BBC browser based player ? It
> is easy to check - jump to one minute from end.
>
> Just from experience, I have found that BBC set
There's a problem I have frequently. I have assumed it is a BBC issue,
but have decided it is time to post in case it is a problem with the
plugin.
I am in the UK, and regularly use Listen Again. I find that when
listening to Radio 4 the last few seconds of most programs get cut off.
So I don't
I'be veen away for a couple of days, and haven't checked myBBC iPlayer
since I got back.
But I had trouble over the weekend. I thought I should turn on logging,
and tried to go to the logging option in setting, but for some reason
localhost could not be reached.
I turned LMS off and then on
Should I be using this plugin if I want to use a UPnP device?
Currently I seem to have a plugin UPnP/DLNA Media Interface by Andy
Grundman. Nothing seems to be showing up on the device
(Novafidelity/Cocktail X40) at the moment, though I have seen it show up
occasionally. Of course I may not be
bpa wrote:
> I've known and warned users that many of the feeds Extra uses will die.
> Extras uses feeds from a number of "sources" and I am not sure which one
> you are referring to.
>
>
Do we know if they have just died? Today I am getting 404 Not Found on
all the National Schedule station
I should have said that the programs I had trouble with were from
Saturday and Sunday on Radio 3, and Thursday on Radio 4.
As I mentioned, they all started ok but just stopped completely after a
few minutes.
I'm using Mac OS 10.12.3, and do have the Little Snitch firewall
(technically it's not
iPlayer Extras was refusing to connect, so - following this thread - I
changed the iPlayer settings as suggsested and used iPlayer instead of
extras.
For the three Listen Again programs I tried (two on Radio 3, one on
Radio 4), they all started OK but simply stopped after a few minutes.
I
Well, I've moved to 1.4.9 and also changed to put DASH first. Hopefully
there won't be any problems. The CMA Awards played without issues for
three hours, but haven't had time to try other programs.
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bpa wrote:
> OK - Extra got led down a dead end not sure why (possibly a recent BBC
> change) but in this dead end the only audio is an old Flash format which
> talks about a competition being closed.
>
> Since late 2015 BBC are not creating any new "Listen Again" programs in
> Flash (only in
The specific program was the CMA awards (Radio 2, Wednesday 2 p.m.),
though the same happened on a later program, but one earlier program I
tried worked fine.
I was rather surprised that iPlayer Extra and iPlayer gave different
result (Extra giving this strange message, and iPlayer running
I must admit to being a bit confused as to what the best settings are,
and what problems can occur. I am in the UK and always use Listen Again,
not Listen Live.
Today I got the following.
Using iPlayer. Programs seem to run for the first few seconds and then
stop.
Using iPLayer Extra (Radio 2
bpa wrote:
> Long response times by BBC servers show up as "Couldn't resolve IP
> address " errors - the majority of these are not DNS errors but long
> reponse time from the CDN servers but confusingly reported by LMS as a
> "couldn't resolve IP" . The timeouts used by the HLS code is the
>
I have various problems with BBC iPlayer Listen Again streams cutting
out (stopping completely, not just rebuffering) that I am fairly sure
are due to problems at my ISP.
However, a new issue has come up in the last couple of days, using
iPlayer Extra Listen Again.
The stream will suddenly stop
utgg wrote:
As I've needed to touch a few files in the plugin, I'm just posting a
patch file at the moment (only applies to the BBCiPlayer-v1.3.1alpha3
plugin). Sorry, this is for linux command line only for now (or cygwin
or similar in windows). able as it is GPLv2), he's in no way
Man in a van wrote:
Thanks bpa, I have just done this on my Touch and the listen again is
BONA!
It's a pity that the live streams don't work.
Now, I used WinScp to transfer the file but I have a friend with one of
those Apple products, how would I instruct him to perform the
necessary?
Time for me to join others in saying thanks to those who have done the
work on updating. Losing Listen Again would have been a disaster for
me.n
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For what it's worth (not much, but surely a little) I succeeded in
downloading today's Start the Week using a program I have on my Mac,
even though the BBC iPlayer plugin did not work.
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I don't know if this is a pure coincidence, but when I tried Listen
Again (as with everyone else, getting nothing playing) Little Snitch
(program that blocks outgoing connections until they are authorised)
reported that Perl was trying to connect to zdnet.com and (on another
try) to
AngloCuencano wrote:
Reading around it maybe because I have the latest version of the server
but I am not too sure.
I think this is your problem. I could not get the Play HLS plugin to
install correctly on the latest 7.9 nightly. It works fine on 7.8,
although I don't like that version as
whitman wrote:
I've just run network diagnostics: all reported fine.
You really need to try Network Diagnostics at a time when you are
getting cut-outs, or possibly stuttering though any network problems
there will presumably have cleared up when the stuttering stops.
whitman wrote:
Thanks, Danco.
Seemingly just a coincidence, then? OK, so, I'll hang in there to see if
Listen Again improves.
I don't actually use Listen Live that much, but obviously I will have to
change over at some point in order to get that facility.
When I do, I can see
whitman wrote:
Well there I was innocently thinking it was just me. Stuttering playback
and cutting-out playback on various Listen Again BBC shows over the last
week or so on my Classics via OSX and the usually trusty iplayer plugin.
But a bit of googling reveals loads (and loads and loads!)
bpa wrote:
Make sure BBCIplayer settings are set to the most comprehensive and
enable transcoding.
You can enable player.source to DEBUG and then try playing a stream.
The log which ffmpeg is run.
Yes, that was the problem. Now playing fine.
Yes, ffmpeg is in usr/local/bin, which I understand is correct. I could
try usr/bin, but prefer it in usr/ocal/bin. I could change the plugin to
look for it there if that's not the default, but anyway it is shown when
I check Advanced, File Types in LMS settings.
menu.opml is working fine,
So everything seems to be installed ok according to the instructions,
but I'm not getting any output. Running Mac OS 10.10.2 on a MacBook
Pro.
The Play HLS plugin is installed, as is ffmpeg from the site suggested.
The File types do show ffmpeg under Apple HLS.
The new version of menu.opml is
bpa wrote:
Great - did you have problems with some programs and did the update
solve it ?
1.7 downloaded ok, and all the programs I couldn't get before now play
fine.
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I have had this issue for ages. No problem when BBC iPlayer is set to
WMA only, but we are losing those streams soon.
Other settings always lose the program from time to time. Usually gives
me the message rebuffierng 5% but stops at 5% and shortly gives me a
message Can't open file for ...
I
Oh, and another issue, which is presumably a problem at the BBC end.
I have been away for several weeks, and am trying to catch up with radio
programs.
Several of them are listed in BBC iPlayer Extras, but when I try to play
them they just show as 00:00 and Stopped.
rbl wrote:
I also get the rebuffering, but to be fair it usually kick starts itself
after 10-30 seconds, but not always. My entire system is wired so
nothing to do with that. I used to have TalkTalk (copper), and recently
changed to BT fibre, which made no difference at all. Will now try the
bpa wrote:
I updated Extras plugin in mid Dec to 1.6 this removed the menus which
BBC killed in Oct and added a lots of iPlayer categories/latest menus
but BBC killed off a few more feeds just before Christmas affects mainly
R1, R2 and 6Music. I have an updated version of plugin which gets
bpa wrote:
If not playing WMA - then probably playing Flash/AAC.
If you can play the stream on iPlayer browser interface (which uses
Flash/AAC) then it is unlikely to be the stream or ISP.
AAC has to be transcoded into Flac to play on an SB2. Rebuffering could
be caused by processor
bpa wrote:
On the SB2 if you look at the More Info while the stream is playing -
under Bitrate - if it says transcoded to xxxkbps FLAC) then stream is
being transcoded which has bigger load on processor and network (2
streams - router to server Flash/AAC and server to player Flac) . If
bpa wrote:
When track is playing press right Arrow on Remote, then down until you
get More Info menu and then right arrow and then down to find details.
Thanks. I had never noticed that option.
I can't see, from the data I have, that either processor or network
should be overloaded.
If I Listen Again to BBC using WMA, I usually get a good stream. But if
I try the default settings (AAC Flash AAC FlashMP3 WMA) I get lots
of rebuffing, and quite often the stream stops completely and I have to
start again from the beginning.
This wouldn't worry me, WMA is good enough for me,
I have had the same issue recently. LMS 7.8.0, plugin 1.1.10, with a
much slower internet connection.
Solved by changing the plugin settings and removing the FlashAAC and
Flashmp3 options.
Ithe the Flash in the name genuinely uses Adobe Flash, it is possible
that that some of mysettings to cut
If you do tinker, it's easy enough to set things back to the original.
It's just a matter of making a choice from a list in the iPlayer
settings.
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Until recently BBC iPlayer worked fine on my SB. But for the last few
days it rebuffers so often that the streams are unlistenable. I am
wondering how to find out the cause of the problem and how to cure it.
SB Classic, LMS 7.8 running on an iMac with OS 10.9.2. The only change I
am aware of is
As so often happens, the problem disappears after posting about it. I
have just been listening to a Listen Again programme for two hours, with
only a couple of very short drops.
The problem could have been with my internet connection, but I have a
feeling that it was somewhere else, that
VirusKiller wrote:
I have a suspicion that Time Machine in OSX may be interfering.
Whenever it kicks in (hourly), everything on the box freezes for a few
seconds. Unfortunately, there appears to be no option to have it run
once at, say, 4am.
Apple does not provide an interface. But there
nonnoroger wrote:
The main problem I have found with WOL in ML is that OSX goes back to
sleep after 30 sec unless some application sets a power assertion to
prevent it. The attempts to use ReallyPreventStandby I proposed earlier
in this thread, and also the new version of PreventStandby in
nonnoroger wrote:
But that is not what happens with Mountain Lion. As I have explained in
several posts. The idle period is only applied after interactive use.
Once that has expired a WOL does not keep ML awake for another idle
period. This is why we are trying to find a solution.
I
nonnoroger wrote:
I am now happy enough with the fix to ReallyPreventStandby (please see
earlier post for full testing instructions) that I am going to keep my
system this way for now. If you choose to do the same, I strongly
recommend that you get yourself your own copy of caffeinate for
You are right about the settings. I don't use Spotify, just local files
and BBC at present, so I'll see if I have any problems with that setting
unchecked.
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So, is this a simple change that we can make for ourselves, or does it
require a modified plugin? If the latter, can you post your
modification.
I would be prepared to try it, though my own solution seems to be
working for me at the moment.
I have had no problems with WOL. Maybe my answer is
nonnoroger wrote:
It is a simple change to the plugin that you can make for yourself once
it is installed. See next post for the modification. But let me clarify
once again. ReallyPreventStandby still relies on polling every 60
seconds. There is an almost inevitable race condition that
Couple of thoughts on your solution.
The -i switch should not be necessary, as the default is to prevent idle
sleep.
For debugging purposes, caffeinate -di might be good. That prevents both
display sleep and idle sleep, which makes checking easier in step 14.
I've made your changes, but
As I understand it, under ML hard drive activity does not prevent
sleep.
Previously, it was *supposed* to prevent sleep, but this worked for some
people and not for others.
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Yes I first found the issue with BBCiPlayer. But of course it also
happens when playing tracks from a local library on an external drive.
Interestingly, the latest version of Get iPlayer Automator specifically
states that on ML it prevents sleep while downloading.
As for ReallyPreventStandby, I
nonnoroger wrote:
But the bug report I am asking people to vote for goes back years.
Yes, but the problem occurred because some machines (not all, I think)
simply did not behave the way Apple stated that sleep worked. That is,
they would sleep even when there was hard drive activity, although
nonnoroger wrote:
It is about time that this issue was solved by Logitech. Please vote for
http://bugs.slimdevices.com/show_bug.cgi?id=8141 as the third party
attempted fixes are now tenuous so say the least.
Many many thanks to those of you who have been working to put together a
I'm getting further into things.
I'm not sure if the ps -ax bit needs = 1 or = 0. I think it may be 1
when run from the terminal but 0 when part of a shell script.
You can't use caffeinate on a Mac application, only on a Unix command.
So the caffeinate line needs to be
caffeinate -i open -W
I haven't tested this yet, and I'm not experienced with scripting. But I
think the following or something like it would work under Server Power
Control.
1. Create a program that does very little. The Applescript
delay 10
saved as a stay-open application would do (stay open is important). Give
(Later) I've been doing a bit of further investigating. So far I have
not been able to get caffeinate to work on an application, it keeps
coming up with permission denied. I find someone on the Apple Support
Community forums with the same problem, so it seems to be a matter of
some usage not
I am using a Squeezebox 2 with wired (Powerline) connection. The
settings are (the default, I think) AAC FlashAAC FlashMP3 WMA.
I was wondering whether programs that showed in Extras but not in
iPlayer were sent out by the BBC in a different format. Certainly I get
the rebuffering problem
Listen Again under iPlayer seems to work fine for me.
But when I use iPlayer Extras (sometimes a program is not shown in
iPlayer, but is in Extras, so I have to use Extras) I often find that
there is so much rebuffering that the program is hardly worth listening
to.
Is that likely to be an
nonnoroger wrote:
OSX Mountain Lion (ML) has an idle sleep policy that requires apps to
set sleep assertions if they want to prevent sleep after the period set
in Energy Saver - see for example
http://arstechnica.com/apple/2012/07/os-x-10-8/18/. This means that
utilities I relied on under
I don't have Mountain Lion yet, but I wonder if my old solution would
work.
There was a little program called Jiggler that prevented sleep by
simulating a mouse movement every minute or so. I wrote a very simple
shell script to start and quit Jiggler, and then I used Server Power
Control to run
As I mentioned, I have been doing a large online backup. I guess that
was just taking over too much of the bandwidth, as reducing bandwidth
when present seems to have cured the problem.
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Is that likely to be the cause, and if so would increasing the radio
station timeout (currently 35 seconds) cure it?
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I had this in the past but not currently. I have a vague feeling that it
may depend on what format one is steaming in. No idea why it happens,
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And, of course, thanks to Triode for BBC iPlayer, which I use every
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ReallyPreventStandby, I learnt about it
because I read this thread regulrly. Maybe I should start a separate
thread about ReallyPreventStandby, just to guide others to it.
I would hate it if an update to SqueezeboxServer broke these plugins.
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threads before posting! There's a thread
specifically on this issue.
Seems to be a BBC problem.
There'sa work around by a modification to the iPlayer Extras plugin.
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peripherals, some of them prevent sleep. But my
experience was that I tried a lot of things, including resetting.
removing peripherals, logging in to a different account, and nothing
worked.
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from internet radio? With an album, Energy Saver should keep
the system awake (hard drive activity), though Please Sleep ignores
that.
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of money. Previously it might not have been worth
their while to charge.
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stream, more
likely a change in 7.5.3.
Is there any checking I could do?
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in
7.5.3 at all without my Mac sleeping. It was certainly OK on 7.5.1 (I
hadn't gone to 7.5.2, went straight from 7.5.1 to 7.5.3).
Not a major issue, as I can always reinstall ServerPowerControl, but it
would be good to know if this is just a one-off glitch or a real issue.
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the time
set in EnergySaver once the Squeezebox was put into standby, I wasn't
entirely sure if the latter would work as, because of some oddities in
the way EnergySaver works on my machine, I use a third party utility to
force sleep.
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or LaunchAgents. I
don't know enough about this to work out what's needed.
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human attention or do they have a genuine role to play?
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I run Squeezebox Server at login, not boot so I'm not sure quite how it
works. Lingon is an easy way of creating the relevant launchd plist.
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to allow display sleep but disallow computer sleep, you
will need to go deeper into the system, probably somewhere along the
lines that tm suggests.
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the Squeezebox server through the CLI
interface, and deny sleep if a player is currently active. It works
pretty well.
Please give us the script.
You say it works pretty well. Does that mean it has minor glitches,
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, as I want.
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Triode;591123 Wrote:
Which server version is this with?
7.5.1, but I think I saw it recently with 7.5.0. Mac OS 10.6.5.
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this starts it and brings it to the front, whereas launch keeps it in
the background.
Caffeine on the Mac should be running all the time as a menu bar item
that you can click on, and the Applescripts would be
tell application Caffeine to turn on
and
tell application Caffeine to turn off
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power management by simulating mouse
movement. And then I use SvrPower Control to run this program while my
SB is active and to turn it off when idle.
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Finder)? Does the plugin work?
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it that the automatic action on not-idle is not intended to be
carried out, and that one has to choose from the menu. Or is that
supposed to work, but just failing in the same way that the items
chosen from the menu are failing?
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