Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Jivelite on a Pirate Audio 240x240 screen

2020-01-26 Thread chill
Grumpy Bob wrote: > > 2. With /home/tc/sbpd-script.sh entered in the User Commands in Tweaks, > on rebooting, the Pi doesn't reach Jivelite. Just to be sure, can you clarify what you see on the screen on rebooting? Does it look like 'shutdown' messages, or 'startup' messages?

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Jivelite on a Pirate Audio 240x240 screen

2020-01-26 Thread Grumpy Bob
chill wrote: > Thanks for persevering. OK, so there's evidently something real here, > but it's odd that I can't reproduce it with either of my Pirate Audio > boards, or on two different RPis. If the Y button is responding with my > script loaded, then you must have the pre-Jan 23rd version.

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Jivelite on a Pirate Audio 240x240 screen

2020-01-26 Thread chill
Grumpy Bob wrote: > I can't see anything obvious written in the card, but I might have to > disassemble the device to have a look. The Y button operates as > specified in your script file. > > I ran through your latest instructions twice yesterday evening, always > with the same result: if I

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Jivelite on a Pirate Audio 240x240 screen

2020-01-26 Thread Grumpy Bob
chill wrote: > Interesting - I can't see any version number information printed on > either of my boards. Is there any indication how to tell which version > you've got? > > @M-H and Grumpy Bob - do your boards have any revision information > printed on them? > > EDIT: My versions are

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] ANNOUNCE: piCorePlayer 5.0.0

2020-01-26 Thread castalla
Trying to set up network share makes fstab config look easy! Here's the fstab entry: //192.168.0.1/sda1 /mnt/hd1/ cifs username=guest,password= So just what do I enter for the pcp mount? Using sda1 and a blank password fails with: [INFO] mount -v -t cifs -o

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Jivelite on a Pirate Audio 240x240 screen

2020-01-26 Thread chill
JQW wrote: > There's a post on the GitHub project for the Pirate Audio's Mopidy > bundle indicating that there's been a change to these boards as of this > week - button Y is now mapped to BCM24 instead of BCM20. There's no > indication of any other changes. > >

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Jivelite on a Pirate Audio 240x240 screen

2020-01-26 Thread JQW
There's a post on the GitHub project for the Pirate Audio's Mopidy bundle indicating that there's been a change to these boards as of this week - button Y is now mapped to BCM24 instead of BCM20. There's no indication of any other changes. https://github.com/pimoroni/pirate-audio/issues/16

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Jivelite on a Pirate Audio 240x240 screen

2020-01-26 Thread chill
chill wrote: > Nothing - Jivelite only interacts with the brightness control if you > attempt to change the brightness. Actually, that's not quite correct - > on first boot it attempts to set the display to maximum brightness, and > whenever you reboot or restart Jivelite it attempts to

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Jivelite on a Pirate Audio 240x240 screen

2020-01-26 Thread chill
M-H wrote: > > You might know it already, what does need to be altered ? > Nothing - Jivelite only interacts with the brightness control if you attempt to change the brightness. Actually, that's not quite correct - on first boot it attempts to set the display to maximum brightness, and

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Jivelite on a Pirate Audio 240x240 screen

2020-01-26 Thread amoeller
Thanks - exactly what I needed - works like a dream :-) 29166 I am using a Raspberry Pi 3B+. I am not using the 4 buttons as I am currently controlling the LMS from a PC or another piCorePlayer. The crackling sound (?) that was mentioned earlier has for me always something to do with the

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Jivelite on a Pirate Audio 240x240 screen

2020-01-26 Thread M-H
chill wrote: > I'm trying to understand the implications of this. I found I had to add > the '-t 0' option to pigpiod, to switch it to PWM mode, otherwise the > sound did not work. So by implication this board uses PCM for audio, > and PWM for backlight control. Chill, let's eliminate

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Jivelite on a Pirate Audio 240x240 screen

2020-01-26 Thread chill
paul- wrote: > I have a feeling that the pwm control of the backlight is doing this. > > > > > Default PCM. pigpio uses one or both of PCM and PWM. If PCM is used then > > PWM is available for audio. If PWM is used then PCM is available for > > audio. If waves or hardware PWM are used neither

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Jivelite on a Pirate Audio 240x240 screen

2020-01-26 Thread chill
amoeller wrote: > Hi, > For a newbie like me, this thread is excellent - I got the Pirate Audio > line out display up and running without any difficulties or problems. > Only one issue, how do I rotate the display? - I want to build the > player into a vertical enclosure. > I have tried adding

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Jivelite for piCorePlayer

2020-01-26 Thread ryangodammit
Hi, How do you set the jivelite presets? ryangodammit's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=67252 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=103330

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] BETA: piCorePlayer6.0.0 - PI4 support

2020-01-26 Thread coyrls
ChipMonk wrote: > Whilst commissioning my recent RasPi4 pCP v6 setup, I realised that I > need to increase my HDD capacity to make it future proof (famous last > words!). The most cost- effective way to do this, whilst maintaining > maximum flexibility, would be to use Logical Volume

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Jivelite on Alpine Linux

2020-01-26 Thread sodface
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

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Jivelite on a Pirate Audio 240x240 screen

2020-01-26 Thread amoeller
Hi, For a newbie like me, this thread is excellent - I got the Pirate Audio line out display up and running without any difficulties or problems. Only one issue, how do I rotate the display? - I want to build the player into a vertical enclosure. I have tried adding rotate=90 to the modprobe

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] BETA: piCorePlayer6.0.0 - PI4 support

2020-01-26 Thread JaMo
Paul Webster wrote: > If you note here the settings that worked here then it might help > someone else later. Will do. I have ordered another RaspberryPi 4B and will do it in a more structural way with that one. Today was alot of trial and errors. I will document it down and post. /Jan

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] BETA: piCorePlayer6.0.0 - PI4 support

2020-01-26 Thread Paul Webster
JaMo wrote: > I finally got it running! > > /Jan If you note here the settings that worked here then it might help someone else later. Paul Webster http://dabdig.blogspot.com Author Radio France (FIP etc) plugin Paul

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Jivelite breaks playlist - Squeezeplay gives a choice - need help

2020-01-26 Thread lj502
Thanks for the response, I am using in windows 10 and XP, SqueezePlay-setup-7.8.0r1188 jivelite-lua-0.1-r189-win32 Logitech Media Server Version: 7.9.2 I'm not sure about Luajit? The main issue is in Jivelite when you make a song selection it just plays unless you hold down (long press?)

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Jivelite on a Pirate Audio 240x240 screen

2020-01-26 Thread paul-
I have a feeling that the pwm control of the backlight is doing this. > > Default PCM. pigpio uses one or both of PCM and PWM. If PCM is used then > PWM is available for audio. If PWM is used then PCM is available for > audio. If waves or hardware PWM are used neither PWM nor PCM will be >

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Jivelite on a Pirate Audio 240x240 screen

2020-01-26 Thread chill
M-H wrote: > > But the starting moment of "/home/tc/sbpd-script.sh" seems to have > impact. > It does interfere with jivelite being able to start a display. > So laving it from the tweak autostart lines, and manualy adding it on > the SSH CLI does help This is odd too - again, I'm not seeing

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] BETA: piCorePlayer6.0.0 - PI4 support

2020-01-26 Thread JaMo
paul- wrote: > All usb dacs are a crap shoot with rpi devices. You might need to try > different settings on the usb part of the Tweaks page. Thanks Paul, I finally got it running! /Jan JaMo's Profile:

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Jivelite on a Pirate Audio 240x240 screen

2020-01-26 Thread M-H
chill wrote: > > I'm still often getting 'Analog' in the 'Audio output device settings' > of the Squeezelite page. I can second that. I saw that too. Now on the brand new zero-w with actually no real differences. But the starting moment of "/home/tc/sbpd-script.sh" seems to have impact. It

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Jivelite on a Pirate Audio 240x240 screen

2020-01-26 Thread chill
paul- wrote: > Just Change the setting on the card control page. > > But just commenting them out does itdo not add the off line. Ah, got it. I reverted my manual changes to config.txt, rebooted, then disabled the audio via the card control page. I rebooted again, but it hasn't changed

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Jivelite on a Pirate Audio 240x240 screen

2020-01-26 Thread paul-
Just Change the setting on the card control page. But just commenting them out does itdo not add the off line. piCorePlayer a small player for the Raspberry Pi in RAM. Homepage: https://www.picoreplayer.org Please 'donate'

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Jivelite breaks playlist - Squeezeplay gives a choice - need help

2020-01-26 Thread ralphy
The jivelite grid skin will not work with squeezeplay unless you modify the C code jive framework files. If you provide; 1. the versions of squeezeplay and jivelite used 2. is jivelite running luajit or lua 5.1 3. the os running them 4. lms version 5. the steps to reproduce the issue I might

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Jivelite on a Pirate Audio 240x240 screen

2020-01-26 Thread chill
Is this all that's necessary to disable the onboard audio? Code: # onboard audio overlay #dtparam=audio=on #audio_pwm_mode=2 dtparam=audio=off I'm still often getting 'Analog' in the 'Audio output device settings' of the Squeezelite page.

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Jivelite on a Pirate Audio 240x240 screen

2020-01-26 Thread chill
paul- wrote: > Have you guys disabled the internal audio? I tried that earlier, but it didn't seem to make any difference, so I reverted to the default. I'll try again. chill's Profile:

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Jivelite on a Pirate Audio 240x240 screen

2020-01-26 Thread paul-
Have you guys disabled the internal audio? piCorePlayer a small player for the Raspberry Pi in RAM. Homepage: https://www.picoreplayer.org Please 'donate' (https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_donations=U7JHY5WYHCNRU=GB_code=USD=PP%2dDonationsBF%3abtn_donateCC_LG%2egif%3aNonHosted) if

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Using Argon One case with fan and powerbutton together with piCorePlayer?

2020-01-26 Thread paul-
carsten_h wrote: > What is the correct ist way to do it? Only switching to > No.? Correct. piCorePlayer a small player for the Raspberry Pi in RAM. Homepage: https://www.picoreplayer.org Please 'donate'

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Jivelite on a Pirate Audio 240x240 screen

2020-01-26 Thread chill
That snapshot wasn't representative. Here's a more typical one: Code: Mem: 162088K used, 330120K free, 13784K shrd, 15904K buff, 61200K cached CPU: 24.4% usr 8.7% sys 0.0% nic 64.9% idle 0.0% io 0.0% irq 1.8% sirq Load average: 1.75 1.41 0.69 1/122 8646 PID

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Jivelite on a Pirate Audio 240x240 screen

2020-01-26 Thread chill
paul- wrote: > What does memory usage look like? Code: Mem: 162900K used, 329308K free, 13780K shrd, 15904K buff, 61128K cached CPU: 8.3% usr 33.3% sys 0.0% nic 58.3% idle 0.0% io 0.0% irq 0.0% sirq Load average: 1.60 0.99 0.41 1/125 7729 PID PPID USER

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] BETA: piCorePlayer6.0.0 - PI4 support

2020-01-26 Thread paul-
JaMo wrote: > Hi I just bought a Mutec MC3+ USB. > > It is a XMOS based device/digital interface that converts, reclocks. > > I got it to work with older PiCorPlayer software 3.5.0 on a 3B-pi with > output setting: [ iec958:CARD=M20,DEV=0 ]. I haven't got it to work with > pi 3B+ (5.0.1) or

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Jivelite on a Pirate Audio 240x240 screen

2020-01-26 Thread paul-
What does memory usage look like? piCorePlayer a small player for the Raspberry Pi in RAM. Homepage: https://www.picoreplayer.org Please 'donate' (https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_donations=U7JHY5WYHCNRU=GB_code=USD=PP%2dDonationsBF%3abtn_donateCC_LG%2egif%3aNonHosted) if you like

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Jivelite on a Pirate Audio 240x240 screen

2020-01-26 Thread M-H
chill wrote: > Strange, I'm not seeing that with either of the boards I have - both are > outputting proper signal levels on both channels. > Good to know, I just figured out what the 2 driver like chips list , Code: AKK NOT + I have to

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Jivelite on a Pirate Audio 240x240 screen

2020-01-26 Thread M-H
Paul Webster wrote: > To see if sluggishness is due to the machine running out of computing > power you could run "top" from ssh session ("q" to quit "top") and take > a look at the top few lines of the updating output to see if there are > clues. Not exact as from memory but; top showed about

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Jivelite on a Pirate Audio 240x240 screen

2020-01-26 Thread chill
Paul Webster wrote: > To see if sluggishness is due to the machine running out of computing > power you could run "top" from ssh session ("q" to quit "top") and take > a look at the top few lines of the updating output to see if there are > clues. Thanks Paul. The biggest item is the GPIO

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Jivelite on a Pirate Audio 240x240 screen

2020-01-26 Thread chill
M-H wrote: > > Left channel does output normally, however the right channel does output > at a lower level, and does output content for left channel too. > Is if the right channel is in mono mode and adding the 2 signals > together. Strange, I'm not seeing that with either of the boards I

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Jivelite on a Pirate Audio 240x240 screen

2020-01-26 Thread Paul Webster
To see if sluggishness is due to the machine running out of computing power you could run "top" from ssh session ("q" to quit "top") and take a look at the top few lines of the updating output to see if there are clues. Paul Webster http://dabdig.blogspot.com Author Radio France (FIP etc)

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Jivelite on a Pirate Audio 240x240 screen

2020-01-26 Thread M-H
chill wrote: > > There IS an apparent difference from the line out card, in that some of > the pCP menus are more sluggish, especially the Sqeezelite page. > ... > So maybe there is a hardware difference with this version of the card. > . > Hi Chill, There is likely a bit of

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Using Argon One case with fan and powerbutton together with piCorePlayer?

2020-01-26 Thread carsten_h
paul- wrote: > Yes, remove the shutdown overlay and the shutdown monitor extension. What is the correct ist way to do it? Only switching to „No“.? carsten_h's Profile:

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Jivelite on a Pirate Audio 240x240 screen

2020-01-26 Thread chill
chill wrote: > > There IS an apparent difference from the line out card, in that some of > the pCP menus are more sluggish, especially the Sqeezelite page. Even > though I've set the sound output device to the HiFiBerry DAC > Zero/MiniAMP, and sound is coming from the attached speakers, the >

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] BETA: piCorePlayer6.0.0 - PI4 support

2020-01-26 Thread Zabizabo
Hi everyone, First, I would like to aknowledge the developers for this wonderful OS that is piCorePlayer. I just have bought a RPi 4 1 Gb to work with my Allo digione card and it works like a charm with the pCP 6.0 beta 7. I'm coming from a RPi 3B and I wanted to make my audio server runs

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Jivelite on a Pirate Audio 240x240 screen

2020-01-26 Thread chill
I ran through the installation on the '3W amp' board, and it's working as expected, with Jivelite, button control and the correct sound card loaded. But There IS an apparent difference from the line out card, in that some of the pCP menus are more sluggish, especially the Sqeezelite page.

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Jivelite on a Pirate Audio 240x240 screen

2020-01-26 Thread chill
I just ran through the install process again, from the top, and haven't encountered the problem that Grumpy Bob and M-H have reported. I used the 'line out' version of the Pirate Audio board. I'm about to try the steps again on the '3W amp' version in case there's something different. I'm not

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Jivelite on a Pirate Audio 240x240 screen

2020-01-26 Thread Grumpy Bob
piPlayer wrote: > Hi there, > > the pirate audio boards look good. In combination with a Raspberry Pi > Zero, they are the ideal all-in-one solution for a small player. But I'm > afraid these boards are discontinued because they are no longer > available? I found the amplifier version at