Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] piCorePlayer - Screen Brightness

2020-07-04 Thread paul-
The rpi firmware probably sees it as an official display, and enables the rpi standard backlight control. if the applet sees the rpi backlight control, it tries to use that..unfortunately, there is no feedback to know if it worked. You can see in the lua code what it’s looking for.

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] ANNOUNCE: piCorePlayer 6.0.0

2020-07-04 Thread Greg Erskine
mr-b wrote: > Another page I'd completely missed! > > Erm but I think something's wrong with this picture. > > Hmm, sorry for the blow-up pic, no idea why it's gone huge. > Hi mr-b, Sorry, just test data to test the plotting code. I thought a CPU temp going from 100 degrees to 0 degrees

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] ANNOUNCE: piCorePlayer 6.0.0

2020-07-04 Thread garym
Hmmm. I suppose I never hit start first. I’ll have to try when I return home. *Home:* VBA 4TB (2.5) -or- rPi4B/pCP6.0/4TB>LMS 7.9.3>Transporter, Touch, Boom, Radio (all ethernet) *Cottage:* VBA 3TB (2.4) -or- rPi4B/pCP6.0/4TB>LMS 7.9.1>Touch>Benchmark DAC I, Boom, Radio w/Battery (ethernet,

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] ANNOUNCE: piCorePlayer 6.0.0

2020-07-04 Thread garym
I get that same odd graph. *Home:* VBA 4TB (2.5) -or- rPi4B/pCP6.0/4TB>LMS 7.9.3>Transporter, Touch, Boom, Radio (all ethernet) *Cottage:* VBA 3TB (2.4) -or- rPi4B/pCP6.0/4TB>LMS 7.9.1>Touch>Benchmark DAC I, Boom, Radio w/Battery (ethernet, Radio WIFI) *Office:* Win10(64)>LMS

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] ANNOUNCE: piCorePlayer 6.0.0

2020-07-04 Thread kidstypike
mr-b wrote: > Another page I'd completely missed! > > > Erm but I think something's wrong with this picture. > > Hmm, sorry for the blow-up pic, no idea why it's gone huge. > 30927 That's just a generic graph, nothing to worry about. Below the graph press "Start" then "Refresh", the page

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] ANNOUNCE: piCorePlayer 6.0.0

2020-07-04 Thread mr-b
kidstypike wrote: > You can also get a temperature graph over time @ Main page > Extras > > CPU Temp. > Another page I'd completely missed! Erm but I think something's wrong with this picture. 30927 +---+ |Filename:

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] piCorePlayer - Screen Brightness

2020-07-04 Thread garym999
found it in /opt/jivelite/share/jive/applets/piCorePlayer/piCorePlayerApplet.lua line 387 on but getting out of my depth now. I'm wondering if the screen is being seen as an original screen even if its not? garym999's

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] piCorePlayer - Screen Brightness

2020-07-04 Thread garym999
paul- wrote: > Its in the piCorePlayer applet. So where do I find that? From what I have > read the brightness script should get called if it is not an offical display right? garym999's Profile:

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] picoreplayer: how to configure ethernet port 10M autonego off full duplex ?

2020-07-04 Thread paul-
Put it in /opt/bootlocal.sh Put it before the piCorePlayer startup. piCorePlayer a small player for the Raspberry Pi in RAM. Homepage: https://www.picoreplayer.org Please 'donate'

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] piCorePlayer - Screen Brightness

2020-07-04 Thread paul-
Its in the piCorePlayer applet. 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] piCorePlayer - Screen Brightness

2020-07-04 Thread garym999
Closer, edited /opt/bootlocal.sh to apply pigpio at boot up as per 'this' (https://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?111502-Jivelite-on-a-Pirate-Audio-240x240-screen/page35) page Code: #!/bin/sh # start pigpiod daemon pigpiod -t 0 -f -l -s 10 # wait for

[SlimDevices: Unix] Alpine Linux Bluetooth and Squeezelite Experiments

2020-07-04 Thread sodface
I've been experimenting with bluetooth and squeezelite on Alpine Linux. I'm going to use this thread to document my misadventures. My initial goal was to take the Wyse 3030LT (N06D) pictured and have the onboard audio jack at the front, the Apple USB DAC at the rear, and bluetooth headphones all

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] ANNOUNCE: piCorePlayer 6.0.0

2020-07-04 Thread castalla
I posted this issue earlier in the Qobuz plugin thread - but I'm raising it here as I think it may also involve PcP. Briefly, any Qobuz track (mp3) played to a bluetooth 'player' stutters for the initial seconds. There is no stutter using Spotty with the same setup. There is also no problem

[SlimDevices: Unix] picoreplayer: how to configure ethernet port 10M autonego off full duplex ?

2020-07-04 Thread tparvais
Hello For one Pi1 behind 30m UTP5e cable, I have some ethernet interface instabilities: pi does not find the network. I install ethtool I want to run this command before network going up at boot sequence: where should I add this command ? sudo ethtool -s eth0 speed 10 autoneg off duplex full

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] ANNOUNCE: piCorePlayer 6.0.0

2020-07-04 Thread kidstypike
Tony T wrote: > Just set up pCp on a pi4 (have another one on a pi3) > > Is there a way to check the temp of the pi4 in pCp? You can also get a temperature graph over time @ Main page > Extras > CPU Temp. 30923 +---+

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] ANNOUNCE: piCorePlayer 6.0.0

2020-07-04 Thread mr-b
Tony T wrote: > 54°C, at idle. 59°C when re-scanning 10k songs in Media Library (scan > done in 4min) My pi4 with Revison: c03112 in a metal Berry XLR case is about the same i.e. around 31 deg above ambient, but it got to about 65 recently. Pi3 in a bare-backed Touch case is 47. Tony T wrote:

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] ANNOUNCE: piCorePlayer 6.0.0

2020-07-04 Thread mr-b
Tony T wrote: > Ah! Thanks. Forgot to look at the Tabs when I went to the Diagnostic > Page > Yup this got me too with the Logs tab - the Diagnostic page tabs could be highlighted so when on those tabs it's clear which one you are on and that there are others. Little vertical tab

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] ANNOUNCE: piCorePlayer 6.0.0

2020-07-04 Thread Tony T
garym wrote: > on pCP main page, click DIAGNOSTICS, then on that page, click the tab > for "Rasberry Pi" (or some similar name, not where I can see my own page > right now) Ah! Thanks. Forgot to look at the Tabs when I went to the Diagnostic Page 54°C, at idle. Tony SBTouch SBRadio

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] irexec doesn't autostart from "User commands" in v6.1.0

2020-07-04 Thread Braklet
OK, I managed to get irexec running daemonized at boot. To do so, I had to add it to /home/tc/.profile (excerpt): Code: if [ -f "$HOME/.ashrc" ]; then export ENV="$HOME/.ashrc" . "$HOME/.ashrc" fi # Can't start irexec from Tweaks->User Command, try it here

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] ANNOUNCE: piCorePlayer 6.0.0

2020-07-04 Thread garym
Tony T wrote: > Just set up pCp on a pi4 (have another one on a pi3) > > Is there a way to check the temp of the pi4 in pCp? on pCP main page, click DIAGNOSTICS, then on that page, click the tab for "Rasberry Pi" (or some similar name, not where I can see my own page right now) *Home:* VBA

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] ANNOUNCE: piCorePlayer 6.0.0

2020-07-04 Thread Tony T
Just set up pCp on a pi4 (have another one on a pi3) Is there a way to check the temp of the pi4 in pCp? Tony SBTouch SBRadio Tony T's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=34544 View this thread:

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] irexec doesn't autostart from "User commands" in v6.1.0

2020-07-04 Thread Braklet
On a tip from https://www.brianlinkletter.com/persistent-configuration-changes-in-tinycore-linux/, I manually edited /usr/local/etc/pcp/pcp.cfg and removed the percent-encoding from USER_COMMAND_1: USER_COMMAND_1="/usr/local/bin/irexec -d" I then made this configuration persistent: sudo

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] piCorePlayer - Screen Brightness

2020-07-04 Thread garym999
Thanks Paul, a little progress. So removed the resistor and added a wire link (as per WaveShare doc) to pin 33 (GPIO 13) of the Pi. Then installed the pigpio-dev.tcz followed by pigpio.tcz via the main page/extensions. Logged in via ssh to the command line. sudo pigiod and now I have control of

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] piCorePlayer and automatic screen brightness control.

2020-07-04 Thread jd68
I followed the recommendation of @paul- and changed to a solution based on Python/smbus. The following replaces the part with C-programming and the shell script in my previous how-to. All related to I2C is still valid. *Requirement: *You just need to install the extension "smbus-python3.6.tcz".

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] piCorePlayer and automatic screen brightness control.

2020-07-04 Thread jd68
prabbit wrote: > With this sensor and code (setting aside wiringpi), does the brightness > go dimmer or darker than what can be achieved by manually setting the > screen brightness to 0, which is bright enough for me during the day and > too bright for nighttime? > > I would love to have a

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] piCorePlayer - Screen Brightness

2020-07-04 Thread garym999
Yes Greg that was all that I had to do. The screen says it’s an IPS panel with a capacitive touchscreen. Looks good and nice and responsive to my flippers. It is supplied with fixing studs on the back with screws to mount the rPi and then use the small ribbon cable to link to the DSI port and job

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] ANNOUNCE: piCorePlayer 6.0.0

2020-07-04 Thread Johnnysq
paul- wrote: > Bluetooth does not work this way anymore. Bluetooth speakers will > create a new squeezelite instance, and show up as a new player in LMS. > If you did update from 5.0, then you should have been forced to remove > bluetooth before doing the insitu update..if you did not,