Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] LInux client (controller) currently maintained

2022-10-16 Thread Michael Herger
Does the SqueezePlay controller have control over only the local player, or any on the network? SqueezePlay is the software initially created to run on Controller/Radio/Touch. But it's available for desktop computers, too. As its name says it's a player. But it can also be used to control

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Radio stations url source/radio-browser project

2022-10-16 Thread Honey
Thanks for reply, very informative. The issue here in the UK is that unfortunately every app removes the ability to listen to any radio feed outside the UK as it matures: this is true for Tunein, myTuner, and just last week the wonderful RadioGarden, and has successively ruined every app I've

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] LInux client (controller) currently maintained

2022-10-16 Thread chicks
brainchild wrote: > To be clear, "LMS GUI" refers to the web page that is served by LMS when > a browser requests from the machine on which LMS is running, correct? > MATERIAL SKIN CAN CONTROL ANY OF YOUR RENDERERS, INCLUDING SQUEEZELITE, UPNP, CHROMECAST... 38902

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] LInux client (controller) currently maintained

2022-10-16 Thread RobbH
brainchild wrote: > I am running Linux Mint 21 on an x86 laptop. > > What I have come to understand is that Jivelite is targeted for a player > device such as a RPi running piCorePlayer, and that Squeeze Player is a > desktop application that functions as a player for a media server, not a >

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] LInux client (controller) currently maintained

2022-10-16 Thread sodface
Greg Erskine wrote: > I can read this 2 ways. :) > > The most significant point is the "material" skin plugin. It's a vast > improvement over the standard skin. It is maintained almost daily. I > think it is fair to say that "material" is taking over from the numerous > apps that have been

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] LInux client (controller) currently maintained

2022-10-16 Thread Greg Erskine
brainchild wrote: > To be clear, "LMS GUI" refers to the web page that is served by LMS when > a browser requests from the machine on which LMS is running, correct? I can read this 2 ways. :) LMS GUI refers to the web page(s) that are served by LMS. There is a little web server built into

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] LInux client (controller) currently maintained

2022-10-16 Thread brainchild
Greg Erskine wrote: > hi brainchild, > For control on any computer with a browser I would use the LMS GUI with > the "material" skin plugin. > To be clear, "LMS GUI" refers to the web page that is served by LMS when a browser requests from the machine on which LMS is running, correct? Paul

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] LInux client (controller) currently maintained

2022-10-16 Thread chicks
The Material Skin is excellent, can be made to "look and feel" just like a native Linux app easily enough. I use it on my ChromeBox and on my iPhone most every day to control any/all of my squeezelite endpoints. I don't really see a need for a native app, at all. YMMV. piTouch™ w/JustBoom

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] LInux client (controller) currently maintained

2022-10-16 Thread Paul Webster
The O2 Joggler is X86 running Linux. The source code for Jivelite is available. There is a lengthy thread about building Jivelite for Joggler. This might be a good starting point https://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?110040-Jivelite-on-a-Joggler=932520=1#post932520 As stated in a few

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] LInux client (controller) currently maintained

2022-10-16 Thread Greg Erskine
hi brainchild, Like Ronnie, I am a bit slow as well. As Squeeze/LMS is a very mature product it has hundreds (thousands?) of options, with lots of confusing names. LMS has had 3 or 4 different names. For control on any computer with a browser I would use the LMS GUI with the "material" skin

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] LInux client (controller) currently maintained

2022-10-16 Thread castalla
brainchild wrote: > Of course I can use it. I am just asking whether a native alternative is > available, for Linux, as there has been for Windows and MacOS, that > remains well maintained and easy to install. > > > > Yes. I was just being completely thorough, in light on various comments, >

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] LInux client (controller) currently maintained

2022-10-16 Thread brainchild
Man in a van wrote: > I'm a bit slow sometimes, but why can you not use the LMS web interface > ? Of course I can use it. I am just asking whether a native alternative is available, for Linux, as there has been for Windows and MacOS, that remains well maintained and easy to install. Man in a

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] LInux client (controller) currently maintained

2022-10-16 Thread Man in a van
brainchild wrote: > I am running Linux Mint 21 on an x86 laptop. > I'm a bit slow sometimes, but why can you not use the LMS web interface ? And I thought Linux Mint has been x64 only, since 20 :confused: As I said, I'm sometimes a bit slow :o ronnie

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] PiCorePlayer Samba Password-Mapping network Drive

2022-10-16 Thread paul-
Not sure what you are asking, you can set the password directly from the web interface. piCorePlayer a small player for the Raspberry Pi in RAM. Homepage: https://www.picoreplayer.org Please 'donate' (https://picoreplayer.org/index.html#donate) if you like the piCorePlayer

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Jivelite for piCorePlayer

2022-10-16 Thread paul-
Read the known issues in this post. https://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?114828-Announce-piCorePlayer-8-0-0=1027390=1#post1027390 piCorePlayer a small player for the Raspberry Pi in RAM. Homepage: https://www.picoreplayer.org Please 'donate'

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] LInux client (controller) currently maintained

2022-10-16 Thread brainchild
kidstypike wrote: > Good luck finding that for which you seek, with an attitude like yours > you'll need it. I am only trying to understand what is currently available. I have preferences and constraints just as everyone else. There is no need for you to invoke a judgmental tone.

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] LInux client (controller) currently maintained

2022-10-16 Thread kidstypike
brainchild wrote: > I am running Linux Mint 21 on an x86 laptop. > > What I have come to understand is that Jivelite is targeted for a player > device such as a RPi running piCorePlayer, and that Squeeze Player is a > desktop application that functions as a player for a media server, not a >

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] LInux client (controller) currently maintained

2022-10-16 Thread brainchild
sodface wrote: > There may be a package available for the distro he's running, but unless > I missed it, he hasn't provided that info. I am running Linux Mint 21 on an x86 laptop. What I have come to understand is that Jivelite is targeted for a player device such as a RPi running

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Radio stations url source/radio-browser project

2022-10-16 Thread bpa
The radio station search provided by default within LMS is proided by Tune-in (www.tunein.com). It is a commercial service. Many stations are listed by aggregators which have a commercial arrangement with the stations. There are a number of 3rd party plugins which, when installed, provides

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] LInux client (controller) currently maintained

2022-10-16 Thread sodface
RobbH wrote: > But there does not appear to be a jivelite build that's compatible with > brainchild's (presumably X86) Linux computer. There may be a package available for the distro he's running, but unless I missed it, he hasn't provided that info.

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] LInux client (controller) currently maintained

2022-10-16 Thread markiii
just create a captive browser session that runs material only, its way netter anyway unless you want VU, metres PiCorePlayer 8.2 on Allo Digi One Signature (Lounge) PiCorePlayer 8.2 with Hifiberry Digi+ Material running on PI for control (Office) PiCorePlayer 8.2 with pi official touchscreen

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] LInux client (controller) currently maintained

2022-10-16 Thread RobbH
kidstypike wrote: > A Raspberry pi is a Linux computer, it isn't necessarily a player only. > > Jivelite *is* a standalone Squeezebox controller. It does not run in a > web browser. But there does not appear to be a jivelite build that's compatible with brainchild's (presumably X86) Linux

[SlimDevices: Unix] Radio stations url source/radio-browser project

2022-10-16 Thread Honey
I’m having trouble finding many of the radio stations I enjoy in PiCorePlayer. Where does it cut its source of URL – radio station matchings from? Is it a database which it would be possible to update ourselves? I’m not suggesting we all keep our individual list of URLs which can get very

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] LInux client (controller) currently maintained

2022-10-16 Thread kidstypike
This is jivelite running on a Windows box. 38898 +---+ |Filename: jivelite.jpg | |Download: http://forums.slimdevices.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=38898|

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] LInux client (controller) currently maintained

2022-10-16 Thread kidstypike
brainchild wrote: > Yes, I found the download location on SourceForge. > > There is one file for download in the Linux folder. It is called > `jivelite-0.1-20170220gitde9ea58-fbdev-armv6hf.tar.gz`, indicating that > it is target for devices of Arm architecture, which excludes personal >

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] LInux client (controller) currently maintained

2022-10-16 Thread brainchild
Paul Webster wrote: > Jivelite > https://sourceforge.net/projects/lmsclients/files/jivelite/ Yes, I found the download location on SourceForge. There is one file for download in the Linux folder. It is called `jivelite-0.1-20170220gitde9ea58-fbdev-armv6hf.tar.gz`, indicating that it is target

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] LInux client (controller) currently maintained

2022-10-16 Thread sodface
What linux distro are you running? Here's a screenshot of jivelite running on Alpine in a tiling wm. +---+ |Filename: 2022-10-16-131313_1920x1080_scrot.jpg| |Download:

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] LInux client (controller) currently maintained

2022-10-16 Thread Paul Webster
Jivelite https://sourceforge.net/projects/lmsclients/files/jivelite/ Paul Webster author of \"now playing\" plugins covering radio france (fip etc), planetradio (bauer - kiss, absolute, scala, jazzfm etc), kcrw, abc australia and cbc/radio-canada and, via the extra \"radio now playing\"

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] LInux client (controller) currently maintained

2022-10-16 Thread brainchild
Paul Webster wrote: > Jivelite / Squeezeplay can be run on Linux desktops. Would you please help me understand the overall scenario by naming an application I would run on a Linux desktop? brainchild's Profile:

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] LInux client (controller) currently maintained

2022-10-16 Thread Paul Webster
Jivelite / Squeezeplay can be run on Linux desktops. Paul Webster author of \"now playing\" plugins covering radio france (fip etc), planetradio (bauer - kiss, absolute, scala, jazzfm etc), kcrw, abc australia and cbc/radio-canada and, via the extra \"radio now playing\" plugin lots more -

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Raspberry Pi streamer/controler for Ikea synfonisk (sonos) speaker

2022-10-16 Thread Paul Webster
Note though - you will not get DAB radio. However, it is very likely that any station that you want to listen to on DAB also has an internet radio stream that you will probably be able to play. Paul Webster author of \"now playing\" plugins covering radio france (fip etc), planetradio (bauer

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] LInux client (controller) currently maintained

2022-10-16 Thread brainchild
cpd73 wrote: > I know you seem to be explicitly asking for a native app, but I use > Material Skin as a web-app on my KDE/Plasma desktop. I believe what you are describing is largely the same as I have done in the past for some applications using the Webapp Manager, available in Linux Mint.

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] LInux client (controller) currently maintained

2022-10-16 Thread brainchild
HB64 wrote: > That's what jivelite does. We are not understanding each other. I am looking for an application that runs on a Linux desktop or laptop. Jivelite runs on a player device. How would it help with my request?

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Raspberry Pi streamer/controler for Ikea synfonisk (sonos) speaker

2022-10-16 Thread chicks
LMS with the UPnP Bridge. Any Sonos device will show up as a UPnP renderer. piCorePlayer may be the simplest way to set up LMS. Jivelite will provide the touchscreen capability. piTouch™ w/JustBoom DigiHat -> RME ADI-2 DAC FS -> JBL 305P MkII monitors; LMS 8.2 on piCorePlayer/Pi 4;

[SlimDevices: Unix] Raspberry Pi streamer/controler for Ikea synfonisk (sonos) speaker

2022-10-16 Thread orangepower
Hi Dont know If I`m aksing this in right forum, so please move it if it is not ok. I have Ikea Synfonisk speaker and I want something other then phone or tablet to control it. Also I have RPI 3B with 7" touch display. How can I use RPI+touchscreen for controling Sonos speaker? I want to listen

[SlimDevices: Unix] Fancied a change so moved server to spare Pi2 powered by router

2022-10-16 Thread Eyerex
For years i had everything plugged in and running from a single Pi which worked great but the other week i moved hard drive to router which was then shared to the main Pi which then shared music to other players but the other day i fancied a change so setup a Pi2 to run headless as just a LMS

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] LInux client (controller) currently maintained

2022-10-16 Thread cpd73
I know you seem to be explicitly asking for a native app, but I use Material Skin as a web-app on my KDE/Plasma desktop. I've written a (very) simple QWebEngine wrapper app that I use. (Previously used Chrome but this keeps breaking). To use this integrated into Plasma's taskbar/kickoff you just

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Jivelite for piCorePlayer

2022-10-16 Thread Stephan_M
mini11 wrote: > > First post: > https://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?103330-Jivelite-for-piCorePlayer=1027087#post1027087 > > Result: https://docs.picoreplayer.org/projects/add-a-waveshare-7-9-inch/ @'mini11' (https://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?71915-mini11) I bought a

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] LInux client (controller) currently maintained

2022-10-16 Thread HB64
brainchild wrote: > Thanks for the response. > > It's not clear what this application does, but when I mentioned a Linux > controller, I had in mind an application to run on a Linux desktop or > laptop, to connect to the player or the media server, for the purposes > of controlling what to