My setup is all x86, and I have no real experience of what would need to
be 'build' for Arm. Would need a bit of assistance with that if it ever
got that far.
If an image should do it for all, then it'll become difficult. We do
provide binaries for some platforms. But you'd have to pick a
I tried the instructions at the piCorePlayer site (replacing 7.9.2 with
8.0.0), but this just tells me that my current installation, which is
7.9.2, is the latest version.
Make sure you follow the instructions precisely. It's really what you
need to do. There aren't any other instructions...
With the HD Grid screen, there's only only two - Artwork & Text and
Spectrum Analyzer, vs the 5 or 6 I see with Joggler skin. Is that what
would be expected?
I'm not sure there are many more - haven't used mine with a full HD
display in a while. But yes, the choice certainly is more limited.
I'm using Jivelite with my main TV - and running the 1920*1080 HD grid
screen. With this, I understand I'm limited on the Now Playing screens
- the choices seem limited to Joggler I think - which doesn't look great
running in an envelope on the TV. Is there any way to get the other Now
Playing
Must have driven through a magnetic x-ray storm on the way home
Now that you mention it!...
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You can try to download the file from the repo manually and copy to the
card.
That indeed did improve the situation. But then the network adapter
still wasn't found, then the soundcard, then... eventually I started
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Easiest way is with a keyboard and monitor. You can run 'mount' and see
if that extension is mounted.
pcp-6.0.0-www.tcz is mounted on /tmp/tcloop/pcp-6.0.0.-www. But it's
almost empty. Only has a few libedit related files/links in there.
How many times have you tried to boot it?
5-10x
About the only way for that to happen is if pcp-6.0.0-www.tcz is not
loaded.
How could I verify/investigate that? Or is it not worth it?... That
thing is quickly set up.
But as it's the same unit that caused problems during the upgrade I was
wondering whether that SD card is about to give
I brought my pCP based controller home from the office. Plugged it in,
and it doesn't re-boot. It stops with "Missing WWWROOT". Any idea what I
could do there?
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I've been gradually docker-ising a lot of my services, and wondered if an
'official' docker container for running LMS would be considered?
I'm not too much of a Docker expert myself. Last time I looked into
existing images I thought many of them lacked on the update level. If
you could
Tried an in-situ upgrade from v5.0.1 to 6.0.0.
Unable to connect afterwards. I was using wireless.
Similar experience here, but coming from 6.0.0-rc1. WLAN wouldn't connect.
I then plugged in a keyboard and double checked
/usr/local/etc/pcp/wpa_supplicant.conf - which was there and IMHO
Excerpt from my Config.pm:
What Config.pm would this be? This more looks like from a
Slim::Utils::OS::* module (which I'd recommend you'd use, a Custom.pm).
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No, actually here I want to control the controller, not the player. I
already use cli to control other players, but here I have Jivelite
displayed on my TV and want to be able to use the UI to select music
There's no way to directly control Jivelite over the network.
Maybe there's some
Well, as a first pass, being able to mimic the key presses would be
great. Open a socket and send a keystroke. Skip the ir to lirc to
Jivelite steps. I wondered how Jivelite listened to lirc...
But what you want is to control the _player_, not the controller? Use
LMS' CLI commands to do so.
I wondered if it was possible to control Jivelite directly via IP - i.e.
skip the whole remote control/IR thing. I control my whole AV setup
What aspects of JiveLite would you want to control? It's like
controlling a remote control?...
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I play a song, click on the progress bar, i eard a glitche and then no
sound.
The progress bar go on like if the music run but no sound.
What is the music source?
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You can grab them from the upstream repo.
But then it would complain about libreadline:
sqlite3: error while loading shared libraries: libreadline.so.7: cannot
open shared object file: No such file or directory
When I try to install it I'm told that readline already was downloaded.
Alas,
Paul,
in the past I've been using sqlite on pCP. I see that there is a sqlite
extension available - which I have installed. But it seems sqlite-bin is
missing. Therefore I can't use it interactively. Is this anything you
can fix, or something missing from upstream?
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In another thread, someone noted that if one plans to run LMS on the rPi
(with piCorePlayer), resizing the SD card to 300MB was too small and
perhaps 2000MB would be better. That's the first I'd seen this thought.
Is this only if one plans to use the SD card for holding the cache. In
my own
Okay, but if this truly is a time setting issue, when the time gets
updated (after LMS started) does it not connect to mysb and then
populate the menus?
It should, but it could take several minutes/hours, depending on how
feverishly it tries to re-connect.
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https wouldis mysqueezebox connection https?
LMS8 indeed is a bit stricter on this topic than previous versions. It
would require https and not fall back to http.
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I'm running LMS 7.9.2 on a Raspberry Pi3 (pCP 5.0.1). This evening I'm
seeing an error when using Spotty:
"Spotty requires the Perl module IO::Socket::SSL. You can NOT use Spotty
without this module. Please use your operating system's package manager
to install it."
Go to pCP's Main Page ->
I think Ralphy was referring to the skin name translations that you had
already provided. I added them to the consolidated files that I sent
him earlier, and he's already included them in the installable package.
And I thought I had committed them myself already... thanks anyway!
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I have the patch ready for JiveMain and will rebuild jivelite when the
strings file is ready and Michael has added German and French
translations for the Square QVGA skin.
Uh, oh... what file? French? I hope there isn't much more than a few
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Thanks Carsten - I'm collecting all the updates in my own local copy of
these strings. I'll make those two corrections.
Thanks Carsten & Chill - I already pushed the fix for the German string.
I always wondered why people didn't run spellcheckers on their texts to
find such simple typos.
Perfect, thanks Ralphy. And thanks Michael, they're even shorter than
the EN versions.
Which indeed is a rare case :-D
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I'm guessing this might be a private, or hidden, project. That link
gives me a a 404 error, and there's no trace (that I can find) of pcp or
piCorePlayer when I search gitlab.
I'm sure ralphy can help here.
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Thanks Michael. I'm struggling to keep up with all this repo talk!
Hehe... I quite obviously was a bit confused, too :-).
Can you point me to where the updates are?
https://github.com/ralph-irving/jivelite/tree/master/share/jive/applets/QVGA240squareSkin
I was going to maintain a list of
I think it is up to date - but the brightness-related strings are in the
piCorePlayer applet's strings file.
Yeah, thanks. Updated.
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Great, thanks Michael. I don't have a github respository, so I'm
attaching the files below. They should both be named 'strings.txt' (as
you're well aware), but I've prefixed them so that I can attach them
both here.
I'm a bit confused about the piCorePlayer one: would that _replace_ the
Oh, it's part of his main Jivelite repository:
https://github.com/ralph-irving/jivelite/tree/master/share/jive/applets/QVGA240squareSkin
I should already have this cloned somewhere.
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Ralphy is building these now for our repo. The piCorePlayer applet is
in our git, not sure where Ralphy has the new skin files. (He has too
many repos. :)
But the extension includes more than just the skin, I assume?... ralphy?
I should be able to run the skin on the desktop, right?
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The other translations I'd appreciate some help with relate to
'minimised' versions of what is shown on the brightness screens. These
Do you have a github repository? My German is quite ok :-D.
Code:
LABEL_ADJUST_BRIGHTNESS_GENERIC
#DA
words!). The most cost- effective way to do this, whilst maintaining
maximum flexibility, would be to use Logical Volume Management. I use
I believe pCP and "maximum flexibility" don't go together. If you want
maximum flexibility, then use something else.
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https://www.picoreplayer.org/how_to_upgrade_lms.shtml
Just replace 7.9.2 with 8.0.0 in step 5.
I tried that yesterday, but I still got 7.9.3 not 8.0.0. Why can this
happen?
You made a mistake :-)
Post full input & output and we might be wiser.
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Hi all, is there a way to update to the latest LMS and if so, can you
give me some pointers please?
Download the .deb file and install it using dpkg. Nothing special.
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The Pirate Audio isn't touch, is it?
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Hopefully the pCP team will be able to incorporate your revised skin and
make the framebuffer setting a configurable item.
Just submit a PR against Ralphy's JiveLite repository.
As for the framebuffer setting: I think I've had to tweak this manually
for full HD forever...
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I made a QVGAsquareSkin by starting with the QVGAlandscapeSkin, which is
I can't really say why, but I'd have started with the Portrait mode
skin. But anyway... these screenshots look amazing! I was very tempted
to get one of those boards. Just because I wanted to see whether this
was
Michael 'pointed out'
(https://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?110727-BETA-piCorePlayer6-0-0-PI4-support=956299=1#post956299)
that the Radio and Controller both have 240 pixel screens. Is it
But please note that they only have 240px in one dimension, 320 in the
other. You'd have to
Uh, oh... I just saw that all 8.0 builds but the .deb files have
disappeared from the downloads site. I've seen this a few days ago
already, but thought this was an accident of some kind. But it seems to
repeat itself. I'll have to see with IT what's wrong there. I'm going to
kick off new
Did you try it and it worked for you?
Works for me.
That said I had a moment of confusion, too. The update would first check
for an update download url in /tmp/slimupdate/update_url. That file is
created by the installed LMS. Make sure that file does not exist any
more before you try to
> [20-01-16 18:29:12.7925] Slim::Networking::SqueezeNetwork::_error (497)
Unable to login to SN: Connect timed out: Inappropriate ioctl for device
> [20-01-16 18:29:12.7933] Slim::Networking::SqueezeNetwork::_init_error
(177) Unable to login to mysqueezebox.com, sync is disabled: Connect
However I will not create an 8.* plugin until I am in a position to
support 8.* related queries.
What do you need to get there?
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An LMS update is apparently available, but fails. Is this because the
latest LMS version now appears to be 7.9.*3*?
It might be this, or me f... up the release build some stuff in the
way... It might take another day before I've cleaned up all the mess
I've created left and right :-D.
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As you're starting from scratch anyway, why don't you install Debian in
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This is perl 5, version 28, subversion 1 (v5.28.1) built for
i686-linux-gnu-thread-multi-64int
You'll have to build the binaries yourself (or find somebody who already
did). We do not include them in LMS.
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I had LMS running on my Ubuntu machine, but I have made the switch to
Debian 10 with Mate Desktop, Intel x32 bit processor.
We don't provide binaries for recent perl versions on x86 CPUs. Recent
builds only support x86_64. What perl version would you be running?
If you didn't want to switch
Will I have slower reactions in Jivelite on the Pi 3B+ as the data will
have to be send now through WIFI because LMS is not locally available?
I'd say no. Having them separated is how the system was designed from
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* "It'll certainly help many."
like adding a security feature with a backdoor to disable it?
Thats a real good one from your keyboard ;-)
Feel free to discuss this "issue" of an optional feature in a separate
thread. Now let's please get back on topic.
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Remember
* There is no debian repository anymore
* there is no way to upload a txtfile to the wiki "Permitted file types:
png, gif, jpg, jpeg, zip, opml, pdf, gz, tgz."
* so no fancy
Code:
wget -O -
url="http://www.mysqueezebox.com/update/?version=7.9.2=1=1=deb$os;
That $os at the end is unnecessary.
Really
Yes. I guess it's a left-over from some copy/paste job: the URL as
stored in the code would use the variable $os to add the os parameter.
it was there to only download THAT
The message was written a long time ago, but is this Skin somewhere
available? I looked in piCoreplayer 6.0.0 and it isn't there, there is
only the Joggler skin for the origional 7" Pi display.
I'd be surprised if it wasn't. Haven't a pCP 6 here. But I'm using the
grid skin every day on the 7"
How do you guys pay for all this cloudflare hosting ???
They have a free plan: https://www.cloudflare.com/plans/.
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I suspect they'll work with PiCoreplayer as the DAC is supposedly
HiFiBerry compatible. Not sure about the screen. I intend to pick one up
myself, but need to also acquire a Pi Zero WH to go with it, and there's
a shortage of the latter at the moment.
Update perl5 from the extension page..or just run pcp-update perl5
from a ssh session. I uploaded it last night.
Yep:
Platform Architecture: armv8l-linux
Perl Version: 5.28.2 - arm-linux-gnueabihf-thread-multi-64int
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Okay, the config is good, and the kernel is running would be 32bit.
Confirm by running uname -a from command line. I suspect you are
looking at the reported arch by lms on the information page. That arch
is actually not real for the runtime, but the arch of the compile
machine that built
BT should work just fine in b7 with the 64 bit kernel. The only thing
that is 64 bit is the kernel. All userspace is still 32bit. The main
reason for migrating to 64 bit kernel is the memory management on the
4GB board. Unless there is a compelling reason, i'm not going to
maintain the
url="http://www.mysqueezebox.com/update/?version=7.9.2=1=1=deb$os;
That $os at the end is unnecessary.
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I've got a Fedora Core 30 install on my PC that isn't doing much else.
I've downloaded 7.9.1 and installed it using dnf. It seemed to install
Try 7.9.2 instead.
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I'm trying to download either PiCorePlayer 5 or 4 and neither one will
download. Is there a problem with the server or is there an alternate
place to download from?
How does it fail? Are you familiar with curl or wget?
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I use picoreplayer 6 beta with jivelite
all works fine except the display of the song arbe i have bad character
someone can help me
What display are you using? Jivelite can't display arabic (and many
other non-latin) languages.
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On the other hand, if piCorePlayer is accepting logitech's original
commend set, or something like it, I could adapt my server to send and
receive what piCorePlayer likes.
You mentioned IR. Which makes me wonder whether you implemented a UI,
too? Or how else would you use the IR remote?
If I do a fresh install of LMS in a new FreeBSD jail, what config files
do I need to copy out of my old jail?
You'll certainly want to use LMS' prefs folder. It contains (at least)
server.prefs, plus for all the plugins. Try to find it on your system
and link accordingly. I can't help with
There's another pref "librarycachedir" which is being generated upon
first start (IIRC). That's what's being used for the library files. You
How do i reset this??
Edit server.prefs to make it point to where you want it to be. Then
delete the dbsource line you quoted earlier.
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Maybe one of the two uses the old location, the other the new. Why this
happens, I have no clue.
There's another pref "librarycachedir" which is being generated upon
first start (IIRC). That's what's being used for the library files. You
might need to reset its value before restarting LMS
My old server used to start a mix instantly but the Pi server takes
about 7 seconds to start playback this is with a library of about
18,000.
What kind of mix? What UI are you using? And what i your database memory
setting (Settings/Advanced/Performance)?
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Yeah, we don't have Perl 5.30 support yet. Let me see whether I can get
it built.
New builds with 5.30 support should be out shortly. Please check
http://downloads.slimdevices.com/nightly/?ver=7.9 - once you gut builds
from July, give them a try. Thanks!
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The following modules failed to load: EV XML::Parser::Expat JSON::XS
Digest::SHA1 YAML::XS Sub::Name
This is perl 5, version 30, subversion 0 (v5.30.0) built for
x86_64-linux-thread-multi
Yeah, we don't have Perl 5.30 support yet. Let me see whether I can get
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The swap is compressed.
Ah, that makes sense.
On my players I don't usually see the swap being used.
I never even bothered to check... done now: the pCP running LMS with db
memory mode set to "max" still has 700MB available.
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By default, piCore allocates 25% of memory for swap.
Now I'm wondering how this makes any sense... would't swap only be used
if you run low on memory? But then why would you steal memory to make it
available through swapping?...
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Will PiCorePlayer now switch to 64bit in order to address this 4gb RAM?
AFAIK Raspbian is still 32 bit only.
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could you please try to reload the squeezelite web page. There is
something wrong and maybe it is using a cashed page that is missing the
relevant part.
I can confirm that I sometimes had to re-load the page two or three
times before all device types showed up.
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Hmmm... Hotfix applied, pCP updated to 5.0.0, just to be sure have
closed down pCP and rebooted by reapplying power supply (off/.../on),
LMS not autostarting even though pCP is set to auto start it, tried to
start LMS from LMS page... error message "[ INFO ] Starting LMS...
[ INFO ] The following
I did the 4.1.1 hotfix a couple of weeks ago... is that the one you
mean?
Me too. Haven't found a way to do an insitu update yet.
Uh... oh... there's that Hotfix button... totally missed it this time
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I did the 4.1.1 hotfix a couple of weeks ago... is that the one you
mean?
Me too. Haven't found a way to do an insitu update yet.
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Jun 04 21:13:50 jardell squeezeboxserver[4528]: [21:13:50.535272]
test_open:124 playback open error: Permission denied
Jun 04 21:13:50 jardell squeezeboxserver[4528]: [21:13:50.535306]
output_init_common:373 unable to open output device
I don't think that's anything a default LMS
.. so it compiled as root, but when running as "squeezeboxserver" it's
falling over because of really odd permissions down the
/usr/share/perl5/Slim tree.
chmod -R a+r /usr/share/perl5/Slim
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I do think it's a serious flaw if one of the most basic features -
volume control - is not working properly.
What's the problem you're trying to solve? Not numbers or theory, but
user experience?
With millions of listening hours using the existing code and not a
single complaint so far I
Tom
The biggest change in 2.8.x is streaming Ogg. Go to settings/advanced/file
formats and disable Spotty -> OGG transcoding. Would that help?
I am travelling right now. I might be a bit unresponsive for a few days.
Michael
> Am 20.04.2019 um 21:42 schrieb paul-
> :
>
>
> What are your
Interesting concept! Thanks for sharing.
keypress.KEY_VOLUMEDOWN = /bin/bash /usr/local/bin/sb-command.sh "mixer volume
+5"
Should be "-5"?
keypress.KEY_VOLUMEUP = /bin/bash /usr/local/bin/se-volume.sh "mixer volume
+5"
sb-command.sh or se-volume.sh?
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So I've fixed up nginx to properly proxy tcp and http traffic sperately.
Wow... I didn't even know nginx could proxy UDP traffic and the like...
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Thanks for the responses. So which port is slim proto (since 9000 is the
http port) ? Maybe there's some non http proxying I can try.
3483. But if I got your use case correctly, then you won't need this.
In terms of moving parts - I currently need to route lms Internet
traffic through a vpn
I've currently got my LMS running in a docker container. To get it
working with a VPN server, I'm proxying everything through nginx.
This sounds like too many components, each one asking for its own share
of problems...
Why would you need to pipe traffic through nginx in order to use VPN?
...I have the same problem - but no solution for it. I tried the update
for the last four days with the same error :-( Any Tipps?
Can you access https://repo.picoreplayer.org?
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Anyway, I am thinking I should at some point push this to SBS 7.9.x but
I don't know how best to uninstall 7.8.1, leaving configurations and
plugins etc in place for the 7.9.2 install.
No need to uninstall. Just install the latest on top of the old
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...oh, and is there a list of the available icons somewhere?
Is this what you're looking for?
https://github.com/Logitech/squeezeplay/tree/public/7.8/assets
or
https://github.com/ralph-irving/jivelite/tree/master/share/jive/applets/HDGridSkin/images
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I am sure that there is a way to get LMS working with newer perl
versions; but the loss of LMS is scary to contemplate.
The tarball should indeed be working. But if in doubt, you can compile
the Perl binaries from
https://github.com/Logitech/slimserver-vendor/tree/public/7.9/CPAN
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INTO tracks
You might want to start over: shut down LMS, delete the library.db from
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running gentoo, upgraded to stable perl-5.26.2
What would "perl -v" tell you?
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what kind of python is picore running 2.7 or 3?
From the extensions I see 3.4-3.6 available for installation.
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BTW: you already reported this issue 9 months ago. You were given the
same advice to NOT open your LMS to the world as today.
https://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?108852-Announce-piCorePlayer-3-5-0=910556=#post910556
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Oh, and don't forget to update your Spotty installation while you're at
it. Yes, I've been visiting your LMS and saw that hint at the bottom of
your LMS screen!
Good news is: I'm pretty sure this is a script/bot doing these things,
and not a person interactively exploiting LMS installations.
Almost every day I'm having a problem with LMS, whether with Chrome or
Firefox
The web interface changes by itself and does not stay on "default", but
goes to "classic"
That's because you've exposed your LMS to the internet, and some guy
somewhere on the other end of this planet is having fun
On my Pi Zero, only skins up to 720p work, the Full HD skins (both
regular and grid) don't. Is that because the Zero is underpowered?
Basically, I am thinking of hooking up a Pi 3 to my AV setup instead,
hoping it would be powerful enough for 1080p.
You'll have to modify the framebuffer
Is it ok on attached storage? (I have my cache on the USB stick I have
attached to my Pi)
Yes. Just avoid putting the cache on a network drive.
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I have PCP on a Pi 3B+, all music is on a NAS (samba) and I'd like the
LMS cache/prefs to sit on the NAS too.
I wouldn't do this. I've been running LMS on a Pi for 18+ months now,
and haven't had the slightest problem with cache/prefs on the SD card.
Putting it on the NAS is asking for
I currently have limited IP control and feedback of any squeezebox
player, hardware or software based. I want simple dnav and transport
control of Jivelite for use with a handheld remote. I’m just going to
use IR.
I think you're not getting my point: do you really want to be able to
navigate
Sorry if this has been asked but is it possible to control Jivelite via
IP or a browser?
Do you really want to control Jivelite, or the music playing? Jivelite
is a controller to control playback. The latter could be done using IP
(CLI or JSON/RPC calls). But controlling the controller is
Is there an advantage to run LMS via PCP over running it in the Synology
NAS?
That's not an easy question, because it depends on a lot of details.
Starting with the NAS model: some are simply under-powered to run LMS.
CPU, memory, what other services are running.
Biggest advantage: with pCP
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