Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Community Squeeze OS F19 Release 1

2014-04-06 Thread Michael Herger
Thanks for the feedback - and don't worry: I mostly agree with you. The biggest disagreement probably being that I'd have called it 7.9 instead of 8.0 :-). I even consider doing this after the fact, reverting 7.8.1 changes. But I'll open that discussion its own thread. Please see http://forums.s

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Community Squeeze OS F19 Release 1

2014-04-06 Thread Michael Herger
This shouldn't have been a minor point release, 7.8.0 -> 7.8.1. 7.8.0 even though never to be "officially" released by Logitech, should have been the end of the line. Community release and any major changes should have been version 8.0.0 and in a separate branch, IMHO. (Not that I'm being critical

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Community Squeeze OS F19 Release 1

2014-04-03 Thread Michael Herger
> However, Michael are currently cleaning up LMS and removing old stuff, > due to this it's very possible that my plugins are going to break now > and then. It's not my intention to change the API. And afaik the current state of 7.8.1 should no longer break any plugin. Anything doing so I would c

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Community Squeeze OS F19 Release 1

2014-04-02 Thread Michael Herger
I think we might be at the stage now where the CS LMS 7.8.1 builds are usable and we're back full-circle to where we started from with 7.8.0, with DSD functionality working and plugins loading. Couple of Are you still applying patches to the LMS code? -- Michael ___

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Community Squeeze OS F19 Release 1

2014-04-01 Thread Michael Herger
Code: - unshift @paths, $binArch; + unshift @paths, catdir($class->dirsFor('Bin'), $binArch); Great, thanks! -- Michael ___ unix mailing list unix@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/unix

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] LMS on microcore Linux

2014-04-01 Thread Michael Herger
I copied modules.conf to /usr/sbin and now it got further but in the I don't think that's the way to go. I'd rather use the Custom.pm file to keep a clean file system. end it now complains about perl stuff. Does it mean that I have the wrong version installed? Did you compile those module

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] LMS on microcore Linux

2014-04-01 Thread Michael Herger
Hi Michael I really hope you can help me solve the last puzzle on running LMS on microcore linux. I guess microcore isn't recognized as either debian or redhat based (which is correct). Thus it falls back to defaults - which assume those files in the same folder as the executable (see Slim::U

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Community Squeeze OS F19 Release 1

2014-04-01 Thread Michael Herger
> I'm still fighting with LMS. Not sure what Michael was thinking with the > 'i386-linux -> x86_64-linux' > (https://github.com/Logitech/slimserver/commit/7859e8237e72f1abfc2800e03b9b55660eba0d21) > bin path change, not backward compatibilty that's for sure, or he'd have Hey, good catch! :-) I'll

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] LMS on microcore Linux

2014-04-01 Thread Michael Herger
Where is your slimserver.pl running from, and where is modules.conf? > Am 01.04.2014 um 18:42 schrieb sbp : > > > Hi I have almost got LMS running on the very small microcore linux on > raspberry (which also piCorePlayer is running on). > > However, there is one small problem that I can't figur

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Community Squeeze OS F19 Release 1

2014-03-30 Thread Michael Herger
LOGITECHMEDIASERVER-7.8.1-0.1.20140329GIT1396040560 Heh... I wanted to warn you about 7.8.1. It might see some serious changes - actually already has. Be prepared for some hiccups if you're using 7.8.1 :-). Please see http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=101235 -- Michael ___

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] piCoPlayer = Squeezelite on Microcore linux. .An embedded OS in RAM with Squeezelite

2014-03-30 Thread Michael Herger
P. S. I hate having to fill out captchas in a forum where you have to be registered anyhow in order to post! Most of us would hate to see all the spam flooding the forums without those measures. -- Michael ___ unix mailing list unix@lists.slimdevic

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Ubuntu 14.04 (Trusty Tahr) problems: Logitech Media Server died. Restarting.

2014-03-21 Thread Michael Herger
32-bit mode currently is not supported. Will it be supported in the (near) future? I didn't have plans to do so... but oh well. Please give this file a try: http://downloads.slimdevices.com/LogitechMediaServer_v7.8.0rc/logitechmediaserver_7.8.0~1395409907_all.deb -- Michael __

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Ubuntu 14.04 (Trusty Tahr) problems: Logitech Media Server died. Restarting.

2014-03-20 Thread Michael Herger
My machine is 32 bit. Does this mean I need to install a 64 bit version or is there a work round? Is your machine 32 bit or did you install 32-bit on your otherwise 64-bit capable machine? You could most likely build all dependencies yourself... but it can be a bit involved -- Michael

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Ubuntu 14.04 (Trusty Tahr) problems: Logitech Media Server died. Restarting.

2014-03-20 Thread Michael Herger
Installed 14.04 latest nightly build. Downloaded latest 7.8.0 LMS build. Installed it. Done. Working flawlessly. Please note that LMS 7.8 currently requires you to run Ubuntu (or whatever other Perl 5.18 based Linux in x86_64 mode. 32-bit mode currently is not supported. -- Michael

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] CubieNOS

2014-03-20 Thread Michael Herger
I'm just now switching from an 'easy' 7.7.x setup on OS X which died, to running the community version 7.8.x on a Cubieboard 2 (A20). But ... where do I download the code and how do I build it, or are there armhf .debs out? I've been looking and haven't found links. http://lmgtfy.com/?q=downlo

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Ubuntu 14.04 (Trusty Tahr) problems: Logitech Media Server died. Restarting.

2014-03-17 Thread Michael Herger
Unfortunately you decided to remove about the most important part of your posting: # perl -V Summary of my perl5 (revision 5 version 18 subversion 2) configuration: […] What's there inside these brackets? -- Michael ___ unix mailing list

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Ubuntu 14.04 (Trusty Tahr) problems: Logitech Media Server died. Restarting.

2014-03-14 Thread Michael Herger
Thanks for the idea. Am I correct in taking 7.8 from here: http://downloads.slimdevices.com/nightly/?ver=7.8 ? Yes -- Michael ___ unix mailing list unix@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/unix

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Ubuntu 14.04 (Trusty Tahr) problems: Logitech Media Server died. Restarting.

2014-03-14 Thread Michael Herger
This is perl 5, version 18, subversion 2 (v5.18.2) built for x86_64-linux-gnu- thread-multi Yeah, that's still missing from 7.7. But LMS 7.8 should be fine. Please give it a try. -- Michael ___ unix mailing list unix@lists.slimdevices.com http://li

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Ubuntu 14.04 (Trusty Tahr) problems: Logitech Media Server died. Restarting.

2014-03-13 Thread Michael Herger
I've been happily running LMS on my Ubuntu box (13.10). Trying the new 14.04, I'm seeing the old favourite message 'Logitech Media Server died. Restarting.'. Does anyone have it running successfully on 14.04? My searches of the forum and Google didn't yield anything of use. Most likely an uns

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] piCoPlayer = Squeezelite on Microcore linux. .An embedded OS in RAM with Squeezelite

2014-03-06 Thread Michael Herger
I have the same case, but purchased the DAC with the installed RCAs. What I did was notched out the case so the RCAs stick out. Could you please share a picture with the details? -- Michael ___ unix mailing list unix@lists.slimdevices.com http://list

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Mobile client crashing server's network connection - how to investigate?

2014-01-31 Thread Michael Herger
Underlying OS of the NAS? (..or would that be too telling?) Ah, no. I think it's pretty clear by now what is _triggering_ the issue. It's Netgear's flavour of Debian, as used in a ReadyNAS Duo v2. One semi random thought: I believe that some of the phablet apps may issue a WOL packet on st

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Mobile client crashing server's network connection - how to investigate?

2014-01-31 Thread Michael Herger
Does that happen no matter what combination of tablets/apps you are starting? No. I actually think I was able to narrow it down to one particular app: OrangeSqueeze on an older Acer Iconia (Android 4.0.x). I've run SqueezeCommander and Squeezedisplay to show the full screen image on the same

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Community Squeeze OS F19 Release 1

2014-01-15 Thread Michael Herger
Not worth it for MIP: it requires a x86 CPU. Oh right. That might be a little tricky on ARM then! ;) I do seem to recall... was it the exe that generates uuid's is binary only? Is that the reason why x86 only, no source? Yes, it's closed source. -- Michael ___

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Community Squeeze OS F19 Release 1

2014-01-15 Thread Michael Herger
brutefir and logitechmediaserver-plugin-BrutefirDRC are already packaged. MusicIP, don't use myself, but familiar with what it is. Best thing to do, get your hands dirty! Not worth it for MIP: it requires a x86 CPU. -- Michael ___ unix mailing list u

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Community Squeeze OS F19 Release 1

2014-01-11 Thread Michael Herger
* Sat Jan 11 2014 - 7.8.0-0.68.20140110git1388931871 - Apply lms-server-non-transcode.patch. Looks like the current LMS has been updated assuming transcoding, this should fallback to using the non transcoding case. I doubt I have changed anything in this department. How does your pat

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Announce: JiveLite - cut down squeezebox control application

2014-01-10 Thread Michael Herger
My example is Goldberg Variations, for keyboard (Clavier-Übung IV), where the umlaut on top of the capital U, gets left behind rather comically as the rest of the text scrolls away. Can you confirm which skin and resolution you see this at? Is this the same for you Michael? I'm using the HDGr

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Announce: JiveLite - cut down squeezebox control application

2014-01-08 Thread Michael Herger
Patches very welcome... Especially the NP screen which is currently designed to avoid looking bad at all of the screen sizes supported by the HD skin, but has not really had a lot of time spent tweeking skin. Oh... I didn't even think of resolutions other than full HD. I'll have to play with th

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Announce: JiveLite - cut down squeezebox control application

2014-01-08 Thread Michael Herger
Do you have a demo size and string where it is 100% reproducible? While it's more obvious with larger fonts (I'm currently at 72px), I'm seeing the same with your code. The track I'm playing is from Daft Punk's RAM album, streaming from Qobuz. The French like those accents ;-). I'll test wit

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Setting up a linux squeezebox server - any advice?

2014-01-08 Thread Michael Herger
I did read a little about that. It seems pretty cool. I like the Auto-ripping thing, I might get an external drive to so I can use that. However, I got that sense that vortexbox quite a lot of work to deal with and get set up right. Would you say that is wrong? I've never personally set one up.

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Announce: JiveLite - cut down squeezebox control application

2014-01-08 Thread Michael Herger
Triode, the choices of font sizes in particular for the NP screen - are these tuned to your likings or rather random? When looking at this screen from a two or more meters, the font is rather small. And there's a lot of free screen estate left. I played a bit with font sizes for album/artist

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Setting up a linux squeezebox server - any advice?

2014-01-08 Thread Michael Herger
There's vortexbox - which is a Fedora based distribution which comes with LMS and everything else you need pre-installed. -- Michael ___ unix mailing list unix@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/unix

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Announce: JiveLite - cut down squeezebox control application

2014-01-06 Thread Michael Herger
Michael, I built SDL from scratch as well, but I configured it with ./configure --disable-video-x11, which along with commenting out line 94 of ./SDL-1.2.15/src/video/quartz/SDL_QuartzVideo.h, as hinted already in this thread Thanks, I'll give that a try! -- Michael ___

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Community Squeeze OS F19 Release 1

2014-01-02 Thread Michael Herger
OT... how many posts must one make before moderation goes away? I'm surprised mine are still being held back... No idea. But maybe if Michael or a mod is reading this, I can vouch for the fact that adanac is not a spam generating robot, and could we please stop moderating his posts. ;) Heh...

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Announce: JiveLite - cut down squeezebox control application

2013-12-30 Thread Michael Herger
You should run make -f Makefile.osx -- -- Michael ___ unix mailing list unix@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/unix

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Fedora 20 Upgrade breaks LMS 7.8.0

2013-12-19 Thread Michael Herger
Thanks Michael, but I only use the CS repo now. I highly recommend it. It takes the hassle out of maintaining LMS. "takes the hassle out of maintaining LMS", but you started this thread because it doesn't work any more? Hmm... -- Michael ___ unix

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Fedora 20 Upgrade breaks LMS 7.8.0

2013-12-18 Thread Michael Herger
[root@charon squeezeboxserver]# rpm -qa | grep logitech logitechmediaserver-CPAN-7.8.0-0.14.20130904git1378237026.fc19.x86_64 logitechmediaserver-vendor-7.8.0-0.6.20130303git1349179762.fc19.x86_64 logitechmediaserver-7.8.0-0.64.20131209git1386246861.fc19.noarch Oh, where do these come from? They

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Fedora 20 Upgrade breaks LMS 7.8.0

2013-12-18 Thread Michael Herger
Just thought that I would report that F20 is not compatible. Receiving the following errors: What perl version is it running? What's the output of "perl -v"? -- -- Michael ___ unix mailing list unix@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Announce: JiveLite - cut down squeezebox control application

2013-12-17 Thread Michael Herger
Fixed - looks like the grid skin had a non resized image rather than the resized one. This skin still needs more work but I'd be grateful of more bug reports which prove people are using it! Thanks! I thought that was the case, but didn't figure out where to look for it (well, in the little ti

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Announce: JiveLite - cut down squeezebox control application

2013-11-27 Thread Michael Herger
Feel free to port an applet for it as I've not had any other responses to this yet... Heh... not my field of expertise: I haven't released a single applet yet. The only applet I wrote myself is a little applet to force a firmware update on some of those poor UESRs which wouldn't update o

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Announce: JiveLite - cut down squeezebox control application

2013-11-26 Thread Michael Herger
Thanks Triode! I had some problems building this on OSX. Until I figured out that "make -f Makefile.osx clean" (or simply "make clean") didn't clean thoroughly enough. I think it missed src/platform_osx.o. I'm not too familiar with the make file syntax, but I guess src/Makefile only reads i

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Community Squeeze OS F19 Release 1

2013-10-31 Thread Michael Herger
JackOfAll, I think I have asked this in the past already... Our LMS rpm package is not updated nightly. Typically once a week, I sync to latest 7.8 git trunk and rebuild the packages. If you want to run the latest/greatest 7.8 "snapshot", What modifications over the original installation

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] AAC transcoding help - please

2013-10-24 Thread Michael Herger
You should have to do anything extra to get AAC to work after clean install. In fact it is possible your changes to the conf file have broken AAC support. I'd advise stop LMS, replace conf files with original conf files and restart LMS. ...and before you edit the conf files, create custom-c

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] http://debian.slimdevices.com/ is empty

2013-09-25 Thread Michael Herger
Just saw a build pushed to unstable (7.8) that has no version number. No _revision_ number? http://debian.slimdevices.com/pool/main/l/logitechmediaserver/logitechmediaserver_7.8.0_all.deb -- Michael ___ unix mailing list unix@lists.slimdevices.com h

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] http://debian.slimdevices.com/ is empty

2013-09-25 Thread Michael Herger
Am I using the right repository? Yeah, but there's something wrong on our end. I'm sorry for that. -- Michael ___ unix mailing list unix@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/unix

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] http://debian.slimdevices.com/ is empty

2013-09-25 Thread Michael Herger
It appears that new builds are not being pushed to the debian repository. Could you please check again? Thanks! -- Michael ___ unix mailing list unix@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/unix

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] PuTTY access via SSH - bizarre problem

2013-09-25 Thread Michael Herger
# sudo mkdir /mnt/TEST -sh: sudo: not found # dir /mnt -sh: dir: not found Can anybody explain what's happening, and how to get the normal command line behaviour? Neither dir nor sudo are available on the Touch. That's what "not found" is trying to tell you :-). -- Michael

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] http://debian.slimdevices.com/ is empty

2013-09-19 Thread Michael Herger
The debian stuff is gone. Is this temporary or ??? Or has it moved? Could you please try again? Please note that the builds are a bit behind the others. But we're working on it. -- Michael ___ unix mailing list unix@lists.slimdevices.com http:/

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] http://debian.slimdevices.com/ is empty

2013-09-19 Thread Michael Herger
The debian stuff is gone. Is this temporary or ??? Or has it moved? Yep, migrating the build host accidentally wiped that folder... I'll look into restoring it tomorrow. -- Michael ___ unix mailing list unix@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.sl

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Howto: build a self-contained LMS

2013-09-10 Thread Michael Herger
I can put this on the wiki if someone (you?) can give me access to it Is it still/again read-only?!? Do you have an account I can enable? -- Michael ___ unix mailing list unix@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/unix

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Howto: build a self-contained LMS

2013-09-08 Thread Michael Herger
Nice writeup - you should have done it on the wiki. And have done so years ago :-): I've been running my own build for several years now. Not because my distribution was too bleeding edge, but on the contrary. Still based on some CentOS5, it comes with Perl 5.8.5 only... First time I built my

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] LMS and perl 5.18 - can it work?

2013-09-03 Thread Michael Herger
You're talking to a Linux dummy here. I can't even get slimserver.pl to run from the CLI. I'm not even sure what the minimum options should be. The next nightly build might work for you. I have a .deb file which can be installed using "dpkg -i logitechmediaserver-...deb". -- Michael __

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] LMS and perl 5.18 - can it work?

2013-09-03 Thread Michael Herger
Thanks for looking at this. Good news, but as I'm not a developer I don't know how to proceed at the moment. Do you think if I attempted to build a debian package from the 7.8.0 - TRUNK It mght work? The packaging isn't the issue. The problem I solved today was building the binary modules re

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] LMS and perl 5.18 - can it work?

2013-09-03 Thread Michael Herger
OK. I did work part way through Roland0 suggested method. Building perl 5.14.2 in /opt and building LMS CPAN against that etc. That's the easy Heh... that's actually what I've been doing for years now: my distro is still based on some oldish CentOS, running perl 5.8.5. And that build had a

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] LMS and perl 5.18 - can it work?

2013-09-03 Thread Michael Herger
So... the short answer to your question is: yes. LMS and Perl 5.18 can work. Logitech Media Server-Status Logitech Media Server Version: 7.8.0 - TRUNK @ UNKNOWN Hostname: aptosidbox IP-Adresse des Servers: 192.168.0.42 Server-HTTP-Portnummer: 9000 Betriebssystem: Debian - DE - utf8 Plattformarc

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Community Squeeze OS F19 Release 1

2013-08-14 Thread Michael Herger
LOGITECHMEDIASERVER-7.8.0-0.38.20130814GIT1376395262 This comes under the category of a "hit and hope" update, dropping a patch I inherited from the SuSe guys who were the first to get LMS working with perl 5.16. I don't think this is going to cause any breakage, (think that Michael has dealt with

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Community Squeeze OS R3

2013-07-14 Thread Michael Herger
No, it's a plugin that Michael created. And it truly is a great plugin! I encourage everyone to check it out You shouldn't :-). Because the free API key they offer is limited, the plugin can only serve a smallish number of users. -- Michael ___ un

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Community Squeeze OS R3

2013-06-17 Thread Michael Herger
Only in as much as it will have a later git version of LMS, but I doubt that will solve whatever is causing your problem. In both instances I have investigated of artwork corruption, the underlying cause has been images of a "silly" size. By that I mean, instead of a cover jpg/png of 10's of K

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Community Squeeze OS R3

2013-06-11 Thread Michael Herger
Interesting that you're asking. Yesterday I've got a perl script working that does this: As it's written in perl it might be easily converted to a plugin to run inside LMS. This would simplify instant updates whenever things change on the player. -- Michael ___

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] LMS on rasberry pi ?

2013-05-30 Thread Michael Herger
The Raspberry Pi accesses my library via NFS. I don't know if the scan time would improve if the library was on an USB-disk. It would most likely improve _dramatically_. Scanning over the network will always be slowed down by the connection. Plus the ReadyNAS is rather slow even as a NAS.

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Community Squeeze OS R3

2013-05-29 Thread Michael Herger
I am suspicious the "newer" LMS mechanism of rotating files has fooled me to believe log file access via LMS web page was not working, I suspect LMS scan completed just before the file rotation, and LMS showed a blank page representing zero length log files. It's clumsy to access log files via ssh

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] LMS takes much longer to start over wifi than ethernet

2013-05-28 Thread Michael Herger
I am running the deb version of LMS 7.8 on Ubuntu 12.04 server. If I start it up with the network cable connected, LMS is available very quickly. However, when running on wifi only (which I do normally), it can be a few minutes for LMS to come up even though the box is pingable soon after power up

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] LMS 7.8 - loss of radio connections

2013-05-23 Thread Michael Herger
[13-05-22 12:00:00.0315] Slim::Control::Request::notify (2087) Error: Failed notify: Can't call method "master" on an undefined value at /var/lib/squeezeboxserver/cache/InstalledPlugins/Plugins/RadioParadise/Plugin.pm line 384. This one would be mine to fix... what version of the plugin a

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] LMS on rasberry pi ?

2013-05-21 Thread Michael Herger
Do you think that Raspberry pi would outperform an old ReadyNAS NV+ (sparc)? I've never run LMS on a Raspberry Pi. But I would assume it's by far faster than the old Sparc based ReadyNAS. There has never been a system slower than those ReadyNAS models to run your LMS 7.x. -- Michael _

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Fedora 18 Upgrade appears to break LMS 7.7.2 and 7.7.3

2013-05-21 Thread Michael Herger
This change introduces a regression; breaks search for radio stations. I can't understand the code well enough to say why, though. I am hoping Michael can help. https://github.com/Logitech/slimserver/commit/c5c91277dd28886e9fed13af100a3b9546ebf894 Are you saying that this change broke radio sea

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Announce: JiveLite - cut down squeezebox control application

2013-05-17 Thread Michael Herger
I've noticed this on Jivelite and on genuine Logitech Squeezebox Touches as well: even with the Now Playing screensaver enabled with a short delay of say 30 seconds, the display can stay on the top-level menu forever while playing music back. I say "can" because behavior is not consistent in this

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Announce: JiveLite - cut down squeezebox control application

2013-05-16 Thread Michael Herger
I am using Jivelite on the wandboard to drive a monitor for now playing information from the onboard Squeezelite player. So normally it is just set and forget to 'Now Playing' after I have chosen the player. However I have seen after reboots Jivelite goes back to the menu screen rather than Now Pl

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Announce: JiveLite - cut down squeezebox control application

2013-05-16 Thread Michael Herger
Is there anyway to control Jivelite on the wandboard from a PC? I'm just being lazy and not wanting to connect and disconnect a keyboard from the wandboard or spend 25GBP on a flirc for an occasional change I want to make. JiveLite is a controlling application, not a player. What you want to do

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Fedora 18 Upgrade appears to break LMS 7.7.2 and 7.7.3

2013-05-15 Thread Michael Herger
The protocol handler in local player is only needed if it is not included in the main server... That's not what I'm seeing. I installed the plugin on top of 7.8 (with LocalFile support), and it would always register the plugin's protocol handler. I'd like to get confirmation that the patc

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Fedora 18 Upgrade appears to break LMS 7.7.2 and 7.7.3

2013-05-15 Thread Michael Herger
the patch for the localfile protocol handler does the initialization in slimserver.pl. Could we do this in ProtocolHandlers.pm instead? No problem, Michael. (That was me anyway, rather than Adrian, hacking at slimserver.pl.) I just realised this is interfering with the LocalPlayer plugin (whic

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Fedora 18 Upgrade appears to break LMS 7.7.2 and 7.7.3

2013-05-15 Thread Michael Herger
the patch for the localfile protocol handler does the initialization in slimserver.pl. Could we do this in ProtocolHandlers.pm instead? No problem, Michael. (That was me anyway, rather than Adrian, hacking at slimserver.pl.) Done. Please verify - thanks! -- Michael __

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Fedora 18 Upgrade appears to break LMS 7.7.2 and 7.7.3

2013-05-15 Thread Michael Herger
Triode, the patch for the localfile protocol handler does the initialization in slimserver.pl. Could we do this in ProtocolHandlers.pm instead? diff --git a/Slim/Player/ProtocolHandlers.pm b/Slim/Player/ProtocolHandlers.pm index 9a0a264..a982e70 100644 --- a/Slim/Player/ProtocolHandlers.pm

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Announce: JiveLite - cut down squeezebox control application

2013-05-13 Thread Michael Herger
Michael - could you check the latest jivelite grid branch is sending you what you expect - should sent this request on server connect and on skin change. Looking good! [13-05-13 22:25:53.2904] Slim::Music::Artwork::precacheAllArtwork (492) Adding custom artwork resizing specs: { "1230x1230

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Announce: JiveLite - cut down squeezebox control application

2013-05-08 Thread Michael Herger
Could we make it something a client could set or add to, but perhaps not exposed via the web interface? I'm currently using 250x250 images, but have beem tweeking it to experiement with different size grids. I think a 720p version of the skin will also need a different size. See my response t

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Announce: JiveLite - cut down squeezebox control application

2013-05-08 Thread Michael Herger
Code: /music/8763ea63/cover_50x50_p.png ... /music/8763ea63/cover_300x300_p.png First of all I'd not use the .png. This way the server would return whatever is most efficient. In many cases it doesn't make sense to convert a jpeg to png (unless

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Announce: JiveLite - cut down squeezebox control application

2013-05-08 Thread Michael Herger
Interested in feedback on what a grid view could look like - here's a mocked up album view display. Is this a interesting why to browse items using jivelite? I think it potentially makes the use of a 1080p monitor more worthwhile. (the main issue to me is that it makes the menus with no icons l

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Announce: JiveLite - cut down squeezebox control application

2013-05-08 Thread Michael Herger
I've updated the grid branch on googlecode to do something like this, but using a 6x3 grid as I think the text is more readable at this size. I would be interested if one or more people could try it - it works using a new HDGridSkin which is 1920x1080 only. Is this specific to JiveLite or is th

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Community Squeeze OS R3

2013-05-07 Thread Michael Herger
I attached a screen shot to show the issue. As you will see thunbnails show fine but the main cover in the right hnad pane doesn't (even though its the same size as the thumbnails). I have rebooted, and rescanned but nothing fixes it. The scan spends about 2 hours on pre-caching as well Plea

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Announce: JiveLite - cut down squeezebox control application

2013-04-16 Thread Michael Herger
Is there anything I'd need to modify to get this? I run a make clean && make, but don't get the grid yet (oh, and I did checkout the grid branch first :-)) Yes, select the right "HD Grid" skin. -- Michael ___ unix mailing list unix@lists.slimdevic

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Announce: JiveLite - cut down squeezebox control application

2013-04-16 Thread Michael Herger
For very adventurous people, there is now a "grid" branch on google code. This is very incomplete, but is based on some earlier work by Felix to display menu items in a grid. I've mocked up the album menu using this, but not fixed the menu key naviagation for this yet (you need to use up/down to

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Plastic Box Which Plays Noises

2013-04-15 Thread Michael Herger
Well, yes and no. The war is a straight drop-in, ie. no changes required to run under jetty, but I have seen too many unexplained crashes under jetty to recommend doing so. Ok. You're the expert :-). -- Michael ___ unix mailing list unix@lists.slimde

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Fedora 18 Upgrade appears to break LMS 7.7.2 and 7.7.3

2013-04-09 Thread Michael Herger
A spare 10 mins, so I started looking into the problems with the git1365073464 build. It seems that 'the issue has already been dealt with by Michael' I'm sorry about that... -- Michael ___ unix mailing list unix@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.sl

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Fedora 18 Upgrade appears to break LMS 7.7.2 and 7.7.3

2013-04-08 Thread Michael Herger
if there does come a day when you see yourself drifting away from the "community", I hope you'll communicate that well in advance of Heh... depends on whether I'll get a chance to do so... Andy didn't :-(. -- Michael ___ unix mailing list unix@lists.

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Fedora 18 Upgrade appears to break LMS 7.7.2 and 7.7.3

2013-04-08 Thread Michael Herger
Sorry. That was unnecessarily snarky. I know that anyone with a fork of the repo can issue a pull request. But if 7.8 is to be truly "community driven" then doesn't there need to be more than just one guy in CH (regardless of how much we all admire and appreciate Michael!) monitoring and testin

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Fedora 18 Upgrade appears to break LMS 7.7.2 and 7.7.3

2013-04-08 Thread Michael Herger
would have been nice, (and I did ask Andy before he left), if "official" builds could be made that worked with perl 5.16, (and if that had happened I'd never have made my F18 builds to start with), I feel that I might have asked this before... but do you have your changes in a fork of LMS we c

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Fedora 18 Upgrade appears to break LMS 7.7.2 and 7.7.3

2013-04-07 Thread Michael Herger
left of them) can't even spare the time to check in compiled modules for 5.16 into the slimserver git repo. Thanks for doing this. 7.8 is community driven. If somebody wants to provide those modules we certainly can give it a try. -- Michael ___

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Announce: Squeezelite - a small headless squeezeplay emulator for linux (alsa only)

2013-01-01 Thread Michael Herger
Interested if anyone could test the osx alpha version of squeezelite I've added to the downloads page: http://code.google.com/p/squeezelite/downloads/list Nice! Don't know whether I'm going to use this regularly, but gave it a try anyway. Played a few random mp3s fine on my MBP running 10.8.2

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Segmentation fault at Slim::Utils::Prefs::init() on LMS 7.7.2 amd64-freebsd

2012-07-15 Thread Michael Herger
Do you have a server.log snippet where it happens? -- Michael ___ unix mailing list unix@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/unix

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Netgear ReadyNas Duo version 2

2012-04-24 Thread Michael Herger
What exact model do you have, and what installation image did you download? There are three different packages for ReadyNAS, depending on the model you're using. -- Michael ___ unix mailing list unix@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.c

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] FreeNAS 8.2 anyone?

2012-03-27 Thread Michael Herger
FreeNAS 8.2 isn't released yet? And 8.0.x doesn't support add-ons. -- Michael ___ unix mailing list unix@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/unix

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Debian r33903 broken?

2012-03-27 Thread Michael Herger
Yes, you'll have to wait another hour or two to get the latest code. -- Michael ___ unix mailing list unix@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/unix

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Debian Repository Backwards

2012-03-22 Thread Michael Herger
> But testing is back to 7.6.2 and we have no access to the latest 7.7.2 > - which is now the RC. > > Is this intentional? Nope, not at all. We don't even build 7.6.x any longer. Is this still broken? -- Michael ___ unix mailing list unix@lists.slim

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Debian Repository Backwards

2012-03-20 Thread Michael Herger
> With the release of a 7.8 build, the Debian Repositories are > "backwards". Thanks for the heads up! Pushing out new builds as I type... -- Michael ___ unix mailing list unix@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/unix

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Centos can't locate bootstrap.pm

2012-03-07 Thread Michael Herger
> please let me know what you think I think you should follow some of the advice you are given, analyzing the cause of your issue. -- Michael ___ unix mailing list unix@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/unix

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Sizes of dists vary wildly - why?

2012-03-05 Thread Michael Herger
> windows 55meg > osx 44meg > debian 93meg > redhat 93meg > NAS 20meg > FreeBSD 21meg > ARM 36meg > > What's going on. And why are the debian and redhat dists so fat? They support multiple architectures (x86, arm, powerpc...) -- Michael

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Requirements to installing Squeezeboxserver

2012-02-26 Thread Michael Herger
Please stop cross-posting your single question over and over again. Thanks. Michael Am 26.02.2012, 09:58 Uhr, schrieb phreak : > > can someone please list all the required RPMs, packages and addons > needed to get Squeeze Server working? > > I have a Centos 6.2 server dedicated to this job and

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Netgear ReadyNas Duo version 2

2011-12-19 Thread Michael Herger
> My question is: Is the Netgear Duo Ready Nas version 2 supported or > not? If it's one of the all new ARM based devices, then no. They promised us to send us some hardware, but according to our contact they haven't been able to get a hold of one yet themselves... -- Michael __

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Will the conversion to the new name be completed?

2011-11-22 Thread Michael Herger
> Without going too far off at a tangent, is Felix still working for > Logitech? He is (when he's not on a break ;-)) -- Michael ___ unix mailing list unix@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/unix

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Will the conversion to the new name be completed?

2011-11-22 Thread Michael Herger
> Yeah, it's a bit of a mess. I'm really sorry about that... but we clearly lack the people and priority to clean it up :-(. > There are startup scripts for both squeezeboxserver and > logitechmediaserver in /etc/init.d for example, so it could do with a > good tidy up. Any help would be _very

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] rsync advice

2011-11-16 Thread Michael Herger
> I recently discovered rsync as I needed a more automated backup solution Check out rsnapshot: it's a wrapper around rsync which takes care of the several generations of changes you want to maintain. -- Michael ___ unix mailing list unix@lists.slim

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Debian Confusion about Name of Server

2011-11-04 Thread Michael Herger
> Is this a work in progress - asked because > /etc/init.d/logitechmediaserver has a mix of names in it. It's indeed a mess - http://bugs.slimdevices.com/show_bug.cgi?id=17622 Any help would be very welcome... -- Michael ___ unix mailing list unix@li

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