Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] PicorePlayer for Allo network players and LMS servers

2021-09-04 Thread Wirrunna
JP, I have both of these Allo DACs - https://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?114490-Allo-has-a-new-streamer-Boss2 - The Boss 2 display and remote are not much use to me. I use the Raspberry Pi 7" display and Jivelite on my PiCorePlayers (except the Boss2 which is controlled by a second pCP

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Announce: piCorePlayer 8.0.0

2021-07-13 Thread Wirrunna
In situ 7.01 to 8 on Pi3a with Allo Boss and Pi4b Allo Boss2 player - both worked and playing now. Well done and thanks. A camel is a racehorse designed by a committee. Seen sprayed on the outside wall of the local library - Three things I hate in life : 1. Vandalism 2. Irony 3. Lists

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] PiCorePlayer and wifi Access Point in Bridge mode

2021-06-21 Thread Wirrunna
epoch1970, I reflashed the SD card to pCP 7, 32 bit, installed in a rP1 4b and went through the updates and setup and it works as you said. Once more the 64 bit pCP 7 is not quite up to speed (my Allo Boss2 initially needed pCP 7 32 bit to work) no big deal. >From a former life in IT project

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] PiCorePlayer and wifi Access Point in Bridge mode

2021-06-21 Thread Wirrunna
I tried a rPi 3b and was able to get that to work, sort of. My laptop could see the test network but not connect. WiFi Analyzer showed the SSID but the signal level seemed to drop after a few minutes. Had another go with the rPi 4b, still no luck. Googled Raspberry Pi wifi Access Point and

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] PiCorePlayer and wifi Access Point in Bridge mode

2021-06-20 Thread Wirrunna
paul- wrote: > Make sure to update the APmode extension itself. Or did you just > download the add on? I clicked the update box. There is a 7" Official Touch screen attached but Jivelite is not installed so I can see the screen output and saw the line about Readline.tcz . A camel is a

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] PiCorePlayer and wifi Access Point in Bridge mode

2021-06-20 Thread Wirrunna
Paul Webster wrote: > Did you connect to the new pCP WAP via WiFi at that point? No, it was connected with ethernet, WiFi Analyzer on my phone did not show any new network SSIDs and having an ip address of 10.10.10.1 I could not connect from my PC on 192.168.2.20 without stuffing about with

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] PiCorePlayer and wifi Access Point in Bridge mode

2021-06-19 Thread Wirrunna
Well, I can't get AP to work. New RPi 4b, new SD card with new download of pCP 7, 64 bit. After booting, 1. Patch update and reboot 2. Minor update, now 7.0.1 - pCP4b-113-HFD | piCorePlayer v7.0.1 | www v00015 | linux 5.4.83-pcpCore-v8 | piCore v12.0pCP | Squeezelite v1.9.8-1287-pCP click

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] piCorePlayer/squeezelite and Bluetooth media control?

2021-04-23 Thread Wirrunna
cpd73 wrote: > I have a script I use on a Pi4 to connect BT speakers to LMS. I've just > (today!) updated this to handle prev/next and play/pause buttons on the > speakers - pressing the buttons sends the relevant JSONRPC command to > LMS. I'd like to add this change to pCP's implementation,

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] ANNOUNCE: piCorePlayer 7.0.0

2021-04-17 Thread Wirrunna
paul- wrote: > I tracked down the dependency issue on the 64bit version. Should be > okay now. You will need to update your package dependencies > > > Code: > > > tce-audit updatedeps > tce-audit fetchmissing > > > Thank you Paul,

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] ANNOUNCE: piCorePlayer 7.0.0

2021-04-13 Thread Wirrunna
paul- wrote: > No I do not, which make software developing even more fun. If it would help, I could send my Boss 2 to Greg Erskine. I waited 3 weeks after ordering before my one arrived, it spent 15 days at Mumbai waiting to be put on a plane to Australia and I have read that things are

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] ANNOUNCE: piCorePlayer 7.0.0

2021-04-13 Thread Wirrunna
paul- wrote: > I know, I was working on it this weekend. My power was out for a few > hours on Sunday, and didn't get to find the library issue on x64 yet. > When I get the opportunity, I'm going to package up application and > automate the install a bit. Thanks for that info Paul. Have

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] ANNOUNCE: piCorePlayer 7.0.0

2021-04-13 Thread Wirrunna
paul- wrote: > You can, but none of the dependencies are met with python2 on pCP. I > just had a conversation with their dev team last week. Python2 is over > a year past EOL, quit using it. They have made the updates for python3. > They are doing a bit more testing before releasing the

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] ANNOUNCE: piCorePlayer 7.0.0

2021-04-10 Thread Wirrunna
paul- wrote: > You can, but none of the dependencies are met with python2 on pCP. I > just had a conversation with their dev team last week. Python2 is over > a year past EOL, quit using it. They have made the updates for python3. > They are doing a bit more testing before releasing the

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] ANNOUNCE: piCorePlayer 7.0.0

2021-04-09 Thread Wirrunna
Next question for my new Allo Boss2, which is now playing beautifully , how do I load pytnon2 ? see -https://audiophilestyle.com/forums/topic/62599-allo-boss2-player-question/?do=findComment=1123725 A camel is a racehorse designed by a committee. Seen sprayed on the outside wall of the

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] ANNOUNCE: piCorePlayer 7.0.0

2021-04-09 Thread Wirrunna
Ronnie, You are a genius - I'd checked ALSAMIXER and it showed 0.00 or 100%, then just to humour you I ran it again and noticed F6 : Select sound card - well, there are 2, the Master and the Digital, so I up-arrowed and we have sound ! Thanks, - stay safe. A camel is a racehorse designed by

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] ANNOUNCE: piCorePlayer 7.0.0

2021-04-08 Thread Wirrunna
Just received an Allo Boss2 player. Put it together with a rPi 4b that I had running with another dac on pCP7. In Squeezelite I selected Boss 2 and was confronted by a whole bunch of configurable options - finally got some sound out with OUTPUT="sysdefault:CARD=Boss2" , but despite having

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] piCorePlayer 7.0.0 - Public Beta

2020-11-12 Thread Wirrunna
carsten_h wrote: > You have to release the four screws on the back to take off the > backplate (if there is any). Then you have to release the two screws of > the hifiberry (or another one) (if there is any). Then you have to open > the plate on the right (seen from behind) above the Pi. Then

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] piCorePlayer 7.0.0 - Public Beta

2020-11-12 Thread Wirrunna
carsten_h wrote: > Because I am using the SmartiPi case, I also wanted to change from > SD-card to USB Stick. > So I used a 8GB USB Stick and flashed the above 64bit image with Pi > imager to the stick. I have one of these cases with a Pi3B and I can't figure out how do dis-assemble it to get

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] piCorePlayer 7.0.0 - Public Beta

2020-11-09 Thread Wirrunna
Well Done piCorePlayer Team, Upgraded 2 RPi 3b players with no problems. Then tried a 3a player with wpa_supplicant.conf but it wouldn't connect to WiFi. Re-flashed the SD card and booted a 3b with the card, set up wifi, put the card back into the 3a and it worked, so continued with the setup.

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] UI frozen on WordClock screensaver - no response to remote control - PCP 6.0

2020-07-14 Thread Wirrunna
gvh, is your Wordclock boring battleship grey or have you coloured the words in ? see https://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?103330-Jivelite-for-piCorePlayer=880726=1#post880726 and if you have trouble with WinSCP see

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Equaliser for LMS on Raspberry Pi

2020-06-25 Thread Wirrunna
rbl, this looks interesting and may be what you are after - https://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?112318-PCP-Parametric-EQ-using-ladspa_dsp I use Inguz on my Vortexbox but would like an alternative. A camel is a racehorse designed by a committee. Seen sprayed on the outside wall

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] ANNOUNCE: piCorePlayer 6.0.0

2020-05-30 Thread Wirrunna
paul- wrote: > There have been some reports about bridge mode not working, but I have > not found the time to investigate. I’ll try to get to it this week Was this resolved ? A camel is a racehorse designed by a committee. Seen sprayed on the outside wall of the local library - Three

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] How to schedule LMS to turn off at night

2020-03-27 Thread Wirrunna
https://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?48521-Announce-Beta-version-of-SvrPowerControl=server+power+control I've used this for years to turn off VortexBox LMS servers - Fedora Linux, I dare say it should be able to work on RPi. Start at the last page of the thread. A camel is a

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] replacement for Vortexbox -suggestions

2019-03-16 Thread Wirrunna
davemal, thank you for the update, I am also having trouble with the new VB release. Do you use MusicIP ? VB's setup scripts make installing Plex, MusicIP etc really simple. JohnB has posted InguzEQ install instructions for Ubuntu that also works with VB. What is the directory structure that

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] replacement for Vortexbox -suggestions

2019-03-06 Thread Wirrunna
There is a new release coming - https://www.vortexbox.org/forum/main-forum/2209-vortexbox-2-5-beta A camel is a racehorse designed by a committee. Seen sprayed on the outside wall of the local library - Three things I hate in life : 1. Vandalism 2. Irony 3. Lists

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] replacement for Vortexbox -suggestions

2019-03-05 Thread Wirrunna
davemal, I share your concern about Vortexbox. It is such a convenient no-frills distro for LMS that I'm sticking with it but keeping an eye out for other platforms. I have updated to Fedora 27 (https://www.vortexbox.org/forum/main-forum/1415-fedora-security-updates-only-on-newer-releases/page3)

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] ANNOUNCE: piCorePlayer 4.0.0

2018-11-25 Thread Wirrunna
kidstypike wrote: > Thanks. > > 5 successful in situ updates to 4.1.0, one auto resized the boot > partition. :) :cool: Skite ! I have only done 4 ! Good one, Team pCP A camel is a racehorse designed by a committee. Seen sprayed on the outside wall of the local library - Three things I

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] ANNOUNCE: piCorePlayer 4.0.0

2018-11-21 Thread Wirrunna
mark wollschlager wrote: > Hi, new user of picoreplayer here. > Using a Pi 2B 7" screen, Hifi Berry Amp2 , mean well 60w power supply. > The interface is nice, and after some poking around got the dac > working. > When I play streaming radio it works ok. > When I tried to play a flac file from

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] ANNOUNCE: piCorePlayer 4.0.0

2018-11-19 Thread Wirrunna
paul- wrote: > Wirrunna, > > Wifi setup is done as described here. > https://www.picoreplayer.org/how_to_setup_wifi_on_pcp_without_ethernet.shtml paul- and huxmut, Just built a brand new out of the box player, 7" official touch screen, RPi3B+ and TeraDak ES9023 an

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] ANNOUNCE: piCorePlayer 4.0.0

2018-11-18 Thread Wirrunna
paul- wrote: > Wirrunna, > > Wifi setup is done as described here. If you want to use a usb > ethernet, it's a bit more involved. > > https://www.picoreplayer.org/how_to_setup_wifi_on_pcp_without_ethernet.shtml Thank you paul-, I have ordered an RPi3A+. A camel is a

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] ANNOUNCE: piCorePlayer 4.0.0

2018-11-18 Thread Wirrunna
Greg Erskine wrote: > I picked up a RPi3A+ at 9:30 this morning. :) > > I have been testing it today with our latest beta, pCP4.0.1-b1. > > Seems to work fine. Initially pCP recognized the RPi as unknown, just > needed a few mods to make pCP recognize it as a RPi3A+. How did you get it

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] PicorePLayer and HiFiBerry DAC+ DSP

2018-11-06 Thread Wirrunna
Just ordered one of these. Anyone tried one yet? A camel is a racehorse designed by a committee. Seen sprayed on the outside wall of the local library - Three things I hate in life : 1. Vandalism 2. Irony 3. Lists

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] ANNOUNCE: piCorePlayer 4.0.0

2018-09-01 Thread Wirrunna
Well done pCP Team. Just in-situ upgraded 5 players (had to pre-upgrade one from pCP 3.02 to 3.5 first). All worked fine. A camel is a racehorse designed by a committee. Seen sprayed on the outside wall of the local library - Three things I hate in life : 1. Vandalism 2. Irony 3. Lists

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] PicorePLayer and HiFiBerry DAC+ DSP

2018-08-30 Thread Wirrunna
I have used Inguz EQ as an LMS plugin for years, but having a DSP function in a RPi player may be simpler. Using REW with a squeezebox to determine Parametric Equaliser Settings (PEQ) is described in this post:

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] BETA: piCorePlayer 4.0.0

2018-08-21 Thread Wirrunna
This time using a Wi-Pi dongle and an Allo Piano DAC 1 on a Pi 2B+ with Official 7" screen and Allo Kali. All good and playing now. A camel is a racehorse designed by a committee. Seen sprayed on the outside wall of the local library - Three things I hate in life : 1. Vandalism 2. Irony 3.

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] BETA: piCorePlayer 4.0.0

2018-08-11 Thread Wirrunna
Title says it all. Worked fine on my other RPi 2b+ from 3.5 to 4 b7. This pCP runs a MamboBerry DAC, just noticed that there are 2 settings to choose for ESS9023 DACs, - Generic/simple ESS9023 DAC and ESS9023 DAC - what is the difference between them ? A camel is a racehorse designed by a

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] BETA: piCorePlayer 4.0.0

2018-08-11 Thread Wirrunna
paul- wrote: > > Please try the latest beta7 > > Changes in Beta7 > > *Fix for wifi cards not being recognized during insitu update, and > correction for certain drivers that are not functioning with the nl80211 > driver > *Fix for Net Mount patterns.specifically nfs. > *Modification for

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] BETA: piCorePlayer 4.0.0

2018-08-06 Thread Wirrunna
paul- wrote: > and what are you selecting in the dropdown box? ess9023 dac A camel is a racehorse designed by a committee. Seen sprayed on the outside wall of the local library - Three things I hate in life : 1. Vandalism 2. Irony 3. Lists

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] BETA: piCorePlayer 4.0.0

2018-08-06 Thread Wirrunna
paul- wrote: > I don't have that card to test.Can you do this for me > > Go to the Diagnostics Page, then select the Sound page. I'm interested > in these sections > > [ INFO ] Current /proc/asound > > total 0 > dr-xr-xr-x5 root root 0 Aug 7 10:02 . >

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] BETA: piCorePlayer 4.0.0

2018-08-06 Thread Wirrunna
Just upgraded from b5 to b6, wifi connected with dongle. WiFi worked but the Audio Output Device Settings for my MamboBerry LS DAC was reset to Analog Audio. A camel is a racehorse designed by a committee. Seen sprayed on the outside wall of the local library - Three things I hate in life :

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] BETA: piCorePlayer 4.0.0

2018-08-02 Thread Wirrunna
Greg and Paul, Just upgraded a second pCP from piCorePlayer 4.0.0-b4 to piCorePlayer 4.0.0-b5 and the SSID stuff all worked. A camel is a racehorse designed by a committee. Seen sprayed on the outside wall of the local library - Three things I hate in life : 1. Vandalism 2. Irony 3. Lists

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] BETA: piCorePlayer 4.0.0

2018-08-02 Thread Wirrunna
Greg, 1. If you could include the paste URL in your post it will make it easier for us to find- not quite sure where that URL comes from, must be from Pastebin, I will look out for it next time. 2. When you first did the 3.5.0 to 4.0.0-b5 upgrade and it didn't connect, did you try multiple

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] BETA: piCorePlayer 4.0.0

2018-08-01 Thread Wirrunna
Just entered the SSID with spaces in manually, then password and it connected, so uploaded EiFi diag page to Pastebin, so that is the 3rd Pastebin upload. The only difference that I could see was PSK Passphrase was populated when I entered the details manually. I saved the 3.5 SD card image so

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] BETA: piCorePlayer 4.0.0

2018-08-01 Thread Wirrunna
paul- wrote: > I posted a B5 imageit should address most of what has been > reported..no other changes. Probably most interested in the 3.5.0 > -> 4.0.0 upgrade with WiFi. The SSID with spaces should transfer > correctly now. Paul and Greg, just tried this new image upgrade from 3.5

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] BETA: piCorePlayer 4.0.0

2018-07-30 Thread Wirrunna
Greg Erskine wrote: > Hi Wirrunna, > > Thanks, that helped track down the issue. > Greg Greg, I look forward to the next beta. I tried to roll back in-situ to 3.5 but couldn't so I will flash an SD card and be ready to roll. A camel is a racehorse designed by a committee.

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] BETA: piCorePlayer 4.0.0

2018-07-29 Thread Wirrunna
Greg, the SSID is Spotty Dogs 5, so no special characters, just a blank between Spotty and Dogs and Dogs and 5. It is a 5GHz network. Two different dongles, both needed to have SSID, password and Country Code entered. Would you like me to go back to 3.5 and run it again and I will take more

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] BETA: piCorePlayer 4.0.0

2018-07-29 Thread Wirrunna
Heads up for wireless in-situ updates - there are extra parameters to be entered requiring a wired connection before the piCorePlayer will connect to the network using the wifi dongle. Apart from that, two upgrades went amazingly smoothly, it also was simpler than the 3.50 upgrade as I didn't

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

2018-06-16 Thread Wirrunna
s25a, have you checked the mp3 file for errors? I had a few mp3 files that would confuse pCp and it turned out they were corrupted, dbPowerAmp wouldn't calculate replay gain as it reported an error in the files. I ended up deleting thme. A camel is a racehorse designed by a committee. Seen

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Perfect music companion for trip to the cabin

2018-06-06 Thread Wirrunna
Howard, did you just follow this - https://www.raspberrypi.org/documentation/configuration/wireless/access-point.md A camel is a racehorse designed by a committee. Seen sprayed on the outside wall of the local library - Three things I hate in life : 1. Vandalism 2. Irony 3. Lists

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Announce: piCorePlayer 3.5.0

2018-05-08 Thread Wirrunna
vlycop wrote: > Do you know if there is a way around for now ? because the tc script > itself don't like special character. Have you got access to the router setup? 'cause if you have, setup a "guest" wifi network without the '&' in the SSID and you can get the piCorePlayer to connect, then

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Announce: piCorePlayer 3.5.0

2018-03-24 Thread Wirrunna
In situ updates to two pCp players on rPi 2B worked perfectly. Thank you pCP Team. A camel is a racehorse designed by a committee. Seen sprayed on the outside wall of the local library - Three things I hate in life : 1. Vandalism 2. Irony 3. Lists

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Does piCorePlayer 3.22 work on the Raspberry Pi 3B+?

2018-03-15 Thread Wirrunna
https://www.raspberrypi.org/blog/raspberry-pi-zero-w-joins-family/ A camel is a racehorse designed by a committee. Seen sprayed on the outside wall of the local library - Three things I hate in life : 1. Vandalism 2. Irony 3. Lists

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Announce piCorePlayer 3.20

2018-03-04 Thread Wirrunna
paul- wrote: > We are all stuck with the Sourceforge issues. I've been working on the > new kernel trees since Christmas, but the kernel was only recently > stable. We have the new version prepared, but have been unable to do > any significant testing. And if we just released as is, you

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Announce piCorePlayer 3.20

2018-02-25 Thread Wirrunna
I have several of these Edimax dongles and had the same problem. I then created a SSID of Spotty Dogs 5 for the 5GHz network and put that name in instead of Spotty Dogs and now my RPi 2 players connect to the 5GHz network. HebrewHammer wrote: > Could someone help me getting the Edimax

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] No sound from Allo Piano 1.1 dac with PiCore player

2018-01-23 Thread Wirrunna
I have one of these earlier Piano DAC and it works fine, I'm away from home and can't access it for a few weeks, but as I recall I used whatever rPi option for the PCM5122 DAC. A camel is a racehorse designed by a committee. Seen sprayed on the outside wall of the local library - Three things

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Announce piCorePlayer 3.20

2017-09-27 Thread Wirrunna
paul- wrote: > I use this module, EDIMAX EW-7811UTC (AC600). The driver is out of > tree, but I compile and include for pCP. > > Take a look at this post for performance > http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?107463-PiCoreplayer-Jivelite-Sound-Issue=890806=1#post890806 > > PS. I

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Announce piCorePlayer 3.20

2017-09-24 Thread Wirrunna
paul- wrote: > I use this module, EDIMAX EW-7811UTC (AC600). The driver is out of > tree, but I compile and include for pCP. > > Take a look at this post for performance > http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?107463-PiCoreplayer-Jivelite-Sound-Issue=890806=1#post890806 Thank you

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Announce piCorePlayer 3.20

2017-09-23 Thread Wirrunna
Greg Erskine wrote: > Hi Wirrunna, > > I use wifi for early all of my updates since the beginning of pCP, > generally not a problem. There was a period where wifi was a bit wobbly > but I think things are good now. > > On the piCorePlayers I use for testing, 3 of 5 are w

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Announce piCorePlayer 3.20

2017-09-23 Thread Wirrunna
Well that was painless. In-situ update from 3.21 to 3.22 on RPi 2 with attached 7" screen and Kali reclocker and ES9023 chinese DAC. Hooked up ethernet for upgrade, then tried with Ratlink WiPi and all connects. Worked fine, had to Update Jivelite and power cycle to get screen working. Thank

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Announce piCorePlayer 3.20

2017-07-20 Thread Wirrunna
paul- wrote: > The pCP team has released a minor update, but has some key new things > that some have really been waiting. Well done pCP team. 3 RPi 2 pCP's updated in-situ from 3.20 to 3.21 Audio. I confirm that Wi-Fi now works for Ratlink WiPi devices on the Audio build - (Ralink Technology,

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Official display not working properly

2017-07-17 Thread Wirrunna
I would check and reseat those pesky ribbon connectors. A camel is a racehorse designed by a committee. Seen sprayed on the outside wall of the local library - Three things I hate in life : 1. Vandalism 2. Irony 3. Lists

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Jivelite for piCorePlayer

2017-07-16 Thread Wirrunna
wtnh wrote: > Hi - I am running pCP 3.2 with Jivelite with the official RPi > touchscreen. I am using the Grid skin at 800 x 480. > > I like to use the album cover view mostly and when I touch a cover, the > album's track list opens up. What I would prefer is for pCP to > immediately start

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Announce piCorePlayer 3.20

2017-05-29 Thread Wirrunna
paul- wrote: > I've never heard of this from a Hifiberry Dac+. (This is my daily > driver dac) The post was referencing the Allo Boss Dac, there was a > driver issue, that was fixed in the final release of pCP. You can try > what ralphy mentioned in the post following the above reference >

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Announce: piCorePlayer 3.20 Beta

2017-04-24 Thread Wirrunna
paul- wrote: > What good does referring someone to a wifi list, when they are trying > to make something work? I don't think there is any such thing as > "proved to work" when it comes to wifi and linux. The point is that if someone really wants to make a pCPlayer wifi then there is a list of

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Announce: piCorePlayer 3.20 Beta

2017-04-24 Thread Wirrunna
paul- wrote: > Works fine here, If I had to guess, there is a channel conflict on your > router. Try changing your channel. pCP Team, WiFi dongle issues are a recurring theme with new releases, probably because of the vast number of dongles available. Listing a "preferred " hardware set is

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Announce: piCorePlayer 3.20 Beta

2017-04-24 Thread Wirrunna
I just did in-situ updates to all 3 of my pCp players. I tried updating to the "audio" on one and while it updated, the Ratlink wifi wouldn't work, so I connected an ethernet cable and updated again - but this time to standard pCp. Working now. RPi 2B, Kali reclocker, I2S generic DAC on 2 pCps

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Announce: piCorePlayer 3.20 Beta

2017-04-20 Thread Wirrunna
paul- wrote: > This is posted for insitu_upgrade. Or burn a 'new image' > (https://sourceforge.net/projects/picoreplayer/files/beta/piCorePlayer3.20beta7/). > > Kernel updated to 4.9.21 > Updated Boss driver, which is supposed to address the clicking between > tracks when rate changes. > >

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Announce: piCorePlayer 3.20 Beta

2017-04-16 Thread Wirrunna
I just did insitu updates to all 3 pCp players. I tried updating to the "audio" on one and while it updated, the Ratlink wifi wouldn't work, so I connected an ethernet cable and updated again - but this time to standard beta 7. Working now. One thing I have noticed on the 3.20 beta is the Harry

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] piCorePlayer - Backup fails

2017-04-11 Thread Wirrunna
Greg Erskine wrote: > Hi Wirrunna, > > The command assumes it can mount the USB flash drive on /mnt/sda1. > > If it will not mount, then probably /mnt/sda1 is used buy some other USB > drive, or the format of the USB flash drive is incompatible? > > regards > Greg

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Jivelite for piCorePlayer

2017-04-10 Thread Wirrunna
Ralphy, Some time ago Arie posted the Word Clock screensaver and details of how to replace the gray words with coloured ones - http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?103330-Jivelite-for-piCorePlayer=859683=1#post859683 . The "word" files are .png with a transparent surround, and the

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] piCorePlayer - Backup fails

2017-04-10 Thread Wirrunna
Greg, I also tried from the How To - Second method for setting up a Raspberry A+ Burn the piCorePlayer image on your SD-card Keep you SD-card in your computer, open it via filemanager. Download the newconfig.cfg file from HERE Edit the first section of newconfig.cfg file so it fits your

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] piCorePlayer - Backup fails

2017-04-10 Thread Wirrunna
Greg Erskine wrote: > Hi Wirrunna, > > This seems to work OK for me. > > There could be an issue if you have more than one USB media device! > > Does yours mount as sda1? > > regards > Greg Greg, Thank you for the reply, you explained how to do this once

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] piCorePlayer - Backup fails

2017-04-10 Thread Wirrunna
th00ht wrote: > > Clicking Save to USB results in > > Code: > > piCorePlayer > > [ INFO ] Mounting /mnt/sda1... > > [ ERROR ] /mnt/sda1 has NOT mounted. > > [ ERROR ] Insert USB stick and try again. > > > > Clicking Backup gives

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Announce: piCorePlayer 3.20 Beta

2017-04-09 Thread Wirrunna
Beta 6 Audio - dmesg: [2.566858] usb 1-1.2: New USB device found, idVendor=148f, idProduct=5370 [2.566878] usb 1-1.2: New USB device strings: Mfr=1, Product=2, SerialNumber=3 [2.566890] usb 1-1.2: Product: 802.11 n WLAN [2.566902] usb 1-1.2: Manufacturer: Ralink [2.566914] usb

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Announce: piCorePlayer 3.20 Beta

2017-04-09 Thread Wirrunna
paul- wrote: > What do you mean still? Nobody has reported a USB sound issue. Please > post diagnostics? I meant that the Ralink USB wi-fi device is not found in the beta 6 audio version but works fine in the "standard" version. paul- wrote: > > **Please note: This version is only

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Announce: piCorePlayer 3.20 Beta

2017-04-09 Thread Wirrunna
paul- wrote: > So all of you Ralink folks don't miss out, I've fixed that problem. > > https://sourceforge.net/projects/picoreplayer/files/beta/piCorePlayer3.20beta6/ > > There is no reason for anyone else to upgrade, as the only real fix is > for Ralink. I've tested with > > > Code:

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Announce: piCorePlayer 3.20 Beta

2017-04-07 Thread Wirrunna
paul- wrote: > Thanks for the info, something in 4.9 broke ralink based chips. We were > able to confirm this on our end. Quick testing show they work in > raspbian, so its a configuration issue that we never had to worry about > before. All of my pCps use Ratlink Wi-Pi dongles - [

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Jivelite for piCorePlayer

2017-03-04 Thread Wirrunna
crystalgipsy wrote: > Ah thats it. I had to save the picoreplayer settings too to make it > stick. Yes, and thanks to some gee-whizery by Michael and Ralphy the settings survive Jivelite updates so you only have to set them once! A camel is a racehorse designed by a committee. Seen sprayed

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Jivelite for piCorePlayer

2017-02-13 Thread Wirrunna
Ralphy, the beta package is ready for "prime time". Thank you for all your work with this. A camel is a racehorse designed by a committee. Seen sprayed on the outside wall of the local library - Three things I hate in life : 1. Vandalism 2. Irony 3. Lists

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Vortexbox - Forum down for weeks - gone ?

2017-02-09 Thread Wirrunna
Thank you Grumpy Bob, I should have searched a bit harder. A camel is a racehorse designed by a committee. Seen sprayed on the outside wall of the local library - Three things I hate in life : 1. Vandalism 2. Irony 3. Lists

[SlimDevices: Unix] Vortexbox - Forum down for weeks - gone ?

2017-02-09 Thread Wirrunna
The Vortexbox Forum has been down for a few weeks now, are they gone for good ? (http://vortexbox.org/) Vortexbox is a Fedora based distro that lets a Linux newby build a headless LMS server that just works. A camel is a racehorse designed by a committee. Seen sprayed on the outside wall of

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Jivelite for piCorePlayer

2017-02-08 Thread Wirrunna
mherger wrote: > > In what folder is the .png file for the "back" icon that is now just > a > > white arrow. I would like to try it as totally transparent. > > It's not a single file, but a bunch of files for corners, sides, fill: > >

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Jivelite for piCorePlayer

2017-02-01 Thread Wirrunna
ralphy wrote: > I've uploaded jivelite.tcz (md5sum 2c8bede394275e35b551c86ba58ff2d3) to > the pcp beta files area. > > See my previous post(s) for install details. - http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?103330-Jivelite-for-piCorePlayer=874620=1#post874620 - install details Thank you

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Jivelite for piCorePlayer

2017-01-30 Thread Wirrunna
tc@pCp213-Kali-Mambo:~$ cd /tmp tc@pCp213-Kali-Mambo:/tmp$ vi jive.diff tc@pCp213-Kali-Mambo:/tmp$ cd /opt/jivelite/ tc@pCp213-Kali-Mambo:/opt/jivelite$ cp -LR share/ /tmp tc@pCp213-Kali-Mambo:/opt/jivelite$ sudo mv share/ oldshare tc@pCp213-Kali-Mambo:/opt/jivelite$ sudo ln -s /tmp/share share

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Jivelite for piCorePlayer

2017-01-29 Thread Wirrunna
mherger wrote: > Or what about removing the button's background? Depending on the cover > art the button won't be obvious. But as it's in its usual place, you > should quickly figure it out. Yes, that looks like it would work. A Kindle doesn't have icons, rather they define areas of the

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Jivelite for piCorePlayer

2017-01-28 Thread Wirrunna
Greg Erskine wrote: > Great "now Playing" screen. > > One question though, is the touch area to change to the next "Now > Playing" screen in the correct place. It seems to be only active to the > right of the text, rather than the middle of the screen. > > BTW: I haven't updated LMS yet, in

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Jivelite for piCorePlayer

2017-01-28 Thread Wirrunna
mherger wrote: > > > Again: I'm pretty new to this. And even getting the buttons to work on > top of the artwork made me scratch my head. I tend to believe that there > > is a bug in the underlying code which would not respect the z-order when > > touching UI elements. Eg. even if a button

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Jivelite for piCorePlayer

2017-01-28 Thread Wirrunna
ralphy wrote: > I've updated the beta package to include the new large artwork now > playing screen. > The volume down button is now the same size as the reset on the original > now playing screen > Jivelite will now use LMS for image resizing if you're running 7.9 > You should also update LMS

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Jivelite for piCorePlayer

2017-01-27 Thread Wirrunna
stereoptic wrote: > I don't see the skip backward "<<" button. Also, if the volume has been > set for 100%, can the volume up and down buttons be removed? You don't really need either the "<<" or ">>" as the little blue spot on the bar showing the position of the time to play / played is

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Jivelite for piCorePlayer

2017-01-15 Thread Wirrunna
mherger wrote: > > In my naivety I thought that the icons would be defined like those > for > > the word clock - > > It's the same indeed. But as I said, some images are coming from the > server. In that case you'd have to replace those on the server as well. > > Put the files in >

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Jivelite for piCorePlayer

2017-01-15 Thread Wirrunna
mherger wrote: > > Agree that this is easier for navigation. Haven't tried all of them, > but > > the few I tried worked fine. Now, how do we colour the icons in > > Which icons you want to color? Most (but not all...) of the main menu's > > icons are part of the skin, some come from LMS...

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Jivelite for piCorePlayer

2017-01-14 Thread Wirrunna
ralphy wrote: > I've uploaded the tcz to the pcp beta files area. > > > NB: You must already have jivelite enabled for this to work. After selecting the Grid Screen instead of the Joggler skin I got the icons. Agree that this is easier for navigation. Haven't tried all of them, but the few

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Announce: piCorePlayer 3.10

2017-01-09 Thread Wirrunna
Greg Erskine wrote: > Hi Wirrunna, > > I don't think you need Samba or the USB stick. From this version, you > can set a switch to use 100% RAM (for piCorePlayer not LMS). You can > actually remove the SD card and it will happily continue playing. > Rebooting may be an issue

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Announce: piCorePlayer 3.10

2017-01-09 Thread Wirrunna
sbp wrote: > Thanks for sharing your idea. > We might be able to make it possible to "always" force an update of pCP > with a new version, but at times with major changes you might loose your > settings. Off course these can always be changed afterwards using the > web-pages. > > Let us

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Announce: piCorePlayer 3.10

2017-01-07 Thread Wirrunna
paul- wrote: > What we can detect is in sections.like wifi stick is in the wifi > diagnostics. The rest of the stuff is in the diagnostics screen off of > the main page. > > As far as I know, I2s devices are not detectable. Thanks paul, now, is the little yellow lightning bolt that shows

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Announce: piCorePlayer 3.10

2017-01-07 Thread Wirrunna
The team Paul, Greg, Ralphy and Steen , Downloaded, installed and going. Thank you all. The longest part of the install for me was getting the Word Clock screensaver coloured in. http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?103330-Jivelite-for-piCorePlayer=859683=1#post859683 , took me a while

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Fedora LMS RPM packages, call for testers...

2016-12-09 Thread Wirrunna
When I putty into my Vortexbox and run sc-cleanUpdate I get all the latest linux stuff but LMS hasn't been updated since late October. Not the end of the world, just observing. I loaded the latest nightly manually but typing sc-cleanUpdate is simpler. A camel is a racehorse designed by a

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Allo KALI Reclocker & Raspberry Pi DACs running as Slave or Master?

2016-11-18 Thread Wirrunna
JackOfAll wrote: > > Are you familiar with the 'iFi iPower' > (http://ifi-audio.com/portfolio-view/accessory-ipower) supply? Are you > willing to take a punt on spending 50 quid on a wall wart? Several of > the a'phool types like using it. Yeah, I know what you are thinking > 50 notes for a

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Announce: piCorePlayer 3.00

2016-11-16 Thread Wirrunna
Slackhead, first thing I would do is make sure that the ribbon cables from the screen to the RPi are attached properly, especially the one that loops over the micro sd card as it gets disturbed when you change the card, unless, of course, you have tiny fingers and three hands and are therefore

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] PiCorePlayer not playing mp3

2016-11-13 Thread Wirrunna
I run LMS 7.9, from here http://downloads.slimdevices.com/nightly/?ver=7.9 . Depends what you are running LMS on, but 7.9 has some good additions such as Don't Stop the Music. Here are the settings for my rPi player +---+

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