Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Community Squeeze OS R3

2013-04-30 Thread Stoker
Hi all The quick start guide has been updated to add a section on configuring the wireless network. The guide is on the Website here: http://www.communitysqueeze.org/ I won't be making pdf's available anymore, the website is definitive!

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

2013-04-30 Thread SBGK
Hi Triode, Is compiling Portadio for windows a straight forward process, did you have to do anything specific to get it to work with squeezelite ? Tried compiling it with vs2012, but there are sonme changes to the directx sdk from 2010, so needs some work to resolve. Cheers

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Community Squeeze OS R3

2013-04-30 Thread Chunkywizard
Hi there, been playing around with my wandboard and I seem to have got it in a right state. I enabled the wireless interface without having the antenna connected (stupid I know) and now I can't connect to the board. Is there an easy way to default back to ethernet without wiping the SD card and

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Community Squeeze OS R3

2013-04-30 Thread bakker_be
Chunkywizard wrote: Hi there, been playing around with my wandboard and I seem to have got it in a right state. I enabled the wireless interface without having the antenna connected (stupid I know) and now I can't connect to the board. Is there an easy way to default back to ethernet

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Community Squeeze OS R3

2013-04-30 Thread Chunkywizard
no, I can't :-S I checked my router and I see the Wandboard at 192.168.1.85 but if I look at 192.168.1.85:8080 or :9000 I just get a time out. I have power cycled the board also, but nothing. CW Chunkywizard's Profile:

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Community Squeeze OS R3

2013-04-30 Thread Pascal Hibon
Chunkywizard wrote: no, I can't :-S I checked my router and I see the Wandboard at 192.168.1.85 but if I look at 192.168.1.85:8080 or :9000 I just get a time out. I have power cycled the board also, but nothing. CW There must be something else wrong. Can you SSH into the wandboard (using

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Community Squeeze OS R3

2013-04-30 Thread Chunkywizard
PuTTY times out as well :-S Any other ideas before I wipe the card? I guess this might point to a issue on the setup for wireless. If there is any more information that is useful to diagnose please let me know. CW

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Community Squeeze OS R3

2013-04-30 Thread bpa
The serial port is live and allows you login if yo8 have a serail port on PC or a USB -serial adaptor but you will need a null modem (crossover) cable bpa's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1806

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Community Squeeze OS R3

2013-04-30 Thread Chunkywizard
Thanks bpa. I've got a crossover cable at work, but not here, I'll make sure I pick one up next time I'm in! O.k., time to wipe the card and start again... CW Chunkywizard's Profile:

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Community Squeeze OS R3

2013-04-30 Thread Pascal Hibon
Yes, the serial port is available and you can also run the ifconfig command. The serial port is configured at 115200 baud, 8 bits, no parity. For debugging there is no better thing than the serial por :-) But if you don't have a serial cable then you could try to connect an Ethernet cable and

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Community Squeeze OS R3

2013-04-30 Thread Chunkywizard
there's no reason, but it is ;-D as I said the Wandboard is shown by my router, but even after multiple reboots I can't connect PuTTY or on port 8080 or 9000. Just reimaging now. Thanks for everyones help, I shall be more careful this time CW

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Community Squeeze OS R3

2013-04-30 Thread bpa
Pascal Hibon wrote: For debugging there is no better thing than the serial por :-) Also the serial port is where all the boot messages appear in case trying out a new kernel. bpa's Profile:

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

2013-04-30 Thread slackhead
Triode, I've succesfully installed Jivelite on my Raspberry Pi on top of a SqueezePlug install following your instructions in post #3 and it appears to work very well indeed [except for the high CPU use on the Now Playing screen]. It's really quite impressive! My intention is to be able to run

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Community Squeeze OS R3

2013-04-30 Thread jimbobvfr400
Just a tip if you're fiddling. Win32discimager if that's what you're using to write the img to the card can also create an img file from your card as a backup. Good to have a backup after you do the initial setup. Sent from my HTC Vision using Tapatalk 2

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Community Squeeze OS R3

2013-04-30 Thread JackOfAll
'Which external DAC's have been tested with the Wandboard?' (http://www.communitysqueeze.org/faq.jsp#Which_external_DAC_s_have_been_tested_with_the_Wandboard.3F) I think I got every DAC that has been posted so far into the FAQ. Anyone who posted a DAC I have not listed, holler! Anyone using a

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Community Squeeze OS R3

2013-04-30 Thread JackOfAll
Chunkywizard wrote: no, I can't :-S I checked my router and I see the Wandboard at 192.168.1.85 but if I look at 192.168.1.85:8080 or :9000 I just get a time out. I have power cycled the board also, but nothing. There may be something to this that requires further investigation. ISTR, that

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Community Squeeze OS R3

2013-04-30 Thread Chunkywizard
Hi Clive my router is a Technicolor TG582n. its the standard plus.net router. I thought it would be rubbish but it seems to do a good job most of the time. After I have taken a backup image of a known good setup I'll try and replicate. Also I'll grab a null modem cable so I can see if I can gain

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Community Squeeze OS R3

2013-04-30 Thread JackOfAll
Chunkywizard wrote: my router is a Technicolor TG582n. its the standard plus.net router. I thought it would be rubbish but it seems to do a good job most of the time. After I have taken a backup image of a known good setup I'll try and replicate. Also I'll grab a null modem cable so I can

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Community Squeeze OS R3

2013-04-30 Thread albertone74
JackOfAll wrote: There may be something to this that requires further investigation. ISTR, that someone posted about a similar problem before. (Might have been Erland. My memory is a bit fuzzy. But we never got to the bottom of it.) Something to do with the router was allocating the same IP

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Community Squeeze OS R3

2013-04-30 Thread Pascal Hibon
JackOfAll wrote: There may be something to this that requires further investigation. ISTR, that someone posted about a similar problem before. (Might have been Erland. My memory is a bit fuzzy. But we never got to the bottom of it.) Something to do with the router was allocating the same IP

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

2013-04-30 Thread albertone74
Triode wrote: Interested in feedback on what a grid view could look like - here's an examplealbum view display. Is this a interesting way 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

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Community Squeeze OS R3

2013-04-30 Thread JackOfAll
Pascal Hibon wrote: DHCP always works with MAC addresses; that is how this protocol is built. Plenty of routers out there that can be configured to ignore the client MAC and allocate an IP based on Client ID. I can't be the only person who does this. Two dhcp clients send the same Client ID

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Community Squeeze OS R3

2013-04-30 Thread Pascal Hibon
JackOfAll wrote: Plenty of routers out there that can be configured to ignore the client MAC and allocate an IP based on Client ID. I can't be the only person who does this. Two dhcp clients send the same Client ID and the router is configured to allocate a specific IP to that Client ID,

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

2013-04-30 Thread slackhead
slackhead wrote: Triode, I've succesfully installed Jivelite on my Raspberry Pi on top of a SqueezePlug install following your instructions in post #3 and it appears to work very well indeed [except for the high CPU use on the Now Playing screen]. It's really quite impressive! My

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Community Squeeze OS R3

2013-04-30 Thread JackOfAll
Pascal Hibon wrote: An well implemented DCHP server does not use thing like client iD's. A good DHCP server must be compliant with RFC 2131. http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2131.txt. Pascal, I'm not picking a fight with you, but rfc2131 specifically permits client identifiers (Client ID) to

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Community Squeeze OS R3

2013-04-30 Thread JackOfAll
Pascal Hibon wrote: By client name you probably mean host name right? You can indeed assign host names to nodes, which are easier to remember than Mac addresses. My understanding A client identifier can be anything at all. It doesn't have to be the host name. Just a unique identifier.

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Community Squeeze OS R3

2013-04-30 Thread Pascal Hibon
JackOfAll wrote: Pascal, I'm not picking a fight with you, but rfc2131 specifically permits client identifiers (Client ID) to be used. It's part of the spec. Code: The combination of 'client identifier' or 'chaddr' and assigned network address constitute

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Community Squeeze OS R3

2013-04-30 Thread JackOfAll
Chunkywizard wrote: I used the reboot option in the UI, after it rebooted then I couldn't connect, just like before. You say, after it rebooted... How do you know it had rebooted? You did not have a serial console connected. So how do you know? I can see that it didn't come back up, but

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Community Squeeze OS R3

2013-04-30 Thread JackOfAll
Pascal Hibon wrote: This so called client I'd is probably a host name but I have never seen that being used when using network monitors. Network monitors... I know Wireshark shows a client sending Option 61 (client identifier) when requesting dhcp if you look at the bootp params. (A few