M-H made very good points.
I wouldn't recommend pCP be used as a connection point to the internet.
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klimmeru wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I tried to use the setup script for setting up Wifi. But it does not
> allow the full possible length of a Wifi password to be entered.
>
> See part of the setup script below: It is limited to 40 chars. SSID
> should be 32 long. Key 64.
>
> I don't know if the set
Do you have multiple LMS's?
If you can play music it is already connected to LMS, so why try to
reconnect?
Are you swapping from wired to wifi?
As it only takes a couple of minutes to make a new SD card I'd start
fresh.
hi DLloyd,
Paul is right on top of the RPi firmware I won't worry too much about
it, unless you just want to do it!
It's best to have pCP in your topic so we will look at your thread. I
only opened it because I saw your post on the Tiny Core Forum.
The piCore in piCorePlayer is different from
piCorePlayer only supports the official 7" screen.
All the other distributions are probably Raspbian based.
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Probably better to use the wifi page on the web interface. It is more
up-to-date.
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As it only takes 10 seconds to burn a new image, start with a fresh
image.
You are probably going round in circles.
It is not normal for pCP to suddenly stop working!
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hi Redrum,
The timezone gets set automatically and saved when you boot, but it must
have a network and internet access. Once set, it will not check again. I
can't see how it could corrupted once set.
Similarly, ntp sets the time, but it also needs internet access.
We seem to be getting a lot o
Redrum wrote:
>
> So, if PcP boots, and timezone was set previously, does it leave it
> alone?
Yes. Once set, it never gets touched again.
> Because, what I am seeing is that time is fine before power failure,
> then on reboot (with no internet access at the time) it gets messed up.
> Then w
Run51 wrote:
> hello
>
> i try to set 1280*800 hdmi screen with picore 6 on my rpi py
>
> jivelite installed. i have selected 1280*800 skin. Display is ok.
>
> the problem concerns the touch. it is not aligned with my finger. I
> believe it is not calibrated for 1280 * 800.
>
> I also have th
hi Redrum,
You should upgrade to the latest pCP a lot has changed from pCP 4.1. I
think Paul did put some checks re: LMS and setting the time recently.
I can't see why you should be resetting settings. It should really just
be a matter of booting things in the right order.
Are you using a self
I was thinking you might be better to start your own thread.
The people that could help maybe aren't following this generic jivelite
thread.
You really need to catch the attention of a user that has all ready done
this!
hi peterw,
Two thing come to mind.
LMS remembers squeezlite instances according to MAC address and it will
forget old ones after a while. So you will get 2 instances of the same
player occurring for a short period.
Jivelite needed to be setup on the correct network interface. So
hopefully all
This Raspbian based solutions assume you have python installed.
piCorePlayer doesn't have python or the required python modules loaded.
Python is actually bigger than the whole of piCorePlayer.
piCorePlayer does have microPython loaded, but I don't know if the
required microPython module is ava
Where did BLUE_GLOW_VU meter .tcz come from?
Who is the author?
It shouldn't be a problem given the authors OK.
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hi Howard Passman,
Thanks to Ralphy, the VU_Meter_Blue_Glow.tcz and the additional
management files have been uploaded to the pCP repositories.
regards
Greg
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marakasmalan wrote:
> OK, so I started afresh. Seems the problem was, prior to installing LMS
> and/or the "Install additional File Systems", I installed ntfs-3g.tcz
> via the "Extensions" button from the main page. This created a problem.
> This time round I used the "Install additional File Sy
peterw wrote:
> I just wanted to say thanks to the pCP crew for adding the Security page
> to the Beta web UI for 6.0! I do hope you'll promote that to the
> mainstream admin UI, although I suggest you consider a few tweaks:
> 1) add a Password Confirmation input on the httpd settings page
> 2)
The Players Tabs are generated thru squeezelite, so turn off squeezelite
the tabs will disappear. This was written before we had LMS running on
pCP. Also, if you mix really old versions of pCP you may get and
incomplete number of tabs.
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piCore is a little different from normal Linux distributions. It is
"installed" fresh every time you boot from static readonly extensions.
The backup only contains the dynamic files, such as configuration files
and your home directory. This backup is loaded over the top of your
fresh piCore insta
It wasn't clear to me if you are using piCorePlayer's [ Tweaks ] >
Wake-on-LAN (WOL) to setup WOL. I am not familar with Jivelite's WOL.
Are you getting a message "Sending WOL magic packet" in the Boot log? [
Main page ] > [ Diagnostics ] > [ Logs ] select Boot.
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SteveLazer wrote:
> Hi wonderful PCP developers! Can't wait to update to 6.0. Unfortunately,
> my PCP player is hung up trying to download 6.0 updates.
>
> Plus downloads with a PC from
> https://www.picoreplayer.org/main_downloads.shtml also fail.
>
> FYI my internet is working fine otherwise
I added WOL in piCorePlayer and I was unaware of WOL in Jivelite, so
there is no connection between the too software wise.
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VMat wrote:
> I had the impression that the options in Jivelite were just an
> accessible UI to configure the piCorePlayer WOL without having to access
> the pCP web interface. :confused:
>
> VMat
You are right! I don't do any of the Jivelite programing and wasn't
aware that someone had added
newgrange28 wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> Just set up a brand-new 4Gig rPi4 (my first) with pcp 6 over the weekend
> and so far I'm loving it. But ...
>
> I'm choking on 24/96 files; it will play for a few seconds and then go
> silent for 30 seconds or so, then play for maybe 30 seconds or so and go
>
Cut-Throat wrote:
> I recently got a RPi 4 and am running LMS on it. I checked the CPU
> Temperature Graph and the Time is reading about 5 hours ahead of my Time
> which is Central Daylight Time (Chicago).. I went into Tweaks and
> deleted the time zone parameters and saved and re-booted. While
Radu wrote:
> P.S: this is my 1st time writing on a forum, please accept my apologies
> for my low etiquette here ...since I'm not sure 100% what am I doing...
Hi Radu,
Welcome.
Do did a great job. Problem solved with minimal effort all round.
regads
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mooblie wrote:
> I have tried re-installing the Waveshare drivers from github (by adding
> "git" command to TinyCoreLinux) but I'm getting out of my depth and not
> achieving any progress. Any ideas?
Hi mooblie,
The scripts from Waveshare (and the various OEM versions) assume you are
using a
Man in a van wrote:
> usb hard drive booted on rpi4 this afternoon, seems to be be working ok
> :p
>
> ronnie
More info
https://www.raspberrypi.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=63&t=274595&sid=05bfd24c66e0458db63482ae20121427
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Here's how to use winSCP with root access.
Code:
Click [New Session] tab
Select Site
Click [Edit]
Click [Advanced Site Settings]
Select Environment > SCP/Shell
Edit Shell: sudo -s
Click [OK]
Click [Save]
Click [Login]
There is no r
You missed my warning about those scripts.
We don't install bash.
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Type "sudo -s" not "sudo su -s".
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20 years later!
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I think IR works via squeezelite or jivelite not directly with LMS.
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Thanks Engel for posting such a detailed post of your DSP work. It
should help others.
I'll leave it to the other pCP team members to get it into the pCP
repositories. There does need to be a info file for each extension in
the repositories.
I am unaware of any settings.
Weird, if there was a general problem with the official Raspberry Pi
screen we would have heard about it by now.
What screen is it?
Is the screen upside down?
Are you wearing polarised glasses?
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People are already running multiple squeezelites on pCP.
They either make a simple startup script or add a User command on the
[Tweaks] page.
On the [Squeezelite Settings] page, we added a "Squeezelite command
string" help button that shows the command that needs to be cut and
pasted into a scr
Do you have more than one LMS?
I am looking another issue where LMSIP is set to the local LMS IP but
squeezelite is connected to a remote LMS IP.
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Paul Webster wrote:
> Only one LMS.
> Running the command (look for ESTABLISHED) by hand shows the same IP
> address twice.
What does this return?
Code:
netstat -nt 2>&1 | grep :3483 | grep ESTABLISHED | uniq -f 4 | awk '{
print $5 }' | grep :3483 | awk -F: '{ print
carsten_h wrote:
> No, I have only one.
Good, that simplifies things a lot.
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By chance, does typing $ pcp d0 do anything? (debug off)
I had different but similar messages and this fixed it on the pCP I am
working on. I often turn debug on in a script when testing and
occassionally it gets into production by error.
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Where do these other processes come from?
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Thanks Paul,
That bit of code was written way before we had LMS running on pCP. Lucky
it sort of works and no one noticed for years. :)
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What software did you load on your PC and mobile devices? You need some
version of squeezelite or squeezeplay.
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hi CatBus
I use a JustBoom DAC all the time, so I know it works.
1. Fresh Sd card
2. Select JustBoom DAC/AMP (and Zero/AMP)
3. Press Save.
4. Reboot.
It should be a really simple process.
If you are still having a problem, try without 7" screen.
regards
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wtnh wrote:
> Reflashing solved the problem. I was avoiding it since getting to the SD
> card on the pi required a complete tear-down of my player. I did not
> exactly design it for serviceability ;).
>
> Since this was the first time I had to reflash in over 2 years, it's all
> for the best!
>
gustavm wrote:
> Actually now I have it working, but the "tweaks" settings were not as I
> expected. The working settings are:
>
> I probably misinterpreted the "pull Up/pull down" - had initially set it
> to "up". Its not entirely obvious to me that pull up & pull down are
> orthogonal command
Is sshd running?
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Is pCP actually booting up?
Are you getting messages on the 7" screen?
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pavowren wrote:
> i'm assuming it boots up since it gets an ip address assigned by the
> router dhcp.
> unfortunately i do not have a micro-hdmi adapter yet, so i can't see
> what's going on.
> yup, this is a very strange behavior...
>
> hopefully, soon i will be able to hook up keyboard and di
NTP not setting the time is usually an indication of a network issue, no
internet access or a slow network device.
Is that normal on your network?
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mr-b wrote:
> I don't think so - everything else inc my other PCP seems to be running
> fine, inc time-wise.
> The ntpdate cmd doesn't work on either box though.
>
>
> tc@PCP-LMS:~$ date
> Sun Jun 21 22:10:19 BST 2020
>
> vs
>
> tc@piCorePlayer:~$ date
> Fri Jan 2 06:49:50 GMT 1970
ntp is
Ronnie, you have a network issue. Note "No network found! Done (52)."
Bad network cable?
During the boot process if there is access to the internet and the
timezone is blank it will be automatically filled.
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Hi guys,
I guess I am assuming my network is "typical".
On my network, ethernet connection takes only a few seconds. They always
connect.
Waiting for network. Done (5).
Waiting for network.. Done (14).
wifi is a little slower but it is normally connected before the network
conn
mr-b wrote:
> snip
> Waiting for network.. Done (14).
> [snip]
>
> (It'd be handy to view this in the UI.)
14 looks normal to *me*. Most of my experience is based on a very old
wifi router which I *assumed* would be slower than modern wifi routers.
As mentioned by Paul Web
I was wondering... because I live in a 1 person household I am never
competing with others for bandwidth. So I get reliable and consistent
results.
Could it be living in a *normal* household of 4 or 5 people, DHCP
performance can vary?
-
Do you see something like this on the screen?
Code:
Finished piCorePlayer v6.0.0 startup.
To setup piCorePlayer, use the web interface via a browser:
- http://192.168.1.105
Press [Enter] to access console.
In the background, ntpd is syncing time between
I think you need to redirect the output to a file (if it generates
any).
Name the file something like pcp_blah_blah.log in /var/log and it will
display in [Diagnostics] > [Logs] as "blah blah".
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hi psychokiller,
Unfortunately I don't have USB DACs other than a $5 USB Headphone amp,
so my experience is limited to that.
Code:
$ alsamixer
$ sudo alsactl store
# Check ALSAlevelout="Custom" has been set in your pcp.cfg file.
$ grep ALSAlevelout < /usr/loca
1) To a backup to save settings, either in Jivelite, [Backup] on web
interface or $pcp bu
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I use "sudo -s" in winSCP if I require root access.
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pCP runs this:
iperf3 -c $IP3_IP -p $IPERF_SERVER_PORT -V $UDP -b 300M $DURATION $REV
where $DURATION = -t 21 -O 1
so it has the "-b 300M" option and discards the first 1 second of data
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Dunno :confused:
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Hey 58diggledude,
Have you tried the LMS shairport plugin? We usually recommend using
that over shairport-sync on pCP.
pCP config file is pcp.cfg
In the long run it is best to create you own extensions which piCore
loop mounts at boot. If you create individuals files you need to make
sure you
Hi garym999,
Can you please confirm that the "Waveshare 4.3inch DSI LCD" fully works
on pCP with NO extra setup?
Does touch work with NO extra setup?
Is it fully compatible with the "RPi Official 7" screen" (except for
size)?
regards
Greg
garym999 wrote:
> Hi Greg
>
> Yes, Im not sure about compatibility but the only screen related thing
> I had to do was spin the screen 180 in Jivelite to support the
> touchscreen. It worked out of the box. It is now got me thinking of
> other projects as it leaves all the IO pins free. At the
mr-b wrote:
> Another page I'd completely missed!
>
> Erm but I think something's wrong with this picture.
>
> Hmm, sorry for the blow-up pic, no idea why it's gone huge.
>
Hi mr-b,
Sorry, just test data to test the plotting code. I thought a CPU temp
going from 100 degrees to 0 degrees wou
hi Tony T,
The time not getting set is usually an indication of a slow network or
slow DCHP server. pCP sets the time from a NTP server on the Internet.
regards
Greg
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mr-b wrote:
> Yes I've added a cron job a while back, but only after installing 6.1.0
> and some investigations on weird LMS behaviour (I thought it might be
> the 8.0 beta) that eventally led to time sync being the smoking gun, and
> then seeing others reporting it too - hence my suggestion for
A couple of things that I tried before but have just confirmed.
You can't set date quite to epoch, 1970-01-03 is OK. If you try to set
the earliest date in epoch seconds, you will find it actually changes.
When running ntpd as a daemon, it will only adjust time from a large
delta once. So if yo
Howard Passman wrote:
> Is a way to set up piCorePlayer to switch between available networks
> without using the UI? I'd like to use one pCP 'player' on two distinct
> networks in two distinct locations.
>
> can wpa_supplicant be modifed to include
> ctrl_interface=DIR=/var/run/wpa_supplicant
I've been using 2 RPi4B's since their release, can't remember one
occasion when the date wasn't set. So we need to find what's out the
different with your RPi4B.
If you reboot, and the problem is still there, the cron job will only
fix the problem once it runs.
Did you try running ntpd as a dae
Thanks Paul, 2 to 4 seconds.
Has anyone tried adding "/usr/sbin/ntpd -p pool.ntp.org" to a User
command?
This adds a ntpd daemon but as I don't have an issue I haven't proved it
works.
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hi dborn,
Set the player name and hostname from the pCP web interface, steps 8 and
9 in these instructions:
https://www.picoreplayer.org/main_getting_started.shtml
regards
Greg
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Hi mll,
I think, if you are using a RPi4 then you need to change the 4th option
in "ALSA setting" from a 1 to a 0.
This turn mmap off.
Hope that fixes the problem.
regards
Greg
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hi mr-b,
Yes it is that easy.
To summarize.
1. Run ntpd once at boot.
This assumes that there is a working network that can access a time
server on the internet.
This is how TinyCore/piCore/piCorePlayer works by default. This works
fine 99% of the time.
Possible issues:
- time drifts of a
hi Howard Passman,
I am not sure I follow your requirement exactly. :confused:
When pCP boots and squeezelite starts, squeezelite looks for LMS on the
network. It connects to the first one it finds. If you have multiple LMS
then you can use to Squeezelite settings > LMS IP to force it to connec
Did you try another USB cable?
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Hi,
I had a quick look at my RPi3B and it has been working fine on pCP6.1.0
31116
Can you guys confirm the revision number?
Mine is: a22082
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tannaroo wrote:
> I have a pizero-w running picoreplayer 6.0.0 which has been fine.
>
> I recently bought a Pluagble USB to Ethernet adaptor. I plugged it into
> my pizerow running picoreplayer but the ethernet adaptor has not been
> recognised.
>
> I understand that the Plugable USB to Ethern
tannaroo wrote:
> Ok I set that up and rebooted but still its not being recognised. When I
> go to the settings page, static IP, the eth0 tab is not showing.
Can you look at dmesg to see if the hardware is being recognised?
[Main page] > [Diagnostics] > [Logs] >select "dmesg" > [Show]
Check t
I just downloaded pCP6.1.0 and loaded onto my RPi3B. Worked as expected.
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n in a van RPi3Ba02082 Fail
Greg Erskine RPi3Ba22082 OK
Paul- RPi3B?OK
GrumpyBob 1.2 RPi3B?OK
GrumpyBob 1.3 RPi3Ba22083 OK
re
Could it be wifi vs ethernet on the RPi3B rather than revision?
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hi mr-b,
If you feel pCP is getting in the way of LMS, just dump pCP and install
LMS directly on another OS like you used to do. Removing one layer that
is not really required, may make things easier to manage in your case.
regards
Greg
hi sakos,
In pCP 6.0.0 the web interface was moved from /home/tc/www/ to /var/www/
and some of the scripts had to move as well. These means some older
documentation will be out of date.
As you found out, because pCP is mainly RAM based, you need to backup
changes to make them persistent.
regar
Man in a van wrote:
> @SCIURIUS
>
> I have just tried the image I used previously, with the pi on an
> Ethernet connection.
>
> Same result, or rather lack of result, one green flash and nothing.
>
> I download a fresh image and that also failed on Ethernet.
>
> I took the sd card and put it
Great detective work mike_b,
I think this issue has not arisen before because we have told people not
to use wifi for LMS. If I understand you correctly, you have mounted
your NAS via wifi?
In the past, having 2 wifi hops during playback was asking for problems,
so I would guess most people use
hi mr-b,
We are just going around in circles with this.
We were only recently persuaded to move to LMS 8.
So we are the devil if we do, devil if we don't. :D
regards
Greg
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Hi MW_FFM2020,
/etc/asound.conf has rw permission for group staff, so tc will have
permissions to edit the file.
Code:
tc@piCorePlayer:~$ la /etc/asound.conf
-rw-rw-r--1 root staff 578 Jun 7 01:29 /etc/asound.conf
tc@piCorePlayer:~$ vi /etc/as
That means there is a problem with your "if-else-elif-fi" statements.
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hi MrBogus,
I just downloaded it OK here. It might have been a momentary issue with
the server. You could also try the pCP extensions mirror server.
BTW: I have never needed iw.tcz during the development of wifi on
piCorePlayer. There are lots of overlapping wifi tools.
regards
Greg
Thanks for your feeedback.
1. We do have this message on the [Main Page] [Static IP] more help and
on the static IP page "The recommended method to set a static IP address
is to map the MAC address to an IP address in your router."
3. If you are not going to use the SD card for anything else it
kidstypike wrote:
> Who hosts these webpages
> https://www.picoreplayer.org/how_to_install_lms.shtml ?
>
> Isn't it about time someone got off their arse and changed 300MB to
> something more realistic?
Thanks for your suggestion!
300MB has always worked for me.
hi Matthias,
Maybe, if you only want to set piCorePlayer to mono??, there is a "beta"
tool to play around with asound.conf.
[Main page] > [Extras] > [Asound] (I think, I don't have a pCP6.1.0
setup at the moment)
I haven't played with it for a long time, but it should give you some
ideas.
reg
No one likes doing documentation.
As piCorePlayer is not a commercial product there is really no incentive
to do the hard slog and keep the documentation current. I think
technical people, given the choice would rather code than document. I
certainly would.
Documentation is important, I know th
Thanks for the kinds words and offer to help. :)
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Yeah, most of the documentation/help systems I have been involved with
used Microsoft Word or html as source. Most people don't format word
consistently enough. Even in a controlled commercial environment where
the authors were required to use styles sheet, formatting issues creep
in. HTML format
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