[SlimDevices: Unix] Nice cases for official Raspberry Pi 7" lcd

2020-05-24 Thread hartzell
I have several PiCorePlayer setups using pi's and the official 7" display in this bamboo case: https://www.amazon.com/Eleduino-Raspberry-Official-Touchscreen-Display/dp/B01FZ2RJN8 It seems to have disappeared from stock everywhere. I've seen it on aliexpress if I order a 1000 or so, but that's

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Nice cases for official Raspberry Pi 7" lcd

2020-05-24 Thread hartzell
teebee wrote: > What are these used for? I'm new to pi [emoji2] I'm using them to recreate a Duet. The bamboo case with the 7"display, a Pi, and an IQAudio Dac; running PiCorePlayer with Jivelite installed. Great touchscreen music player! I'm currently running LMS on a separate system (in a

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Nice cases for official Raspberry Pi 7" lcd

2020-05-24 Thread hartzell
carsten_h wrote: > Sure, I know a case. It is really great. I have the version 1 for a Pi > 3B+, but there is a new one where also a Pi 4B would fit. > Here is a link to the Smarti Pi Touch case: https://smarticase.com > > I have the backcover that is a little bit thicker and so a Hifiberry > D

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Nice cases for official Raspberry Pi 7" lcd

2020-05-24 Thread hartzell
teebee wrote: > So basically a chunky tablet? A bit less than that, actually, since it's running software that makes it a dedicated music player (in my example). You could run any pi software on it and do other things if you wanted. --

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] ANNOUNCE: piCorePlayer 6.0.0

2020-05-24 Thread hartzell
ralphy wrote: > The shairport-sync extension has been updated to 3.3.6. > > [...] > > There are likely other issues that I've missed. Please post any > problems here. I've added the -C 5 option to squeezelite. I 've tried the stock configuration and I've tried after adding this to /usr/local

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] ANNOUNCE: piCorePlayer 6.0.0

2020-05-25 Thread hartzell
paul- wrote: > Hartzell, volume control between. Squeezelite and shairport has been a > common problem. You should be able to add the hardware volume control to > squeezelite. What Sound card are you using? [...] > > > I'm using IQaudio DAC+ boards. I don

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] ANNOUNCE: piCorePlayer 6.0.0

2020-05-25 Thread hartzell
paul- wrote: > If you go to the squeezelite page, you can set it to use the hardware > volume control, which will then let the volume control increase the > volume that was turned down when using shairport. If you use LMS and > Shairport capabilities, I have always recommended using Phillips

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] ANNOUNCE: piCorePlayer 6.0.0

2020-05-30 Thread hartzell
hartzell wrote: > Thanks, I'll give the hwvolume control a spin. > > I think I *am* using Phillips_44's work, from here: > https://github.com/philippe44/ShairTunes2 via the LMS plugins page. Sorry for the delayed followup, needed to spend quality weekend time with

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

2015-03-14 Thread hartzell
Hi All, I can't boot the pi2 version of 1.19 on my new pi2. When I try I get a big rainbow square on the HDMI screen and a green flashing LED, 7 flashes, pause, 7 flashes. Google sez that means that it can't find the kernel. If I mount the image on my mac, here's what I see: Code: --

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

2015-03-15 Thread hartzell
hartzell wrote: > Hi All, > > I can't boot the pi2 version of 1.19 on my new pi2. When I try I get a > big rainbow square on the HDMI screen and a green flashing LED, 7 > flashes, pause, 7 flashes. Google sez that means that it can't find the > kernel. > [...

[SlimDevices: Unix] Missing images in LMS in piCorePlayer 3.20 (aka slimserver issue #145)

2017-05-21 Thread hartzell
I'm trying to track down why the LMS web ui crashes in Chrome (I suspect Ghostery, but...) Along the way I noticed that there are a handful of images that seem to be missing. 22748 I opened an issue in the Slimserver repository for it: https://github.com/Logitech/slimserver/issues/145 I don't

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Missing images in LMS in piCorePlayer 3.20 (aka slimserver issue #145)

2017-05-21 Thread hartzell
I'm sorry, I didn't explain myself well enough. I'm asking about the images that the UI is asking for that don't seem to be in LMS installation. I only mentioned the Ghostery issue to set the stage, apologies for the distraction. I don't see the page crash (or a couple of JS errors that I t

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Announce: piCorePlayer 3.5.0

2018-06-08 Thread hartzell
I've been chasing a problem over in the Radio Paradise plugin thread, where JiveLite isn't displaying Radio Paradise cover art even though iPeng and the LMS web ui are. The thread is here: https://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?108189-Announce-Radio-Paradise-Lossless-Streaming-(Plugin-v2)

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Announce: piCorePlayer 3.5.0

2018-06-10 Thread hartzell
mherger wrote: > > [...] > No problem here. While I don't have a Pi with display right now, I can > download that file using wget just fine on my pCP based player. > [...] > Michael I was hoping to avoid installing from scratch and setting everything up again. I went through the PCP interfac

[SlimDevices: Unix] "OTG Gadget" support (dwc2 overlay) support for piCore linux kernel

2019-07-15 Thread hartzell
I recently stumbled across this 'Adafruit tutorial about using the piZero's USB-OTG port for serial/ethernet connections' (https://learn.adafruit.com/turning-your-raspberry-pi-zero-into-a-usb-gadget/ethernet-gadget) via the "dwc2" overlay. It seems that the "dwc2" driver implements "gadget mode"

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] "OTG Gadget" support (dwc2 overlay) support for piCore linux kernel

2019-07-16 Thread hartzell
That looks like a start, thank you! hartzell's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=54772 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=110758 ___

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] "OTG Gadget" support (dwc2 overlay) support for piCore linux kernel

2019-07-20 Thread hartzell
Still digging on this. Can anyone point me to where the piCore distributions and/or piCorePlayer are built? I've found squeezelite and jivelite and lms on GitHub. I've always assumed it's an open project, but I can't find it. Starting from a post referenced above, I've found 'this link to an

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] "OTG Gadget" support (dwc2 overlay) support for piCore linux kernel

2019-07-22 Thread hartzell
Thanks @paul This started off with a curiosity about enabling "gadget" mode on the pi zero, which seems to require replacing the `dwc-otg` USB driver (which, in spite of its name, apparently no longer supports OTG mode) with the `dwc2` driver. I haven't found any sign of the `dwc2` driver in th

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] ANNOUNCE: piCorePlayer 5.0.0

2019-08-05 Thread hartzell
I'm trying to build a bit of software on PCP5.0.0 that uses `-li2c`. I can't find the correct extension to load (it's not in i2ctools). I *do* have some similarly named header files, but can't find the library... Code: /tmp/tcloop/linux-4.19.y_api_headers/usr/inclu

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] ANNOUNCE: piCorePlayer 5.0.0

2019-08-06 Thread hartzell
hartzell wrote: > I'm trying to build a bit of software on PCP5.0.0 that uses `-li2c`. I > can't find the correct extension to load (it's not in i2ctools). > > [...] > > Can I buy a clue? > g. > Turns out that the library I need is from the i2c-tools

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] ANNOUNCE: piCorePlayer 5.0.0

2019-08-06 Thread hartzell
paul- wrote: > I'll check out i2c tonight. Thanks. I neglected one point in my earlier comment: uninstalling the i2c-tools extension and doing a 'make install' from the 4.1 release of the 'i2c-tools' (https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/utils/i2c-tools/i2c-tools.git/about/) gives me a working `i2c

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] ANNOUNCE: piCorePlayer 5.0.0

2019-08-06 Thread hartzell
hartzell wrote: > I neglected one point in my earlier comment... It might also be worth mentioning (that's code for another thing that I forgot to say... :)), PiCorePlayer extensions info for its i2c-tools extension cites lm-sensors as the upstream source: http://dl.lm-sensors.org/i

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] ANNOUNCE: piCorePlayer 5.0.0

2019-08-11 Thread hartzell
paul- wrote: > i2c-tools packages updated to 4.1 and pushed to the repo. THANKS! g. hartzell's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=54772 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.ph

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] ANNOUNCE: piCorePlayer 5.0.0

2019-08-11 Thread hartzell
Whoops, not quite working yet: When I try to install i2c-tools-dev.tcz from the extensions page, it fails with: > Downloading: i2c-tools.tcz > i2c-tools.tcz: FAILED > Error on i2c-tools.tcz > I see entries for it in /mnt/mmcblk0p2: Code: tc@woof:/mnt/mmcblk0p2/tce/o

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] ANNOUNCE: piCorePlayer 5.0.0

2019-08-14 Thread hartzell
paul- wrote: > It's a new version, it won't match what you had previously on your > system. You cannot download a new extension version the same way. (I > always hated that about the base tc tools) > > Use pcp-update. It will fetch and check all dependencies.. > > pcp-update i2c-tools-d

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] ANNOUNCE: piCorePlayer 5.0.0

2019-08-14 Thread hartzell
hartzell wrote: > I'm still having trouble (with -i2c-tools-, not i2c-tools-dev (i2c-tools > is being loaded as a prerequisite)). I think that the problem is that > the 'MD5 signature file' > (https://repo.picoreplayer.org/repo/10.x/armv6/tcz/i2c-tools.tcz.md5.tx

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] ANNOUNCE: piCorePlayer 5.0.0

2019-08-14 Thread hartzell
paul- wrote: > Whenever I update files on our repo, I 100% verify md5sum's on every > file. So the repo is correct. You would be best served by removing > the extension, rebooting, then download again. The MD5 value in i2c-tools.tcz.md5.txt doesn't match what I calculate when I download the

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] ANNOUNCE: piCorePlayer 5.0.0

2019-08-14 Thread hartzell
layer:~$ git clone http://github.com/hartzell/.emacs.d Cloning into '.emacs.d'... fatal: unable to find remote helper for 'http' tc@piCorePlayer:~$ git clone https://github.com/hartzell/.emacs.d Cloning into '.emacs.d'... fatal: unable to find remote helper for &#x

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] ANNOUNCE: piCorePlayer 5.0.0

2019-08-14 Thread hartzell
paul- wrote: > [...] > > Can you give me the output of > > Code: > > > curl -I https://repo.picoreplayer.org/repo/10.x/armv6/tcz/i2c-tools.tcz > > > Oy! Here you go: Code: tc@piCorePlayer:~$ curl -I https://rep

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] ANNOUNCE: piCorePlayer 5.0.0

2019-08-14 Thread hartzell
paul- wrote: > Definitely a cache issue, I just flushed the cache on these 2 files, > give it another go. Yippee! Works like a charm. Thanks for the detective work! hartzell's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/mem

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] ANNOUNCE: piCorePlayer 5.0.0

2019-08-14 Thread hartzell
I'd like to load a kernel module, -i2c-dev-, at boot time. I can add a command/script to the user commands on the Tweaks page to run `modprobe i2c-dev`, but it feels like there's probably a more canonical/system-ic tinycore/picore/pcp mechanism. I've found 'a great explanation by a person of au

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] ANNOUNCE: piCorePlayer 5.0.0

2019-08-15 Thread hartzell
paul- wrote: > I uploaded the update git extension. I just burned a fresh image and tried installing the -git- extension. It failed, feels like the same problem I had with -i2c-tools-... Code: Downloading: git.tcz git.tcz: FAILED Error on git.tcz -

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] ANNOUNCE: piCorePlayer 5.0.0

2019-08-15 Thread hartzell
hartzell wrote: > I just burned a fresh image and tried installing the -git- extension. > It failed, feels like the same problem I had with -i2c-tools-... > > [...] Just ran through the little exercise to confirm that I'm having the same problem I had with -i2

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] ANNOUNCE: piCorePlayer 5.0.0

2019-08-16 Thread hartzell
paul- wrote: > Likely. I just gave it another kick. Seems the flush isn't > propagating the first time through.something else to put on my list > of problems to work on. That fixed it. Thank you! g. hartzell's