Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] UE Music Library v10.0.3 not working on Ubuntu 14 Trusty

2014-05-15 Thread pippin
If you are using LMS, too, is there a specific reason you don't switch your Smart Radio to the Squeezebox firmware? --- learn more about iPeng, the iPhone and iPad remote for the Squeezebox and Logitech UE Smart Radio as well as iPeng Party, the free Party-App, at penguinlovesmusic.com *New: i

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] UE Music Library v10.0.3 not working on Ubuntu 14 Trusty

2014-05-17 Thread pippin
Sure, I've gone back and forth on one of my radios five or six times now. It was difficult in the early days of the UE Smart Radio but nowadays there is a simple menu option for it: "Settings->Advanced->Switch to Squeezebox". When converted, it's a Squeezebox so you'd just run LMS on your Ubuntu

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Community hardware status

2014-10-30 Thread pippin
adamdea wrote: > At the moment the future looks a bit bleak for a squeezebox replacement, > although raspberry pi semi DIY solutions proliferate. I'm not so sure. I know about several commercial products coming out next years which will target this market. Doing something in between a commercial

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Community hardware status

2014-10-30 Thread pippin
Um, weird setup they use. For the voice feature you've got to use their App which is frankly one of the worst Apps I've seen in a while. But maybe I'm the wrong target group anyhow, voice activated functionally feels pretty annoying to me, be it Siri, GPS systems in cars or anything. --- learn

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Vortexbox Multizone with 5.1 Audio

2014-11-01 Thread pippin
I don't think it will work, you'd have to synchronize players that play different music, something you can't do. Also Is your goal to play 5.1 for video? That would not be lip-sync because of the latency being introduced. You'd have to expect at least 50ms but active synchronization (which of

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Vortexbox Multizone with 5.1 Audio

2014-11-01 Thread pippin
I understand what he wants to do but you will only get the audio in sync by chance. The three SqueezeLite instances _might_ play the signal I'm sync but they also _may_ be completely off and believe me, if your rear channels are half a second behind your front ones that's not a nice experience

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Vortexbox Multizone with 5.1 Audio

2014-11-01 Thread pippin
Ah... Ok now I get it. So scrap my comments --- learn more about iPeng, the iPhone and iPad remote for the Squeezebox and Logitech UE Smart Radio as well as iPeng Party, the free Party-App, at penguinlovesmusic.com *New: iPeng 8, the Universal App for iOS 7 and iOS 8*

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Announce: Squeeze on Arch - developer version

2015-02-12 Thread pippin
JackOfAll wrote: > Slightly under. You'll be lucky to see real-world speeds of 65Mb... > ;) > Still definitely more than USB... The biggest issue with USB 2.0 drives, though, is if you try to do RAID or something. Then write speeds drop to 15 or even 10 MB, that's really slow... --- lear

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Announce: Squeeze on Arch - developer version

2015-02-12 Thread pippin
Oh, yes, you are right. I mixed those small and capital letters and I'm using gigabit Ethernet which the Pi doesn't have... My bad. --- learn more about iPeng, the iPhone and iPad remote for the Squeezebox and Logitech UE Smart Radio as well as iPeng Party, the free Party-App, at penguinlovesm

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] LMS on remote Server

2015-03-01 Thread pippin
SSH tunnel? You still need to do it on the router, though. If your router doesn't handle the secure connection, how's it supposed to work? --- learn more about iPeng, the iPhone and iPad remote for the Squeezebox and Logitech UE Smart Radio as well as iPeng Party, the free Party-App, at pengui

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] LMS on remote Server

2015-03-02 Thread pippin
Well, then you need another router behind that one to handle those VPN or tunneling or whatever you are trying to do. You can run VPN servers on other devices, too, you just have to be careful that you will of course have to route all that to your local network, too. --- learn more about iPeng,

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] DSD fiiles on Pi-2 with LMS V. 7.9 are not starting

2015-05-20 Thread pippin
DoP can't play DSD on a PCM DAC, you need to transcode to PCM. DoP is for DSD DACs. --- learn more about iPeng, the iPhone and iPad remote for the Squeezebox and Logitech UE Smart Radio as well as iPeng Party, the free Party-App, at penguinlovesmusic.com *New: iPeng 8, the Universal App for iO

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] @Michael H: some minor change in the /etc/init.d required

2015-10-31 Thread pippin
DJanGo wrote: > my first git experience > [image: https://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/git.png] http://xkcd.com/1597/ --- learn more about iPeng, the iPhone and iPad remote for the Squeezebox and Logitech UE Smart Radio as well as iPeng Party, the free Party-App, at penguinlovesmusic.com *New: iPe

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Network test

2016-08-16 Thread pippin
Is your server wired, too? --- learn more about iPeng, the iPhone and iPad remote for the Squeezebox and Logitech UE Smart Radio as well as iPeng Party, the free Party-App, at penguinlovesmusic.com *New: iPeng 9, the Universal App for iPhone, iPad and Apple Watch* -

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] microSD: Is it just me?

2016-10-22 Thread pippin
It's not just you, it's a general problem of all devices running on SD cards as main drive. SD cards are simply not designed for permanent operation. One workaround would be to run all your OS, SW and database in RAM because that reduces write cycles. --- learn more about iPeng, the iPhone and

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

2016-12-29 Thread pippin
Is there a way to get the IP/port combination (control port) for the server SqueezeLite is currently using? Basically the result of the UDAP search response. I wonder.. i can't be the first one to run into this... I've built a portable radio using a Pi zero and I added a volume control knob and

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

2016-12-30 Thread pippin
What do you do with the info in pCP? Just because I'm running this on pCP. But if I go to these length I'd run a server discovery and check which server has the player connected. Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk --- learn more about iPeng, the iPhone and iPad remote for the Squeezebox and Lo

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

2016-12-30 Thread pippin
Yea, makes sense. And no need to poll the server, I can just send an UDAP request to port 3483 on the server to get the control port. Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk --- learn more about iPeng, the iPhone and iPad remote for the Squeezebox and Logitech UE Smart Radio as well as iPeng Party,

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

2016-12-31 Thread pippin
paul- wrote: > I have several Zero's laying around here, I was just going to fire one > up for testing. What network device are you using on the Zero? Most WiFi adaptors should work, I just tried ones from CSL and LogiLink, no issues. The biggest problem is that you need a cable to connect the

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Announce: piCorePlayer 3.00

2017-01-02 Thread pippin
I'd say you had a duplicate IP --- learn more about iPeng, the iPhone and iPad remote for the Squeezebox and Logitech UE Smart Radio as well as iPeng Party, the free Party-App, at penguinlovesmusic.com *New: iPeng 9, the Universal App for iPhone, iPad and Apple Watch* -

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] DSD = Dirty Satan Diapers

2017-02-05 Thread pippin
I'm not sure that's true. Granted, I have DSDPlayer (the plugin) installed but somehow I can't get LMS to deliver native DSD or even DoP, I always get transcoded PCM so it must be possible... --- learn more about iPeng, the iPhone and iPad remote for the Squeezebox and Logitech UE Smart Radio a

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Jivelite for piCorePlayer

2017-02-09 Thread pippin
Just select "Backup" after you download it to the device --- learn more about iPeng, the iPhone and iPad remote for the Squeezebox and Logitech UE Smart Radio as well as iPeng Party, the free Party-App, at penguinlovesmusic.com *New: iPeng 9, the Universal App for iPhone, iPad and Apple Watch*

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Announce: piCorePlayer 3.10

2017-02-28 Thread pippin
ctbarker32 wrote: > The latest RPi release is the Raspberry Pi Zero Wireless. Now includes > built in WiFi and Bluetooth. One less dongle to add. > > Add a Phat Dac or something similar and of course the tremendous > PiCorePlayer and you have the smallest footprint but fantastic sounding > Squee

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Announce: piCorePlayer 3.10

2017-02-28 Thread pippin
Wow, that really would be cool. Would have softened the packaging requirements on my Tivoli project quite a bit and might make my subwoofer-Pi even more simple --- learn more about iPeng, the iPhone and iPad remote for the Squeezebox and Logitech UE Smart Radio as well as iPeng Party, the f

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Announce: piCorePlayer 3.10

2017-02-28 Thread pippin
Hm I bought a Pi 3 with the antenna connector already soldered on for my project last summer, that article sounds like it might be worthwhile waiting for something like that becoming available. Although I probably don't need it for my subwoofer-Pi, here my WiFi is powerful enough... --- lea

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] piCorePlayer 3.11 - HifiBerry mini Amp not working

2017-03-31 Thread pippin
I know I had to try several of the amp options but one eventually worked. Might actually have been the default Hifiberry option instead of one of the amp options. --- learn more about iPeng, the iPhone and iPad remote for the Squeezebox and Logitech UE Smart Radio as well as iPeng Party, the fr

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] piCorePlayer 3.11 - HifiBerry mini Amp not working

2017-03-31 Thread pippin
Hifiberry' web site shows the GPIO lines used by the MiniAmp --- learn more about iPeng, the iPhone and iPad remote for the Squeezebox and Logitech UE Smart Radio as well as iPeng Party, the free Party-App, at penguinlovesmusic.com *New: iPeng 9, the Universal App for iPhone, iPad and Apple Wa

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] piCorePlayer 3.11 - HifiBerry mini Amp not working

2017-04-01 Thread pippin
Yea, I think that's what I found, too --- learn more about iPeng, the iPhone and iPad remote for the Squeezebox and Logitech UE Smart Radio as well as iPeng Party, the free Party-App, at penguinlovesmusic.com *New: iPeng 9, the Universal App for iPhone, iPad and Apple Watch* --

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Transcoding requirements on a Pi?

2017-06-12 Thread pippin
There is no need to transcode at all if you are playing to a Pi. The resampling from 192 kHz to 48 kHz shouldn't be a problem either, the Pi only has to do it for its own player. --- learn more about iPeng, the iPhone and iPad remote for the Squeezebox and Logitech UE Smart Radio as well as iPe

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Transcoding requirements on a Pi?

2017-06-13 Thread pippin
Don't do that. FLAC is fine and you've got enough bandwidth unless you do crazy stuff like streaming 384kHz sample rate material and such. Transcoding to MP3 takes a lot of CPU power and will likely create more issues than it solves. FLAC is perfect for streaming. --- learn more about iPeng, th

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Transcoding requirements on a Pi?

2017-06-13 Thread pippin
But if the SB3 is alone on its 2.4GHz network, where's the problem? Still enough bandwidth to stream HD video so why not 48kHz FLAC? We are talking about 750kbit/s here. If you don't get that out of a WiFi network then it's so broken that even the control connection will probably no longer be sta

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Transcoding requirements on a Pi?

2017-06-13 Thread pippin
Really, don't . All of this is not a problem and the SB3 is a really nice player. Very reliable ne good sound. --- learn more about iPeng, the iPhone and iPad remote for the Squeezebox and Logitech UE Smart Radio as well as iPeng Party, the free Party-App, at penguinlovesmusic.com *New: iPeng

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Transcoding requirements on a Pi?

2017-06-13 Thread pippin
Oh, ok, now THAT is a reason to retire it, indeed. --- learn more about iPeng, the iPhone and iPad remote for the Squeezebox and Logitech UE Smart Radio as well as iPeng Party, the free Party-App, at penguinlovesmusic.com *New: iPeng 9, the Universal App for iPhone, iPad and Apple Watch* -

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Default Touch behaviour

2017-08-07 Thread pippin
No need to do changes to the code. Search for the „defeat destructive touch-to-play“ option in the player settings of the web interface --- learn more about iPeng, the iPhone and iPad remote for the Squeezebox and Logitech UE Smart Radio as well as iPeng Party, the free Party-App, at penguinlo

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Default Touch behaviour

2017-08-08 Thread pippin
No idea. I thought JivrLite uses that same applet code as SqueezePlay, maybe it’s using old versions? Someone knowing JiveLite internals would have to answer. You didn’t mention JiveLite in the thread title so people might have missed that this is about JiveLite at all, I certainly did. --- lea

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] questions for a most basic portable squeezebox using PiCorePlayer and Pi Zero W

2017-08-27 Thread pippin
You could consider to use Max2Play instead of piCorePlayer. In my experience it’s less stable but if you don’t leave the device running for months at a time it probably doesn’t matter. Max2Play now has a WiFi mode in which it automatically sets up a hotspot to connect when it can’t find a WiFi net

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] newbie help

2013-02-20 Thread pippin
It does depend on MySB pippin's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=13777 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=97550 ___ unix mai

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

2014-01-31 Thread pippin
Does that happen no matter what combination of tablets/apps you are starting? You are playing audio on the tablets, right? Or is it that just the controllers connecting causes the connection to fail? Do I understand correctly that this is the low level network connection going down? My obvious g

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

2014-01-31 Thread pippin
Oh, forgot you are on mail... Please make sure you read my comment on the forum, I edited it --- learn more about iPeng, the iPhone and iPad remote for the Squeezebox and Logitech UE Smart Radio as well as iPeng Party, the free Party-App, at penguinlovesmusic.com *New: iPeng 7, the Univers

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

2012-11-24 Thread pippin
Mnyb wrote: > > Also in iPeng squeezlite does not get a power button like other players > ? Which iPeng and what exactly do you get vs. expect? pippin's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=13777 View

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

2012-11-25 Thread pippin
Mnyb wrote: > No power icon here ? > > You could always claim the icon is invisible as it is a headless player > ,not meant to be seen :) There should be a generic "power" icon but I am rarely able to test that so it might be that some error crept in during a recent icon change. Will have a loo

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Ubuntu Gutsy - unable to install Slimserver

2007-10-30 Thread pippin
get (even with deb options) is "server died...restarting". I did a clean install with apt-get from unstable. I did NOT get any warning messages regarding firmware copyright as on the desktop installation. The desktop installation was also using apt-get, not gnome. Any ideas,

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Ubuntu Gutsy - unable to install Slimserver

2007-10-30 Thread pippin
As I said, the only thing it's logging is the "starting up" and "died...restarting" messages. And no, it is not running, the only thing that is running is the "slimserver_safe" script that keep

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Ubuntu Gutsy - unable to install Slimserver

2007-10-30 Thread pippin
Actually, that's it. Thanks a lot. Looks like they did remove a bit too many dependencies on 70a1 ;-) And that DOES explain why it worked on the desktop version. Now I have to get rid of the dedicated mysql ;-) Cheers Jörg -- p

[SlimDevices: Unix] CPAN update killed SC 7

2007-12-28 Thread pippin
(/usr/sbin/slimserver line 996) frame 12: main::END (/usr/sbin/slimserver line 0) frame 13: (eval) (/usr/sbin/slimserver line 0) Any Idea how to resolve this? Re-Installing slimserver didn't help. Damn, I need that thing tonight. Jörg -- pippin --

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] CPAN update killed SC 7

2007-12-28 Thread pippin
/share/perl5/Slim/Buttons/Common.pm line 42. BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at /usr/share/perl5/Slim/Buttons/Common.pm line 42. Compilation failed in require at /usr/sbin/slimserver line 145. BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at /usr/sbin/slimserver line 145. -- pippin

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] CPAN update killed SC 7

2007-12-28 Thread pippin
Works now - don't know why, but works now (after the SECOND 'force'd install of Bundle::CPAN...) -- pippin pippin's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=13777 Vi

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Slimserver on Linux but integrated with iTunes

2008-01-16 Thread pippin
if you DON'T use smbfs, but cifs instead. Smbfs on ubuntu will hang your sockets after a while (kernel 2.6 limitation) and the ubuntu doc is wrong on this. Took me a while to find out! In every other respect the tip is correct. -- pippin -

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Ubuntu: Unable to use Web interface on LAN

2008-01-16 Thread pippin
Sounds like a firewall or a router in the way. How do you access the server? Does your wlan ap allow to access port 9000? Or do you have a firewall on the ubuntu box? -- pippin --- see iPeng at penguinlovesmusic.com

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Ubuntu: Unable to use Web interface on LAN

2008-01-17 Thread pippin
EricGo;259566 Wrote: > Hi Pippin, > > All connections go through the same combo router/WAP device. I also > thought a firewall is disrupting things, but my admittedly novice > poking through the network related control panels on the Ubuntu box > didn't find anything obvi

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Finally, going to make that server... C7?

2008-02-11 Thread pippin
e spare capacity for streaming in and out. It was the only passively cooled alternative I found. Can actually recommend the setup. Don't bother adding more GHz for processors, can't use'em anyway on a server, save power instead (my opinion). -- pippin ---

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Finally, going to make that server... C7?

2008-02-12 Thread pippin
ount at boot time), if it's debian based there will be a file called "fstab" under \etc and you have to add a line like //synology/public /mnt/synology cifs 0 0 to that file. Try "man mount" or "man mount.cifs" on your command line. Also I COULD imagine t

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Finally, going to make that server... C7?

2008-02-12 Thread pippin
are huge differences. Probably wouldn't run a heavy duty web server from it but for this application it's amazingly fast. Much faster than all my PCs for SC. Maybe the 1GB RAM also helps... Boy, RAM and Flash are so cheap these days...The most expensive part of the whole unit was the housing.

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Finally, going to make that server... C7?

2008-02-12 Thread pippin
mount you Synology drive as a partition. Well, you never know what you will do with it next... The Synology has a few SMB shares and I mount them using CIFS (important, smbfs doesn't work). -- pippin --- see iPeng at penguinlovesmusic.com --

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Finally, going to make that server... C7?

2008-02-13 Thread pippin
Mark Lanctot;268900 Wrote: > Googling around, there are flash modules up to 8 GB which plug directly > into an IDE socket, no adapter required! That's what I use. Cool. No cables or anything. -- pippin --- see iPeng at penguinlov

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Finally, going to make that server... C7?

2008-02-13 Thread pippin
a bit more expensive then what I paid half a year ago... -- pippin --- see iPeng at penguinlovesmusic.com pippin's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=13777 View this thread: http://forums.