truehl wrote: > Hi, > this sounds absolutly great!!! I like to know how you did it !!! I got > microcore linux working, but I have no idea how to run SqueezeLite. > > Thanks a lot for your answer! > > Greetings, > Thomas
Dear Thomas Sorry for the delay, but when I did it the first time I had to try many different things, therefore I needed to do a clean install and write everything down when I did it. But now I think I have a good method. (actually what I think was the most difficult issue, you probably don't even notice). But these are the steps to get a small non-gui Squeezelite player in the Picore image. It is running headless now I only needed a monitor and keyboard during installation. I did not install xorg or any other GUI programs but did everything using CLI. So here you go: Burn the Picore image to a CF card ( I use Win32Diskimager) Then boot the Raspberry. As Picore is running in read only mode om a partition called mmcblk0p1 you need to make another partition where it can have all the configuration files and the extensions and the Squeezelite player. In order to make such a partition I did this (It was here I had the most difficulties) Each line is the commands I used: fdisk /dev/mmcblk0 n new p primary 2 partition number 1-4 6 first cylinder +20M I made a 20 MB partition for this - you could choose any size you want (up to the CF-card size) w to write the changes to the card sudo reboot Next I formated it to the ext4 format: mkfs.ext4 /dev/mmcblk0p2 sudo reboot Then you need to define where Picore will find your extensions, you do that by this command: tce-setdrive And then you choose 2= /mnt/mmcblk0p2 Download Squeezelite and put in a writeable place like mnt/mmcblk0p2, you can so that by this command wget http://squeezelite.googlecode.com/files/squeezelite-armv6hf -P /mnt/mmcblk0p2 Then I had some problems that squeezelite would not start - it turned out that I had to allow it to be executed - using this command chmod 755 /mnt/mmcblk0p2/squeezelite-armv6hf You need to install Alsa, flac libmad and libvorbis. You do that by using the package manager in Picore called tce. Therefor at command promt write: tce s search a (a in order to search for Alsa) then Enter select alsa.tcz (at present no 4) enter q quit i install s search f (f in order to find flac.tcz (present no 9)) Enter 9 enter q quit i install s search l (l in order to find libmad.tcz (presently no 57)) Enter 57 enter q quit i install s search l (l in order to find libvorbis.tcz (presently no 88)) 88 enter q quit i install sudo reboot Then in order to automatically to start Squeezelite everytime the Raspberry reboot, you need to add this program to the bootlocal file which is used for this purpose. As I have been doing this without GUI the only editor present is the vi editor, which also gave me a hard time. But these are the command you have to use: sudo vi /opt/bootlocal.sh Then pres i (for insert) then move the cursor to the first empty line and write: sudo /mnt/mmcblk0p2/squeezelite-armv6hf -a 80:4 Press "esc" in order to get out of "insert mode" Then type :wq and Enter - in order to save and exit vi These changes is not actually written to the bootlocal.sh file (as it is in read only mode) but insteas the changes is saved another place and during reboot used - so in order to get Picore to save these changes and use them the next time you reboot you have to do a manual backup. So at command promt type filetool.sh -b And now you can reboot and your Raspberry should start Squeezelite. I have tried different Alsa buffer sizes and I think that 80:4 is fine - for me the Squeezelite is in perfect sync with both a Duet and A Logitech radio, if I use to high values like 500:4 or 200:4 the sync is not as perfect. Using 50:4 resulted in some stuttering in the sound Now you have a dedicated very small Squeezelite player, which boots very rapidly, it doesn't use swap and can survive that you just pull the power plug - so it is almost as an embedded hardware player, like a Duet. I call it the PicoPlayer I hope this recipe can be used - please ask if there are any questions Steen ------------------------------------------------------------------------ sbp's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=37237 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=97046 _______________________________________________ unix mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/unix
