NWJ,

Thanks for putting together your tutorial.  It took me a few tries to
get it working - not your fault as I tend to improvise, but I eventually
got there.  I made some false assumptions and was playing with various
settings the first few times through to see what they would do, so I had
to start over a few times for my failed experiments.  I also tried on A
PiZero first instead of on a Pi3.  I still don't quite have it working
on a PiZeroW or PiZero(1.3), but I'll make a separate post about that. 


A couple notes to help others and for possible editing of the tutorial:
The tutorial works with 3.22 on a Pi3.  Is it possible to edit the title
of the thread to reflect the range of versions covered within the
thread?  It would make it clearer that you have kept updating the
tutorial for the new versions of piCorePlayer as they come out.
After making the new sd card, it would be worth pointing to the link for
making a newconfig.cfg file and reminding people to add that at the same
time they add or edit the cmdline.txt and config.txt files for easy
wireless setup.
Like someone else in this thread, I didn't realize that adding the wav35
default extension would add all the rest of the jivelite dependencies. 
In retrospect, it makes sense that it would, but I kept installing
jivelite first which may have caused some of my issues.  It may be worth
adding a note at that spot in the tutorial that it is unnecessary and
potentially counterproductive to install jivelite first.
Also, the name of the default wav35 extension has changed slightly, so
it isn't obvious which of the wav35 extensions to add.  Again, it is
noted in this thread that the default will add other extensions, but the
default wav35 extension name no longer matches the specific name in the
tutorial.  For others trying the tutorial - just pick the one with
default and wav35 in the name.
After editing the bootlocal.sh, you have the user go to Tweaks and check
that the "yes" box for jivelite autostart is checked and then click
"reset".  If "No" is currently checked, they need to first check the
"Yes" button and then click "Set Autostart".  If you click "Reset" first
the "Yes" radio button selection does not stick.  It may be redundant to
click "Reset" after clicking "Set Autostart" but I did both.
Prior to the calibration section, you suggest adding a mouse or keyboard
for the initial setup.  It should be noted in the calibration section
that you need to remove the mouse before the calibration or the mouse
may interfere with the calibration routine or cause it to fail.

This last suggestion is far more tedious, so feel free to ignore.  It
would be nice if the screenshots had highlighting to show what the
edited differences are between the original and the modified versions of
the file.  Most of them were easy enough to see, but the addition of the
comment tags for a few lines in the do_rebootstuff.sh file were a little
tougher to discern.  I'm one of those that tends to do the editing
instead of just replacing the files since I like to see what the changes
are so I can learn and understand how it is all working.

Thanks again!

And thanks again to the whole piCorePlayer Team.  I haven't said it
lately cause it just works and I'm not on the forum that often anymore!


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