SqueezePlay OS for Joggler

hansel · Post by **hansel** » Fri Aug 31, 2012 3:39 pm

roobarb! wrote:
hansel wrote:What is going on?
Have you got the wired connection hooked up at the same time? Because it won't like that.

I just reflashed with SqueezePlay OS v1.07 using Reflashing Tool System v1.09 succesfully.
After pulling out the wired connection I rebooted the machine by replugging the current.
Entering language and setup, I choose the Wireless option, entering my (hidden) SSID name and Passphrase.
Then Apply Changes and Reboot.

After reboot I am getting the same setup wizard again.
Top of the screen state: "No network address has been assigned to the Wireless interface (wlan0)".

My wireless is WPA2 personal, EAS encrypted. Why doesn't it work?

Oh and, no MAC filtering enabled on the router. Nor any sort of NAT on the MAC address. All other wireless devices connect ok (just as squeezeplay on stock OS).

[edit]
Just did another reflash with SqueezePlay OS. Now without a network cable connected. Same results. I'm not getting an ip address via wireless.

[edit 2]
On my router I now enabled SSID Broadcast. Rebooted the router and presto! The joggler shows up on the dhcp list. I now can connect to my squeezeboxserver.
I rather not enable SSID broadcasting, I never did.
Request: Can you fix the OS so it can connect to hidden wlans too?

dwl99 · Post by **dwl99** » Fri Aug 31, 2012 7:08 pm

dwl99 wrote:
roobarb! wrote:
dwl99 wrote:
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E: Unmet dependencies. Try 'apt-get -f install' with no packages (or specify a solution).
Any advice would be very welcome!
I hate to say it, but did you try this?
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sudo apt-get -f install
Had to check...
Hah ha ha - no I hadn't in case it caused any damage! Will give it a go when I get home - thanks again.

I think I'm destined never to get samba shares working. The next problem I hit was

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joggler@joggler:~$ sudo apt-get install samba samba-common
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
E: Couldn't find package samba
joggler@joggler:~$

Is it due to a missing repo?

furbrain · Post by **furbrain** » Mon Sep 03, 2012 9:36 am

Hey roobarb - great work. I've got squeezeplay OS installed in a couple of jogglers at home.

However, they will occasionally fail to boot if they have been have been suddenly powered-off - it seems to be a problem with fsck wanting input.

Could you change /etc/default/rcS, so that FIXFSCK is set to yes?

Phil

jemhayward · Post by **jemhayward** » Mon Sep 03, 2012 10:40 am

So far I have pnp3 on my new Joggler and I'm running squeezeplay and it's working fine. If I poke 24bit 96khz files at it, my DAC reports it as 16bit, but the 96khz gets through ok. I'm going to write squeezeplayOS to my USB stick today. What changes do I need to make to the astound.conf file, an how do I do it? I suspect editing it in notepad on my PC will probably break it?

hansel · Post by **hansel** » Mon Sep 03, 2012 10:59 am

@jemhayward: Changing .conf files (or any other non binary file) is best by logon in via telnet or ssh using a Windows program called PuTTY. When logged on to your Joggler use the vi editor on the Joggler to edit the file. The command is:

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vi pathtofile/astound.conf

See for more editing details an online help like http://www.cs.rit.edu/~cslab/vi.html

Cradle · Post by **Cradle** » Mon Sep 03, 2012 2:59 pm

Hi!

On my second joggler I try to use the M-Audio Fasttrack Pro as an external sound device (in order to use the balanced outputs of the FasttrackPro feeding my pa system).

lsmsg shows the device:

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Bus 004 Device 002: ID 04b4:1974 Cypress Semiconductor Corp.
Bus 004 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 003 Device 003: ID 0763:2012 Midiman
Bus 003 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 001 Device 003: ID 148f:2770 Ralink Technology, Corp.
Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub

I used asoundconf (via the instructions at http://wiki.ubuntuusers.de/Archiv/asoundconf) and set the default soundcard to the FastTrack Pro.

I enabled the external soundcard in Squeezeplay, restartet Squeezeplay, but I can't get no sound from the card.

When Squeezeplay goes to the first track, it shows the "Play" button. When I press it, the first second of the songs starts (but without sound from the FastTrack or the internal speakers). The the progress slider hangs, but squeezeplay stays responsive.

Is there a way to enable some logging inside squeezeplay? Has someone a idea what could be wrong? EDIT: I found out how to change loggin and hoiw to start squeezeplay from console, but so far I cannot spot anything useful

Oh, when I open up alsamixer, it shows the FastTrack Pro as the default sound card, but with the message "This sound device does not have any controls".

EDIT:
When trying to play music, squeezeplay always loops this lines in its log:

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20120903 14:25:37.361 WARN   audio.decode - Playback.lua:143 Cannot find active network interface
20120903 14:25:37.362 INFO   net.slimproto - SlimProto.lua:152 Send HELO: reconnect-bit=true bytesReceived(H,L)=0,3931943
20120903 14:25:37.912 INFO   applet.NowPlaying - NowPlayingApplet.lua:399 notify_playerDigitalVolumeControl: 1
20120903 14:25:37.912 INFO   applet.NowPlaying - NowPlayingApplet.lua:422 enable volume UI in NP
20120903 14:25:37.912 INFO   applet.SlimBrowser - SlimBrowserApplet.lua:3739 notify_playerDigitalVolumeControl()1
20120903 14:25:38.934 INFO   net.slimproto - SlimProto.lua:769 connection error: closed, reconnecting in 3.482 seconds
20120903 14:25:39.476 INFO   applet.NowPlaying - NowPlayingApplet.lua:399 notify_playerDigitalVolumeControl: nil
20120903 14:25:39.476 INFO   applet.NowPlaying - NowPlayingApplet.lua:422 enable volume UI in NP
20120903 14:25:39.476 INFO   applet.SlimBrowser - SlimBrowserApplet.lua:3739 notify_playerDigitalVolumeControl()nil

What I find strange are the messages about the network interface - LAN is connected and working fine...

I will have to compare that to the usage of the internal speakers (which work).
Kind regards,

Arndt

jemhayward · Post by **jemhayward** » Mon Sep 03, 2012 3:37 pm

hansel wrote:@jemhayward: Changing .conf files (or any other non binary file) is best by logon in via telnet or ssh using a Windows program called PuTTY. When logged on to your Joggler use the vi editor on the Joggler to edit the file. The command is:
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vi pathtofile/astound.conf
See for more editing details an online help like http://www.cs.rit.edu/~cslab/vi.html

I was hoping to avoid vi, which I think I'm allergic to, or it just doesn't like me!!!

However, I could probably do it, but when I get in, I really don't know what to edit... also, don't know where it is...

DonnieH · Post by **DonnieH** » Mon Sep 03, 2012 7:52 pm

First off, this is a really neat piece of software and congrats to the team that produced it.
I have installed it onto my joggler and installed LMS. My setup includes a hard drive connected to the usb with my music collection so its a self contained server and player.
Its been scanning the drive for nearly 24 hours and still going. Anyone know how long it should take on average (per/GB) and will it automatically pick up any new songs/albums/folders I add to the drive later on?
Thanks

ilovemyjoggler · Post by **ilovemyjoggler** » Mon Sep 03, 2012 8:16 pm

@ DonnieH. I tried scanning a 16g stick of tracks onto LMS through PnPIII. It wouldn't work but it may be different for squeezeplay OS? Although it was showing a scan run time the scan itself was frozen and I never did get it work. Is yours definitely scanning? When it did scan (got up to 154 tracks before crashing) it was actually quite fast...

DonnieH · Post by **DonnieH** » Mon Sep 03, 2012 8:19 pm

@ilovemyjoggler - Hmmm. Sounds like a very similar issue. Is there anyway to determine of the reported scan is actually active even though it says its still scanning? I've looked at the LMS scan log file and it shows one from a few days ago and not the scan I started yesterday.

Thanks for the quick reply.

ilovemyjoggler · Post by **ilovemyjoggler** » Mon Sep 03, 2012 8:32 pm

Well for me it was very clear it wasn't working as the number of files scanned wasn't changing. The tracks that it had scanned appeared in squeezeplay in the 'atom' library but only under artist and album - the library was showing as empty (as the scan hadn't completed). I also couldn't abort the scan. It would say I had aborted but then the timer just kept ticking!! Drove me effing nuts I can tell you.

I really don't understand too much about it but I tried repeatedly to scan through the joggler and then connected my laptop to joggler and tried reapeatedly to force a scan that way. But no. Yours may actually be doing something so I don't want to freak you out. Remember I was using PnPIII.

I also discovered that there was a new version of LMS 7.7.2 (not sure what's on your os) which I didn't have and couldn't download. Not sure if that would have been more stable or helped. Anyway, if you look at the 'atom' topic you can see my frustrated attempts!

alcoheca · Post by **alcoheca** » Tue Sep 04, 2012 12:02 am

Hi,

SqueezePlay OS is great, I've upgraded my 3 jogglers to use it, however I'm noticing much worse WLAN reception. Getting more timeouts than before with music & synchronized playback, sometimes even while loading the Favourites menu. Nothing has changed in the house's network setup.

So it seems likely the ra2870 kernel module is to blame. Is there any scope to try compiling a newer one? I'd be willing to test and could give some empirical results.

DonnieH · Post by **DonnieH** » Tue Sep 04, 2012 7:25 pm

yeah, tried it a few times now and its not liking it. I wonder if this is a general problem with USB storage and this version of the OS.

Cradle · Post by **Cradle** » Wed Sep 05, 2012 11:26 am

Hi!

In my quest to get the M-Audio FastrackPro up and running with squeezeplay on the joggler I just installed the standard firmware / and then PnP3. After switching to USB souncard via the webserver the fasttrack pro worked instantly.

I could go on using PnP3, but for curiosity sake I will compare the settings for alsa / squeezeplay with squeezeplay os...

Kind regards,

Arndt

Post by **roobarb!** » Wed Sep 05, 2012 11:40 am

Just a quick note to say that I am still reading things here - but everything's pretty busy at the moment, so I'm not really able to deal with any Joggler stuff right now. I shall return as soon as I can, though!

alcoheca · Post by **alcoheca** » Wed Sep 05, 2012 12:16 pm

Roobarb, I'd be up for setting up a build environment similar to yours. There's some patches for squeezeplay that I'd like to play with and then possibly get incorporated into your work. And of course I want to fix the WIFI issue as I've had to go back to PnP.
Maybe we could chat on IRC sometime?

jemhayward · Post by **jemhayward** » Thu Sep 06, 2012 12:50 am

I'm experimenting wIth Joggler OS and so AR, so good... But the top left hand corner "back" button refuses to work. I don't think this a hardware problem. Makes getting to the settings a bit awkward! Anyone experienced this?

EDIT: I now think this IS a hardware problem... Anyone experienced similar?

DonnieH · Post by **DonnieH** » Thu Sep 06, 2012 8:39 pm

I resintalled the OS and about 30 odd hours later had a full scan.
I then switched off, took the hard drive and put a couple of new music folders on. Powered on, went to web interface and asks me to login again. Not only that but music that scanned earlier is no longer available under my music folder in aqueezeplay. Can access it through albums etc. Forced it to scan for new files and now its taking ages again.

1. Why after powering off, does it ask to login again and go through the setup wizard everytime? Surely once its gets this info first time, it stores it?
2. Why when I force a scan of new and modified files does it appear to take as long as a full scan?

Hopefully someone can answer these questions as I keep sending time on this thing only to keep ending up back at square one.
Thanks
Don

dwl99 · Post by **dwl99** » Fri Sep 07, 2012 5:16 am

Sometimes the data on the USB stick gets corrupted. My last installation of Squeezeplay OS eventually refused to boot. It's a good idea to make a backup disk image with Win32diskimager once everything's set up nicely. Beyond that I have no ideas.

hansel · Post by **hansel** » Fri Sep 07, 2012 8:58 am

jemhayward wrote:I'm experimenting wIth Joggler OS and so AR, so good... But the top left hand corner "back" button refuses to work. I don't think this a hardware problem. Makes getting to the settings a bit awkward! Anyone experienced this?
EDIT: I now think this IS a hardware problem... Anyone experienced similar?

No, my Joggler's back button works perfectly. Running SqueezePlay OS internally.

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