Help Setting Up Squeeze Server

[Darkmatter]

Hi,

I recently got hold of a second hand Joggler with the intention of setting up squeezeplay with PNPIII. I have done the SPDIF mod which as worked superbly!

I now want to setup squeeze server and I am slowly learning the "ins and outs" of the software. I hold all my music on a linux server and it seems that I have to set up a mount on the joggler to access the music on the linux server. However, the server is not always on and I can see possible connection issues and I assume it would be better to install squeeze server on to the linux server instead.

I am really just after some advice from people who are a little more au-fait with the set up before I dive in.

If I install squeeze server on the linux box how do I stop the service on the Joggler, I don't really want 2 servers running? I'm slowly learning linux, but don't use it often enough to really get to grips with it.

Thanks,

Dave

[JimbobVFR400]

For some reason Logitech can't seem to leave things alone and have changed the servers name several times, it's now called LMS (Logitech Media Server)
Anyway I agree that running LMS on your Linux box would probably be a better idea.

I have 2 PnP jogglers and haven't actually bothered to work out how to stop the LMS on them, in practice having these extra servers running causes no issues whatsoever. Just make sure that your server have suitable unique names so you don't get them confused. You could even use the on board LMS for Internet radio and Spotify using the 3rd party plugin without needing your main Linux box running.

To change the servers name open the LMS Web interface <IP ADDRESS>:9000 and there's a field on the general tab for this. The PnP server is by default called Atom.

I'm sure it'd be easy to stop the PnP server running though, by editing some scripts either before installing PnP to stop it installing or by editing a script to stop it starting by using ssh to log in to joggler. PnP doesn't have Nano or VIM installed though so you'd have to use VI to edit the files.

Do you have use for the other functions in PnP? If squeezeplay is all you want then squeezeplayOS might be a better option than PnP for a dedicated squeezeplay joggler. LMS is optional so no need to disable it, no faffing about with having to start squeezeplay if you accidentally quit it and you can also optionally install an Airplay client on SqPOS which can be handy if you have any apple devices.

SqPOS can either be run from a USB stick, leaving PnP still available if you boot without the stick or installed internally on the flash memory. My joggler has a wired connection so I removed the internal usb wifi card and used this internal usb to insert my usb stick. Works very well and you wouldn't know my joggler is running of a stick and not the internal memory.

[offbeatdave]

So far the only way I've come up with for stopping LMS on the Joggler OS (when it is running that is)

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killall perl

as I think that LMS is all that uses Perl and to restart it I use

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/media/gforums/apps/logitechmediaserver-7.7.x-xxxxx/slimserver.pl --daemon

(replacing x with the appropriate digits for your install directory if it has a numbered reference - the next version of LMS will do away with the numbers.)

[Darkmatter]

Thanks for your responses, I'll give it a go this evening.

Dave