How to get Squeezeplay working without a wi-fi connection.

[Imagewerx]

Works and boots properly now with the new line in fstab and I get this (I might not have closed the session down properly last time).......

login as: joggler
joggler@192.168.0.4's password:
Last login: Sat Jan 1 00:00:29 2005
joggler@openframe:~$ sudo ls /mnt/usbdrive
1000000 Disco Wish You Were Here
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joggler@openframe:~$

[castalla]

Thank goodness!

Now, you need to get into the LMS gui via browser: http:192.168.x.x:9000

(change to your ip address)

Go to Settings - Basic Settings tab

1. Media Library Name - whatever you want - eg USBDRIVE

2. Media Folders - change to /mnt/usbdrive

3. Rescan media library - Clear library and rescan everything - hit Rescan button

4. Go to Information tab - check the scan completes without errors.

5. If all okay, then go to Joggler Squeezeplay menu - My Music - scroll down to Switch Library - you should see USBDRIVE - select

6. That's it

.........................

Now - if above works, then you should shut down the Joggler's wifi connection (assume you'll do this by closing down the hotspot?). Reboot the Joggler - you should only get a reduced main menu - but My Music should be there and it should show your music.

[Imagewerx]

Done all that but it still only finds USBDRIVE when it's got wi-fi.

[castalla]

What if you change the settings to ethernet?

I'm scared we break anything else!

[Imagewerx]

No still won't find the music switched to ethernet. Not really a problem as I can always reflash to recover from a breaking can't I?

[castalla]

Reflash should be okay.

When you set it up - did you do the registering at mysqueezebox.com routine?

I think somewhere in settings there's an option to deregister. Try that.

[Imagewerx]

De-registered and reset everything to default and it still won't work without wi-fi.

[castalla]

I'm baffled.

Go to the LMS gui - top right dropdown list of players - select Squeezeplay.

Reboot without wifi.

Any luck?

[Imagewerx]

It's set to Squeezeplay anyway and won't let me select anything else.......

[castalla]

Rats!

When wifi is down - you see My Music? What dislays when you select it?

I've asked on squeezebox forum for some advice.

[Imagewerx]

I get My Music on the home screen and when I select it it tries for just a few seconds to connect to USBDRIVE and then comes up with the 'Problem Connecting' screen.If I tap 'Try Again' or 'Switch Library',it tries again for a few seconds before going back to the 'Problem Connecting' screen

[castalla]

Is USBDRIVE listed as a Switch Library destination?

Okay. Thanks. Give me 24 hrs to think/investigate.

[Imagewerx]

Is USBDRIVE listed as a Switch Library destination?

Okay. Thanks. Give me 24 hrs to think/investigate.

It doesn't give any other libraries to switch to,just tries USBDRIVE for a few seconds and gives up again.

Once again a massive thanks for all your help with this.Hope you didn't stay in today purely to help me ?

[castalla]

Right. I installed LMS on my Win PC - which has Squeezeplay on it.

Duplicated the non-wifi session. Squeezeplay sees the local drive and plays the files. ????

[Imagewerx]

So as long as LMS is installed and running on my Joggler,I should be able to play locally stored music files without wi-fi?

[castalla]

Yes - in theory!

Is LMS installed or not? I thought it was.

I suppose the real test is for me to set up my Joggler to see what happens.

[Imagewerx]

It says it's installed (or did last time I reflashed it).If I try to install/update,restart or remove it,is says it will proceed in the background but doesn't ever seem to do anything.

Does that fact that it only works from a remote version of LMS mean it's not actually getting installed on my Joggler then?

[castalla]

Login to joggler.

Type

top


You'll see a list of running processes.

There should be an entry called 'squeezeboxserve' displayed as the list slowly scrolls.

Exit top by hitting the Q key

[castalla]

A big difference between my setup on the Joggler and yours is that I use the usb SqpOS version - not the internal memory version. As rhoobarb pointed out there isn't much space left on the internal memory if you install LMS as well as squeezeplay.

[castalla]

I'll try tomorrow or Tuesday to set up my Joggler without wifi and a local usb drive.