AlienBBCto work with Squeezecentre 7.1

[Dav28]

Hi I've updated to squeezecentre 7.1. Now AlienBBC says the plugin is incompatible with this version of squeezecentre. Any easy way around this (short of going back to previous version.)
Thanks

[bpa]

Change MaxVersion in AlienBBCs install.xml from 7.0+ to *.

Stop SC. Delete plugin-data.yaml in the Cache directory and restart SC

[Dav28]

Thanks,
Um excuse my ineptitude but cant find the .yaml file. Cant even find the cache directory. I'm using Vista can anyone direct me too it?

[Triode]

Its hidden by default, but you may not need to delete the file as the editted install.xml may be new enough to make it work. Try it with just the file editted first.

[danco]

Thanks,
Um excuse my ineptitude but cant find the .yaml file. Cant even find the cache directory. I'm using Vista can anyone direct me too it?

I'm using a Mac, so can't say where the caches are on Vista.

But one confusing thing that is probably the same in both is that the subdirectory of the cache directory (at least for me, as I upgraded from the old SlimServer) is named SlimServer not SqueezeCenter

[bpa]

Cache directory being used is shown in Settings/Status.

[Zevs]

... does this work... ?? I have done this and still I get the message that the plugin is incompatible with this version of squeezecentre..

Zevs

[bpa]

It works - the error means you have not made the change correctly or not in the install.xml file that is being read by SC..

[Zevs]

Hi BPA!

Here is my install.xml file

<?xml version="1.0"?>

<extension>
<name>PLUGIN_ALIENBBC</name>
<module>Plugins::Alien::Plugin</module>
<playerMenu>RADIO</playerMenu>
<version>2.00</version>
<description>PLUGIN_ALIENBBC_DESC</description>
<creator>The AlienBBC Team</creator>
<defaultState>enabled</defaultState>
<homepageURL>http://www.x2systems.com/alienbbc/</homepageURL>
<optionsURL>plugins/Alien/settings/basic.html</optionsURL>
<icon>plugins/Alien/html/images/alien.png</icon>
<type>2</type><!-- type=extension -->
<targetApplication>
<id>SlimServer</id>
<minVersion>7.0a</minVersion>
<maxVersion>*</maxVersion>
</targetApplication>

The SC has been stopped (i.e. exited from the taskba) and the plugin-data.yaml file in the Cache folder has been removed and the computer restarted. Still I get this incompatible message.

Zevs

[bpa]

The changes works for other users - so you should look more closely at the changes you have made.
Try the following:
1. Check with logging server.plugins set to DEBUG
2. Check ownership and permission of edited install.xml and compare to original.
3. Are there hidden characters in the install.xml file or has it been encoded differently compared to original.
4. If you are using Windows - reboot the PC - Windows seems to cache some file access.
5. Check the contents of plugin-data.yaml and see if the extracted values for AlienBBC match the values from the install.xml file.