Announce: Beta version of SvrPowerControl

[gharris999]

Sorry, I was being a bit dense, should have provided those details.

OS : Ubuntu 9.04
SQ : 7.3.4 - 28180
(latest version of SPC)

Thanks for your help,
Chris.

Also, Epoch1970's question is relevant: is the ftp command being initiated on the server...i.e. is the sever "pulling" the data as part of the backup routine? Or are the clients initiating the ftp session and "pushing" the data to the server? If so, what's the OS on the client machines?

[gharris999]

On the server running Linux Ubuntu 9.04
Can not install SrvrPowerCtrl

Always get this error
Wrong Repository http://srvrpowerctrl.googlecode.com/svn/repo.xml - Couldn't resolve IP address for: srvrpowerctrl.googlecode.com

sorry my english is not so good

No, your English is excellent, especially in comparison to my Deutsch, which ist sehr schlecht.

I'm just trying to verify that SrvrPowerCtrl still installs via the repo with SC 7.3.4. Give me a little more time to test that and then I'll have a recommendation for you.

Thanks for your patience.

[chris.mason]

Also, Epoch1970's question is relevant: is the ftp command being initiated on the server...i.e. is the sever "pulling" the data as part of the backup routine? Or are the clients initiating the ftp session and "pushing" the data to the server? If so, what's the OS on the client machines?

Yes good points...

FTP is being initiated on the client machine, which is running Windows XP Pro (hence why your script would work for me).

Chris.

[gharris999]

On the server running Linux Ubuntu 9.04
Can not install SrvrPowerCtrl

Always get this error
Wrong Repository http://srvrpowerctrl.googlecode.com/svn/repo.xml - Couldn't resolve IP address for: srvrpowerctrl.googlecode.com

sorry my english is not so good

I just verified that SrvrPowerCtrl, at least on my Fedora box, installs just fine via the 7.3.4 Extension downloader and the repo. I really don't know what could be going wrong in your case.

But, assuming that this problem doesn't magically fix itself, here are instructions to "manually" install SrvrPowerCtrl in Ubuntu:


From a terminal prompt, perform these commands (you may want to copy them from here, one at a time, and paste them into the terminal window):

cd /var/lib/squeezecenter/Plugins
sudo /etc/init.d/squeezecenter stop
wget http://srvrpowerctrl.googlecode.com/files/SrvrPowerCtrl_latest.zip -O SrvrPowerCtrl.zip
unzip ./SrvrPowerCtrl.zip
sudo /var/lib/squeezecenter/Plugins/SrvrPowerCtrl/scripts/Debian/srvrpowerctrl-setup.sh
sudo /etc/init.d/squeezecenter start

I hope this gets you up and running.

[gharris999]

Yes good points...

FTP is being initiated on the client machine, which is running Windows XP Pro (hence why your script would work for me).

Chris.

Then please have a look at the "play_media_monkey.cmd" script I posted above. You ought to be able to modify that script pretty easily for your purposes.

Just curious: have you tried any of the windows rsync ports, rather than using ftp to push your backup data? Rsync might give you more control over your backup. DeltaCopy contains a windows port of rsync: http://www.aboutmyip.com/AboutMyXApp/DeltaCopy.jsp

[gharris999]

FYI, when using SrvrPowerCtrl with the 7.4 beta nightlies on linux, you'll need to "fix up" the entries in /etc/sudoers: replace all instances of the "squeezecenter" user name with "squeezeboxserver". To do this, execute these commands from a terminal:

export VISUAL=nano
sudo visudo

This will open /etc/sudoers in the nano editor. Then just change 'squeezecenter' entries to 'squeezeboxserver'.

I'll have to figure out how I'm going to make my setup scripts version aware.

[epoch1970]

I'll have to figure out how I'm going to make my setup scripts version aware.

Sheesh. There is no way to get a user alias under Unix ? (I don't know any.) Adding to a secondary group, I know, but user (login) alias, I don't.

Anyway, you could test for what "/usr/bin/id squeezebox" returns ? And if there is an id, shove extra lines in sudoers.
Just an idea.

[gharris999]

Sheesh. There is no way to get a user alias under Unix ? (I don't know any.) Adding to a secondary group, I know, but user (login) alias, I don't.

Anyway, you could test for what "/usr/bin/id squeezebox" returns ? And if there is an id, shove extra lines in sudoers.
Just an idea.

Yes, I think you're right. That's the way to do it. Thanks for that!

[dip]

You can use my SCCLITool.exe utility that's available in the SCPowerTool.zip download: http://srvrpowerctrl.googlecode.com/...ool_latest.zip

Your batch file might look something like this:

play_media_monkey.cmd

@echo off
set BROADCASTIP=192.168.1.255
set SCSERVERIP=192.168.1.200
set SCPORT=9090
set SCSERVERMAC=AABBCCDDEE

:checkwake
echo Checking scserver status..
ping %SCSERVERIP% -n 1 -w 10 >NUL 2>&1

if errorlevel 1 goto wakeup
goto awake

:wakeup
echo SCServer is asleep...attempting to wake it up..
rem Wakeup the server..
%windir%\util\wolcmd.exe %SCSERVERMAC% %BROADCASTIP% 255.255.255.0 7 >NUL 2>&1
sleep 18
goto checkwake

:awake
sleep 5

:setblock
%windir%\util\SCCliTool.exe srvrpowerctrl setblock Media_Monkey_Playing viacli -h scserver -p %SCPORT%

:play_media_monkey
rem insert media_monkey command line here..e.g.:
start "Media Monkey" /WAIT "C:\Program Files\MediaMonkey\mediamonkey.exe" 

:clearblock
%windir%\util\SCCliTool.exe srvrpowerctrl clearblock Media_Monkey_Done viacli -h %SCSERVERIP% -p %SCPORT%

You'll need to fix up the "set XXX=XXX" values to match your own setup. And I'm totally guessing as to what the command line for Media Monkey might be. You'll need to fix that up too.

You can get the wake-on-lan cmd line tool from http://www.depicus.com/wake-on-lan/wake-on-lan-cmd.aspx. You can get the sleep and other utilities as part of the Windows Server 2003 Resource Tool Kit from here: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/d...displaylang=en

Thanks a lot, your tool and the script are great!

(Only one short comment for others who want to use it: The "scserver" in the setblock line must be changed to "%SCSERVERIP%)

[chris.mason]

Then please have a look at the "play_media_monkey.cmd" script I posted above. You ought to be able to modify that script pretty easily for your purposes.

Just curious: have you tried any of the windows rsync ports, rather than using ftp to push your backup data? Rsync might give you more control over your backup. DeltaCopy contains a windows port of rsync: http://www.aboutmyip.com/AboutMyXApp/DeltaCopy.jsp

Yep, I'm intending to use the script you posted earlier.

On my (very long) list of things to do is try rsync. I've actually used a simple rsync config before, but didn't have the time to get everything as I wanted (I've got cygwin running on the Windows machine, principally to provide SSH access, but I also get rsync out of it too).

Cobian does pretty much all I want at the moment. I will take a look at deltacopy however.

Thanks
Chris.