iPeng support thread

[pippin]

as of markstroms suggestion:
This is the iPeng support thread. Any questions on issues, installation etc should go here.

[pippin]

I will start with twilly's question:

Sorry for yet another "I don't know how to get it to work" post!

Running XP. IP address where SC is running is 192.168.1.11

I un-zipped the files, moved everything so now my directory structure looks like this:
C:
--Program Files
----SqueezeCenter
------server
--------Plugins
----------iPeng
------------Configuration
------------HTML
--------------EN
----------------plugins
------------------iPeng
--------------------html
----------------------images
--------------------settings
--------------iPeng
----------------html
------------------images

I Stopped SC, deleted the yaml file, started SC. iPhone gives me 404 not found when i type 192.168.1.11:9000/iPeng

Please let me know what I'm doing wrong. I know it must be something simple...

1. Can you get the default skin to load (192.168.1.11:9000)
2. Can you access iPeng from your PC's browser under 192.16.1.11:9000/iPeng (NOT localhost:...)
3. Can you access iPeng from ANOTHER computer's browser under that address?
4. Do you have any firewall software running?

The installation directory structure is correct.

[twilly]

Thanks again for your help!

I will start with twilly's question:

1. Can you get the default skin to load (192.168.1.11:9000)

Yes

2. Can you access iPeng from your PC's browser under 192.16.1.11:9000/iPeng (NOT localhost:...)

No. 404

3. Can you access iPeng from ANOTHER computer's browser under that address?

No. 404

4. Do you have any firewall software running?

Yes, but it has holes for 9000 and 3483

[pippin]

Um, difficult case.
SC 7.2 I assume?
Does iPeng show up in the SqueezeCenter settings (under "Plugins")?
Is it activated?
Can you get into the iPeng settings?
This is a fresh install? Or did you upgrade from an older version of iPeng?
BTW, I just recognize that I was wrong saying that your directory structure looks fine, it doesn't have all the plugin parts (it should have a directory "lib" under "server/Plugins/iPeng").
Which version of iPeng is this?
If this is the 0.5x I posted a few days ago you might want to install the 0.52 and if it does not work install 0.5x on top of that.

[twilly]

Um, difficult case.
SC 7.2 I assume?

7.2-22900

Does iPeng show up in the SqueezeCenter settings (under "Plugins")?

No

Is it activated?

N/A

Can you get into the iPeng settings?

N/A[/UOTE]
This is a fresh install? Or did you upgrade from an older version of iPeng?[/QUOTE]Fresh install

BTW, I just recognize that I was wrong saying that your directory structure looks fine, it doesn't have all the plugin parts (it should have a directory "lib" under "server/Plugins/iPeng").

Aha! I think we've found the culprit. When I use the Extraction Wizard, it shows me all the files, but when I actually extract, it only extracts SOME of them (for instance, LIB is missing, as are all files under iPeng except .DS_store). So I downloaded WinZip Eval version, same thing happened. So I go over to my Vista machine, download iPeng052.zip, use Vista, it's even worse! Only partial directory structure and no files get Extracted. How bizarre is this?

Which version of iPeng is this?

0.5.2

If this is the 0.5x I posted a few days ago you might want to install the 0.52 and if it does not work install 0.5x on top of that.

Edit: So I was able to manually extract files one by one, and now everything works. Thanks so much!!!

[pippin]

7.2-22900NoN/AN/A
So I downloaded WinZip Eval version, same thing happened. So I go over to my Vista machine, download iPeng052.zip, use Vista, it's even worse! Only partial directory structure and no files get Extracted. How bizarre is this?

Sounds like the usual Windows unzip error. I thought it only happens on Vista (haven't seen it myself). WinZip should work, though. Strange. Will make the next version's Zip on Windows.

[ram]

I'm having problems installing ipeng on a Qnap TS109 II. I've installed it using SSOTS and it appears in the plugin settings in squeezecenter.

If I go to host/ipeng I get a blank page. If I go to settings for the ipeng plugin I get...

404 Not Found: settings/plugins/iPeng/settings/basic.html

However I can on my iPhone see the now playing using a link from a post in the main ipeng thread from this forum. And I can pause it and choose a song from the album that is playing. If I try to go to home I get a blank page.

I've got 7.2 squeezecenter
3G iphone
Macbook pro.

Any ideas?

Cheers

[pippin]

I'm having problems installing ipeng on a Qnap TS109 II. I've installed it using SSOTS and it appears in the plugin settings in squeezecenter.

If I go to host/ipeng I get a blank page. If I go to settings for the ipeng plugin I get...

404 Not Found: settings/plugins/iPeng/settings/basic.html

However I can on my iPhone see the now playing using a link from a post in the main ipeng thread from this forum. And I can pause it and choose a song from the album that is playing. If I try to go to home I get a blank page.

I've got 7.2 squeezecenter
3G iphone
Macbook pro.

Any ideas?

Cheers

Unfortunately I don't know the QNAP.
The above message means that iPeng is not installed correctly.
Did you try to delete the plugin-data.yaml (don't ask me where that is on QNAP) and restart the server?
Can you tell me the complete path where you installed iPeng to?
Do you have an idea what kind of OS the QNAP runs on?
Could you check for the same issue twilly had? Although this should really work if you extracted it on a Mac, I zipped it on a a Mac...

[jmanings]

I just got my new Ipod Touch (2g), never thought I'd finally get an Ipod.

I immediatly installed ipeng 0.52. It installed flawlessly.

I dont know what to say, this is the single best plugin ive seen in the 2 years ive had my Squeezebox! Thank you!

I have 3 questions.....

1) The local playback is awesome! I am really hoping for remote playback someday. To be able to access my home collection from work, travel etc by accessing the ip of my squeeze center.

Any thoughts on if this is a possibility in the future? Have i missed any discussion of this? I would love to know.

2) I notice my XM radio plug in is not working with ipeng. It logs me in, but it dosent show the stations or presets. All I see is a path of Home/XM Radio Online/

Just thought I'd Mention it.

3) Now all I need someone to create is a way to turn on my PC upstairs when I want to start the squeeze box. My old pc had some wake on LAN setting, which was cool. Now so for the new pc. Hope fully I can figure out a solution.

Thanks Again!

J

[pippin]

1) The local playback is awesome! I am really hoping for remote playback someday. To be able to access my home collection from work, travel etc by accessing the ip of my squeeze center.

Any thoughts on if this is a possibility in the future? Have i missed any discussion of this? I would love to know.

No, it's a possibility today.
Hence with the usual tradeoff between comfort and security
Precondition is that you have your PC accessible from the outside, to do that you might need a dynamic DNS account, e.g. from dyndns.org. A lot of routers support that out of the box so that you will not need a software on your PC.

Then there are three alternatives:

1) open port 9000 on your router and connect it to your PC. Make sure to enable password protection in Squeezecenter. Now you can access SC through <youraddress>:9000/iPeng.
To be a little bit more secure you can redirect the port to something else.
You will need iPhone/iTouch firmware 2.1 for this.

2) Jailbreak your iPod and install OpenSSL (No, I didn't recommend that :-))
Install OpenSSH on your PC and open a tunnel from your iPod, this way you can redirect SC's port to e.g. localhost. Pretty secure but a bit tedious if you don't have experience with OpenSSH
Note that this will NOT work with the "official" SSH clients on the iPod since "official" 3rd party apps can not run background processes.

3) My preferred solution: Create a VPN (virtual private network). The big advantage is that the iPod supports this "out of the box". There are three protocols available, I only know two:
a) PPTP is a Microsoft protocol and said to be not very secure. But sine it's MS I assume there should be Windows solutions for this.
b) IPSec. Secure IP. Tedious protocol but very secure and a lot of implementations available.

2) I notice my XM radio plug in is not working with ipeng. It logs me in, but it dosent show the stations or presets. All I see is a path of Home/XM Radio Online/

Just thought I'd Mention it.

Is there any way I can test this here? Do I need hard- and software to run XM plugin? No sats here in Europe...

3) Now all I need someone to create is a way to turn on my PC upstairs when I want to start the squeeze box. My old pc had some wake on LAN setting, which was cool. Now so for the new pc. Hope fully I can figure out a solution.

I use a low power device and leave it on all the time. Needed for remote access anyway.