iPeng support thread

[pippin]

> Thanks. I'm not that impressed by ipeng.... If only there was a
> standalone material app which by far is the best controller yet.

I save a Material link to the home screen. It then behaves like an app,
eg. no browser window around it etc.

[pippin]

iPeng support thread

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!!!

[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]

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.

[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...

[Bryan Jan]

as suggested by Pippin, I re-post my question here.

Sorry in advance if this question has been asked before, but I can't locate the solution in the archiv.

I want to install the iPeng into the ReadyNAS NV+ so that I don't have to switch on my computer. There always has a ReadyNAS version for Squeezecenter so that I can use the built-in upgrade function to install it, I hope iPeng can do the same. I remember I saw someone mentioned using some SSH to hack into the NAS and put the iPeng into the plug-in directory of Slimserver, but I can't find it now. Hope someone can enlighten me how to do it, thanks.

Bryan
__________________
Regards,
Bryan
SB3+PSA DL3

[pippin]

Thanks for moving this here.
You might also want to have a look at the ReadyNAS forum.

http://www.readynas.com/forum/index.php

I KNOW iPeng has to run on ReadyNAS somehow since there are quite a few trackbacks from that site to my site describing how iPeng works. None on installation, though, so I assume there will be general plugin installation instructions or something.
But people seem to use this configuration.

[Bryan Jan]

thanks Pippin,

yes I did look around in ReadyNas site too. There is none mentioned how to install iPeng into it. However, there are threads describing how to install other plugins into it, guess it will be more or less the same.

if I can install iPeng successfully by following that I will report back here so that other use can follow.

Bryan

[atz6975]

Ipeng Readynas add-on

http://www.readynas.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=47&t=21063&start=0&st=0&sk=t&sd=a

[pippin]

http://www.readynas.com/forum/viewto...st=0&sk=t&sd=a

Thanks. Interesting.
Will add that link to my page.

Does anybody have a short note about how you install that on ReadyNAS? I don't know that system at all.

[atz6975]

1)Download above linked file
2)Open Frontview (Readynas web admin)
3) Choose System-Update-Local and select file from step 1)
4) Go to services-streaming services-uncheck Slimserver and press apply
5) Go to services-streaming services-check Slimserver and press apply
4) Regular squeezecenter/ipeng is now up and running

Ipeng rocks!!!

BTW: I think that drag'n'drop of the last track of a longer than one page playlist is somehow tricky. I usually move the penultimate down first.