"Now Playing" problem with 7.5.1

[testmatch]

Hi,

I'm seeing an odd behaviour with "Now Playing" on my Controller with the two most recent firmware versions (today's 8697 and whatever yesterday's was). The Controller will not go to Now Playing when connected to my Boom or Touch. The screensaver doesn't kick in when playing and trying to navigate to it directly results in the dsiplay giving a slight thrutch to the right, and popping back. The controller stays on the Home screen and won't go to the Now Playing one.

The previous firmware was fine, as is 8673 - the 7.5.0 one on MySqueezebox.com - so I've reinstalled that for now.

The really odd thing is that the controller behaves perfectly with the newer versions of firmware when connected to my Receiver - it just misbehaves with the Touch and Boom. The Touch is running on 8697 and that still shows the Now Playing screen properly.

Is anyone else seeing this?

John

[sbellon]

I'm seeing exactly the same with my Boom. Can't comment on the Touch because I don't (yet) have one.

The day before yesterday's version was r8694, btw.

[slartibartfast]

I find the same problem with my receiver so I've gone back to 7.5.0.

[bklaas]

Several of us have been trying without success to reproduce the issue with r8697 on a controller. I'd really like to get to the bottom of the problem quickly, so some extra feedback would be appreciated.

Further questions:
1. what kind of content were you playing when the problem occurred? local files? remote streams? pandora or other online service?
2. had you been using the Line In feature on the Boom previous to the problem occurring when viewing via the controller?
3. Is your controller in good wifi range? Any chance it's been roaming in and out of range of the access point?
4. Is the controller coming in and out of sleep? frequently?

If you're familiar with ssh, it could be very helpful to see the syslog file from the controller. Steps for that:

1. enable remote login (ssh), Settings->Advanced->Remote Login. Note the IP address of the controller
2. set Now Playing logging to "debug", Settings->Advanced->Logging (find and set the item for applets.NowPlaying)
3. reproduce the issue
4. scp root@<controllers IP>:/var/log/messages .

I'll keep an eye on it
cheers,
#!/ben

[spiderboy]

I'm able to reproduce the problem. Install nightly build, install new firmware on controller... and voilà: no more "Now Playing". My Controller is connected to a Receiver (Duet). WiFi Range is top. It is irrelevant, what kind of streams i choose (radio or from my library). The Now Playing Screen does never come up.

I have gone back now to 7.5. If no one else does it, i will try to create the debug log from the controller tomorrow evening.

[testmatch]

Thanks Ben,

The answers to your questions are:
1.) local files
2.) No.
3.) Yes and no respectively.
4.) No and no - it's in the holder and so on all the time playing is happening.

I've allowed it to update to 8706 and the problem is still there. The messages file would be attached if the forum allowed me to. However despite renaming it to messages.txt it won't let me. Would you like it emailed somewhere? I've switched between the Touch (imaginatively called "Touch") and Receiver (called "Officesqueeze") after setting the debug you asked for. The SBR works fine, showing the Now Playing screen as normal. The Touch gives the little thrutch to the right and refuses to go to the Now Playing screen - whether manually or when the screen saver kicks in.

John

[testmatch]

Hi Ben,

I've zipped the file and attached it to this message.

Thanks,

John

[bklaas]

Perfect, thanks.

this is likely the smoking gun--

Apr 15 17:48:26 squeezeplay: WARN squeezeplay.ui.draw - jiveL_dispatch_event:774 error in event function:
Apr 15 17:48:26 squeezeplay: ...r/share/jive/applets/NowPlaying/NowPlayingApplet.lua:150: attempt to index field 'views' (a nil value)
Apr 15 17:48:26 squeezeplay: stack traceback:
Apr 15 17:48:26 squeezeplay: ...r/share/jive/applets/NowPlaying/NowPlayingApplet.lua:150: in function 'getNPStyles'
Apr 15 17:48:26 squeezeplay: ...r/share/jive/applets/NowPlaying/NowPlayingApplet.lua:1706: in function 'showNowPlaying'
Apr 15 17:48:26 squeezeplay: ...r/share/jive/applets/NowPlaying/NowPlayingApplet.lua:1647: in function 'goNowPlaying'
Apr 15 17:48:26 squeezeplay: ...r/share/jive/applets/NowPlaying/NowPlayingApplet.lua:609: in fu

I hope to have a fix soon for this, and I really appreciate the assistance with the log file.

cheers,
#!/ben

p.s. just for full disclosure, I caused this bug. Mea culpa.

[bklaas]

r8707 has a fix for the issue shown in the log. If you can give a shot with the next daily build, I'd appreciate the feedback.

cheers,
#!/ben

[testmatch]

r8707 has a fix for the issue shown in the log. If you can give a shot with the next daily build, I'd appreciate the feedback.

cheers,
#!/ben

Has there been a problem with that, Ben? My Touch has found r8707 from somewhere, despite it not being in http://update.slimdevices.com/update/firmware/7.5.1/ but the controller hasn't picked it up. Or have I misunderstood you?

Thanks,

John