Announce: Erlands commercial plugins available for free

[erland]

> The repository should now be available again, the server had hanged so I
> just needed to restart it, sorry for the inconvenience it caused.

Thanks for fixing this so quickly!

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Michael

[erland]

Announce: Erlands commercial plugins available for free

I started to develop my first Squeezebox plugin in beginning of 2006 and now more than 11 years later I've decided to release all my commercial plugins for free.

This means that neither License Manager plugin nor a license is required to run the latest version of my commercial plugins. The free versions contains the same functionality as the latest commercial versions but with the license checks removed.

This means that the following plugins/applets are now available for free:
- Album Flow
- Custom Browse
- Custom Clock/Custom Clock Helper
- Custom Libraries
- Custom Scan
- Custom Skip
- Dynamic Playlist
- Multi Library
- SQL Playlist
- Screen Switcher
- Title Switcher
- TrackStat

The new versions of my plugins is available in my repository:

http://erland.github.io/squeezebox-downloads/repositories/latest.xml

They will also appear in the central repository as soon as the central repository has been updated.

Please let me know through this thread if I've accidentally broken any of the plugins when I removed the license checks.

The reason I've decided to release them for free is because I feel I no longer have the time to maintain them as much as needed to justify a license fee.
I also feel it's important that the plugins continue to work even if my license server would break, so I felt it was a better to completely remove the license checks instead of just offering everyone a free license.

I doubt anyone is interested to take over the maintenance but please let me know if you are, I'm happy to spend some time to answer questions regarding the code if someone is interested to take over the maintenance.

The Custom Browse, SQL Playlist and Custom Scan plugins has also been updated to be compatible with LMS 7.9, so hopefully this means that all my plugins should now be compatible with the latest LMS release.

Finally I'd like to take the chance to send a big "Thank You" to everyone who have donated money or purchased licenses to my plugins. The plugins wouldn't have been what they are today without your contribution and the received money have encourgaged me to continue the maintenance as long as I have. I'll try to continue to fix issues caused by new LMS versions, so all this doesn't mean that I'll stop maintainig the plugins completely, but any issues might not be fixed until I've upgraded my own setup to a new LMS version.

I think it's great to see that this community is still active and new plugins have been released every time I visit the forum.

[Stig Nygaard]

Thanks for all your work Erland. I'm probably going to revisit the updated Custom Browse on my LMS791 setup...

[edwin2006]

Is there a web page where the plug-in 's functionality is explained? Perhaps that's also a place for a donation link. I think everyone that' s still uses lms know that it would not exists without the effort of a few people and if one uses a product of such a volunteer then a donation would be in place. Anyway thanks for time & effort so far.

[erland]

Is there a web page where the plug-in 's functionality is explained? Perhaps that's also a place for a donation link. I think everyone that' s still uses lms know that it would not exists without the effort of a few people and if one uses a product of such a volunteer then a donation would be in place. Anyway thanks for time & effort so far.

You can find links to documentation from this wiki page: http://wiki.slimdevices.com/index.php/User:Erland

Right now I don't want to handle the accounting work required by tax authorities for donations.

[mherger]

Announce: Erlands commercial pluginsavailable for free

Erland,

I tried to update the repository file. But the update script doesn't
find any updates in your latest.xml. Could you please tell me what
version numbers there should be?

EDIT: never mind. Using https instead of http brought the updates.

EDIT2: hmm... or not? I think all that changed is the download URLs, but not the version numbers, or hashes.

[erland]

Erland,

I tried to update the repository file. But the update script doesn't
find any updates in your latest.xml. Could you please tell me what
version numbers there should be?

EDIT: never mind. Using https instead of http brought the updates.

EDIT2: hmm... or not? I think all that changed is the download URLs, but not the version numbers, or hashes.

I executed the script myself before your post so that probably caused the confusion, the central repository file seems to contain the correct versions now.

For those that are interested the new free versions are:
- Album Flow 1.2.24
- Custom Browse 2.15.676
- Custom Clock 2.12.140
- Custom Clock Helper 2.11.94
- Custom Libraries 0.2.6
- Custom Scan 2.10.51
- Custom Skip 2.5.83
- Dynamic Playlist 2.10.247
- Multi Library 2.8.168
- Screen Switcher 1.2.13
- SQL Playlist 2.6.272
- Title Switcher 1.3.23
- TrackStat 3.3.602

[dermicha]

Hi erland,

I have to restart the whole server, when I try to download latest playlists and queries for SQL-Playlist and Database Query. The server hangs...

Could you please fix it?

Thanks in advance.

[DuLac]

Thank you, Earland

[erland]

I have to restart the whole server, when I try to download latest playlists and queries for SQL-Playlist and Database Query. The server hangs...

Could you please fix it?

Thanks for reporting, I think this has been broken since sometime last year when I changed my server infrastructure.
Will try to fix it but it's likely going take some time, looks like it's related to my server infrastructure not working properly.

For now I would advice people to NOT use the download buttons in SQL Playlist, Custom Browse and Multi Library plugins as they will likely hang the server.

[dermicha]

Thanks erland.

Some other question or problem.

After updating CustomClockHelper my custom themes are gone.

They are on my radios and touches but not on the server. Any chance to restore them from the devices by ssh?

[erland]

After updating CustomClockHelper my custom themes are gone.

Did you just update or did you delete something else ?
Just updating shouldn't remove any styles as far as I know

The styles are stored in customclockhelper.prefs file, so if you can get that from a backup it would be a solution.

They are on my radios and touches but not on the server. Any chance to restore them from the devices by ssh?

Have to get back to you regarding this. In theory they are stored in the settings file for CustomClock on the device but I think the format differs so it might not be that easy to retrieve it.

[slartibartfast]

In the Custom Clock Applet for the Touch all I can see in settings is a list of Config#1, Config#2 etc. I was just wondering what these configs are and how to use them.

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[dermicha]

Did you just update or did you delete something else ?
Just updating shouldn't remove any styles as far as I know

The styles are stored in customclockhelper.prefs file, so if you can get that from a backup it would be a solution.


Have to get back to you regarding this. In theory they are stored in the settings file for CustomClock on the device but I think the format differs so it might not be that easy to retrieve it.

I only have the following in the prefs-file.

---
_ts_customitemsrefreshinterval: 1492450342
_ts_customitemsstartuprefreshinterval: 1492450342
_ts_titleformats: 1492450342
_version: 2
customitemsrefreshinterval: 300
customitemsstartuprefreshinterval: 60
titleformats: []

Where are the predefined styles?

[erland]

In the Custom Clock Applet for the Touch all I can see in settings is a list of Config#1, Config#2 etc. I was just wondering what these configs are and how to use them.

You select style for each configuration in Settings/Screen/Screensavers/Custom Clock Settings

If you want customize a style or create your own you do this through Custom Clock Helper plugin in LMS, see more information here:

http://wiki.slimdevices.com/index.php/Custom_Clock_applet