Announce: Material Skin

[mherger]

Announce: Material Skin

> I also tried to remove that line, but after restart it comes back. Did
> you only delete it in /cahce/Installedplugins/plugins ?
> In the D/L zip the line is still there...

Just leave it alone. With the next update the problem should be gone.

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Michael

[DJanGo]

Possibly a coincidence, but since installing the Material skin, something is randomly resetting players volume to zero.
Anyone else seeing this?

is there any chance that happens after you pause that player?

On my setup i only use material skin for one player and the volume from that player is muted every time i paused it.
The other players (not used with that skin) the volumelevel is untouched.

[cpd73]

is there any chance that happens after you pause that player?

On my setup i only use material skin for one player and the volume from that player is muted every time i paused it.
The other players (not used with that skin) the volumelevel is untouched.

Odd, I have just tried and I cannot recreate this. However, I have no real squeezeboxes - only Airplay and piCorePlayer.

[slartibartfast]

Odd, I have just tried and I cannot recreate this. However, I have no real squeezeboxes - only Airplay and piCorePlayer.

I tried as well and the volume was not affected by pausing with my Radio and Touch.

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[kidstypike]

Pausing doesn't seem to be the culprit for me either. Next time it happens I'll try to find the cause.

[mherger]

Announce: Material Skin

> Odd, I have just tried and I cannot recreate this. However, I have no
> real squeezeboxes - only Airplay and piCorePlayer.

Volume handling is a bitch... you change it in the UI, send the command
to the server, which in turn would tell your UI to update the volume to
the volume where it was fraction of a seconds before, as you keep
pulling the slider... as a result you see a jumping volume slider.
Happened here, too. And happened with other UIs I've been working on.

As a starter you should probably buffer volume events coming from the
server. Or ignore them as long as the user is interacting with the
volume control.

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Michael

[DJanGo]

Pausing doesn't seem to be the culprit for me either. Next time it happens I'll try to find the cause.

ok pause seems to be the wrong description.

That player is used with dont stop the music.
And i never seen the volume change when the player plays.
Only after pausing it and leave it (player and gui) alone for a while - sometimes the volume is mited.

[kidstypike]

Pausing doesn't seem to be the culprit for me either. Next time it happens I'll try to find the cause.

2 mornings on the run now, LMS default UI on PC shows volume=100, using phone/material skin, select a favourite to play, volume=0. (player is Pi/HiFiBerry/squeezelite)

[cpd73]

Looking at the code I think I know what might be causing this. Either way, I have a work-around where the skin will check that it's volume dialog is visible before sending any volume commands - and before showing this dialog, retrieve the current volume. I'll experiment more later, and make a release soon.

[Peter Galbavy]

That's a good point! I only actually have 2 players, so never thought about this. Perhaps dimming the speaker icon of powered off players? Or colouring the icon blue for powered on players? Don't really want to add another icon next to the player (as there already is a tick and speaker/group icon).

I was thinking of adding a dialog to manage the volume of all players. Perhaps this could also be used to power them on/off...

I wander away for a few days and ... nice to see all the work going on!

I see the speaker icon is now dim for off. What I do like about the traditional skin is that I can click the power button in the player list dropdown without selecting the player, typically when I have left one on by mistake and I start playing on another (they are all synced).Even if the material framework doesn't permit that level of interaction could there be a way of, at minimum, turning all players off?

I am going to try to keep up with this thread, but it's moving fast!

[cpd73]

I see the speaker icon is now dim for off. What I do like about the traditional skin is that I can click the power button in the player list dropdown without selecting the player, typically when I have left one on by mistake and I start playing on another (they are all synced).Even if the material framework doesn't permit that level of interaction could there be a way of, at minimum, turning all players off?

I have a TODO file (https://raw.githubusercontent.com/CD...al/master/TODO) that lists the features, issues, etc. that are TODO. Managing all players (so volume and power) is on the list. Putting on/off buttons on the list would be a little cramped on a mobile screen.

[BosseJ]

Minor issue with using test setup

Thank you for a really nice skin! Works very well in normal use (after disabling the "automatic update of plugins" until next release), especially nice in a Chrome window started with the "--app" parameter. I use it all the time now. Simple and clean :-)

However, I tried to setup the test config mentioned last in the Readme and couldn't make it work:

The skin may be installed on a machine separate to LMS. Currently this is how its developed. e.g.

cd in the material folder
Start python's simple HTTP server - e.g. python -m SimpleHTTPServer
Access on localhost via http://localhost:8000/?lms=192.168.0.1 (replace 192.168.0.1 with the IP address of the LMS server)

I have tried on two PC's (both are Linux Mint 18.3) using latest Firefox and Chrome, but it seems to hang with a rotating symbol and text "Looking for players". When I open a java console it shows recurring messages as quoted below:

Access to XMLHttpRequest at 'http://linux2:9000/jsonrpc.js' from origin 'http://localhost:8000' has been blocked by CORS policy: No 'Access-Control-Allow-Origin' header is present on the requested resource.
server.js:76 
Error: Network Error at e.exports (axios.min.js:8)
at XMLHttpRequest.l.onerror (axios.min.js:8)

I downloaded the plugin as a Zip-file from Github, unzipped and started the python SimpleHTTPServer with the 'material' dir as working directory.
Do you have any idea as to what I'm missing? It seems a key message to the LMS server ("linux2" in my case) is blocked on the client by the browser.

Please note - this is not a big issue in any way. The skin is actually working very well indeed.

[kidstypike]

Looking at the code I think I know what might be causing this. Either way, I have a work-around where the skin will check that it's volume dialog is visible before sending any volume commands - and before showing this dialog, retrieve the current volume. I'll experiment more later, and make a release soon.

Repeatable.

If Material is controlling player "A", and is running on my phone (even if it's in the background), then powering off player "A" by any other means (jivelite touch screen, jivelite with IR remote, Squeezer, Squeeze Ctrl, or the default webUI on a PC) then the volume is instantly set to zero.

Powering off Player "A" if Material is controlling another player has no effect on player "A's" volume.

[slartibartfast]

Repeatable.

If Material is controlling player "A", and is running on my phone (even if it's in the background), then powering off player "A" by any other means (jivelite touch screen, jivelite with IR remote, Squeezer, Squeeze Ctrl, or the default webUI on a PC) then the volume is instantly set to zero.

Powering off Player "A" if Material is controlling another player has no effect on player "A's" volume.

Can confirm this.

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[cpd73]

0.0.6 Release

Changes:

1. Initial work on SlimBrowse - only used in favorites and radios so far.
2. Dutch, German, and French translations.
3. Group players have no replaygain setting.
4. Show album year in play queue.
5. Don't sort favorites - as the order can be determined in default web UI.
6. Ensure volume is only ever adjusted whilst dialog is shown.
7. Add insert action.

Hopefully this fixes the update and volume issues.