Announce: piCorePlayer 8.0.0

[paul-]

Thanks Ronnie,

I'm still blaming windows, but that give me a rabbit hole to look in.

Paul

[pgf]

Hello mates. Someone know howto can install minidlna on picore?

Bumping this, because I need it too, and was just searching. It seems that minidlna is available from the TCL repo, but only for some releases.

It's available for x86 here:

http://tinycorelinux.net/13.x/x86/tcz/

and for ARM here:

http://tinycorelinux.net/7.x/armv7/tcz/

It's not in the piCorePlayer v8.2.0 extension lists.

I tried tce-loading the 7.x version, but it's missing dependencies, so clearly I'd need to download more to make it work. And even then it might not.

Can anyone comment on why minidlna would only appear in a couple of tinycore package repos? And, would it be hard to get it into the pCP repos? I'm willing to do some legwork on this, but could maybe use some tips along the way.

[paul-]

You will have to ask the question over at the tinycore forums. piCorePlayer is only based on that OS. piCorePlayer is for LMS installations. I'm sure we can offer some guidance, but I have no interest is adding this to pCP officially.

Start a separate thread.

[pgf]

Okey doke. Thanks Paul.

Can I ask -- what's the relationship, if any, between pCP and TCL version numbers? There's nothing on the extensions page (that I noticed) that tells me what version of the "Official piCore Repository" is being accessed.

[Greg Erskine]

The piCore/TCL version is usually displayed in the footer.

Note: The Tiny Core Linux forum is for piCore specific issues, they don't respond to piCorePlayer questions.

[pgf]

Ah. I see it now. Thx.

[pgf]

I feel like I almost have the answer to this, but not quite: from the web interface, when I load an extension, it downloads, along with its dependencies, and becomes "permanent" (until deleted).

How can I do this from the command line? I found "tce-load -wi", and thought that was it, but the extension doesn't seem to reload after a reboot. (And I think that command might not bring along dependencies, though I now realize my test case probably didn't have any.) I suspect onboot.lst is part of the solution... but it's clearly time to ask the experts. :-)

How can I duplicate the web interface's behavior for loading and deleting extensions (including for extensions from the tinycore repos, in case that makes a difference) using the command line?

Many thanks in advance!

[Greg Erskine]

You're on track.

tce-load -wi does download the extension *and* adds it to onboot.lst so it loads after a reboot.

Dependances will automatically load.

Paul has also enhanced tce-load, it's called it pcp-load. It has the -r option to define the repository on the command line rather than using the mirror defined.

Older code will uses tce-load, newer uses pcp-load.

Look at xtras_extensions.cgi for the commands we use.

Have you looked at the "Into the Core" book?

[pgf]

Thank you -- I didn't know about "Into the Core". Looks useful. ;-) pcp-load, as well.

And xtras_extensions.cgi led me to /opt/tcemirror. Fantastic. Thank you.

I could have sworn that when I used "tce-load -wi" yesterday that my extension didn't load on the next boot. I'll pay more attention going forward.

[pgf]

Follow-on: the string "KERNEL" is special in some places in the management of extensions, presumably to keep things working after a kernel upgrade.

I've just noticed that:
On one of my pCP units, onboot contains usb-serial-5.15.35-pcpCore-v7.tcz.
On another, onboot contains usb-serial-KERNEL-pcpCore-v7.tcz.
On a third, it contains both(!).

Which is correct?

[paul-]

Both would be correct, The entry with KERNEL in it was managed by someone typing it in, and then using tce-load -iw would put in the kernel number

Removing a extension never automatically removes an onboot entry..... (That is all extra stuff we manage in the web interface for applications we manage.

[pgf]

Okay -- thanks!!

(And thanks for all the other work you and the team have put in as well. I have audio available in most rooms of the house, and have also leveraged those rPis for other home automation tasks as well: temperature and power monitoring, sprinkler control, and most recently, serving video from minidlna. I could have done it all with Raspbian, I suppose, but piCorePlayer is a much better solution, in my opinion.)

[psternak]

I had been running picoreplayer ver 7 on a raspberry pi 400 and decided to upgrade to the latest release. Created a new boot micro sd (64 bit version). Upon booting, console output is missing. All I get is a large rectangle surrounded by black. During boot there are a brief couple of screen flashes but nothing readable.The rectangle looks like a color wheel but no mouse control or response to keyboard input. Is this intentional? I have seen posts about hiding console messages.

The player is answering on the web interface and I have lms installed and working. SSH access works. The boot logs don't show any errors I can see. I'm using hdmi directly to the viewsonic monitor. I have confirmed the connection is good by booting a standard raspberry release sd, video and audio work fine with that.

Am I missing something regarding console output?

psternak

[sckramer]

Does anyone else use 5G Home Internet and have this problem? The Internet basically works in all other areas except these, it's probably this basic ping check... Reading that 5G messes with ICMP ping packets
...any hack or way around this, or fix?

Frustrating, also I try once in a while over the last few months... always the same for all installs. Have to fresh install, and can't install LIRC.

From SSH DNS lookups work, pinging 8.8.8.8 (and others) is weird, drops, and slow... otherwise normal and fast. Same on PC/Mac fast except ping.

Thanks!

[huxmut]

..
Does anyone else use 5G Home Internet and have this problem? The Internet basically works in all other areas except these, it's probably this basic ping check... Reading that 5G messes with ICMP ping packets
...any hack or way around this, or fix?

I havent had this issue, but I'd try a free VPN (or your own if you have one) as the first step.

tunnelbear are trustworthy(ish) and have a free gig to burn per month.