Announce: piCorePlayer 8.0.0

[stereoptic]

This usually indicates a problem in the file /opt/.filetool.lst

Is there a leading / ?

Or a file or directory that no longer exists.

Maybe /usr/local/slimserver/Plugins

That was it! Thanks!

(I should have paid closer attention to: https://docs.picoreplayer.org/information/pcp_backup/ )

[Viragored]

Static IP address > DHCP = dead pCP

Hi - sorry if this issue has already been addressed somewhere in the forums, my searches failed to turn up any kind of solution.

I've been running pCP 8 and LMS 8 on an RPi 3B. I'd set a static IP address of x.x.x.99. A new router enables me to link the Pi's MAC address to the required IP address within the router. On the pCP main (Beta) page I clicked "Static IP" and on the target page selected the DHCP radio button, and re-booted....

From that moment on the Pi was effectively dead. The router didn't allocate it an IP address from the DHCP range, SSH didn't give access (no surprises there!), just nothing working. I wondered if the SD card had died for some reason so flashed a spare card with a backup image - which was pCP 7, written immediately before upgrading to pCP8.

The Pi rebooted as normal from the replacement SD card and all appeared well. LMS even resumed the Spotify playlist I had going in Spotty which was a pleasant surprise.

I then went to the pCP 7 main page, through to the Static IP page, clicked the "DHCP" button, rebooted and - - - the Pi once more was dead, exactly as with the pCP 8 SD card. Presumably this is not an issue directly related to pCP 8.

Any pointers, anyone? I'd prefer not to start with a brand new pCP install if I can avoid it by some kind of work-around.

Edit: I'm using Ethernet for this Pi - wifi isn't involved

[If this issue should really be in a different thread, I'll start one and link to it from here.]

[Greg Erskine]

I just tested DHCP > static IP > DHCP > static IP > DHCP. Worked OK.

You may need a monitor to see if an IP has been assigned or use an IP scanner, or see if there are any error messages.

Try using http://hostname.local

[Viragored]

I just tested DHCP > static IP > DHCP > static IP > DHCP. Worked OK.

You may need a monitor to see if an IP has been assigned or use an IP scanner, or see if there are any error messages.

Try using http://hostname.local

Thanks for the reply, Greg - issue resolved apparently all by itself. Another day, another result.... I suspect the problem was in my new router which might have been up to some tricks yesterday. The TV is also connected over ethernet and also had some issues yesterday while streaming.

All pCP stuff seems to be working correctly today - On the 'Beta' main page I selected DHCP, rebooted and the pCP Pi showed correctly in the table of dynamic IP addresses on the network. Next I set the IP I wanted in the router's table, rebooted pCP and all is good. One difference I noticed from yesterday is that then the router was not finding the host name of several devices, including pCP, but was showing them up as "unknown" followed by their MAC address. Today the host names are all there, as expected (apart from the TV which remains "unknown"!).

Cheers :-)

[kidstypike]

Argon M.2 case and piCorePlayer.

I need help.

I've got the Argon M.2 extension board for my Argon one case, and a 240GB Internal SSD M.2 SATA board, assembled as per instructions, powered up my Pi4/4GB expecting to see the SATA board as a mountable USB drive on the LMS page, but no USB drives showing.

Or is it not that simple?


Thank you.

[Jeff07971]

I need help.

I've got the Argon M.2 extension board for my Argon one case, and a 240GB Internal SSD M.2 SATA board, assembled as per instructions, powered up my Pi4/4GB expecting to see the SATA board as a mountable USB drive on the LMS page, but no USB drives showing.

Or is it not that simple?


Thank you.

As long as the USB/SATA Bridge has a driver under pCP I would assume so.

Jeff

[kidstypike]

As long as the USB/SATA Bridge has a driver under pCP I would assume so.

Jeff

Thanks Jeff, but I'm at a loss on what to do with this splendid advice.

[carsten_h]

expecting to see the SATA board as a mountable USB drive on the LMS page, but no USB drives showing.

I have two of these cases here but I am using them with Home Assistant and Raspberry Pi OS and I am using the M.2 SSD as the bootmedium. I have this case without M.2 SSD for libreELEC and one for piCorePlayer with LMS with an external SSD.
I think that your problem maybe that the M.2 SSD is brand new ans without any partitionmap and filesystem on it. So you only have to get a partitionmap and a filesystem onto the SSD. That should do it.
I can tell you how you can do this on a Mac (you only have to attach a USB-A to USB-A cable to connect the M.2 SSD to a Mac or PC or something else), I have no experience with Linux here.

[kidstypike]

I have two of these cases here but I am using them with Home Assistant and Raspberry Pi OS and I am using the M.2 SSD as the bootmedium. I have this case without M.2 SSD for libreELEC and one for piCorePlayer with LMS with an external SSD.
I think that your problem maybe that the M.2 SSD is brand new ans without any partitionmap and filesystem on it. So you only have to get a partitionmap and a filesystem onto the SSD. That should do it.
I can tell you how you can do this on a Mac (you only have to attach a USB-A to USB-A cable to connect the M.2 SSD to a Mac or PC or something else), I have no experience with Linux here.

Thanks, just about the only cable I don't have.

Is this the one? https://www.amazon.co.uk/UGREEN-Tran...xpY2s9dHJ1ZQ==

[carsten_h]

Is this the one?

This looks good!

But there has to be also a solution to bring a partition map and filesystem to a device in piCorePlayer. But I simply don‘t know how.

[Jeff07971]

This looks good!

But there has to be also a solution to bring a partition map and filesystem to a device in piCorePlayer. But I simply don‘t know how.

I'm fairly sure there will be if you know how to use SSH to talk to the Pi.

I only use pCP as players and have LMS on a "Full" linux system so cannot help at the moment when I get a moment I'll attach a USB HDD to a Pi and work it out.

In the meantime maybe someone else will chime in

There maybe something in this thread

https://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?113575-How-To-Using-the-Argon-One-case-for-the-Pi-4B-together-with-piCorePlayer-(7-x)&p=1002008&viewfull=1#post1002008

but I haven't looked in depth

Jeff

[Man in a van]

This looks good!

But there has to be also a solution to bring a partition map and filesystem to a device in piCorePlayer. But I simply don‘t know how.

Is the pCP os Installed on the sata m thingy ?

ronnie

[kidstypike]

Is the pCP os Installed on the sata m thingy ?

ronnie

No, it's installed on a SD card in the usual fashion, with a 1TB portable SSD holding my music files.

The Argon M.2 case/internal SSD drive seemed an ideal way of tidying things up by not having a SSD drive hanging out the back of the case.

[strebor56]

I bougt a cable to plug the housing into my laptop, but you could boot a copy of RaspOS and use Gparted:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ybNDevyzFM

Bonne chance..S

[Man in a van]

No, it's installed on a SD card in the usual fashion, with a 1TB portable SSD holding my music files.

The Argon M.2 case/internal SSD drive seemed an ideal way of tidying things up by not having a SSD drive hanging out the back of the case.

does it show up under

lsusb

or

dmesg

if you ssh into the card?