Announce: piCorePlayer 8.0.0

[unworthypapalazaru]

I’ve got something…

I still can’t get any further than this. Pretty frustrating. What’s the best next step, starting from scratch?

[Paul Webster]

Can you see the LMS server.log (pCP can show it from its own web interface on the LMS tab)?

[unworthypapalazaru]

Can you see the LMS server.log (pCP can show it from its own web interface on the LMS tab)?

like this?

[jd68]

@unworthypapalazaru
the last line in server.log explains why your LMS is not running.

LMS requires port 3483 but it is already used by another application. You might login to the Raspi via SSH and execute the following command which should show the port usage of the piCorePlayer:

sudo netstat -tunp

If the output is too long then you can search for the port 3483:

sudo netstat -tunp | grep 3483

[unworthypapalazaru]

jd68 thank you! I’ll go now and attempt to remember how log in through SSH - I’m sure I’ve done it before so hopefully I can suss it out! Thanks again for your help.

[Greg Erskine]

piCorePlayer documentation > How To > " Access piCorePlayer via ssh"

[unworthypapalazaru]

@unworthypapalazaru
the last line in server.log explains why your LMS is not running.

LMS requires port 3483 but it is already used by another application. You might login to the Raspi via SSH and execute the following command which should show the port usage of the piCorePlayer:

sudo netstat -tunp

If the output is too long then you can search for the port 3483:

sudo netstat -tunp | grep 3483

I’m not sure what I’m looking at here, but 3483 is listed?

[jd68]

Yes, you can see that Perl (process ID 9149) is using port 3483 to connect to your local player squeezelite.
But I think that this is normal (I am not running LMS on a piCorePlayer but I see similar on my LMS).

I assume that this perl instance is a leftover of a previous start attempt of LMS. Have you already tried to restart your pCP (power off and on again)?

[unworthypapalazaru]

Yes, you can see that Perl (process ID 9149) is using port 3483 to connect to your local player squeezelite.
But I think that this is normal (I am not running LMS on a piCorePlayer but I see similar on my LMS).

I assume that this perl instance is a leftover of a previous start attempt of LMS. Have you already tried to restart your pCP (power off and on again)?

Yeah, I’ve tried a restart several times. I’ll try again and see if it changes anything.

[AP.B]

Good morning. I have found piCorePlayer a fantastic advance on Raspbian+Squeezelite as it is immune to power interruptions. But I have been using the Richard Taylor parametric filters for room EQ with Raspbian and can't get them to work with piCorePlayer as an extension - I can load CAPS fine (which I believe, like the RT filters, depends on LADSPA). Richard Taylor's excellent filters are here https://faculty.tru.ca/rtaylor/rt-plugins/index.html and I have used the suggestions on this page to load them https://www.linux-magazine.com/Issue...isk/(offset)/6. I added rt-plugins-0.0.6.tcz to onboot.lst and added the tcz file itself and an md5 file to tce/optional/ on the SD card (using a Linux machine) . But at run time, RT filters do not appear in usr/local/lib/ladspa like CAPS.so does. Do you have any suggestions on how I might fix this?

[unworthypapalazaru]

like this?

I’ve tried a couple of things today. I’ve tried a Ethernet connection- that didn’t help

Made sure everything is up to date - updated PCP etc that gave me a squeeze lite error but I’ve managed to fix that so all services are running, however my issue is still not resolved. And I’m not sure how to approach the port issue identified on the log. Anyone got any other thoughts?

[Paul Webster]

I’ve tried a couple of things today. I’ve tried a Ethernet connection- that didn’t help

Made sure everything is up to date - updated PCP etc that gave me a squeeze lite error but I’ve managed to fix that so all services are running, however my issue is still not resolved. And I’m not sure how to approach the port issue identified on the log. Anyone got any other thoughts?

If you tell pCP to start LMS after it is already started you will get that error.
All you should need to do is configure pCP to start LMS on boot and then reboot.
After rebooting, and doing nothing else, wait for a few minutes and then use pCP to view the LMS logs.

[unworthypapalazaru]

If you tell pCP to start LMS after it is already started you will get that error.
All you should need to do is configure pCP to start LMS on boot and then reboot.
After rebooting, and doing nothing else, wait for a few minutes and then use pCP to view the LMS logs.

I’ve got LMS set to auto start when pcp boots.

this is the log now and I still can’t access the interface through my browser. Seems to be showing a different error

[Greg Erskine]

Good morning. I have found piCorePlayer a fantastic advance on Raspbian+Squeezelite as it is immune to power interruptions. But I have been using the Richard Taylor parametric filters for room EQ with Raspbian and can't get them to work with piCorePlayer as an extension - I can load CAPS fine (which I believe, like the RT filters, depends on LADSPA). Richard Taylor's excellent filters are here https://faculty.tru.ca/rtaylor/rt-plugins/index.html and I have used the suggestions on this page to load them https://www.linux-magazine.com/Issue...isk/(offset)/6. I added rt-plugins-0.0.6.tcz to onboot.lst and added the tcz file itself and an md5 file to tce/optional/ on the SD card (using a Linux machine) . But at run time, RT filters do not appear in usr/local/lib/ladspa like CAPS.so does. Do you have any suggestions on how I might fix this?

Maybe a separate thread for this so it doesn't disappear amongst the general questions.

[unworthypapalazaru]

Paul Webster jd68 Greg Erskine thank you all for the help. This issue is now sorted! Two evenings later, and as is the usual, it was a pretty simple fix. I changed the LMS server cache from the boot disk to the USB and hey presto, it worked. At least everything is now up to date and on the latest builds. A lot of settings were also default/different (material skin wasn’t added) but a bit of adjustment and I’m back listening to music again!