Announce: piCorePlayer 8.0.0

[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.)

[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]

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?

[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.

[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]

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!

[pgf]

Ah. I see it now. Thx.

[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]

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.

[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]

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-]

Thanks Ronnie,

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

Paul

[Man in a van]

So, another day, another challenge

I thought to review my procedure; I made a new pCP install, expanded the FS and added the additional files but still did not install LMS



I installed SAMBA, user tc, passwd piCore

[global]
netbios name = Music
workgroup = WORKGROUP
log file = /var/log/%m.log
max log size = 1000
local master = no
security = user
map to guest = bad user
dns proxy = no
load printers = no
[Music]
path = /mnt/Music
create mask = 0664
browseable = yes
writeable = yes

One thing I did differently was to make sure I was on the "Player/Server" tab at the page bottom

And it all worked



Who'd have thunk it ?

ronnie

[Man in a van]

So this would be a Debian installation on your RPI4?

It's
Raspberry Pi OS with desktop and recommended software

from

https://www.raspberrypi.com/software/operating-systems/

ronnie

[shicoy]

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