Picoreplayer: auto switching in now playing

[Paytheprice]

Thanks for the quick response.Now I will try to get the CustomClock Applet onto my piCorePlayer Touch.

[Paul Webster]

For SB Classic it is LMS that is (indirectly) driving the display so all of the controllable elements are in the LMS menu.
For Radio (and Touch and Controller) it is the player (SqueezePlay/Jive) that is driving the display based on a different set of stats that LMS sends it.
So the configuration is via SqueezePlay and the applets that are installed within it.

[Paytheprice]

You must remember that many of these plugins were written for the older hardware Squeezebox players with a VDU display (Transporter, Classic, Boom, etc.)

Their settings are usually found under LMS > Settings > Player > Basic settings.

Here's what I see for my Slim Devices SB3 (Classic) below.

NB, I don't use any of Erlands plugins, way too complex for me.

I don't even use my Classic just plugged it in now to demonstrate.

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I am a little bit surprised. This is what I see on my LMS:



There is quite a lot missing.

[bengaldave]

ScreenSwitcher is missing jive target, maybe this is why a manual install was require

I have custom clock working now, needed to manually copy over the correct version of the files needed for the piCoreplayer.

ScreenSwitcher is missing jive target, maybe this is why a manual install was required

I have screenswitcher working.

I manually copied the files over.


On GitHub there is this file, in which some have
targets=jive
And some do not.

https://github.com/LMS-Community/lms...extensions.xml

Screenswitcher is missing the target=jive

So this might explain why I had to install screenswitcher manually as it never appears in the applet install list on the previous piCoreplayer

Still need to see why customclock while installed does not work, cannot click on custom clock menus

[bengaldave]

@Greg Erskine Thanks
@stereoptic Thanks

Will review later today

[Greg Erskine]

@bluetdi

Hmm, didn’t Greg just say the file system is created fresh on each boot?

How do I access the pi as root? The docs show user tc, don’t see a login for root.

A couple of backup topics: https://docs.picoreplayer.org/tags/backup/

There is no root login, use sudo.

If you are using winSCP then add "sudo -s" to the shell option.

[stereoptic]

Copy the applets to:
/home/tc/.jivelite/userpath/applets

CustomClock.zip seems to be too large to upload, you have to get it from your Touch.

You can find CustomClock.zip here:

https://sourceforge.net/projects/superdatetimewu/files/CC_STUFF/

This thread gives excellent step-by-step instructions how to load the files on to the picoreplayer:

https://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?105083-Custom-Clock-for-Jivelite-with-800x480-Screen&highlight=Custom+clock

[bengaldave]

Okay reading through the docs I see that there are different directories that need to be backed up.

Will read through the docs again

[bengaldave]

Did not know about the VU-meters as extensions, but you can switch between different custom clock screens with screen switcher. I use it to see my Off-screen and a radar screen every 5 minutes for 30 seconds. You may cycle between more screens too if you like.
Screen Switcher is no longer available under plugins, don‘t know why, but I had it from the times when I used the Touch.
To copy it to the Pi you need access to it as root, configure SSH appropriate.

@kidstypike

Thanks for the info

@bluetdi

Hmm, didn’t Greg just say the file system is created fresh on each boot?

How do I access the pi as root? The docs show user tc, don’t see a login for root.

[bluetdi]

Did not know about the VU-meters as extensions, but you can switch between different custom clock screens with screen switcher. I use it to see my Off-screen and a radar screen every 5 minutes for 30 seconds. You may cycle between more screens too if you like.
Screen Switcher is no longer available under plugins, don‘t know why, but I had it from the times when I used the Touch.
To copy it to the Pi you need access to it as root, configure SSH appropriate.

[bengaldave]

Oh, okay, I am new to picoreplayer.

Okay so if applets were working (custom lock helper for example) it would download fresh each reboot

[kidstypike]

Yes, my LMS also shows SaverSwitcher.l

You must remember that many of these plugins were written for the older hardware Squeezebox players with a VDU display (Transporter, Classic, Boom, etc.)

Their settings are usually found under LMS > Settings > Player > Basic settings.

Here's what I see for my Slim Devices SB3 (Classic) below.

NB, I don't use any of Erlands plugins, way too complex for me.

I don't even use my Classic just plugged it in now to demonstrate.

[Greg Erskine]

bengaldave,

Just wondering if you do backups.

pCP is memory based, so unless you specifically do a backup, things will be lost during a reboot.

regards
Greg

[bengaldave]

I see a lot of "active plugins", "inactive plugins" and "3rd party plugins" on my pCP LMS.

I can't see one called "screen switcher" but there is one called "SaverSwitcher".

BTW: You can only have one VU meter available at once. Each one is a separate extension.

By default, Windows cannot see Linux file systems.

Yes, my LMS also shows SaverSwitcher. But there are no settings on the server for it as far as I can tell

And the only applet on the picoreplayer is superdatetime.

The directory on the pi for custom clock helper is blank. I cannot copy files into that directory because they are owned as root and I logged in as tc.

Using the now playing button you can cycle through the now playing screens, that is very cool

[Greg Erskine]

Okay I fired up my squeezebox touch and the applet screen switcher is there.

So applets are missing on the picoreplayer

I see a lot of "active plugins", "inactive plugins" and "3rd party plugins" on my pCP LMS.

I can't see one called "screen switcher" but there is one called "SaverSwitcher".

BTW: You can only have one VU meter available at once. Each one is a separate extension.

By default, Windows cannot see Linux file systems.