Made some new Meters for Picoreplayer using Peppymeter images

[Eyerex]

Fantasic work along with very easy to follow instructions. I ran into trouble with my Pi4 pCP install. I couldn't get Jivelite to install on 8.2 in either 32 or 64, but 8.1/32 worked fine. With Jivelite working I turned to adding you Mini PrettyMeters. Once I made sure I grabbed to right meters for my 7" Pi screen (and not the HD images) I ran into trouble installing using the simplified method of getting your custom joggler skin to work. I went back to your original method on unpacking the pCP tcz file, adding you .lua file, and rebooting - worked like a charm! Looks terrific and works perfectly. Before trying this method I opened up more space on my SD card (I just let it use the whole card - a 16GB Samsung). I think that the failure of my earlier attempts might be traced to a different version of Squeezelite. I'm running Squeezelite v1.9.9-1391-pCP. The unpacking method adds a few extra steps but I found that it only takes a minute or two more.

Thank you for your hard work and kind assistance in getting things working. And to all the folks who've put this incredible pCP package together - truly awesome work!

So is it working now "fingers crossed" ?

[traderyoda]

Like a charm! Very impressive stuff. Not sure why the simpler install didn't work - the only thing I can think of is a different version, but the unpack/pack method took 10 minutes are works perfectly. It really looks smashin.

[Eyerex]

Couple of new ones

[Eyerex]

Anyone know if it's possible to change a setting in say Picoreplayer / Jivelite so you can use a 50 frame meter image as just for fun i made a image to test as wanted smoother meter movement but it looks like it only sees the first 25 frames

[daab]

Anyone know if it's possible to change a setting in say Picoreplayer / Jivelite so you can use a 50 frame meter image as just for fun i made a image to test as wanted smoother meter movement but it looks like it only sees the first 25 frames

From what I've seen in the code SqueezeLite produces 25 levels so you'd need to change that.

[daab]

Oooh, I was incorrect Squeezelite produces a value and then it is indexed to a count of 48 and divided by 2 so you could use a 50 frame meter just comment out the line in share/jive/jive/vis/VUMeter.lua

    val = math.floor(val / 2)

like so

​--    val = math.floor(val / 2)​

[Eyerex]

Oooh, I was incorrect Squeezelite produces a value and then it is indexed to a count of 48 and divided by 2 so you could use a 50 frame meter just comment out the line in share/jive/jive/vis/VUMeter.lua

val = math.floor(val / 2)

like so

​-- val = math.floor(val / 2)​

Cheers will have a tinker as just wondered what they would look like with 50 frames ps just took awhile to find the file in the Windows version of SqueezePlay C:\Program Files (x86)\SqueezePlay\lua\jive\audio

[Izocad]

Hi Eyerex,
The meters look awesome and would really like to add them to my 10" 1280x800 screen on the RPi.
Have added them to the tce folder and see them in the dropdown to select the VU meter.
Selecting them does not however show them.
I want them to be shown as mini meters in the now playing screen.

I do see the VU as standalone on screen but it keeps flickering/scrolling.

[Eyerex]

Hi Eyerex,
The meters look awesome and would really like to add them to my 10" 1280x800 screen on the RPi.
Have added them to the tce folder and see them in the dropdown to select the VU meter.
Selecting them does not however show them.
I want them to be shown as mini meters in the now playing screen.

I do see the VU as standalone on screen but it keeps flickering/scrolling.

Hello the normal size Meters are for a 800 x 400 screen plus my Mini Meters are a custom size to fit a given space which needs to be set within JogglerSkinApplet.lua that's why if you use on a different size screen you see flickering

"mini meters in the now playing screen." That would need an edit of the layout plus custom meters (see below which is for a 1920 x 1080 screen) i can do it but will take time but member daab has done a miracle of working out how to do it on the fly which i need to get my head round

[daab]

Eyerex Izocad with the changes from https://github.com/blaisedias/jiveli.../mini-spectrum this should just work - without needing the mini meters. At least it just does for me on Desktop Linux. I do have a pi Zero with a 1024x600 LCDWiki touch screen and it works fine there too - TL;DR I'm running piCorePlayer 8.1 on the piZero, and I transferred my changes by updating pcp-jivelite,tcz
The list of changed files to copy from the repository are

• share/jive/applets/JogglerSkin/strings.txt -> opt/jivelite/share/jive/applets/JogglerSkin/strings.txt
• share/jive/applets/JogglerSkin/JogglerSkinApplet.lua -> opt/jivelite/share/jive/applets/JogglerSkin/JogglerSkinApplet.lua
• opt/jivelite/share/jive/applets/NowPlaying/NowPlayingApplet.lua -> opt/jivelite/share/jive/applets/NowPlaying/NowPlayingApplet.lua
• opt/jivelite/share/jive/jive/vis/SpectrumMeter.lua -> opt/jivelite/share/jive/jive/vis/SpectrumMeter.lua

Should work with piCorePlayer 8.2 on the rpi, but I have only tested with 8.1

See https://youtu.be/Z30pug4f4MM for demo

If it helps, tcz + md5 for 8.1 are here

• https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Oyh...usp=share_link
• https://drive.google.com/file/d/19LA...usp=share_link

[Izocad]

Eyerex Izocad with the changes from https://github.com/blaisedias/jiveli.../mini-spectrum this should just work - without needing the mini meters. At least it just does for me on Desktop Linux. I do have a pi Zero with a 1024x600 LCDWiki touch screen and it works fine there too - TL;DR I'm running piCorePlayer 8.1 on the piZero, and I transferred my changes by updating pcp-jivelite,tcz
The list of changed files to copy from the repository are

• share/jive/applets/JogglerSkin/strings.txt -> opt/jivelite/share/jive/applets/JogglerSkin/strings.txt
• share/jive/applets/JogglerSkin/JogglerSkinApplet.lua -> opt/jivelite/share/jive/applets/JogglerSkin/JogglerSkinApplet.lua
• opt/jivelite/share/jive/applets/NowPlaying/NowPlayingApplet.lua -> opt/jivelite/share/jive/applets/NowPlaying/NowPlayingApplet.lua
• opt/jivelite/share/jive/jive/vis/SpectrumMeter.lua -> opt/jivelite/share/jive/jive/vis/SpectrumMeter.lua

Should work with piCorePlayer 8.2 on the rpi, but I have only tested with 8.1

See https://youtu.be/Z30pug4f4MM for demo

If it helps, tcz + md5 for 8.1 are here

• https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Oyh...usp=share_link
• https://drive.google.com/file/d/19LA...usp=share_link

Thanks will have a look at this.
Does this only work for the Joggler skin?

[daab]

Thanks will have a look at this.
Does this only work for the Joggler skin?

It works with Joggler Skin, Grid Skin and Touch Skin.
Ah! I have to hack some more strings.txt files.

[daab]

Eyerex see https://forums.slimdevices.com/forum...es-on-jivelite
let me know what you think.
Thanks