Possibility to downgrade LMS to 8.2.1 on RPi piCorePlayer ?

[CJS]

** Good News ** - My instinct is that after the 'Remove Cache' procedure, this is going to work! A media scan is ongoing.

Congratulations! And great support by Kebul.

[kidstypike]

Fair enough, but thought paul- & Greg had tracked it down to a time issue (towards the end of that thread), hence my previous post suggesting check date/time.

Kev

Fair enough, but a newbie to pCP wouldn't know that. Far easier to point them to a version that works out of the box.

[KeBul]

Pretty sure this is a known pCP v8.2 problem for some users, happened to me twice, unable to install LMS using v8.2 image, all ticks green.

https://forums.slimdevices.com/forum/user-forums/linux-unix/114062-picoreplayer-repository-not-accessible?p=1553772#post1553772

Fair enough, but thought paul- & Greg had tracked it down to a time issue (towards the end of that thread), hence my previous post suggesting check date/time.

Kev

[kidstypike]

v8.1. installed with no errors, thank u all.... am happy

[varlecijus77]

v8.1. installed with no errors, thank u all.... am happy

[kidstypike]

I'm not seeing this, I've downloaded both 32 bit and 64 bit pCP 8.2 today and used them both with no problems, I'd also suggest trying a different imager program.

I've used both Raspberry Pi imager and ApplePiBaker on Mac OS today

Kev

Pretty sure this is a known pCP v8.2 problem for some users, happened to me twice, unable to install LMS using v8.2 image, all ticks green.

https://forums.slimdevices.com/forum/user-forums/linux-unix/114062-picoreplayer-repository-not-accessible?p=1553772#post1553772

[KeBul]

There seems to be a problem for some using piCoreOlayer v8.2 image. Try v8.1.

I'm not seeing this, I've downloaded both 32 bit and 64 bit pCP 8.2 today and used them both with no problems, I'd also suggest trying a different imager program.

I've used both Raspberry Pi imager and ApplePiBaker on Mac OS today

Kev

[KeBul]

hi all am new to picoreplayer and have a problem: same errors when trying to install lms

Is the date set correctly? (ssh into the pi and type date)
How is your network configured?
If you go to Main Page and click on Extensions, when that page loads do you have a set of 5 green ticks for the internet and repository accessibility?

Kev

[sc1pzb]

** Good News ** - My instinct is that after the 'Remove Cache' procedure, this is going to work! A media scan is ongoing. Understandably, the player preferences have to be fine tuned, but this will be quick to do.
Many thanks to everyone for solving this for me. I appreciate it very much.
Kev, you had asked about photo and video extensions. For pictures, always JPG. For videos, I have always been amazed at how the RPi/pCP/LMS has been able to stream HD video around my wired network. Usually MKV, with some quite large file sizes. 20-30GB.
I wish everyone a great weekend!

[varlecijus77]

OK, thx .... am on it

[kidstypike]

hi all am new to picoreplayer and have a problem: same errors when trying to install lms

There seems to be a problem for some using piCoreOlayer v8.2 image. Try v8.1.

[varlecijus77]

hi all am new to picoreplayer and have a problem: same errors when trying to install lms

[KeBul]

Suggestion. Copy your entire working image and make it available for download. You have done all of the hard bit.

Yep I can do that if the OP wants me to, but as he stands if he's already rebuilt it all and copied over the 8.2.1 slimserver files, I think he can leave all his pCP config alone (HDD config, Samba shares etc) and just clear his LMS config "Remove Cache" (Remove LMS Cache and preferences from pCP) and then just setup LMS again from the initial wizard...

But just in case I'll tidy up this build and take an image of it.

Kev

PS Although thinking about this, if I was to prepare him an entire image it would be better to use a copy of my "pure" 8.2.1 system cleaned up. I'll add that to the todo list - just got to get the filesystem reduced in size to make it easier to move across the net.

[d6jg]

OK some progress...

I had a fresh build of 8.4 sitting in a pi I''ve been playing around with, so "Fudge downgraded" it to 8.2.1 by copying over slimserver.tcz and it's md5 file.

First of all the permissions of the copied files were different to the overwritten files - no group write, probably no big deal but I changed the permissions to match the original files

Restart of pCP and thus LMS and it showed as an 8.2.1 system with all the other components (perl audio:scan etc) remaining as was under 8.4. Installed uPNP plugin and restarted LMS, Added a pictures folder and copied some of my pictures into it.
Ran a clear all and scan - it failed in pretty much the same manner as Phil saw.

Stopped LMS, tried Update Libs in pCP LMS tab - scan still failed.

Stopped LMS, Remove cache from pCP LMS tab, reboot pCP

As expected got the initial configure page for LMS, configured file locations, installed uPNP plugin, restart LMS, Scan now works...

So my guess is the Db created in 8.4 has some incompatibilities with 8.2.1 (no surprises since the picture and video stuff has been removed).

My TV can see instance of LMS as a media server and I can see and display the pictures, so looks good on that front, going to try to add some videos next...

Yep, m4v/mp4 videos scan and play fine.

Kev

PS I'm now stuck here watching a video of a female kingfisher fishing that I made a few years back - nice!!

Suggestion. Copy your entire working image and make it available for download. You have done all of the hard bit.

[KeBul]

OK some progress...

I had a fresh build of 8.4 sitting in a pi I''ve been playing around with, so "Fudge downgraded" it to 8.2.1 by copying over slimserver.tcz and it's md5 file.

First of all the permissions of the copied files were different to the overwritten files - no group write, probably no big deal but I changed the permissions to match the original files

Restart of pCP and thus LMS and it showed as an 8.2.1 system with all the other components (perl audio:scan etc) remaining as was under 8.4. Installed uPNP plugin and restarted LMS, Added a pictures folder and copied some of my pictures into it.
Ran a clear all and scan - it failed in pretty much the same manner as Phil saw.

Stopped LMS, tried Update Libs in pCP LMS tab - scan still failed.

Stopped LMS, Remove cache from pCP LMS tab, reboot pCP

As expected got the initial configure page for LMS, configured file locations, installed uPNP plugin, restart LMS, Scan now works...

So my guess is the Db created in 8.4 has some incompatibilities with 8.2.1 (no surprises since the picture and video stuff has been removed).

My TV can see instance of LMS as a media server and I can see and display the pictures, so looks good on that front, going to try to add some videos next...

Yep, m4v/mp4 videos scan and play fine.

Kev

PS I'm now stuck here watching a video of a female kingfisher fishing that I made a few years back - nice!!