Can I disable html call to opml.radiotime.com?

[afriend]

Hi.

One of my LMS (latest 7.9.1 nightly, macOS 10.12) has no internet connection. To make debugging easier and my log less cluttered, I would very much like to get rid of the error messages that complain (every couple of minutes or so) about timed out connection attempts:

Connect timed out: 
[17-09-08 17:36:10.0633] Slim::Plugin::InternetRadio::Plugin::_gotRadioError (67) Unable to retrieve radio directory from SN: Connect timed out: 
[17-09-08 17:37:05.0670] Slim::Formats::XML::gotErrorViaHTTP (310) Error: getting http://opml.radiotime.com/Index.aspx?partnerId=16

If there is no option in the settings (I didn't find one), I'd gladly settle for a little hack or someting like this.
Thank you.

[mherger]

> One of my LMS (latest 7.9.1 nightly, macOS 10.12) has no internet
> connection. To make debugging easier and my log less cluttered, I would
> very much like to get rid of the error messages that complain (every
> couple of minutes or so) about timed out connection attempts:

Don't use the Radios menu. Or accept those messages as another potential
pointer to your issue? If you get an error complaining about connection
time outs every few minutes, then you've got a networking issue.


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Michael

[afriend]

you've got a networking issue.

Ok, what I meant was "has no internet connection" because it's by design, like a stand-alone setup, only LAN with a local server. I don't use the Radio Menu, was just curious if it's possible to disable what seems to be downloading a radio station list or something. I figured the error messages would go away then. Well, nevermind...

[bpa]

A hack that might work you would be to edit the install.xml file in the plugin/InternetRadio directory. Change MaxVersion from "*" to 7.3, save and restart LMS. This will break loading of the InternetRadio plugin. I don't know whether LMS will work OK without the plugin as it seems to be one that cannot be disabled in the Plugins tab..

[afriend]

Thank you very much, bpa. Really appreciate your help however stupid my little problem may seem. In the end I just disabled/commented most of the retry subfunction in the plugin.pm file. This way the plugin is not broken and it won't endlessly retry to connect to the internet in vain. Sure, I'll have to edit this file after every update. I'll just update less often then. So thank you very much.

[PasTim]

> One of my LMS (latest 7.9.1 nightly, macOS 10.12) has no internet
> connection. To make debugging easier and my log less cluttered, I would
> very much like to get rid of the error messages that complain (every
> couple of minutes or so) about timed out connection attempts:

Don't use the Radios menu. Or accept those messages as another potential
pointer to your issue? If you get an error complaining about connection
time outs every few minutes, then you've got a networking issue.


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Michael

I quite often deliberately run without any internet connection. However, with a connection (as far as I know) on starting LMS last night I saw a delay of 4 minutes waiting for LMS to start. The log was as below. It's as if LMS then went to sleep and was then 'woken' by my "server power control" plugin. This may be just a one-off. Any views?

[18-01-27 22:59:35.1598] Plugins::SrvrPowerCtrl::Settings::new (242) Server Power Control, version 20141101.163656, is running on LMS version 7.9.1 on unix:Debian, user squeezeboxserver  
[18-01-27 23:00:19.7854] Slim::Formats::XML::gotErrorViaHTTP (338) Error: getting http://opml.radiotime.com/Index.aspx?partnerId=16
Timed out waiting for data
[18-01-27 23:00:19.7863] Slim::Plugin::InternetRadio::Plugin::_gotRadioError (67) Unable to retrieve radio directory from SN: Timed out waiting for data
[18-01-27 23:04:41.5512] Plugins::SrvrPowerCtrl::Watchdog::OnWakeupWatchdog (651) Wakeup Call!!

[Paul Webster]

Maybe a new --nointernet switch for LMS would be a good thing to have.
Then various bit of code that cannot be disabled from Settings could check for that.

[Roland0]

A simple workaround would be to redirect the request to a local web server.

[PasTim]

A simple workaround would be to redirect the request to a local web server.

It may be simple for those who understand such stuff well, but I wouldn't have a clue where to start :-)

[Roland0]

It may be simple for those who understand such stuff well, but I wouldn't have a clue where to start :-)

Assuming the following:
- web server will run on the same server as LMS
- busybox is installed (it usually is)
- files needed go into /home/user/www (can be any dir)

mkdir /home/user/www; cd /home/user/www
wget -O Index.aspx "http://opml.radiotime.com/Index.aspx?partnerId=16"

edit /home/user/www/httpd.conf

A:127.0.0.1
D:*

.aspx:text/xml

edit /etc/hosts

127.0.0.1 opml.radiotime.com

start server:

sudo busybox httpd -p 80 -h /home/user/www -c /home/user/www/httpd.conf

Test without network:

wget "http://opml.radiotime.com/Index.aspx?partnerId=16"