BETA: piCorePlayer6.0.0 - PI4 support

[M-H]

So they are! Thank you - that's a start.

Chill, did you manage to get the board working with Jivelite ?

I think the board has 3 parts, 1) audio 2) four button input , 3) display

1 ) was solved easily as it is known hardware so reuse the hifiberry-dac drivers.
2 ) 4 buttons on 4 separate GPIO pins that are hopefully no mixed with other functions of the board.
3 ) the spi display.

The last part , display, how much needs to be done to get it working with the b7 image and jivelite ?

I am tempted to buy one too, but the real use would be to build a bedside player/alarm with a clock and volume buttons.
( perhaps we should better start a fresh thread and link it , this is the v6beta thread)

Regards M-H

[wjlockhart]

Has anyone else had any luck with a Digi+ and a Pi4? The hardware in mine seems to be detected, and I can see the laser for the optical output powers up, but I'm not getting any audio on the coax output; I haven't tried the optical output. USB and analog audio output both work OK, so it seems to be specifically the Digi+ that's not working. Any suggestions for troubleshooting, or other experiments to try would be gratefully received. aplay -l lists the Digi+ as card 1:
card 1: sndrpihifiberry [snd_rpi_hifiberry_digi], device 0: HifiBerry Digi HiFi wm8804-spdif-0 [HifiBerry Digi HiFi wm8804-spdif-0]
Subdevices: 0/1
Subdevice #0: subdevice #0

I tried four installations of beta 6.0.7 on

Pi 1/hifiberry digi
pi3b+/dac+ pro
pi3b+/digi+ pro
pi4/4gb/digi + pro/i2s/buffalo dac in my very good audiophile system

and everything seems to work perfect.

I tried also the rt kernel audio version. It is interesting, but when using the rt version there is some king of sharpness in the sound which i don't like and i prefer the warmer sound of the normal pCp version. I observed this phenomena in the earlier pCp rt versions. Maybe the resolution and timing in the rt version is minimaly better, but this sharpness ...

[Man in a van]

I'm knocking up a pCp for a friend.

rpi4b (4gb) running pCP 6.0.0-b7. LMS installed.

I'm using a 128 gb sd card, I have a partition of about 100 gb available to store music files on.

My buddy uses mostly MAC stuff, what is the best format for the partition ?

Thanks a lot.

I have to go out now for a few hours, hence no time to do any research....sorry !!

ronnie

[Jeff07971]

I'm knocking up a pCp for a friend.

rpi4b (4gb) running pCP 6.0.0-b7. LMS installed.

I'm using a 128 gb sd card, I have a partition of about 100 gb available to store music files on.

My buddy uses mostly MAC stuff, what is the best format for the partition ?

Thanks a lot.

I have to go out now for a few hours, hence no time to do any research....sorry !!

ronnie

If you are going to use SaMBa to put music on it then it really doesn't matter

Jeff

[chill]

If you are going to use SaMBa to put music on it then it really doesn't matter

Jeff

I've never managed to get Samba shares working reliably with a Mac, so I use FileZilla to transfer music to my pCP mounts. So of course, the same applies - when transferring over the network the disk format doesn't matter. I think I went with ext4 for a third partition on the SD card, even though that's not readable in my Macbook.

[chill]

Chill, did you manage to get the board working with Jivelite ?

Not yet. I followed JQW's suggestions to get the boot up messages displaying on the screen, but haven't been able to get Jivelite to display. I haven't had time to investigate, so I really don't know what the problem is or how hard it will be to fix.

You're right - sound output and button operation are straightforward.

[M-H]

Hi team,

Testing with multiple versions of PCP together here on my LAN, I found:
1)
HTTP(:80) to my main pcp5.0.1 ( squeezelite +LMS ) the in-page-tabs ( players and LMS ) do not function 100%.
- the LMS tab does not have the IP address in it ,so it is just :

<a class="tab20" href="http://:9000/" title="" target="_blank">LMS ↗</a>

2)
HTTP(:80) to my test pcp6.0.0B7 the in-page-tabs do not show the LMS tab at all.

3)
HTTP(:80) to my almost forgotten portable pcp4.1.0 the in-page-tabs show correct

<a class="tab20" href="http://10.x.y.z:9000/" title="10.x.y.z" target="_blank">LMS ↗</a>

but its does not show a "hover over" label on the LMS tab

4)
HTTP(:80) to my even older pico - pcp4.1.0 , I can not detect any issue with the tabs an labels

Sorry to report so late on the 4 and 5 releases, :-) but if it is really a bug we can fix it in the 6 version.
If it is a non-documented feature, please fill me in.

Regards M-H

[paul-]

I had noticed that a while back, Its fixed already in my development code

[damdub]

Hello and thank you for the job done here. I'm moving my LMS from an old Syno NAS to a raspberry pi 4 and the latest Beta seems to work smoothly after a few tweaks.
My question is : is it possible to stop squeezelite and keep it stopped ? I saw the "stop squeezelite" button on the main page but as soon as picorePlayer reboots Squeezelite starts again.
I just want my Pi to be LMS only.
Thank you for your help
D.

[Jeff07971]

Hello and thank you for the job done here. I'm moving my LMS from an old Syno NAS to a raspberry pi 4 and the latest Beta seems to work smoothly after a few tweaks.
My question is : is it possible to stop squeezelite and keep it stopped ? I saw the "stop squeezelite" button on the main page but as soon as picorePlayer reboots Squeezelite starts again.
I just want my Pi to be LMS only.
Thank you for your help
D.

You need to be in "Beta" Moe I think

Jeff