[Announce] Community Firmware for Squeezebox Radio/Touch/Controller and LMS 8

[kidstypike]

> Me too. Trying to update a Squeezebox Radio and running LMS on PiCore
> player.

Is everybody having these problems running LMS on pCP?

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Michael

Me, yes, see sig.

[slartibartfast]

> Me too. Trying to update a Squeezebox Radio and running LMS on PiCore
> player.

Is everybody having these problems running LMS on pCP?

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Michael

Looks like this one was Ubuntu.
https://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?p=1000242
I updated my Controller successfully with LMS on Raspbian (or whatever they call it now)

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[slartibartfast]

Me, yes, see sig.

Does the player revert to the original firmware when the update fails? If so I'll try updating my Touch.

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[mherger]

>> Me, yes, see sig.Does the player revert to the original firmware when the update fails?
> If so I'll try updating my Touch.

Failed update would be a no-op. Disabling the plugin should get rid of
the notification, too.

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Michael

[kidstypike]

Does the player revert to the original firmware when the update fails? If so I'll try updating my Touch.

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Yes, just press the back arrow, mine reverted back to 7.8.0 r16754.

You may need to reboot the Touch to get audio.

[mherger]

>> Me too. Trying to update a Squeezebox Radio and running LMS on PiCore
>> player.
>
> Is everybody having these problems running LMS on pCP?

Ralphy - I'm pretty sure these FW updates fail on pCP because it tries
to tell the players to download the firmware directly, whereas LMS in
most other environments would download the file first, then serve it
from LMS to the player. The problem is that these firmwares are https
downloads. And the players can't handle https.

https://github.com/piCorePlayer/lms-...-script/pull/2

I believe I suggested doing the direct download at the time to save the
precious diskspace in a pCP environment.

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Michael

[mherger]

> I believe I suggested doing the direct download at the time to save the
> precious diskspace in a pCP environment.

Is there a way to tell pCP to exclude some files from being backed up? I
know there's filetool or something to tell it what to _include_. But
exclude?

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Michael

[Bipox]

Then go to the Settings->Information Tab in LMS and at the bottom click the Zip Archive at the end of the Logitech Media Server Log File line and attach the zipfile to a post.

I've found this error happens when the checksum doesn't match after downloading the firmware file and corrects itself after the next attempt.

When will the next attempt happen? Or do you mean an attempt on the user's side?
for now the only line concerning the firmware I see is

[20-12-21 21:33:08.3098] Slim::Utils::Firmware::need_upgrade (354) baby doesn't need an upgrade (has: 7.7.3 r16676, server has: 7.7.3 16676)

(I was on 7.8 but tried going back to 7.7 to see if it changed anything)

Is everybody having these problems running LMS on pCP?

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Michael

No I'm running LMS on Ubuntu 20.04, trying to update the firmware on a Squeezebox Radio.



EDIT: and now suddenly it seems to work. 5th attempt or so. I haven't changed anything, except activating debugging log.

EDIT 2: the update specified 8.0.1 but after reboot I'm still on 7.7.3

[PaulinPosset]

Just posting that it doesn't work for you helps no one.

Those having issues, please set the Player.Firmware logging level to Debug in LMS and wait until the server attempts to download the firmware again.

Then go to the Settings->Information Tab in LMS and at the bottom click the Zip Archive at the end of the Logitech Media Server Log File line and attach the zipfile to a post.

I've found this error happens when the checksum doesn't match after downloading the firmware file and corrects itself after the next attempt.

Had a second and third attempt with no joy. The download attempt lasted around a second before the ‘attempt failed’ message displayed with nothing downloaded.

Log attached....hopefully!

[ralphy]

Had a second and third attempt with no joy. The download attempt lasted around a second before the ‘attempt failed’ message displayed with nothing downloaded.

Log attached....hopefully!

Thanks. From your log it appears you are running on piCorePlayer.

The problem is related to an attempt to reduce disk space usage in how pCP handles downloading firmware or doesn't rather.

Michael has provided a change request to the pCP team to resolve the issue.