piCorePlayer 7 on Audiophonics EVO-SABRE Balanced DAC 2xES9038Q2M

[Paul Webster]

Could it be the same as this
https://forums.slimdevices.com/showt...l=1#post869978
If yes then tell pCP to wait for network

[psketch]

I don't think it's a timing thing only at least. If I reboot my evo with my LMS (on a different box) stopped, the evo will just sit there trying repeatedly to connect, and then when the LMS comes online, it happily connect without any problems. As I said, I have seen an occasional problem with an invalid mac address, but that's not tied to the server startup, since my lms is running on a different box. I don't know what causes that one, but it's not the script - we're just trying to control the screen and reading info from the server. The squeezelite registration to LMS is just core PCP. I've only seen this a few times, and it's not that the squeezelite doesn't register at all - it's registered on the LMS, with the correct name and IP address, just with a MAC address of 00:00:00:00:00

Ah - I think it's a known issue - https://forums.slimdevices.com/showt...=1#post1010689 and here https://forums.slimdevices.com/showt...address-in-LMS

Squeezelite starting before the network has started. The script then won't work because the mac address that LMS knows squeezelite by, and the actual mac address that the script discovers will be different.

[psketch]

Could it be the same as this
https://forums.slimdevices.com/showt...l=1#post869978
If yes then tell pCP to wait for network

Hi Paul

Yes - I think that's likely it - as per my other post just after yours :-)

I'll add wait for network and see if it recurs - it's only occasional. No idea why it happens, but my home wifi is quite complex - several APs that it might see etc.. The stupid thing is I have cables under the floor but haven't got around to bringing them up yet.

[psketch]

Hi Pete,

I have a strange behavior with screensaver.
When I start picoreplayer, the screen stays in hour/ip/volume screen. After a while, it goes to screensaver (a dot is on).
If I start playing, it shows as usual artist/song/album. But when I pause/stop it goes to screensaver mode.

Is this normal behavior?

Thanks

PS: Just for remainder, I do not have a Audiophonics device, just a Pi3+ and Oled.
May be related?

OK - looks like I just needed to add a reset on the screen saver counter. Think it's fixed now if you want to pull it down

wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/peteS-UK/EvoSabre-DAC-PCP/main/lms_oled_3.12_py3.py -O ~/lms_oled_3.12_py3.py

Don't forget to do a backup

pcp bu

[psketch]

Hi David

Picking this up from the other thread ....

From what I saw previously, the raspdac mini has the 1306 display. I have an old raspdac mini script from audiophonics and it has

from luma.oled.device import ssd1306
#import RPi.GPIO as GPIO
serial = spi(port=0, device=0, gpio_DC=27, gpio_RST=24)
device = ssd1306(serial, rotate=2)

and, the code on github for the new version they have for moode and volumio is also for 1306

https://github.com/audiophonics/Rasp...ioled/index.js

const DRIVER =  require("ssd1306").driver;
const SSD1306 = new DRIVER();
const GRAPHICS =  new ( require("lightbwgraphics") ).GRAPHICS().attachDriver(SSD1306);

So, all looks like 1306, but I don't have one so can't be sure, so at the end of the day, it's upto you and your choice.

If you want, I can easily build a 1306 version of the new script i have, using the old setup from the original script for the driver, some of the font sizes etc..

How Linux comfortable are you - I can give you a script to run which will pull down the necessary files if you know how to ssh onto the pi. Or, I have pre-built images, but they have the evosabre script, so you'll still need to pull down one we build for raspdac.

Let me know if you want to have a go and I'll pull together a script for the raspdac later.

[davidscrat]

Hi thanks for this.
For linux, i am a beginner.
But i can use ssh, and i can use command lines.
So if you tell me what to do it will work 😉

Last year i installed shunte88 lmsmonitor on my raspdac. It worked. But now maybe with picoreplayer 8 version, it doesnt work anymore.

Dont understand...

[psketch]

Hi thanks for this.
For linux, i am a beginner.
But i can use ssh, and i can use command lines.
So if you tell me what to do it will work 😉

Last year i installed shunte88 lmsmonitor on my raspdac. It worked. But now maybe with picoreplayer 8 version, it doesnt work anymore.

Dont understand...

can't help with lmsmonitor I'm afraid - it never worked on the evodac, although I know shunte88 did look into it.

OK - I'll knock a version together for you. What remote does it use btw, and do you use it? If I can find the codes, i can add that as well.

pete S

[davidscrat]

Well cool.
I use smartphone remote, so it is ok like this.
There is one with raspdac but i never used it.

[psketch]

OK - I've modified a version for the raspdac, and modified my setup file to check which one you want to install. Word of warning - I can't test this at all this evening, so it'll likely take a few iterations ....

You can get the setup file by ssh on the pi, and then

wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/peteS-UK/EvoSabre-DAC-PCP/main/SetupEvoSabre.sh

then, make it executable

chmod +x ./SetupEvoSabre.sh

then, run the script, which "should" (if I got the changes right) download all the files - tell me if you get any errors here

./SetupEvoSabre.sh

Then, reboot (either do "pcp rb" or through the UI.

This won't make any changes to the pcp entries yet. After you've rebooted, do

python3 ./lms_oled_mini_py3.py

and tell me what it says ...

To stop the script manually, hit cntrl-c

[davidscrat]

ok i tried, i have error with moving lms_oled_mini_py3.py...


Setup for OLED with LMS on Raspberry Pi

Are you setting up EvoSabre or RASPDac Mini?RASPDac Mini
Setup for RASPDac Mini OLED extension (R)

LIRC is not installed. If you continue, IR config files won't be installed
Do you wish to exit this setup and install LIRC first?no
Continue
Installing python3 and freetype extension
Downloading Extension from GitHub
Unpacking Files
Moving Files to home
mv: can't rename '/tmp/tmp.J23JA7/evosabre/home/lms_oled_mini_py3.py': No such file or directory
Installing 64 bit extension
Backing up PCP
Extension Installed. Now reboot using pcp rb