Announce: piCorePlayer 8.0.0

[paul-]

LMS has a notification system, built into its web UI. pCP has a release page https://docs.picoreplayer.org/releases/ But nothing for small incremental extension updates....

[pgf]

Is there any way to have a notification of pCP updates ( or other component updates) e.g. like LMS?

If you have a way of monitoring a website for changes (there are free services for this, and android apps, and fairly simple shell scripts), then you could set up to be notified when either https://docs.picoreplayer.org/releases/ or https://repo.picoreplayer.org/insitu/ is modified.

That's what I do.

[paul-]

Looks like I have bad luck with WiFi dongles !
Here's what I get when I plug my new ASUS USB-AC51 dongle on a PiCorePlayer 7.0.1 :

[ 1347.451699] usb 1-1.5: new high-speed USB device number 6 using dwc_otg
[ 1347.597708] usb 1-1.5: New USB device found, idVendor=0b05, idProduct=17d1, bcdDevice= 1.00
[ 1347.597732] usb 1-1.5: New USB device strings: Mfr=1, Product=2, SerialNumber=3
[ 1347.597749] usb 1-1.5: Product: WiFi
[ 1347.597765] usb 1-1.5: Manufacturer: MediaTek
[ 1347.597781] usb 1-1.5: SerialNumber: 1.0
[ 1347.691699] usb 1-1.5: reset high-speed USB device number 6 using dwc_otg
[ 1347.827575] mt76x0u 1-1.5:1.0: ASIC revision: 76100002 MAC revision: 76502000
[ 1347.831537] mt76x0u 1-1.5:1.0: mediatek/mt7610e.bin not found, switching to mediatek/mt7610u.bin
[ 1347.831828] mt76x0u 1-1.5:1.0: Direct firmware load for mediatek/mt7610u.bin failed with error -2
[ 1347.838396] mt76x0u: probe of 1-1.5:1.0 failed with error -2

firmware has been added to the pCP 8.x.x repository. You will have to do a little manual work here until we make upgrades the wifi pages.

start a ssh session

tc@Pi4-armhf-Devel:~$ tce-load -w firmware-mediatek
Downloading: firmware-mediatek.tcz
Connecting to repo.picoreplayer.org (172.67.157.97:443)
saving to 'firmware-mediatek.tcz'
firmware-mediatek.tc 100% |**************************************************************| 7048k  0:00:00 ETA
'firmware-mediatek.tcz' saved
firmware-mediatek.tcz: OK
tc@Pi4-armhf-Devel:~$

Then edit your onboot.lst (use vi or install nano)

tc@Pi4-armhf-Devel:~$ vi /etc/sysconfig/tcedir/onboot.lst

Press the 'i' key on your keyboard for insert. At the beginning of the file, or at least by all of the other firmware-xxxxxxx.tcz entries

add "firmware-mediatek.tcz" to the file

then Press <ESC>:wq

This will save the file.....then reboot. And you should be good.

[Narcos]

The password has to be entered anytime you want to make change.

Thanks Paul that worked, finally I was able to correct the SSID & save the changes. However, I still can't connect over wifi as soon as I disconnect the Ethernet cable.

[Paul Webster]

Did you reboot with the Ethernet cable already removed?

Edit:
Or have you set the Ethernet link with a static IP address in pCP?

[Narcos]

Did you reboot with the Ethernet cable already removed?

Edit:
Or have you set the Ethernet link with a static IP address in pCP?

Rebooted with & without Ethernet cable removed, but I loose the connectiion when I removed the cable.

Yes, I have configured the Ethernet link with a static IP address in my router....

[Paul Webster]

Have you set Ethernet as static IP in pCP - not the router?
If you have then turn it off and see what happens.
Main/Beta/Static


If you have not set it there ... then the problem is that pCP is remembering the old IP address to reach LMS ... which is not reachable when the cable is removed.
I am sure that this has come up before but I don't remember the solution.
Someone will though.

[mr-b]

LMS has a notification system, built into its web UI. pCP has a release page https://docs.picoreplayer.org/releases/ But nothing for small incremental extension updates....

Trouble is I'd have to keep checking the release page for updates which quite frankly I'm going to forget to do and seems rather antiquated. It'd be ideal if it was integrated with the player like LMS notifications, or via the admin UI e.g. pfsense or Kodi or many of my other appliances. Otherwise I wondered if the UI could fetch the current release and just have it as a banner at the top?

[mr-b]

If you have a way of monitoring a website for changes (there are free services for this, and android apps, and fairly simple shell scripts), then you could set up to be notified when either https://docs.picoreplayer.org/releases/ or https://repo.picoreplayer.org/insitu/ is modified.

That's what I do.

Tx, I'd not heard of those. Since I'm not a programmer and my shell scripting has usually been confined to modifying backup scripts (and then extensive head scratching when things don't work!) do you have any recommendations for a free service that works with those pages? I can envisage waiting for multiple changes to test something out would be rather a long process!

[Paul Webster]

Tx, I'd not heard of those.

They generally allow a small number of pages to be monitored for free.

eg
visualping.io