Hi
I think we should move the discussion of this embedded Squeezelite player to this place, so we don't waste space in Triodes Squeezelite thread.
Background:
We wanted to use piCore on a raspeberry, because this small linux is designed as a read-only system which is so small that it runs entirely in RAM and it only writes to the CF-card whan it is told to. So therefore it is very robust and can survive power cuts etc.
Tinycore/Microcore linux can be found here: http://distro.ibiblio.org/tinycorelinux/
And discussion about the Raspberry port can be found here: http://forum.tinycorelinux.net/index.php?board=56.0
Triodes nice Squeezelite player can be found here: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showth...ux-(alsa-only)
The "HOW-TO" make the piCoPlayer can be found here:
The original post is here: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showth...l=1#post732506
And here is a copy of the documentation:
Burn the Picore image to a CF card ( I use Win32Diskimager)
Then boot the Raspberry.
As Picore is running in read only mode om a partition called mmcblk0p1 you need to make another partition where it can have all the configuration files and the extensions and the Squeezelite player.
In order to make such a partition I did this (It was here I had the most difficulties) Each line is the commands I used:
fdisk /dev/mmcblk0
n new
p primary
2 partition number 1-4
6 first cylinder
+20M I made a 20 MB partition for this - you could choose any size you want (up to the CF-card size)
t change partition Id
83 linux file system
w to write the changes to the card
sudo reboot
Next I formated it to the ext4 format:
mkfs.ext4 /dev/mmcblk0p2
sudo reboot
Then you need to define where Picore will find your extensions, you do that by this command:
tce-setdrive
And then you choose 2= /mnt/mmcblk0p2
Download Squeezelite and put in a writeable place like mnt/mmcblk0p2, you can so that by this command
wget http://squeezelite.googlecode.com/fi...zelite-armv6hf -P /mnt/mmcblk0p2
Then I had some problems that squeezelite would not start - it turned out that I had to allow it to be executed - using this command
chmod 755 /mnt/mmcblk0p2/squeezelite-armv6hf
You need to install Alsa, flac libmad and libvorbis. You do that by using the package manager in Picore called tce. Therefor at command promt write:
tce
s search
a (a in order to search for Alsa) then Enter
select alsa.tcz (at present no 4) enter
q quit
i install
s search
f (f in order to find flac.tcz (present no 9)) Enter
9 enter
q quit
i install
s search
l (l in order to find libmad.tcz (presently no 57)) Enter
57 enter
q quit
i install
s search
l (l in order to find libvorbis.tcz (presently no 88))
88 enter
q quit
i install
sudo reboot
Then in order to automatically to start Squeezelite everytime the Raspberry reboot, you need to add this program to the bootlocal file which is used for this purpose.
As I have been doing this without GUI the only editor present is the vi editor, which also gave me a hard time. But these are the command you have to use:
sudo vi /opt/bootlocal.sh
Then pres i (for insert)
then move the cursor to the first empty line and write:
sudo /mnt/mmcblk0p2/squeezelite-armv6hf -a 80:4
Press "esc" in order to get out of "insert mode"
Then type
:wq and Enter - in order to save and exit vi
These changes is not actually written to the bootlocal.sh file (as it is in read only mode) but instead the changes is saved another place and during reboot used - so in order to get Picore to save these changes and use them the next time you reboot you have to do a manual backup.
So at command promt type
filetool.sh -b
And now you can reboot and your Raspberry should start Squeezelite. I have tried different Alsa buffer sizes and I think that 80:4 is fine - for me the Squeezelite is in perfect sync with both a Duet and A Logitech radio, if I use to high values like 500:4 or 200:4 the sync is not as perfect. Using 50:4 resulted in some stuttering in the sound
Now you have a dedicated very small Squeezelite player, which boots very rapidly, it doesn't use swap and can survive that you just pull the power plug - so it is almost as an embedded hardware player, like a Duet.
Regards
Steen
I think we should move the discussion of this embedded Squeezelite player to this place, so we don't waste space in Triodes Squeezelite thread.
Background:
We wanted to use piCore on a raspeberry, because this small linux is designed as a read-only system which is so small that it runs entirely in RAM and it only writes to the CF-card whan it is told to. So therefore it is very robust and can survive power cuts etc.
Tinycore/Microcore linux can be found here: http://distro.ibiblio.org/tinycorelinux/
And discussion about the Raspberry port can be found here: http://forum.tinycorelinux.net/index.php?board=56.0
Triodes nice Squeezelite player can be found here: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showth...ux-(alsa-only)
The "HOW-TO" make the piCoPlayer can be found here:
The original post is here: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showth...l=1#post732506
And here is a copy of the documentation:
Burn the Picore image to a CF card ( I use Win32Diskimager)
Then boot the Raspberry.
As Picore is running in read only mode om a partition called mmcblk0p1 you need to make another partition where it can have all the configuration files and the extensions and the Squeezelite player.
In order to make such a partition I did this (It was here I had the most difficulties) Each line is the commands I used:
fdisk /dev/mmcblk0
n new
p primary
2 partition number 1-4
6 first cylinder
+20M I made a 20 MB partition for this - you could choose any size you want (up to the CF-card size)
t change partition Id
83 linux file system
w to write the changes to the card
sudo reboot
Next I formated it to the ext4 format:
mkfs.ext4 /dev/mmcblk0p2
sudo reboot
Then you need to define where Picore will find your extensions, you do that by this command:
tce-setdrive
And then you choose 2= /mnt/mmcblk0p2
Download Squeezelite and put in a writeable place like mnt/mmcblk0p2, you can so that by this command
wget http://squeezelite.googlecode.com/fi...zelite-armv6hf -P /mnt/mmcblk0p2
Then I had some problems that squeezelite would not start - it turned out that I had to allow it to be executed - using this command
chmod 755 /mnt/mmcblk0p2/squeezelite-armv6hf
You need to install Alsa, flac libmad and libvorbis. You do that by using the package manager in Picore called tce. Therefor at command promt write:
tce
s search
a (a in order to search for Alsa) then Enter
select alsa.tcz (at present no 4) enter
q quit
i install
s search
f (f in order to find flac.tcz (present no 9)) Enter
9 enter
q quit
i install
s search
l (l in order to find libmad.tcz (presently no 57)) Enter
57 enter
q quit
i install
s search
l (l in order to find libvorbis.tcz (presently no 88))
88 enter
q quit
i install
sudo reboot
Then in order to automatically to start Squeezelite everytime the Raspberry reboot, you need to add this program to the bootlocal file which is used for this purpose.
As I have been doing this without GUI the only editor present is the vi editor, which also gave me a hard time. But these are the command you have to use:
sudo vi /opt/bootlocal.sh
Then pres i (for insert)
then move the cursor to the first empty line and write:
sudo /mnt/mmcblk0p2/squeezelite-armv6hf -a 80:4
Press "esc" in order to get out of "insert mode"
Then type
:wq and Enter - in order to save and exit vi
These changes is not actually written to the bootlocal.sh file (as it is in read only mode) but instead the changes is saved another place and during reboot used - so in order to get Picore to save these changes and use them the next time you reboot you have to do a manual backup.
So at command promt type
filetool.sh -b
And now you can reboot and your Raspberry should start Squeezelite. I have tried different Alsa buffer sizes and I think that 80:4 is fine - for me the Squeezelite is in perfect sync with both a Duet and A Logitech radio, if I use to high values like 500:4 or 200:4 the sync is not as perfect. Using 50:4 resulted in some stuttering in the sound
Now you have a dedicated very small Squeezelite player, which boots very rapidly, it doesn't use swap and can survive that you just pull the power plug - so it is almost as an embedded hardware player, like a Duet.
Regards
Steen