How to add headless Squeezebox capabilities to an extender

[routerunner]

Originally Posted by tmiranda

Let me know if you need help with making the plugin.

Thanks Tom, you have done it already...your "Commercial Detector" plugin implementation I found in CodeGoogle (hope you don't mind) is my Bible

Eddy

[briands]

Though I seem to be the only one having trouble getting it to work. I have tried on both on an HD200 and HD300. I must be missing something.

[routerunner]

Originally Posted by briands

Though I seem to be the only one having trouble getting it to work. I have tried on both on an HD200 and HD300. I must be missing something.

Have you tried my suggestion to statically specify the Squeeze Server IP address in the "upload-smb" script? Also is your HD200 running the latest (non beta) firmware?

[routerunner]

Originally Posted by routerunner

Have you tried my suggestion to statically specify the Squeeze Server IP address in the "upload-smb" script? Also is your HD200 running the latest (non beta) firmware?

Still no joy? I need to have access to you unit to do some research. Is it possible for you to hook the HD200 on the DMZ port of your router for me to investigate? Is it a bit late here (2:00AM), but if you manage to do it today I can make some time tomorrow to look at it. If you can, please PM your public internet address.

Eddy

[briands]

Originally Posted by routerunner

Have you tried my suggestion to statically specify the Squeeze Server IP address in the "upload-smb" script? Also is your HD200 running the latest (non beta) firmware?

Yes, I hardcoded the IP for both the HD200 and the server.

I have firmware 20100909 0 installed.

I have also tried on the HD300 (changing the IP appropriately).

Any other suggestions?

[routerunner]

Originally Posted by briands

Yes, I hardcoded the IP for both the HD200 and the server.

I have firmware 20100909 0 installed.

I have also tried on the HD300 (changing the IP appropriately).

Any other suggestions?

Yes, please see my previous post...we wrote it at exactly the same time...

[briands]

Originally Posted by routerunner

Yes, please see my previous post...we wrote it at exactly the same time...

PM on the way... thanks for your help.

[routerunner]

"briands" couldn't make this plugin working for both HD200 and HD300, so I ask him to provide access to his unit for investigation and once logged in I knew what the problem was. So this is a guide on how to temporary solve this issue that could potentially affect other users, so please read carefully.

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Because the HD200 and HD300 hardware is different it requires different Linux kernel drivers compiled for different Linux version to make this plug in working properly and this is the reason why there are two tarballs, named respectively:

sagesqueezeslave.STP-HD200.tar (for the HD200)
sagesqueezeslave.tango3.tar (for the HD300)

the file's middle name is the standard extender's "hostname" used on the different platform. Now, if sometimes you're running the extender in stand alone mode and if you have more than one extender running simultaneously, you might want to change the extender hostname in order to distinguish the two in the network shares and this is exactly what "briands" did on his setup.

Unfortunately the current plug in implementation doesn't work if you do that as it uses the extender's hostname to determine the right software to upload, so as temporary workaround I suggest to make a duplicate and rename the tarballs changing the middle name to match your extender hostname if you have a non standard one, example:

One of "briands" HD200 has the hostname "SERVER2", so he must go in "SageTV\SageTV\plugins\sagesqueezeslave" directory and make a copy of the file "sagesqueezeslave.STP-HD200.tar" into "sagesqueezeslave.SERVER2.tar".

Same thing applies if you have an HD300 with a non standard hostname.

I suggest you to perform the copy/rename in a DOS command prompt to avoid having the final file name extension ".tar.tar" by mistake. Also, please pay attention to pick up the right software for the right extender!

For the the SageTV plugin version I should be able to determine that information automatically via property file.

Eddy

[routerunner]

Regarding post #89, I decided to make life a little bit easier for people in the same situation as "briands", so please find in attachment a new version which uses another mechanism to identify the right extender which is independent from the hostname and which I'm going to use for the SageTV plugin as well.

As usual, please remove the old version first and let me know of any issue you might find

Eddy

[tmiranda]

Originally Posted by routerunner

Thanks Tom, you have done it already...your "Commercial Detector" plugin implementation I found in CodeGoogle (hope you don't mind) is my Bible

Eddy

I don't mind at all. The only reason I was able to do some useful things in Sage is because many people helped me. I'm just "passing on the love".

[briands]

Got it working now! Thanks!!!

Don't know when I ever changed the extender name

[routerunner]

Originally Posted by briands

Got it working now! Thanks!!!

I'm happy as well, I could't figure out what was going on until I logged into your unit...

Don't know when I ever changed the extender name

on Halloween night

[routerunner]

Hi all,

the first public release of this software as downloadable plugin has been committed as "Squeeze Slave". Please visit the "SageTV V7 Customization" section for details.

Please also be aware that the current software version (sagesqueezeslave_1_0_3.zip) is still downloadable from here, however is no longer supported so any future improvement will apply to the plugin version only.

Eddy

[routerunner]

Originally Posted by mrcandu

+1 for the HD100 development! I have been looking for a way of improving my audio setup without spending any money, so this would be great, thanks for putting the time into this routerunner.

I also have an mvp kicking about, i notice in your sig that you have one too. I have no clue to the possibilities??!? but have you any thoughts regarding mvp squeezebox development?

Hi, just letting you know that I'm currently working on the MediaMVP porting of this plugin and making good progress...

I see you're from London and as I already posted here an help request for beta testers for the HD100 version of this plugin, but without any replies so far, I was wondering whether you might be interested to help me out...

[mrcandu]

Originally Posted by routerunner

Hi, just letting you know that I'm currently working on the MediaMVP porting of this plugin and making good progress...

I see you're from London and as I already posted here an help request for beta testers for the HD100 version of this plugin, but without any replies so far, I was wondering whether you might be interested to help me out...

I've pm'd u... Give me a shout. Mat.