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106

Users / Autoupgrade option for LMCD -any plans for 710 ?

« on: April 24, 2008, 12:01:24 pm »

Hi,

I have pretty complex system that I use in new house. So I'm always in fear that I'll loose a lot of things when doing install with keep settings on new version... I liked Pluto Autoupgrade feature where it went more or less smoothly on each release....

Are there any plans about this feature and 710 release? I remember someone mentioned that 710 beta will already be able to autoupgrade to following releases - but it seems this is not the case....

Anyway, thanks for great efforts to everyone on this project...

Thanks in advance,

regards,

Bulek.

107

Users / Trying to use same ip for Orbiter connection outside and inside LAN

« on: April 21, 2008, 10:01:03 pm »

Hi,

I'd like to use external ip also from local LAN (so I don't have to keep more profiles for Orbiter, or sip softphons ,etc..)... But it seems that if I use external IP from LAN, ORbiter and sip softphone cannot register.... I remember that this was working under Pluto... But I have also slightly changed my network setup (before it was just ADSL modem redirecting everything to my core, now I have Sagem Gateway, but I have set it up to forward port 3450 to external card on Core)....

Anyone with more insight ? How do you cope with this problem ?

Thanks in advance,

regards,

Bulek.

108

Developers / Is it really necessary to use custom media metadata storage/handling ?

« on: April 15, 2008, 11:58:36 am »

Hi,

this question bugs me for some time now... I'm one that have quite large collection of personal videos, recorded movies from tv, etc... I and I had all metadata for those files already in for some other systems (Freevo, Windows HTPC apps)... etc.... As example: now I have to play each video file under UI2 and press Make Thumbnail button and then confirm ... Under Freevo, system made random screenshots from files by himself if they were not already present....

There are also some pretty usable windows applications that help you retrieve metadata in bulk way (for groups of files at once).
For instance, there is quite well accepted way of having screenshots for movies in files with same name, just .png extension. And also there are quite common files like folder.png that gives coverart for whole directory, etc...

In this situation I wonder if it's really necessary to use id3 files. It also is a pity that id3 are binary files, so not easily editable with external apps... For instance Freevo saved all those info in text, easy readable files. Also there is an option of having a text file in each directory that allows different options in showing files in that directory. For instance in video surveillance directory, one would want reverse time ordering of recordings (so latest is shown first)... A lot of troubles were solved in this pretty easy and transparent way...

Am I making any sense ? What I'd vote for is to use one of well known and spread ways to storing/handling metadata...

Thanks in advance,

regards,

Bulek.

109

Developers / Anyone working on template for LG LCD TVs ?

« on: April 14, 2008, 08:08:57 pm »

Hi,

I remember that someone mentioned effort in making GSD template for LG LCD TV.

Anyone working on that and willing to post current code ? I'm about to interface with M228WD LG LCD TV...

Thanks in advance,

regards,

Bulek.

110

Users / Can I make Xine player to stop after playing all files...

« on: April 10, 2008, 04:58:20 pm »

Hi,

if put 1 audio file to be played by Xine player on certain MD. But it seems that it cycles all over again on this file instead of finishing play.

Can I somehow force him to stop after played all desired files ?

Thanks in advance,

regards,

Bulek.

111

Users / Incoming call ends media play instead of just pause-anyone can confirm this?

« on: April 10, 2008, 03:32:17 pm »

Hi,

since I have pretty complex setup, I'd like to confirm if this problem happens only to me or is general in 710b4.

1. Play some audio playlist (probably video too)
2. incoming call comes to onscreen Orbiter and ends media, so after call you cannot continue with media

Can anyone confirm this behaviour ?

Thanks in advance,

regards,

bulek.

112

Installation issues / The easiest way to power Cisco 7970 (have no power adapter)

« on: April 08, 2008, 09:34:35 pm »

Hi,

I bought 7970 and they mostly sell without power adapter. These units have POE (Power Over Ethernet), but have read somewhere that Cisco has its own modified way of POE and that under standard POE, screen will be darker... Is this true ? How do you power your Cisco ?

What would be easiest way to power Cisco 7970 (POE - any adapters for this, any generic power supplies....) ?

Thanks in advance,

regards,

Bulek.

113

Installation issues / Broken call routing under 710b4- known issue- has anyone fixed it ?

« on: April 02, 2008, 09:29:30 pm »

Hi,

I'm slowly setting my telephony features in new home... I had a working setup under 704, but it seems that freepbx automatic setup of call routing is broken under 710b4. It's reported as a known issue.

when I compared working 704 with non-working 710 it seems that whole file extensions_pluto_dial.conf is missing (and all call routing and customization go into this file).

Has anyone fixed this problem ? I've tried to add emplty file but it didn't get updated on config change, so problem is a bit more demanding..

Can anyone confirm that file is missing ?

Thanks in advance,

regards,

Bulek.

114

Developers / My device driver doesn't survive DCERouter reload - [Solved]

« on: March 31, 2008, 12:54:49 am »

Hi,

I've written device driver for my home automation system in Perl (and learned a lot about LMCE). But currently have problems ,cause my device driver doesn't survive DCERouter reload - it actually dies few minutes after reload...

Can I conclude from DCERouter's log what caused ending of tcp connection ?

Anyone with more experiences ?

Selected lines from DCERouter's log :

   05   03/30/08 10:30:05.594      Starting log rotation... <0x772c1b90>
05   03/30/08 10:30:05.595      Going to rotate logs... <0x92af8b90>
05   03/30/08 10:30:05.595      Going to rotate logs... <0x912f5b90>
05   03/30/08 10:30:05.596      Going to rotate logs... <0x8faf2b90>
05   03/30/08 10:30:05.597      Going to rotate logs... <0x8e2efb90>
05   03/30/08 10:30:05.598      Going to rotate logs... <0x8b2e9b90>
05   03/30/08 10:30:05.600      Going to rotate logs... <0x89ae6b90>
05   03/30/08 10:30:05.602      Going to rotate logs... <0x862dfb90>
05   03/30/08 10:30:05.602      Going to rotate logs... <0x84adcb90>
05   03/30/08 10:30:05.603      Going to rotate logs... <0x832d9b90>
05   03/30/08 10:30:05.604      Going to rotate logs... <0x812d5b90>
05   03/30/08 10:30:05.608      Going to rotate logs... <0x7fad2b90>
05   03/30/08 10:30:05.611      Going to rotate logs... <0x7e2cfb90>
05   03/30/08 10:30:05.614      Going to rotate logs... <0x7caccb90>
05   03/30/08 10:30:05.598      Going to rotate logs... <0x8caecb90>
05   03/30/08 10:30:05.602      Going to rotate logs... <0x882e3b90>
05   03/30/08 10:30:05.614      Socket::SendData sendbytes==0 <0x772c1b90>
05   03/30/08 10:30:05.629      Socket::SendMessage *failed to send* type 7 id 10 from 0 to 77 <0x772c1b90>
05   03/30/08 10:30:05.632      Socket::ReceiveData 0x8e42348 failed, bytes left 0 start: 2490000 1: 0 1b: 0 2: 0 2b: 0 m_Socket: 185 Incoming_Conn Socket 185 192.168.0.1EVENT 84 <0x63a9ab90>
05   03/30/08 10:30:05.632      Socket::ReceiveString2 ReceiveData failed m_Socket: -1 Incoming_Conn Socket 185 192.168.0.1EVENT 84 <0x63a9ab90>
05   03/30/08 10:30:05.632      TCPIP: Closing connection to 84 (Router Dev #0) 0x8e42348 m_Socket: -1 <0x63a9ab90>
05   03/30/08 10:30:05.632      Router::RemoveAndDeleteSocket 0x8e42348 84 <0x63a9ab90>

05   03/30/08 10:30:05.687      Socket::ReceiveData 0x8effba0 failed, bytes left 0 start: 2530000 1: 0 1b: 0 2: 0 2b: 0 m_Socket: 156 Incoming_Conn Socket 156 192.168.0.53 <0x772c1b90>
05   03/30/08 10:30:05.687      Socket::ReceiveString2 ReceiveData failed m_Socket: -1 Incoming_Conn Socket 156 192.168.0.53 <0x772c1b90>
05   03/30/08 10:30:05.688      TCPIP: Closing connection to -1003 (Router Dev #0) 0x8effba0 m_Socket: -1 <0x772c1b90>
05   03/30/08 10:30:05.688      Router::RemoveAndDeleteSocket 0x8effba0 -1003 <0x772c1b90>

Thanks in advance,

regards,

Bulek.

115

Installation issues / MD won't start properly if no monitor is connected to it

« on: March 29, 2008, 10:27:15 pm »

Hi,

I have older Epia mobo (ME6000) that is used only as audio source for whole-house audio and therefore is used as headless MD, only for remote controlled audio play... But I spot weird behaviour. If I disconect LCD monitor, then it won't boot properly (it says "cannot connect to X...").

I've read few entries about monitor detection to be disabled, but I'm not sure if this is proper cure and how to do this most efficient and easy under lmce ?

Thanks in advance,

regards,

Bulek.

116

Users / Few basic questions about creating real-life scenarios

« on: March 21, 2008, 09:04:38 am »

Hi,

I'm creating first few scenarios in my new house and in a lack of any experience have few basic questions how to :

- create scenario to play some music for X mins ...

- do something when bluetooth phone appears in range (Wiki talks about bluetooth phone coming/going but couldn't find it on preselectable pull down menu....) ?

- can I run another scenario from new scenario ?

- create scenario, where actions appear over time (for instance wake up: start slowly music, after 5 mins slowly come up with lights, after 10mins start coffe machine, then tell weather forecast, etc....) ?

- when I have wake up scenario - how to easily setup wake up time on daily basis (from Orbiter maybe) ?

- can I schedule power down of core at night ? (I can easily make him wake up in the morning by BIOS)...

- it's mentioned that Ruby can be used for event handling. Anyone tried that ?

Any advices ?

I'd also like to hear about popular scenarios you're using at your homes....

Thanks in advance,

regards,

Bulek.

117

Users / Is it necessary to run A/V wizard after each saving of network settings ?

« on: March 20, 2008, 11:32:47 pm »

Hi,

I'm a bit experimenting with my network settings and it seems like I have to run A/V wizard on each MD after I save network settings (or something similar that I do frequently these days)...

Is this behaviour really connected to network configuration or am I doing something else ?
What causes A/V wizard to be started on MD ?

Thanks in advance,

regards,

Bulek.

118

Developers / Trying to understand audio/video pipes concept (have problem with Marantz A/V

« on: March 20, 2008, 11:25:13 am »

Hi,

I'm trying to clear out behaviour of concpet of audio and video pipes. They are quite useful, but I'm banging my head against a problem, where I'm trynig to write multi zone support for Marantz sr5600 audio receiver (it has 2 output zones if configured in multiroom mode)...

In other related thread on making proper template, Aaron suggested Yamaha receiver GSD that is quite similar. I'm following that example, but can't get it work in that part, where GSD code is trying to determine from which zone command is coming (this is crucial, cause Marantz has different serial commands for main or second output zone - so parent has to distinguish between same commands but coming from different audio zones).

Yamaha template attacks this problem with declaring second embedded child device being generic audio zone - you just put it into that room where you have secondary speakers. Then I did pipe connection to that audio device from MD in that room. Then I also connected that embedded audio zone device to CD input of receiver (that's where the physical line out from MD goes into Receiver).

Now when I start play on that secondary MD, I get this in DCERouter's log :

08      03/20/08 11:07:52.187           Received Message from 41 (Windows XP PC/tablet (Horiz) / Living Room) to 10 (Media Plug-in / ), type 1 id 43 Command:MH Play Media, retry none, parameters: <0x9e4fcb90>
08      03/20/08 11:07:52.187             Parameter 2(PK_Device): 0 <0x9e4fcb90>
08      03/20/08 11:07:52.187             Parameter 13(Filename): !F32794 <0x9e4fcb90>
08      03/20/08 11:07:52.187             Parameter 29(PK_MediaType): 0 <0x9e4fcb90>
08      03/20/08 11:07:52.188             Parameter 44(PK_DeviceTemplate): 0 <0x9e4fcb90>
08      03/20/08 11:07:52.188             Parameter 45(PK_EntertainArea): 9 <0x9e4fcb90>
08      03/20/08 11:07:52.188             Parameter 116(Resume): 0 <0x9e4fcb90>
08      03/20/08 11:07:52.188             Parameter 117(Repeat): 0 <0x9e4fcb90>
08      03/20/08 11:07:52.189           Received Message from 41 (Windows XP PC/tablet (Horiz) / Living Room) to 6 (Datagrid Plug-in / ), type 1 id 35 Command:Populate Datagrid, retry none, parameters: <0x56ee6b90>
08      03/20/08 11:07:52.189             Parameter 4(PK_Variable): 0 <0x56ee6b90>
08      03/20/08 11:07:52.189             Parameter 5(Value To Assign):  <0x56ee6b90>
08      03/20/08 11:07:52.189             Parameter 10(ID): 37 <0x56ee6b90>
08      03/20/08 11:07:52.189             Parameter 15(DataGrid ID): MediaFile_41 <0x56ee6b90>
08      03/20/08 11:07:52.189             Parameter 38(PK_DataGrid): 63 <0x56ee6b90>
08      03/20/08 11:07:52.189             Parameter 39(Options): 4||||1,2|0|13|0 | 2 | 813 <0x56ee6b90>
08      03/20/08 11:07:52.189             Parameter 40(IsSuccessful): 1 <0x56ee6b90>
08      03/20/08 11:07:52.189             Parameter 44(PK_DeviceTemplate): 0 <0x56ee6b90>
08      03/20/08 11:07:52.189             Parameter 60(Width): 1 <0x56ee6b90>
08      03/20/08 11:07:52.189             Parameter 61(Height): 8 <0x56ee6b90>
07      03/20/08 11:07:52.192           Event #21 has no handlers <0xa3e24b90>
07      03/20/08 11:07:52.192           Received Message from 10 (Media Plug-in / ) to -1001 (unknown / ), type 2 id 21 Event:Listening to Media, retry none, parameters: <0xa3e24b90>
07      03/20/08 11:07:52.192             Parameter 27(PK_Room): 7 <0xa3e24b90>
08      03/20/08 11:07:52.196           Received Message from 10 (Media Plug-in / ) to 32 (Kids-Audio / Kids), type 1 id 192 Command:On, retry none, parameters: <0xa3e24b90>
08      03/20/08 11:07:52.196             Parameter 97(PK_Pipe): 1 <0xa3e24b90>
08      03/20/08 11:07:52.196             Parameter 98(PK_Device_Pipes):  <0xa3e24b90>
08      03/20/08 11:07:52.196           Received Message from 10 (Media Plug-in / ) to 219 (Kids - Amplifier (Multiroom) / Kids), type 1 id 192 Command:On, retry none, parameters: <0xb6c34b90>
08      03/20/08 11:07:52.196             Parameter 97(PK_Pipe): 1 <0xb6c34b90>
08      03/20/08 11:07:52.196             Parameter 98(PK_Device_Pipes):  <0xb6c34b90>
08      03/20/08 11:07:52.197           Received Message from 10 (Media Plug-in / ) to 216 (Main Audio - Marantz SR5600 / Living Room), type 1 id 192 Command:On, retry none, parameters: <0xb6c34b90>
08      03/20/08 11:07:52.197             Parameter 97(PK_Pipe): 1 <0xb6c34b90>
08      03/20/08 11:07:52.197             Parameter 98(PK_Device_Pipes):  <0xb6c34b90>
08      03/20/08 11:07:52.197           Received Message from 10 (Media Plug-in / ) to 216 (Main Audio - Marantz SR5600 / Living Room), type 1 id 91 Command:Input Select, retry none, parameters: <0xb6c34b90>
08      03/20/08 11:07:52.197             Parameter 71(PK_Command_Input(CD)): 162 <0xb6c34b90>
08      03/20/08 11:07:52.198           Received Message from 10 (Media Plug-in / ) to 34 (OnScreen Orbiter / Kids), type 1 id 192 Command:On, retry none, parameters: <0xa3e24b90>
08      03/20/08 11:07:52.198             Parameter 97(PK_Pipe): 1 <0xa3e24b90>
08      03/20/08 11:07:52.198             Parameter 98(PK_Device_Pipes):  <0xa3e24b90>
08      03/20/08 11:07:52.198           Received Message from 10 (Media Plug-in / ) to 37 (Xine Player / Kids), type 1 id 192 Command:On, retry none, parameters: <0xa3e24b90>
08      03/20/08 11:07:52.198             Parameter 97(PK_Pipe): 1 <0xa3e24b90>
08      03/20/08 11:07:52.198             Parameter 98(PK_Device_Pipes):  <0xa3e24b90>
08      03/20/08 11:07:52.199           Received Message from 10 (Media Plug-in / ) to 34 (OnScreen Orbiter / Kids), type 1 id 242 Command:Set Now Playing, retry none, parameters: <0xa3e24b90>
08      03/20/08 11:07:52.199             Parameter 3(PK_DesignObj): 54,4962,47,244,224,230 <0xa3e24b90>
08      03/20/08 11:07:52.199             Parameter 5(Value To Assign): ABBA
08      03/20/08 11:07:52.199             Parameter 9(Text): Dancing Queen <0xa3e24b90>
08      03/20/08 11:07:52.199             Parameter 29(PK_MediaType): 4 <0xa3e24b90>
08      03/20/08 11:07:52.199             Parameter 41(StreamID): 1001 <0xa3e24b90>
08      03/20/08 11:07:52.199             Parameter 48(Value): 0 <0xa3e24b90>
08      03/20/08 11:07:52.199             Parameter 50(Name): pluto-xine-playback-window.pluto-xine-playback-window <0xa3e24b90>
08      03/20/08 11:07:52.199             Parameter 103(List PK Device): 37,37,216,,1,0,0 <0xa3e24b90>
08      03/20/08 11:07:52.199             Parameter 120(Retransmit): 0 <0xa3e24b90>

PArticularly important are those :

08      03/20/08 11:07:52.196           Received Message from 10 (Media Plug-in / ) to 219 (Kids - Amplifier (Multiroom) / Kids), type 1 id 192 Command:On, retry none, parameters: <0xb6c34b90>
08      03/20/08 11:07:52.196             Parameter 97(PK_Pipe): 1 <0xb6c34b90>
08      03/20/08 11:07:52.196             Parameter 98(PK_Device_Pipes):  <0xb6c34b90>
08      03/20/08 11:07:52.197           Received Message from 10 (Media Plug-in / ) to 216 (Main Audio - Marantz SR5600 / Living Room), type 1 id 192 Command:On, retry none, parameters: <0xb6c34b90>
08      03/20/08 11:07:52.197             Parameter 97(PK_Pipe): 1 <0xb6c34b90>
08      03/20/08 11:07:52.197             Parameter 98(PK_Device_Pipes):  <0xb6c34b90>
08      03/20/08 11:07:52.197           Received Message from 10 (Media Plug-in / ) to 216 (Main Audio - Marantz SR5600 / Living Room), type 1 id 91 Command:Input Select, retry none, parameters: <0xb6c34b90>
08      03/20/08 11:07:52.197             Parameter 71(PK_Command_Input(CD)): 162 <0xb6c34b90>

and I see some behaviour I'm not sure is consistent with the concept of audio pipe. The whole idea of pipes is about connected devices. So when you start playing something on MD, command On propagates to all connnected devices (amplifiers, TV, and similar). That's probably ok, the problem is that maybe you cannot determin from where did your command come, if media plugin is the sender of all commands to devices on audio pipe... Shouldn't this be changed ?

So my Marantz receiver gets all those commands but not from same source :

20-03-2008  11:07:52   Determine zone for command : 1
20-03-2008  11:07:52   Sending Command: @MSP:2
20-03-2008  11:07:52   Determine zone for command : 0
20-03-2008  11:07:52   Sending Command: @PWR:2
20-03-2008  11:07:52   Got from Marantz: @
20-03-2008  11:07:52   Got from Marantz: @MSP:2
20-03-2008  11:07:54   Determine zone for command : 0
20-03-2008  11:07:54   Sending Command: @SRC:C

First command turns secondary speakers on, second one is power on for receiver (if not already on) and third is input selection. My GSD code (same as that one in Yamaha template) decides from where those commands are coming. And first command On is propagated correctly since Marantz receives it from its child device (that is from embedded audio zone device), but same doesn't happen for other two commands (Media plugin sends them directly to parent Marantz device- and therefore disregards previous destination of commands - I guess commands should go from Media plugin to embedded audio zone device and then it could be parsed correctly with the GSD code in parent device)....

Am I making any sense or am I missing something ? Any opinion would be welcome...

Thanks in advance,

regards,

Bulek.

119

Users / Convenient way to download podcasts (video and audio) under LMCE or KUbuntu ?

« on: March 19, 2008, 12:53:04 pm »

Hi,

I'm subscribed to some interesting channels for video and audio podcasts. Currently I download them with iTunes to laptop and transfer them to LMCE Core... Since Core is running 24 hours a day, it would be much more convenient to schedule podcasts download at night.

Any convenient way to setup automatic download of subscribed podcast video and audio files under LMCE (Kubuntu) ?

Thanks in advance,

regards,

Bulek.

120

Users / Can I watch ogg video files under LMCE ?

« on: March 19, 2008, 12:01:35 pm »

Hi,

it seems that LMCE doesn't recognize them as playable (have them in directory, but they are not shown in media browser)...

Is this only LMCE limitation or Xine ?

Thanks in advance,

regards,

Bulek.