Asset UPnP for Raspberry pi

[simes_pep]

Re: Asset UPnP for Raspberry pi

Update 21st January 2014

- Added webconfig page for browse tree
- Fixed internet radio not working
- Stability improvements
- Fixed playlist handling- now paths beginning with / are presumed absolute

Super - no more editing of the Tree txt config file! However I like that the configuration page reflects the existing setup, so no further changes needed if you are happy with your Views setup.

No problems updating - just replaced the contents of /usr/bin/asset and rebooted.
Seems to be rock solid, though I never encountered any stability issues with the previous Beta release.

Any other improvements or features planned prior to Release?

I can't tell how much better using Asset on the RPi over Twonky Server on the ReadyNAS Duo is, in terms user responsiveness with Naim's n-Stream on the iPad, browsing, Album Artwork handling, Album Artist and Compilation Album organization and transcoding.

Many thanks,
Simon.

[Maccaa]

Re: Asset UPnP for Raspberry pi

Super - no more editing of the Tree txt config file! However I like that the configuration page reflects the existing setup, so no further changes needed if you are happy with your Views setup.

No problems updating - just replaced the contents of /usr/bin/asset and rebooted.
Seems to be rock solid, though I never encountered any stability issues with the previous Beta release.

Any other improvements or features planned prior to Release?

I can't tell how much better using Asset on the RPi over Twonky Server on the ReadyNAS Duo is, in terms user responsiveness with Naim's n-Stream on the iPad, browsing, Album Artwork handling, Album Artist and Compilation Album organization and transcoding.

Many thanks,
Simon.

Evening Simon,

Currently running my pi with your last browse tree edit which is great, if I install this update will I need to re apply your edits?

Thanks

Andrew

[simes_pep]

Re: Asset UPnP for Raspberry pi

Evening Simon,

Currently running my pi with your last browse tree edit which is great, if I install this update will I need to re apply your edits?

Thanks

Andrew

Thanks. No, no problems updating. I just downloaded the new version into /usr/bin/asset, unpacked it, delete the archive and then rebooted the RPi.
This doesn't affect the Configuration details which are in /home/pi/.dBpoweramp

So

$ cd /usr/bin/asset
$ wget http://www.dbpoweramp.com/beta/Asset-Raspberry.tar.gz
$ tar -zxvf *.gz
$ rm *.gz
$ sudo reboot

The new version, in the Tree Configuration GUI displays the current Browser Tree views, but to be on the safe side, just take a copy of the AssetUPnPDefinedBrowseTreev4.txt file in /home/pi/.dBpoweramp/uMediaLibrary-v2

Simon.

[Maccaa]

Re: Asset UPnP for Raspberry pi

Thanks. No, no problems updating. I just downloaded the new version into /usr/bin/asset, unpacked it, delete the archive and then rebooted the RPi.
This doesn't affect the Configuration details which are in /home/pi/.dBpoweramp

So

$ cd /usr/bin/asset
$ wget http://www.dbpoweramp.com/beta/Asset-Raspberry.tar.gz
$ tar -zxvf *.gz
$ rm *.gz
$ sudo reboot

The new version, in the Tree Configuration GUI displays the current Browser Tree views, but to be on the safe side, just take a copy of the AssetUPnPDefinedBrowseTreev4.txt file in /home/pi/.dBpoweramp/uMediaLibrary-v2

Simon.

Thank you Simon,

That worked a treat, another page in your "setup guide"?

Maccaa

[Batleys]

Re: Asset UPnP for Raspberry pi

A quick note to say, I had .dBpoweramp database issues when I upgraded, so I had to delete it; rm -r ~/.dBpoweramp and restart AssetUPnP, reapply config and all ok. (And of course beta trial duration gets reset as well)
Simon

[Maccaa]

Re: Asset UPnP for Raspberry pi

Batleys, was your database issue immediately apparent? as mine seems fie at present.

Another question to all if I may, did anyone find out why a NAS will happily go to sleep and then every so often wake up the drives, all lights back on, for no apparent rhyme or reason, and with no regularity (obviously I am not streaming at this time) almost as though Asset has woken it up?

Maccaa

[simes_pep]

Re: Asset UPnP for Raspberry pi

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Batleys, was your database issue immediately apparent? as mine seems fie at present.

Another question to all if I may, did anyone find out why a NAS will happily go to sleep and then every so often wake up the drives, all lights back on, for no apparent rhyme or reason, and with no regularity (obviously I am not streaming at this time) almost as though Asset has woken it up?

Maccaa

It could be Asset running a 'Detecting Changes Scan' but if you have not set that option, and manually request Asset to rescan to detect any changes.
It could be a NTP request - I have been seen, in the logs from my ReadyNAS Duo, that the disks have been woken up following a NTP check and update.
Is the time on your NAS set to be taken from a NTP source or are you setting it manually?

Simon

[Maccaa]

Re: Asset UPnP for Raspberry pi

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It could be Asset running a 'Detecting Changes Scan' but if you have not set that option, and manually request Asset to rescan to detect any changes.
It could be a NTP request - I have been seen, in the logs from my ReadyNAS Duo, that the disks have been woken up following a NTP check and update.
Is the time on your NAS set to be taken from a NTP source or are you setting it manually?

Simon

Thanks Simon, I have checked that the NTP option is off an have " stopped" all other packages except perl and mail server, as I am not sure if these are needed for functionality, ie is the mail server required to send mails for system functionality ie unsafe shut down emails etc, and not sure what perl does?

I am sure there must be a log to advise why it's waking, will keep looking.

Maccaa

[Batleys]

Re: Asset UPnP for Raspberry pi

Maccaa -yes it was immediately apparent on restart - there was some database corruption such that no albums were visible in the album directory - but all tracks could be selected individually - Anyway all ok now once reinitialised

Simon

[Spoon]

Re: Asset UPnP for Raspberry pi

Update 30th January

- Fixed more radio handling bugs
- Put AssetUPnP.LocalConfig file ( command: touch AssetUPnP.LocalConfig ) to force storage of configuration data in Asset's installation directory
- MP3 encoding disabled for performance reasons
- Improved album art picture caching - reduced CPU usage with repeated album art requests

[simes_pep]

Re: Asset UPnP for Raspberry pi

Update 30th January

- Fixed more radio handling bugs
- Put AssetUPnP.LocalConfig file ( command: touch AssetUPnP.LocalConfig ) to force storage of configuration data in Asset's installation directory
- MP3 encoding disabled for performance reasons
- Improved album art picture caching - reduced CPU usage with repeated album art requests

All seems to be working fine.

Quick question on the Playlists - How are these worked out? So, how 'New' is new i.e. the age of the album/track to be included in this playlist, also how 'Recent' is recent? What makes a 'Top Artist' etc.

Also could these be configurable? Or ordered as the newest album/track, most recently played, etc?

Thanks,
Simon.

[simes_pep]

Re: Asset UPnP for Raspberry pi

All seems to be working fine.

Quick question on the Playlists - How are these worked out? So, how 'New' is new i.e. the age of the album/track to be included in this playlist, also how 'Recent' is recent? What makes a 'Top Artist' etc.

Also could these be configurable? Or ordered as the newest album/track, most recently played, etc?

Thanks,
Simon.

Sorry - they seem to be working properly again - setting the Dynamic Playlist Item Count to '50', which I think was the previous Default, has the 'New Albums' entry listing them in 'newest' order.

Also I see there is now a 'Check for New Tracks Interval (minutes)' setting - this new setting is defaulted to 60 minutes. Before this was configurable, did I read that this was 15 minutes? What is ideal?

Simon.

[Spoon]

Re: Asset UPnP for Raspberry pi

Which Count number did you set to when it did not work?

60 minutes is a tradeoff, people who have huge collections do not need it rescanning all the time.

[simes_pep]

Re: Asset UPnP for Raspberry pi

It was set to 100 and was displaying the output incorrectly - ordered A-Z and not by most recent etc.

So with ~18,000 tracks is 60 better?

Thanks,
Simon.

[dunc]

Re: Asset UPnP for Raspberry pi

Late reply-
You can start Asset by:
export home=<any path you want> && ./AssetUPnP
Overriding the home directory variable will cause Asset to store its configuration elsewhere.

Even later reply:
Thanks Spoon, and I also spotted the note in a more recent release about using AssetUPnP.LocalConfig