Snakeoil Firmware - 1.2.6 (Gear Isolation U6)

[agent_kith]

Introduction
This is a major bug fix release. With 101 commits, 1852 additions and 1011 deletions.

Some highlights:

• Updated installer so it will work on newer Ubuntu LTS, and Ubuntu Studio.
  
• New GUI to copy media from removable storage (USB Keys, HDD/SSD)
  
• New Logitech MediaServer that will work on newer distros
  

Basically a more stable version now. Thanks to @Snoopy8 ​​​​​​, @hkphantomgtr and others for beta testing. 

For firmware please check in the firmware section later. I think I ran out of time for now so will make the firmware post later today or sometime tomorrow.

Changelog

• Don't show F12 message when in col-12 mode. Fix broken status messages in browse after recent changes. Use col-12 for displaying items in browse (not col-6
  
• ignore @eaDir folder when copying files. Disable copy/replace to RAM commands when in RAM folder. Move a display function from component into a pipe for resuabilit
  
• Fix broken dialogs in browse (New folder, delete, etc
  
• Add id3tag support to MPD player
  
• fix invalid text boxes not hi-lighted in red in network config
  
• Update save player config English translatio
  
• Fixed a empty players bug when loading players
  
• Fix race condition segfault when trying to gracefull exit API server
  
• Add port 58050 as a remote control for bubbleupnp
  
• upmpdcli cleanup
  
• Improve system stability when handling error
  
• Improve no-cache meta tags in WebApp
  
• Improved version checking Mk 2
  
• Fix broken network page in Ubuntu Studio 22.0
  
• Disable logitechmediaserver (LMS) if it's auto-starting by default. Snakeoil should handle LMS start/stop.
  
• Improve build CI/CD process: Include pre-release version info in filenames and installers., fix some script bugs, try and use artifact
  
• In TOP, sort process by %CPU and include other useful metrics, while removing non essential one
  
• Include pre-release point information in version
  
• Fix BubbleUPnP player startu
  
• Do not ask for AUDIO output configuration for players that do not require it (e.g. upmpdcli
  
• Show which CPU a process is running by adding a P flag in top
  
• Fixed to top of page when running top
  
• Fix several issues with adding playlists to RAM in browser. Fix confusing RAM buttons
  
• Fixes squeezelite start failure when using option
  
• Do not show error field in api-error component if value is null
  
• Add new feature to copy files to music folder instead of mounting them in library page
  
• Use system aplay if pulseaudio is installer
  
• Investigate and fix segmentation fault of snakeoil backend server on Ubuntu Studio 22.04
  
• Fixed issue where drives/partitions are not detected as being usable in Music Library
  
• Update myMPD to 9.4.x
  
• Update Logitech Media Server to 8.2.1. Spin new installer
  
• Support netplan for network configuration
  
• Add a CPU architecture check to make sure you are running the correct installer on the platform
  
• Create A Default LMS config for fresh setup
  
• Add Restricted extras to installer
  
• Improve machine CPU type check in installer
  

Downloads
  snakeoil-armv7l-1.2.6.fw (Size: 52.07 MB / Downloads: 25)
(SHA1: b0aba0f900131c74046889508f1abbc82440dcc4)
  snakeoil-x86_64-1.2.6.fw (Size: 57.75 MB / Downloads: 73)
(SHA1: a219e1b37cec4fe7a994416809f1ff2503093b14)

[Snoopy8]

Thank you for the update and well done.  A few minor things slipped through the cracks:

• Dashboard showing 1.2.6 loaded successfully, but Update is not detecting correctly and saying there is a new version 1.2.6
  
• Browse is missing progress screen with F12 when copy/replace Ram.  All other Browse issues in Beta have been fixed.
  
• SnakeOil/Hardware : unable to delete existing process priorities (have not checked this for a while!)
  

[agent_kith]

Thank you for the update and well done.  A few minor things slipped through the cracks:

• Dashboard showing 1.2.6 loaded successfully, but Update is not detecting correctly and saying there is a new version 1.2.6

Oh shit.. That can't be tested until release.. Might have to do a 1.2.6.1 to fix that.. Hopefully can do that this weekend.

Browse is missing progress screen with F12 when copy/replace Ram.  All other Browse issues in Beta have been fixed.

Yeah, have to take that out as I can't seem to hide elements based on screenwidth any more. Will just put this in the wiki notes.

SnakeOil/Hardware : unable to delete existing process priorities (have not checked this for a while!)

Will also look at this and fix this in 1.2.6.1

thanks

[Bromf]

Installed new firmware. Library on remote (CIFS) shows as added and good but no players start. 

Error on several browsers is the same...connection refused (from ip address of Snakeoil:8080 for all mpd ) however can connect from Ubuntu to the server in filesystem so not a server fault.
Webpage ?   
Have tried clearing all caches, reloading, rebooting, several browsers, clearing and resetting CIFS ....

OK...have now got LMS running and it is scanning the library on the CIFS NAS so it is not a network or server error.....
Just the often encountered myMPD error that prevents loading the player.....I recall there was a workaround in prior versions to fix this...anyone got a link to that ?....I can't find the thread.

[agent_kith]

Just the often encountered myMPD error that prevents loading the player.....I recall there was a workaround in prior versions to fix this...anyone got a link to that ?....I can't find the thread.

myMPD errors should be fixed. However i have changed some API and I reckon the WebApp still isn't refreshed properly.

Can you do a ALT+F5 to force a WebApp refresh and see if you still have the same problems? If yes, please generate a diagnostic file and send it to me for a look. Thanks

[seafoodlover]

Just the often encountered myMPD error that prevents loading the player.....I recall there was a workaround in prior versions to fix this...anyone got a link to that ?....I can't find the thread.

myMPD errors should be fixed. However i have changed some API and I reckon the WebApp still isn't refreshed properly.

Can you do a ALT+F5 to force a WebApp refresh and see if you still have the same problems? If yes, please generate a diagnostic file and send it to me for a look. Thanks

Hi kith,
the connection error on myMPD page also happened on my PC after upgraded to 1.2.6, it happened when I updated to 1.2.2, then all other versions were fine until 1.2.6, do u need my diagnostics file?
seafoodlover

[agent_kith]

@seafoodlover @hkphantomgtr Can you both SSH into the computer and run this command? Then click on the restart players button and see if that fixes it? Seems it's missing some libraries.
 

Code:

sudo apt install libid3tag0

If still having problems, can you run this command and show me the output?
 

Code:

ldd /usr/local/bin/mympd

[hkphantomgtr]

Introduction
This is a major bug fix release. With 101 commits, 1852 additions and 1011 deletions.

Some highlights:

• Updated installer so it will work on newer Ubuntu LTS, and Ubuntu Studio.
  
• New GUI to copy media from removable storage (USB Keys, HDD/SSD)
  
• New Logitech MediaServer that will work on newer distros
  

Basically a more stable version now. Thanks to @Snoopy8 ​​​​​​, @hkphantomgtr and others for beta testing. 

For firmware please check in the firmware section later. I think I ran out of time for now so will make the firmware post later today or sometime tomorrow.

Changelog

• Don't show F12 message when in col-12 mode. Fix broken status messages in browse after recent changes. Use col-12 for displaying items in browse (not col-6
  
• ignore @eaDir folder when copying files. Disable copy/replace to RAM commands when in RAM folder. Move a display function from component into a pipe for resuabilit
  
• Fix broken dialogs in browse (New folder, delete, etc
  
• Add id3tag support to MPD player
  
• fix invalid text boxes not hi-lighted in red in network config
  
• Update save player config English translatio
  
• Fixed a empty players bug when loading players
  
• Fix race condition segfault when trying to gracefull exit API server
  
• Add port 58050 as a remote control for bubbleupnp
  
• upmpdcli cleanup
  
• Improve system stability when handling error
  
• Improve no-cache meta tags in WebApp
  
• Improved version checking Mk 2
  
• Fix broken network page in Ubuntu Studio 22.0
  
• Disable logitechmediaserver (LMS) if it's auto-starting by default. Snakeoil should handle LMS start/stop.
  
• Improve build CI/CD process: Include pre-release version info in filenames and installers., fix some script bugs, try and use artifact
  
• In TOP, sort process by %CPU and include other useful metrics, while removing non essential one
  
• Include pre-release point information in version
  
• Fix BubbleUPnP player startu
  
• Do not ask for AUDIO output configuration for players that do not require it (e.g. upmpdcli
  
• Show which CPU a process is running by adding a P flag in top
  
• Fixed to top of page when running top
  
• Fix several issues with adding playlists to RAM in browser. Fix confusing RAM buttons
  
• Fixes squeezelite start failure when using option
  
• Do not show error field in api-error component if value is null
  
• Add new feature to copy files to music folder instead of mounting them in library page
  
• Use system aplay if pulseaudio is installer
  
• Investigate and fix segmentation fault of snakeoil backend server on Ubuntu Studio 22.04
  
• Fixed issue where drives/partitions are not detected as being usable in Music Library
  
• Update myMPD to 9.4.x
  
• Update Logitech Media Server to 8.2.1. Spin new installer
  
• Support netplan for network configuration
  
• Add a CPU architecture check to make sure you are running the correct installer on the platform
  
• Create A Default LMS config for fresh setup
  
• Add Restricted extras to installer
  
• Improve machine CPU type check in installer
  

Downloads
(SHA1: b0aba0f900131c74046889508f1abbc82440dcc4)
(SHA1: a219e1b37cec4fe7a994416809f1ff2503093b14)

FYI, AK, few days ago I updated NUC (still from UbuntuStudio 20.04) with 1.2.6 FW and there is no problem to me.  This noon, I reinstalled my NUC with UbuntuStudio 22.04.1 and SO 1.2.6 installer, so far it works properly.

[seafoodlover]

@seafoodlover @hkphantomgtr Can you both SSH into the computer and run this command? Then click on the restart players button and see if that fixes it? Seems it's missing some libraries.
 

Code:

sudo apt install libid3tag

If still having problems, can you run this command and show me the output?
 

Code:

ldd /usr/local/bin/mympd

got an error

ray@musicserver:~$ sudo apt install libid3tag
[sudo] password for ray:
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
E: Unable to locate package libid3tag
ray@musicserver:~$

[agent_kith]

got an error

My bad, try this

Code:

sudo apt install libid3tag0

Have amended post to add the extra 0.