[mythtv-users] MythSqueezebox2 plugin for MythTV 0.22

myShade myshade at bredband.net
Tue Oct 27 14:29:36 UTC 2009


On Mon, 2009-10-26 at 10:38 -0400, George Galt wrote:
> > Looks really nice. Just cant get it moving...
> >
> > 2009-10-26 13:52:47.013 CREATING MYTHSQUEEZEBOX2 WINDOW
> > 2009-10-26 13:52:47.013 Loading window theme
> > from /usr/local/share/mythtv/themes/Graphite/mythsqueezebox2-ui.xml
> > 2009-10-26 13:52:47.013 Loading window theme
> > from /usr/local/share/mythtv/themes/default-wide/mythsqueezebox2-ui.xml
> > 2009-10-26 13:52:47.013 Loading window theme
> > from /usr/local/share/mythtv/themes/default/mythsqueezebox2-ui.xml
> > 2009-10-26 13:52:47.054 INITIALIZING PLAYER AND CLI INTERFACE
> > ioctl SIOCGIFHWADDR: No such device
> 
> It looks like the software isn't pulling a MAC address for your
> system, and since all communication with the squeezebox server is
> based on the MAC address of the players, it's getting confused.  The
> code that grabs the MAC address assumes that you are using "eth0" for
> your network interface -- something I meant to fix before putting this
> code out.  I'm assuming that it is somehow failing at this point.  You
> may want to look at the output of ifconfig to see what your interfaces
> are and what they are reporting for MAC addresses.
> 
> The code is in the mythsqueezebox2.cpp file in getplayerMACAddress().
> I'm not an expert (and really only barely competent) at network
> interfaces, so the code here is definitely in need of help.  If you
> have any suggestions -- or if anyone on the list knows a better way --
> to get a relevant MAC address, please let me know.  As a short term
> fix, you could always hard code in a MAC address to be reported by
> getplayerMACAddress().  Be aware that the output is escape encoded.
> 
> George

Hi.

I moved the interface to eth0, things now moves futher, but no Go...
The gui is blank.
In the console window i can see this...
--------------
                   ┌────────────────────────────────────────┐
                   │Squeezebox Home                   1 of 9│
                   │Now Playing                            >│
2009-10-27 15:22:41.255 Progress count (11) is higher than total (10)
2009-10-27 15:22:41.256 Progress count (11) is higher than total (10)
Sending Device Command:  "00%3A04%3A20%3A1e%3A98%3A45 status 0 1000
tags:g,a,l,t,y,d,J
"
Sending Device Command:  "00%3A1d%3A7d%3Aa3%3A93%3A82 status 0 1000
tags:g,a,l,t,y,d,J
"
Sending Device Command:  "00%3A04%3A20%3A16%3A3a%3A24 status 0 1000
tags:g,a,l,t,y,d,J
----------------

mythfrontend goes 190% cpu...  :=)
31906 mythtv    20   0  676m 233m  34m R  190 11.6   2:19.12 

And memory consumption grows steady..
It there a way to see whats goin on?

Br Fredrik






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