[SlimDevices: Plugins] Squeezelite -G GPIO misbehaving

[Gobuleberbu]

Hi! I'm trying to activate a relay to turn on my amplifier with the -g
option for squeezelite.

So far, I only had erratic behaviors. Playing,Pausing a song, and fast
forwarding/rewinding a song will trigger the relay.
It seems like it's responding to playback status rather than power
status.

Anyone has an idea on how I could achieve that feature without this bug?

Maybe I could use the -S option. Anyone wiling to share their power on
and power off scripts ?

Thank you! [emoji3]


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[DJanGo]

What Version do you use?

i am using Squeezelite v1.9.0-1113from Ralph that doesnt have a -g
support.

I am using -S for my stuff and i never seen some strange things...


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[Gobuleberbu]

I'm using Max2Play v1.0.2 based on v1.8.4-726


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[Jeff07971]

Post by Gobuleberbu
Hi! I'm trying to activate a relay to turn on my amplifier with the -g
option for squeezelite.
So far, I only had erratic behaviors. Playing,Pausing a song, and fast
forwarding/rewinding a song will trigger the relay.
It seems like it's responding to playback status rather than power
status.
Anyone has an idea on how I could achieve that feature without this bug?
Maybe I could use the -S option. Anyone wiling to share their power on
and power off scripts ?
Thank you! [emoji3]
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Never had a single problem with the -G switch.

What version of SQUEEZELITE are you using "squeezelite -v" I think.

What GPIO are you using ?

How are you buffering the signal from the GPIO ?



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[Gobuleberbu]

Never had a single problem with the -G switch. And its -G not -g
What version of SQUEEZELITE are you using "squeezelite -?" I think.
What GPIO are you using ?
How are you buffering the signal from the GPIO ?

Buffering? I'm not sure I quite understand how to do that [emoji52]




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[Jeff07971]

Post by Gobuleberbu
Buffering? I'm not sure I quite understand how to do that [emoji52]

The GPIO on a Pi does not have enough power to run MOST relays, there
are a few it can but not many and are specialised.
Buffering is the circuit used to increase the power available to drive a
relay - See attached image.

Lets get the basics first:-
What raspberry Pi have you got ?
What DAC do you use ?

How does the relay power the amplifier 120/220 Vac ?

Then we can go from there, as I said I have never had any problems with
the -G option on pCP (PiCorePlayer) and use -G in 4 systems

Jeff

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[Gobuleberbu]

In max2play,
I run it with the following flag
-G 24:H




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[Gobuleberbu]

Ok! I'm driving a power switch tail II with my pi 3B+

It should work decently...
Maybe it's my firmware, I've updated everything. I'll test it tonight.

Otherwise which kernel version are you running? I'm 4.14.85-v7+




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[Jeff07971]

Post by Gobuleberbu
Ok! I'm driving a power switch tail II with my pi 3B+
It should work decently...
Maybe it's my firmware, I've updated everything. I'll test it tonight.
Otherwise which kernel version are you running? I'm 4.14.85-v7+

Yes that should work fine !

I doubt if its firmware, but possible

What DAC do you use ? Does it use GPIO 24 ?



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*Remotes:* iPeng9/Orangesqueeze/PC/Jivelite/SqueezeLite-X
*Music:* 522GB,1660 albums with 23087 songs by 5204 artists mostly
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[Gobuleberbu]

Allo boss

And no, it's not being used by the board...
It uses bcm 3 5 12 27 28 31 35 50

And gpio 24 is at pin 18




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[Jeff07971]

Post by Gobuleberbu
Allo boss
And no, it's not being used by the board...
It uses bcm 3 5 12 27 28 31 35 50
And gpio 24 is at pin 18

Hmm thats very strange then !

Why not try Picoreplayer and see if it does the same then at least
you'll know whether or not its Max2Play or something else



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[Gobuleberbu]

Ok nailed it.

At the end of the text box, which I could not see on my iPad, was the -C
5 flag, which was suppose to release the output after 5 seconds to allow
shairport-sync to use ALSA.

In the end, it really is a bug since the -C command should not trigger
the amp power off, only the disconnection to ALSA.

[emoji41][emoji851][emoji1]

Thanks a lot for your help, your input really helped to see the problem
under a new angle!! Have a great evening!


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[paul-]

That is how it works, squeezelite/lms, Squeezelite does not get power
button status, LMS tells it to play a stream or not, and to shutdown
alsa when not playing.

The -G option was Never intended/nor can it interface with
shairport-sync



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[Jeff07971]

Post by Gobuleberbu
Ok nailed it.
At the end of the text box, which I could not see on my iPad, was the -C
5 flag, which was suppose to release the output after 5 seconds to allow
shairport-sync to use ALSA.
In the end, it really is a bug since the -C command should not trigger
the amp power off, only the disconnection to ALSA.
[emoji41][emoji851][emoji1]
Thanks a lot for your help, your input really helped to see the problem
under a new angle!! Have a great evening!
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Glad you got it working !



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*Remotes:* iPeng9/Orangesqueeze/PC/Jivelite/SqueezeLite-X
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