moOde 5.4 Beta 2 is available

[DRONE7]

NOCTUA fans are really inaudible if you are not too close to them.  I use a 5V 40x10mm one, NOT the PWM variant, connected to the 3V3 pin.

With a large heatsink I get to 40º....

Roberto

This one ???
https://www.quietpc.com/nf-a4x10-5v-pwm

Nope. That’s the PWM variant. This one:
https://www.quietpc.com/nf-a4x10?product=2886

The low noise adapter is not there with this version, but it is the same as connecting to the 3V3 pin. These fans are so quiet that there is no need to buy the PWM version (that needs extra HW and SW to be added to Raspberry Pi and to the operating system). The non-PWM version is practically  inaudible while running at 3V3 (< 12Db at 75 cm of distance)

 Roberto 

[url=https://www.quietpc.com/nf-a4x10?product=2886][/url]Roberto

But.... that's a 12v fan.....how did you get it to work on the 3.3v gpio ??

[moodenigo]

moodenigo

This one ???
https://www.quietpc.com/nf-a4x10-5v-pwm

Nope. That’s the PWM variant. This one:
https://www.quietpc.com/nf-a4x10?product=2886

Roberto
But.... that's a 12v fan.....how did you get it to work on the 3.3v gpio ??

  https://www.quietpc.com/nf-a4x10-flx-5v?product=3676

Here’s the 5V variant, sorry...

 Roberto 
[url=https://www.quietpc.com/nf-a4x10-flx-5v?product=3676][/url]

[mancio61]

Hi Tim, I'm running 5.3 version , but from a couple of days I had some issues:  Web UI not shown properly, a noise out of the speakers instead of music, failure to connect to Tidal (from Kazoo app I've got the message "connection failure" and I had to restart MPD service from the Moode UI to connect correctly...), and some other issues. So I think that can be a problem of the microSD card. I then format the card, re-install from scratch 5.3.1 and moode runs (music from speakers !), but the WebUI has still problems :  the "player" main panel is grey, all the "configuration" panels are shown but with all the triggers red instead of green.  So I definitely decide to use a brand new microSD. The question is : should I install the upcoming 5.4 (even in Beta state), in order to update to the 5.4 when will be released? Or , if there will be an online update from 5.3 to 5.4, is better to install 5.3?
I use python (with the MPD library) to manage the OLED display of my RPI3-based streamer, are there known problems with the updated underlying Linux version for the 5.4 ? Which version of MPD pyhton library I have to install (is required by the python script to update the display with the playing music info)
Thanks

[Tim Curtis]

Hi,

Refer to the following post for info on the upcoming moOde 6 release.
http://moodeaudio.org/forum/showthread.p...3#pid11593

You would need to ask the maintainer of the Python script whether it's compatible with moOde. The symptoms you describe suggest a possible issue with the script hogging the CPU??

[mancio61]

Oh thanks!
Anyway I've installed the 5.4 Beta2 on the fresh microSD, install python and python-mpd library.. and all it works !
So I assume from your post that it will not be any online-update from 5.4Beta2 to 6.0 ? Shall I re-install the 6.0 (when available) from scratch?

[Tim Curtis]

Yes, moOde 6 is based on the newly released Raspbian 10 (Buster) operating system and is not backward compatible with moOde 5 series which is based on Raspbian 9 (Stretch).

-Tim

[MikeyFresh]

I've got Moode 5.4b2 up and running on the new RPi 4B 1GB board tonight.

Everything seems fine with both internet radio playback, and streaming from my JRiver DLNA server using the JRemote iPad app as a control point.

Within Moode's own web interface, I did not see a way to index the UPnP library. I was able to add it as a source, however it didn't then appear nor could I figure out how to index it.

I also noticed with the HDMI port set to OFF, I still get video output to my monitor during the boot sequence.

[Tim Curtis]

UPnP sources are indexed via MPD "update" command, same as for NAS or USB sources. After adding the UPnP source, MPD update should automatically start.

To troubleshoot UPnP Browsing:

- Verify that the DLNA server folders appear under /mnt/UPnP
- Examine the MPD log for "added..." entries for all the songs on the DLNA server

Regarding the Pi-4:

There are still some unfinished parts in Raspbian Buster, Raspberry Pi firmware and in certain components. As soon as those are finished and updates made available they will be incorporated in moOde :-)

- USB boot not fully complete in Pi Firmware
- WiringPi GPIO not handling pull up/down states
- The tvservice command does not appear to to turn off the HDMI ports

-Tim

[MikeyFresh]

UPnP sources are indexed via MPD "update" command, same as for NAS or USB sources. After adding the UPnP source, MPD update should automatically start.

To troubleshoot UPnP Browsing:

- Verify that the DLNA server folders appear under /mnt/UPnP
- Examine the MPD log for "added..." entries for all the songs on the DLNA server

Regarding the Pi-4:

There are still some unfinished parts in Raspbian Buster, Raspberry Pi firmware and in certain components. As soon as those are finished and updates made available they will be incorporated in moOde :-)

- USB boot not fully complete in Pi Firmware
- WiringPi GPIO not handling pull up/down states
- The tvservice command does not appear to to turn off the HDMI ports

-Tim

Thanks Tim, I'm not sure if the MPD update kicked off all by itself or not, however after a bit of time I did hit the MPD update button, which in retrospect probably means I restarted that whole index process right then?

I just tried it again and the notification that an index had started appears, however there is no spinner or any other indication that anything is happening. I'll sit tight and see if the scan runs, there's over 15,000 tracks so it might take a while.

[Tim Curtis]

No spinner icon would suggest an issue.

You will need to open an SSH terminal and run the commands below to see what's going on.

Code:

ls -l /mnt/UPNP

cat /var/log/mpd/log

moOde has a built in SSH terminal, just open System config and scroll to Local Services, SSH term server. Turn it on then open it. Userid=pi, password=moodeaudio