Official moOde 8 support thread

[DRONE7]

@TheOldPresbyope  

I have moOde 8.1.2 running on a Pi3B+ with official 7" LCD touchscreen display attached. It runs fine using an official Raspberry Pi power supply but exhibits behavior similar to what you report when I use a no-name power supply I got "somewhere".

Cable diameter and type ...
The Pi supply has a hefty amount of conductor vs the no-name supplies.
Makes a big difference to current carrying especially at boot and anything else intensive.

[ciro73]

Hi Guys,

fresh installed 8.1.2 64bit release on a Raspi 3B+ with a local 7" Touchscreen LCD
After the boot is finished (login) the screen turns black, a flicking on the screen and then I jumps back to the cl 

Code:

pi@moode:~ $ moodeutl --revision
0xa020d3 3B+ 1.3 1GB Sony UK BCM2837
pi@moode:~ $ moodeutl --mooderel
8.1.2 2022-07-08
pi@moode:~ $ uname -a
Linux moode 5.15.32-v8+ #1538 SMP PREEMPT Thu Mar 31 19:40:39 BST 2022 aarch64 GNU/Linux

Local UI is activated and it worked with 8.0 release
In the xorg.log I can see that /dev/dri/card0 is missing. Not sure if this is normal
Let me know if I should provide log files
thanks

cheers
Ciro

Update:
I used now the 32bit version of 8.1.2 with the same setup and PSU and local UI is starting right away.
Switched SD card back to the 64bit Version and still the same. Local UI won't  start, just cli login
I will keep my setup still disassembled for a while if you want me to do some testing with the 64bit release.
It's a pain in the back to change the SD card if assembled and therefor I need to tear it down before I can change it

Code:

pi@moode:~ $ moodeutl --mooderel
8.1.2 2022-07-08
pi@moode:~ $ moodeutl --revision
0xa020d3    3B+    1.3    1GB    Sony UK    BCM2837
pi@moode:~ $ uname -a
Linux moode 5.15.32-v7+ #1538 SMP Thu Mar 31 19:38:48 BST 2022 armv7l GNU/Linux

[TheOldPresbyope]

@ciro73

I should have said. I'm running 64-bit moOde 8.1.2 on my 3B+/LCD display and the local display is working fine.

Do you see any relevant error messages in the logs?

Regards,
Kent

[ciro73]

@ciro73

I should have said. I'm running 64-bit moOde 8.1.2 on my 3B+/LCD display and the local display is working fine.

Do you see any relevant error messages in the logs?

Regards,
Kent

Sorry Guys. I re-flashed the SD with the 64bit Image and now it seems to be ok.
Not sure what happened with the first written SD (I used now the same SD) but the second flash seems to work now also with the local display.
thanks @TheOldPresbyope and sorry for the waste of time here

[Mr.R0b0t]

Album display problem. If there are participating artists in the mp3 tag and there are several of them, then in the album view there are Chinese bushes instead of the album's attribute.

[Tim Curtis]

PM myself and @TheOldPresbyope a download link to zip of the file and we will have a look.

[Busybox]

I can't seem to set my system's hostname from the Moode GUI. This is in the 32-bit version of 8.1.2, although I think it was present in 8.1.1 also.

My system's hostname had been "moode-1." Somehow in doing various updates the hostname got set to "moode-1-1" in /etc/hostname. When I tried to change it in the system page of the GUI, it showed the correct name of "moode-1", but didn't change the name in /etc/hostname so it came up as "moode-1-1." Just to make sure the new name got loaded I first set it to "moode-1X", then to "moode-1", and Moode claimed it set the new name correctly.

- Steve

P.S. I saw a previous forum post suggesting that the hostname should be included in a backup. I'm not sure this is a good idea since it could cause DHCP confusion after cloning systems. I have several Moode systems on the same network that I want to keep consistent, but with different hostnames. None of my systems use the default name "moode", so after a backup from one system and restore to another, I always check my DHCP server for a system named "moode" to know which is the new clone.

[Tim Curtis]

There is a TODO list item to have host name and the other names be configurable on a restore to allow a single backup file to be used to restore to multiple systems but in the meantime I would just save a backup file for each system.

[Busybox]

I have some more info on what may have caused hostname corruption. I had a moode system named "moode-amp2" running 7.1.x and made a backup of it. Then I flashed a new SD card with 8.1.2 using the Raspberry Pi Imager. In the Imager I explicitly set the hostname to "moode-amp2" as well. Then when I restored my backup, /etc/hostname became "moode-amp2-amp2." However the moode GUI still showed the name as "moode-amp2."

- Steve

[duke.g]

Hi all,
I have a little problem editing my playlists.
For some of them nothing happens if  I klick on edit playlist.
Is there a logfile I can have a look at to see whats going on?
If Yes, can someone please point me in the right direction.
I'm using Moode 8.1.2, 32 Bit installation, Pi 4B, 4GB.

Thanks in advance
   duke.g