LinkPlayer Feedback Thread

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stampfki (archived)
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Posted June 6, 2011 at 05:39 GMT
#1684936

Dear Phil,

It is me again. After our last - unfortunately not successful - clarification session I had the suspicion that the Beoport is not working properly. So I bought a new one and unfortunately I still cannot control the Mac Mini (itunes, etc.).

My configuration:

Mainroom: Beovision 4 with Beosystem 2 (9416 Software 16.2), via ML junctionbox the Beoport is connected. Since I throw out my audiomaster Ouverture, the Beoport shall replace it, so I have set it to Option 0, TV is on 2. But absolutely no reaction on Beo4 commands. Linkplayer console says ...unmatched message...

Thx in advance for your help.

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XavierItzmann (archived)
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Posted June 6, 2011 at 10:04 GMT
#1684937

Separate issue not related to messages above:

 

I just wanted to report that it is my policy to never update our Mac Mini OS X/iTunes once I've set it up with Phil's latest version, whatever it may be.  What works, works, and shouldn't be messed up with.

 

Nonetheless, yesterday in a moment of rashness and motivated by a problem I was having on an iPad of my wife's, I updated the Mac Mini to all the latest updates, including iTunes 10.2.2 and OS X 10.6.7, and can report LinkPlayer and LinkRemote iPhone + LinkRemote iPhone (latest versions) work just as fine as always.

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Chrisreunion (archived)
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Posted June 10, 2011 at 07:46 GMT
#1684938

Let's hope Philippe manages to launch the new Linkplayer shortly after Lion OS X, it would be a shame to have Linkplayer fully operational for Snow Leopard just to re-work a few weeks later on bug fixes when Lion comes out.😕

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stampfki (archived)
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Posted June 16, 2011 at 15:33 GMT
#1684939

Please, may anybody post his log file of Linkplayer?

 

Mine is:

2011-06-16 21:20:01 +0200
Mac Address : 00:25:00:cc:8a:58
Version 1.1
Device Detected.
Already disconnected.
Connecting to Beoport.
Last Error 0
Getting the Master Port.
Found Beoport.
Found 1 USB device configurations.
Opened and configured USB device.
Found 2 pipes
Found Pipe 1: Direction(1), Number(1), tType(3), PacketSize(9), Interval(10)
Pipe 1 is In
Found Pipe 2: Direction(0), Number(1), tType(3), PacketSize(9), Interval(10)
Pipe 2 is Out
Connection Established.
New Mode: 3
>Sending COMMAND_HELLO_1 - 
>Sending COMMAND_HELLO_2 - Origin = C1  
Received 60 04 41 01 01 41 61
Received EXPECTED_HELLO_1 address=65 - 
Received 60 05 49 01 30 01 03 61
Received EXPECTED_FIRMWARE_VERSION 
Did Finish Receive Response
Beta Timer Off
>Sending COMMAND_HELLO_3 - 
Received 60 05 49 01 30 01 03 61
Received EXPECTED_FIRMWARE_VERSION 
>Sending COMMAND_OPTION_0_2 - 
>Sending COMMAND_PC2_OFF - 
>Sending COMMAND_HELLO_4 - 
Received 60 02 06 00 61
Received EXPECTED_HEADPHONES_DISCONNECTED 
New Mode: 4
>Sending COMMAND_GOTO_VIDEO_MASTER - Origin = C1  Checksum = A3 
Received 60 04 01 01 01 41 61
Received EXPECTED_ACK Masterlink = 1 -
Received 60 0E 00 C1 C0 01 14 00 00 00 04 03 04 02 01 01 61
Received EXPECTED_MASTER_PRESENT address=192 - 
>Sending COMMAND_VOLUME_SETTINGS - Volume = 90  Bass =  0  Treble =  0  Balance =  0  
Received 60 05 03 90 00 00 00 61
Received EXPECTED_VOLUME_SETTINGS Volume = 16 - , Loudness = -128Bass = 0 -Treble = 0 -Balance = 0 -
>Sending COMMAND_GOTO_VIDEO_MASTER - Origin = C1  Checksum = A3 
Received 60 04 01 01 01 41 61
Received EXPECTED_ACK Masterlink = 1 -
Received 60 0E 00 C1 C0 01 14 00 00 00 04 03 04 02 01 01 61
Received EXPECTED_MASTER_PRESENT address=192 - 
Received 60 0E 00 C1 C0 01 0B 00 00 00 04 03 04 02 01 00 61
Received EXPECTED_MASTER_PRESENT_OPT2 address=192 - 
>Sending COMMAND_MASTER_PRESENT - Address = C0  Origin = C1  Checksum = A3 
Received 60 04 01 01 01 41 61
Received EXPECTED_ACK Masterlink = 1 -
Received 60 1E 00 C1 C0 01 0B 00 00 00 45 13 01 02 8D 00 02 01 00 01 00 00 00 03 02 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 61
  Unmatched Message  60 1E 00 C1 C0 01 0B 00 00 00 45 13 01 02 8D 00 02 01 00 01 00 00 00 03 02 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 61
Received 60 0F 00 C0 C0 01 0A 0C 00 00 7C 04 01 80 00 00 00 61
  Unmatched Message  60 0F 00 C0 C0 01 0A 0C 00 00 7C 04 01 80 00 00 00 61
Received 60 0F 00 C0 C0 01 0A 0C 00 00 7C 04 01 40 00 00 00 61
  Unmatched Message  60 0F 00 C0 C0 01 0A 0C 00 00 7C 04 01 40 00 00 00 61
Received 60 16 00 80 C0 01 14 00 00 00 40 0B 0B 0A 00 03 20 30 00 00 16 06 11 0A 61
  Unmatched Message  60 16 00 80 C0 01 14 00 00 00 40 0B 0B 0A 00 03 20 30 00 00 16 06 11 0A 61

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PhilLondon
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Posted June 18, 2011 at 02:57 GMT
#1684940

Guys, 

I am on holidays, away from my B&O setup for another week. I'll have a look at all this when I am back to London.

p.

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berlin2010
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Posted June 20, 2011 at 05:04 GMT
#1684941

Some feedback on LinkPlayer with Lion.

I've been using LinkPlayer with Lion for the past two/three months,  for the most part it worked great no issues at all. Of late though I'm having a problem with LinkPlayer being non-responsive, requiring me to quit and restart LinkPlayer.

I've narrowed it down - when using the Mac with LinkPlayer and then switching off the Beovision with my remote (normal red dot button), the BV turns off as per normal but when I switch it back on LinkPlayer is not reacting to the remote commands anymore, requiring a restart of LinkPlayer. SO where one would expect the LinkPlayer menu screen to come up, the Mac desktop is showing with LinkPlayer running (and not indicating "Application not respondig") but it does not recognise remote commands.

Not a terribly big deal since it's a simple quit and restart to get up and running again (as opposed to restarting the entire machine) but clearly somehting not happy anymore. Not sure if this behaviour manifested already with Preview 3 or only the latest Preview 4 (current installation) but as of now there's a bug.

 

Philippe, happy to help test beta builds against Lion if you need.

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elephant (archived)
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Posted June 20, 2011 at 06:29 GMT
#1684942

berlin2010 wrote:
Some feedback on LinkPlayer with Lion.

Have you been using it in full screen MENU mode ?

I found LinkPlayer unstable in that mode ... so I would be interested in any changes you made in moving from Leopard to Lion !

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berlin2010
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Posted June 20, 2011 at 16:43 GMT
#1684943

elephant wrote:

berlin2010 wrote:
Some feedback on LinkPlayer with Lion.

Have you been using it in full screen MENU mode ?

I found LinkPlayer unstable in that mode ... so I would be interested in any changes you made in moving from Leopard to Lion !

Yip, full screen.

Literally no changes though, simply installed Lion on top of my previous system (10.6.7 I think) and kept on going. Re unstable if you mean seeing the Mac menu bar on top and the Dock at the bottom while being in full screen mode, yeah that still happens every now and again. Only way to get to complete full screen is to click on LinkPlayer 'window' (feels a little silly to talk about a window for something that's supposed to be full screen) to bring it to front.

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elephant (archived)
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Posted June 21, 2011 at 07:09 GMT
#1684944

berlin2010 wrote:

elephant wrote:

berlin2010 wrote:
Some feedback on LinkPlayer with Lion.

Have you been using it in full screen MENU mode ?

I found LinkPlayer unstable in that mode ... so I would be interested in any changes you made in moving from Leopard to Lion !

Yip, full screen.

Literally no changes though, simply installed Lion on top of my previous system (10.6.7 I think) and kept on going. Re unstable if you mean seeing the Mac menu bar on top and the Dock at the bottom while being in full screen mode, yeah that still happens every now and again. Only way to get to complete full screen is to click on LinkPlayer 'window' (feels a little silly to talk about a window for something that's supposed to be full screen) to bring it to front.

Interesting.

I created a dual boot system so I can flip-flop between Snow Leopard and Lion.

I have just flipped from LinkPlayer under Snow Leopard to Lion and I can scroll up and down the main menu with my Beo4.

And I can select the "iTunes" option via (GO) on the Beo4 ....... my recollection is that when I first tried this under Lion (a preview or two ago) then the main menu would disappear ....... I was able to use LinkPlayer to play via the mouse controls but not the Beo4 ........ now magical I have a fully working system ....... thank you for encouraging me to do another test 😂

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berlin2010
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Posted June 22, 2011 at 15:02 GMT
#1684945

elephant wrote:

Interesting.

I created a dual boot system so I can flip-flop between Snow Leopard and Lion.

I have just flipped from LinkPlayer under Snow Leopard to Lion and I can scroll up and down the main menu with my Beo4.

And I can select the "iTunes" option via (GO) on the Beo4 ....... my recollection is that when I first tried this under Lion (a preview or two ago) then the main menu would disappear ....... I was able to use LinkPlayer to play via the mouse controls but not the Beo4 ........ now magical I have a fully working system ....... thank you for encouraging me to do another test 😂

🙂 Glad to hear. One thing that does give me a problem though is scrolling through a long list e.g. when i enter artist mode under itunes and I want to scroll down from the A's to M or something (likely 1,000 names later) it scrolls down on the screen and then the screen stops refreshing. If I keep the down key pressed and after some time let go it will refresh and I will find myself perhaps in the F's... press down again and guess how long to release before I get to M... a little annoying.

So no 'fast scrolling' or at least not very smooth. 

Can you try on your end?

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