hello,

i do not have a time-synchronized device in my ml network. i count on linkplayer to keep my devices on time.

i assumed that lp sent the time on every activation. the recent switch to dst proved me wrong ; i had to close and restart lp2 to update time.

is this expected behavior ? is there any way to get time updates more frequently (on activation, daily) ?

thanks !

- scott

Hi Elephant,

I am running OSX 10.5.8 (9L31a) which is the latest, because it will not upgrade on that machine.

Thanks.

Robert

rjderksen wrote:

Hi Elephant,

I am running OSX 10.5.8 (9L31a) which is the latest, because it will not upgrade on that machine.

Thanks.

Robert

Hi Robert - thanks for your email - I have replied to it - let me know if the email arrives !

Having lent Robert a helping hand (he has replied via email that he has not had time to do some tests) I go stuck into trying to get the last version of LinkPlayer 2 Beta working in my environment.

I tried many combinations of parameters and it is still frustratingly not quite perfect:

1. the Beovision 8-40 speakers still do not activate (this you may recall was a problem that started with the upgrade last year to Lion, but Philippe had solved it, until I upgraded the TV !)
2. And for that reason I can no longer run it in media-centre mode, and I have to use the Mac's GUI/mouse interface to fiddle with various menus to get it working
3. But I can once again distribute music on the Master Link

Emboldened by this success and the arrival of Spotify in Australia, I decided to set up a Spotify (premium as demanded by LP2) account, and get it going under LinkPlayer.

In the end I was successful and I have been enjoying free flowing music 🙂

elephant wrote:

Having lent Robert a helping hand (he has replied via email that he has not had time to do some tests) I go stuck into trying to get the last version of LinkPlayer 2 Beta working in my environment.

I tried many combinations of parameters and it is still frustratingly not quite perfect:

1. the Beovision 8-40 speakers still do not activate (this you may recall was a problem that started with the upgrade last year to Lion, but Philippe had solved it, until I upgraded the TV !)
2. And for that reason I can no longer run it in media-centre mode, and I have to use the Mac's GUI/mouse interface to fiddle with various menus to get it working
3. But I can once again distribute music on the Master Link

Emboldened by this success and the arrival of Spotify in Australia, I decided to set up a Spotify (premium as demanded by LP2) account, and get it going under LinkPlayer.

In the end I was successful and I have been enjoying free flowing music 🙂

Well the above all happened on Melbourne Cup Day ... I took a gamble with the set-up and I sort of had it kludgy working.

On this Friday my 8GB upgrade for the MacMini arrived -- after three install attempts there was finally a click on the final memory slot and voila: I had 8GB (at one stage only one memory "chip" was working and I thought I was going to have to settle for 4GB+1GB=5GB, not a recommended configuration)

So emboldened by that success and the happy running of Spotify I did a range of tests on Saturday morning:

 

• EyeTV live broadcast to the A3 - with only a 5 second delay 🙂 ... now we have a portable internet radio, portable music player from the music library, portable video player, AND a portable TV
• I added more software running as a background -- iTunes, Spotify ... all happily coexisting 🙂
• This is what the memory situation now looks like (no wonder it was struggling along with its original 2GB Login to view image 

Sooooo ... I then started configuring LinkPlayer 2 Beta again ... foolish lad perhaps, but for me that is/was the end game.

Now to be honest I am not wholly certain my grief started with that, because along the way there was a small Mac OSX upgrade (that seem innocuous - something about a loader, small update around 60MB I think).

But the nett effect was that I lost sound on my HDMI ... not just LinkPlayer but EVERYTHING !!! 🙁

To say the least panic set in .... and no matter what I tried I could not find the right trick ... and it seemed as if switching the output source to "Beovision" just resulted in a grayed out speaker symbol and no way to adjust volumes.

Unplugging and reseting HdMI cables had no effect.  Nor did system restarts and system power offs.

Finally at 10PM I managed to effect a swift keyboard sequence which resulted in Spotify starting on the MacMini's speakers and then being flicked to HDMI ... and sound still playing 🙂

So blissfuly I went to bed, but in the middle of the night I surfaced and did two hours of research on the basis that the morning might bring more woes.  I learnt all about resetting PRAM and SCM memory in case the internal saved memory settings were garbled.  And also discovered a whole sub-community of people who hack and trick their Mac HDMI systems.  All of which seemed pretty dire

When I woke up at daylight I went straight to the Beovision ... and putting it into stand-by had lost the Spotify HDMI output 😭

And again no matter what I tried I could not effect the same trick 😡

So then I started trying to simply run an analogue audio signal from the MacMini into AV3 and CAMERA ports in a vain attempt to have the HDMI associated with AV3 and which was defined as [PC] to work ... again no luck 😠

Finally I remembered from my night time travels and travails a discussion about using the OSX MIDI Utility to configure multiple devices.  SO I did another hour of research ... so much so my eyes are going square ❓ 

My first attempt was to define an Aggregate device ... and the speaker test showed audio going from the Beovision HDMI and the MacMini speakers - sheer bliss !!! If I had only known this way back when I upgraded to LION and first lost dual output !

However in testing I did seem to actually be able to simultaneously have both outputs working ... but at least I had HDMI sound back ... *bliss* 🙂

So now some more reading to try to understand the difference between an "Aggregated"  and a "Multi-Output" device ❓ 

Hmmmm ... it seems the "Multi-Output" is more what I might need ... and quicj configure and a quick test and voila I have simultaneous audio at long last 😁

Below is the two MIDI Utility configurations I set-up ... the bottom one is the one that works ... soon the "Aggregate" that I had labelled "Dual Stereo" will be deleted and hopefully I will have a stable system until I fiddle again 😁

AGGREGATE (did not meet my needs) 

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Now this is the setup that does seem to meet my need !

MULTI-OUTPUT 🤒

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Now it is time for my reward (apart from music)   

and it is an award well earned !

you are a beoworld explorer of the highest order. many thanks from all of us that we be able to use linkplayer to its fullest.

- scott

Hi Elephant,

just wondering if you have received my email sent a few days ago?

Hope you could answer when you have some time.

Best regards

Spiros

Spiros wrote:

Hi Elephant,

just wondering if you have received my email sent a few days ago?

Hope you could answer when you have some time.

Best regards

Spiros

been on the road mate - with only GMAIL access ... I will take a look later this morning !

Many thanks........ Take good care of you

elephant wrote:

Spiros wrote:

Hi Elephant,

just wondering if you have received my email sent a few days ago?

Hope you could answer when you have some time.

Best regards

Spiros

been on the road mate - with only GMAIL access ... I will take a look later this morning !

only 411 emails to sift through

don't worry, 400 will be spam, 10 FB notifies, and 1 from you 😁