ALLO BOSS 2 PLAYER
- Thread starter Sean de Silva
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One can even set an IP as static within the Moode or Volumio UI.. If you have an IP outside your local DHCP scope no need to worry for overlapping as well.
musiz_craze
Active Member
Moode has very low volume compared to volumio. I recently tried both and satisfied with volumio. You can also try volumio I m sure your sound will improve.
What you meant by low volume? Is it for Spotify? Never seen anything such with any players in my experience..
musiz_craze
Active Member
If you keep volume as 60% volume while playing from mobile. In volumio it sounded good but in moode volume feels Little bit low .
Not sure everyone faces this or only for me
Sean de Silva
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You have linux on these devices and hence you can ssh to these servers. I use ssh button app on my phone to shutdown my allo devices and all computers from anywhere in the house.
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SSH button – Apps on Google Play
With this application you can send ssh commands to Linux hosts via a button.play.google.com
Every server you add, gets added as a button that you can click. Eg. for Allo usbridge I have added the text 'Shutdown usbridge' which then appears as a button with that text.
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e.g. for allo usbridge I have configured the command. The username and password is a standard user that I have configured on the system. I have made my own distribution. You are using moode. I think moode installs a user named 'moode'. So you can use 'moode' as the username for SSH username and the appropriate password for SSH password that you would have configured in the setup
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The command is actually sudo /sbin/shutdown -h now. 'shutdown -h now' which is a standard unix command to shutdown the device immediately.
@MaSh Since I was going to use the SSH button for the first time to shutdown the boss player, the SSH hostname had to be entered in the SSH button app. Since the router is currently assigning a dynamic IP address every time the player is started, I felt this would cause a conflict in the SSH hostname entry hence on your advice I assigned the boss player a permanent static IP address from the DHCP address pool which obviates the need to point to http://moode.local as earlier. I can now safely point to the static address.
@mbhangui After assigning the static IP address, I configured the 'Add entry...' list in SSH
command used was
SSH hostname is the newly assigned static IP address.
@premoddev SSH username 'pi' & SSH password 'moodeaudio' as you had advised.
I didn't fiddle around with the other entries i.e. SSH port / use private key.
The label got successfully added to the list and I shutdown the player. The screenshot below to check with you'll whether this is normal ? i.e. "Returncode was -1"
The hdd light blinked fast and went off followed by the Boss 2 display. I then switched off at mains.
That is fine
It means that the shutdown actually worked. I'm not sure what that PATH variable is for the user 'pi' with password 'moodeaudio'. If /sbin or /usr/sbin is in the PATH env variable, then no issue. But to be sure, regardless of the setting of PATH variable for the user 'pi', change the command to
The above will work regardless of whether you use moode, picore, volumio, etc.
If you want to be sure that your allo boss2 player has been shutdown, we can create a sound to be played on shutdown. Let me know if you want to go down this path. All you need to do is select a wav/flac/ogg file that you want to play during shutdown. We will create a systemd unit file that will execute a command to play the music file on shutdown, reboot or halt.
We will have to create a file /usr/lib/systemd/system/shutdown-sound.service as below
and execute the command once in the lifetime of your allo boss2 player
Once you do this, linux will execute the command aplay /usr/share/sounds/shutdown.wav and play that on your speakers whenever the machine goes down. You can record your own voice in a sinister fashion in shutdown.wav to warn the listeners that fun time is over.
We will have to create a file /usr/lib/systemd/system/shutdown-sound.service as below
and execute the command once in the lifetime of your allo boss2 player
Once you do this, linux will execute the command aplay /usr/share/sounds/shutdown.wav and play that on your speakers whenever the machine goes down. You can record your own voice in a sinister fashion in shutdown.wav to warn the listeners that fun time is over.
Sean de Silva
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Noted. Will amend the command entry accordingly.
Posted a reply earlier but it disappeared. Anyways. I'm interested especially in the creepy sinister wav voice recording part. Please bear in mind that you're advising someone who has always ABHORRED the word 'programming' and anything to do with it. Hence kindly advise with step by step baby steps so that I can follow your instructions to the T
Sure. Just record some voice in some wave file. Copy it to some directory on your boss2 (/usr/share/sounds) preferably. We can chat on hifivision chat, google chat, skype tomorrow. My username is mbhangui for all.Noted. Will amend the command entry accordingly.
Posted a reply earlier but it disappeared. Anyways. I'm interested especially in the creepy sinister wav voice recording part. Please bear in mind that you're advising someone who has always ABHORRED the word 'programming' and anything to do with it. Hence kindly advise with step by step baby steps so that I can follow your instructions to the T
EDIT: There is no programming involved here. Just configuration.
Sean de Silva
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@mbhangui As per your suggestion I have edited the SSH shutdown command from sudo shutdown -h now to sudo /usr/sbin/shutdown -h now and tested that it works fine.
Updated MoOde OS to release 7.6.1
For future updates I will add the SSH button to track the update progress .. moodeutl -t
Despite enabling the android Spotify setting 'Normalize volume', I experienced different volume levels with tracks on the same album hence this is annoying to readjust the volume level for each song.
I then realised that the MoOde Spotify renderer Config settings were not changed. I have now selected the Bitrate as 320 kbps from the default 160 kbps as well as changed Volume normalization to 'Yes'. This should do the trick.
Updated MoOde OS to release 7.6.1
For future updates I will add the SSH button to track the update progress .. moodeutl -t
Despite enabling the android Spotify setting 'Normalize volume', I experienced different volume levels with tracks on the same album hence this is annoying to readjust the volume level for each song.
I then realised that the MoOde Spotify renderer Config settings were not changed. I have now selected the Bitrate as 320 kbps from the default 160 kbps as well as changed Volume normalization to 'Yes'. This should do the trick.
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Sean de Silva
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Added the reboot SSH button. Should I keep the Demo Label button or is it safe to delete it ?
Yes, It is safe to delete it.
This will not display anything because ssh button doesn't give a pseudo terminal. It just executes the command. The output of the command cannot be seen.
To use moodeutl -t and see the progress you need a full fledged ssh client
rajivaryan1984
Active Member
Quick Question - Can the HDMI port of Allo Boss 2 can be used for display on TV ??
Yes..
viveshsahu
Member
sometimes this happen with allo products. try connecting hdmi cable to a screen in case it does not connect at all. This should fix the connection issue.
Sean de Silva
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How? A hdmi cable connecting to a display will ONLY provide a graphical user interface to an otherwise headless boss player. How does it solve a connection problem???
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