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Quick Start Guide for Installing JRiver Mediacenter 24 ARM on a Raspberry Pi
mwillems:
--- Quote from: dcpete on January 25, 2019, 11:44:30 am ---First, I cannot figure out how to make my network share stick using fstab. Have spent many hours of googling trying to do this and no-go. It is frustrating. So that means I have to manually mount the share everytime at boot before launching MC.
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It might help if you shared some of the mount options you've tried. There are a few threads on the forum with detailed instructions, but they're a few years old. I'll see if I can find them.
EDIT: Here's an example: https://yabb.jriver.com/interact/index.php/topic,105551.msg742609.html#msg742609
The general format for a cifs mount without a user or password is:
--- Code: ---IPaddress:Sharename /place/to/mount cifs defaults,noauto,x-systemd.automount 0 2
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--- Quote ---Second, Theater Mode is pretty much unusable. I guess the Raspberry is just not up to it. The performance is so slow, I can't even navigate anything.
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Theater mode won't work well on the Pi. You might want to try using panel instead depending on your needs.
--- Quote ---Third, Gizmo doesn't work for me the way I want. It does work when playing to my android device, which is not my main use case. It doesn't work when using the Raspberry as the playback device. I mean, I can navigate the collection, but when I try to play something, it just goes out to lunch.
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Can you be a little more specific about what "out to lunch" means? Does it freeze/hang? Do nothing at all? Give an error? Crash?
dcpete:
This is my mount command which does work and is how I imported my music collection off the NAS share. I am running anonymous on my NAS and never get asked for usernames and passwords when attaching from Windows or Android based devices. This command does ask me for a password, which is null, so I just hit <enter> and it's good.
--- Code: ---sudo mount -t cifs //10.0.0.15/Music /home/pi/NAS/share
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I tried a bunch of things in fstab before. From your suggestion...
--- Code: ---10.0.0.15:Music /home/pi/NAS/share cifs defaults,noauto,x-systemd.automount 0 2
--- End code ---
--- Code: ---//10.0.0.15:Music /home/pi/NAS/share cifs defaults,noauto,x-systemd.automount 0 2
--- End code ---
--- Code: ---10.0.0.15/Music /home/pi/NAS/share cifs defaults,noauto,x-systemd.automount 0 2
--- End code ---
--- Code: ---//10.0.0.15/Music /home/pi/NAS/share cifs defaults,noauto,x-systemd.automount 0 2
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Is it supposed to be
--- Quote ---10.0.0.15:Music
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or
--- Quote ---//10.0.0.15:Music
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or
--- Quote ---10.0.0.15/Music
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or
--- Quote ---//10.0.0.15/Music
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. Documentation I've seen says it should be
--- Quote ---//10.0.0.15/Music
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which matches the syntax of the mount command which does work.
My mistake on Gizmo. I realized afterwards I had two instances of MC up by accident on the Pi. Now retesting, it's working pretty well, although MC crashed once. If I go headless with Gizmo that's pretty good, but need it to be stable and not crash obviously.
Also, I had a playlist running for several hours on the Pi and playback seemed solid. No issues.
Thanks, Chris
mwillems:
Either the first one or the last one should work. //ip-address/share is probably the most portable format, so stick with that one for now. When you navigate to the mountpoint after booting there's just nothing there? Or do you get an error of some kind?
I suspect that you probably need to specify the username or password in the fstab (see my linked example above). The fact that its asking you for a password when you mount interactively suggests that authentication is enabled for CIFS on your NAS, you just haven't specified a password (which is different than having it disabled entirely).
In any case, the best way to confirm what's going wrong is to check your journal and see what's actually happening.
Hendrik:
--- Quote from: Awesome Donkey on January 25, 2019, 12:14:55 pm ---Bingo. And I doubt Theater View will even be viable on a Raspberry Pi anytime soon (e.g. probably not for years) due to how bad the performance of the Pi is.
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Its unlikely to work on the current generation RPi unless some magic happens with their graphics drivers.
Can only hope a future RPi replaces the awful Broadcom GPU with something actually worthwhile.
People hate on the RPi alternatives for being so "non-standard" and needing custom stuff, but the RPi GPU is the worst. It has no standards support at all. Just give me a GPU that supports bog standard OpenGL ES out of the box, without needing to specifically develop for some RPi specific APIs (which are terrible!). And while I applaud the people working on it, the "standards compatible" OpenGL driver for the RPi is just an order of magnitude too slow, because it has to do a bunch of things in software.
The ODROID-C2 that Bob and myself use for testing a more powerful ARM machine is perfectly capable of running a decently usable Theater View, with a Mali GPU.
dcpete:
I got the mount to work in fstab on my Raspberry talking to my Netgear ReadyNAS. The command I ended up using was-
--- Quote ---//10.0.0.15/Music /mnt/music cifs guest,uid=pi,x-systemd.automount 0 2
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But the problem all along was not so much the command syntax but the fact that I did not configure the Raspberry to wait for the network to come up before mounting. I guess I had selected the wrong setting initially. To bring up the config, do this-
--- Quote ---sudo raspi-config
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Under Boot Options, select "Wait for network to boot".
Hope this helps somebody.
Chris
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