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  • Alex
    6. Januar 2016 at 9:45 #17589

    Hi nook

    I did try that, I even took it to the car and plugged it in there as an alternative PSU, but to still no avail.

    Weird that it will work as a slave to my squeezeplug server but not as a standalone access point. It will also work perfectly with the M2P connected directly to the router/lan.

    Even more weird, it’s exactly the same for all the 4 Pi’s, dongles etc etc I have used, I guess this is why you mentioned the PSU as that as far as you were aware was the only none variable in all of this.

    Maybe it’s what sequence I install the plugin’s. But I have done so many variations on this and its still not working. It just won’nt work as an standalone access point, the server, player, wifi, all fine (you’ve helped me prove that) just no access point.

    The other thing is, the forum is still young, so I guess if this had been active as and long as the Pi sites there would have been others that would have experianced the same as this, and this would have been sotred a long time ago. I just hope I do get this working, for the sake of people like you who have been kind enough to help, for me and others who might come after this with the same issues.

    But I am so desperate to find out why I can’t do it. I have an old (very old) vortexbox, that was set up, no problem, then upgraded to the squezeplug, again no problem, but my lord, M2P, wow I can’t say its been a pain, but as you once said, it’s a learning curve, and this has been a great leaning curve.

    Tell you what I do miss about the vortexbox, Vortexbox had a ripper (to flac) where you could feed in your personal Cd’s onto it, would be great to get a facilty like this onto M2P, unless there is an „easy“ or simple way to transfer your CD’s to flac, which is what I use.

    Anyhow, big thanks again for sticking with me noop, I hope I do crack this and when I do I will for sure post the answer here on the forum because after all thats exactly what its for.

    Thanks Noop

    Alex

    Alex
    5. Januar 2016 at 23:41 #17587

    Hi noop

    My edimax arrived today and I plugged it in and to my horror it did excatly the same as before I put it in, which is not worked

    So here we go again, I reformatted the SD card,**** and rebuilt M2P, still didn’t work….

    So 3.5 months later, and well over 300 hours, 4 raspberry Pi, several new images, 4 dongles, God knows how many times I have reformatted my SD, a huge amount of stress and sheer frustration, considering I can now get all the plug’ins installed in less than 30 mins, I’ve had it I think

    I have to thank you and the other guys on the forum who have tried to help, but I just don’t know what to do next, I think I have still got the will to carry on, I just don’t know how

    Well I’m going to do one more last thing, I am going to write out Exactly , from start to Finnish step by step
    What I’m doing , then I will send that to Max at M2P with a hope he can see something that Im doing wrong

    I just has to be the driver, thats me!!!

    I have to be missing a step, a stage, not activating something , I must be

    Ah well. Thanks for your time nook, if I ever get this sorted I’ll put this on the forum, even if it’s my driving as I wouldn’t want anyone to go through as much hassle as I have trying to get this m2p working as a stand alone accesspoint & server

    Thanks again Nook, but if anyone or you nook has any further suggestions I really really would appreciate if you could let me know as I’m sure I’ll find the will to give it a try

    Alex
    4. Januar 2016 at 20:25 #17576

    Hi Noop

    Just to let you know that I ran the dmesg command and there was a lot of scrolling which I couldn’t stop nor raise the cursor up the list to look what it all read

    That said, even if I could look at the whole script, I wouldn’t have a clue what I was looking at..

    But fingers crossed, the other dongle should be here tomorrow or Wednesday

    But if there is anything to learn from this, would be interesting to know what I should be looking at, oh and how to control the scrolling 🙂

    Cheers Alex

    Alex
    4. Januar 2016 at 0:33 #17571

    Hi noop, , do you think this could be another indication of the wifi dongle

    I have just taken your advice

    I have restored my touch to factory settings and turned off my main router

    I turned on my m2p, then my touch

    The touch found the ssid (max2play) and for the first time asked for a password
    I entered the correct password, but it couldn’t connect and said it was the wrong password OR network issues

    So I repeated the above, same thing happened

    So my gut feeling is, is this connecting, it must be because it’s ssid can be seen, so is it dropping out at some point?
    Is this possible, what do you think noop

    Alex
    4. Januar 2016 at 0:00 #17570

    Hi noop

    Yep good point about the local network, I did switch it off several times , but not so today and it didn’t make any difference sadly

    That said, if I go to settings/wifi on my iPhone that doesn’t see the connection either, but ipeng does
    Well it’s showing the ssid and url, is that odd too?

    Well this has been epic, sorry I keep saying that,but I can’t help thinking it will get sorted and when it does it will be worth it and all I can say is thanks to people like you putting in the effort

    What a pain
    Alex

    Alex
    3. Januar 2016 at 23:14 #17567

    Hi noop

    Sorry for putting you through this

    What I wanted to do was use M2P in my car, connected to a 2tb ext hard drive, controlled via an access point with ipeng or the LMS app

    So the server deals with the music files, the wifi, does the connection between my iPhone and server, the player plays the music to the USB then to a d-a USB to the aux of my radio

    I have the following modules installed
    Server
    Wifi
    Access point
    Raspberry pi
    Audio player
    Xbmc
    Start
    And I hope all working
    Ok so that’s the aim and set up I have

    Unwired ipeng does see the wifi at the address where you said, 192.168.189.1.9000 and the ssid which is the default max2play
    But that’s it
    If I put this in my browsers, it times out and does not connect

    It only works when it’s hard wired for some unknown reason
    Hence why I think there is potentially still a wifi issue, but that’s a guess from someone is not very savvy in this area

    I just hope after all this is not an issue with the driver, ie me 🙂

    Alex

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    Alex
    3. Januar 2016 at 21:14 #17563

    Hi Noop

    Just checked, The server is running , and obviously I can only check this with my pc via the gui when wired

    When I disconnect it the router from it ( unwired) it just hangs.it being my iPhone

    Although I can see the url through ipeng, which was or is just how you said it was with the correct url details

    But It all seems to work fine when it’s wired, well for the touch, not for the iPhone

    Then not wired, nothing works. AlSo the LMS on the server I guess has to be working ( because it works wired) which leads me to feel maybe there’s part of the accesspoint that’s not quite right as it seems to be that side of things that’s failing

    I really also appreciate you’re working blind, and you’ve helped lots so far and have taken this up a notch so thanks.
    Maybe for now this is as far as we can go, but it’s all good and I’m hopeful with another dongle things will change for the better.

    Alex

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    Alex
    3. Januar 2016 at 19:34 #17561

    YET !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Alex

    Alex
    3. Januar 2016 at 19:33 #17560

    Thanks for sticking with me, seems like 3 months on the curse of M2P hasn’t been vanished

    Alex
    3. Januar 2016 at 19:31 #17559

    Sorry for this noop but the forum won’t accept all of my message

    Alex
    3. Januar 2016 at 19:30 #17558

    Unless there could be anything else I can do

    Alex
    3. Januar 2016 at 19:29 #17557

    Then I can try that, maybe it’s just a dongle conflict

    Alex
    3. Januar 2016 at 19:29 #17556

    But I have ordered an edimax, maybe we should wait until it gets here

    Alex
    3. Januar 2016 at 19:27 #17555

    When it’s wired my touch works my iPhone with ipeng dont

    Alex
    3. Januar 2016 at 19:26 #17554

    When it’s wireless but can’t access the library“

    Alex
    3. Januar 2016 at 19:26 #17553

    When it’s wireless but can’t access the library

    Alex
    3. Januar 2016 at 19:25 #17552

    My iPhone and touch, can see the SSID

    Alex
    3. Januar 2016 at 19:24 #17551

    So just to say I’ll wait till the site is working

    Alex
    3. Januar 2016 at 19:23 #17550

    Hi noop
    Sorry can you see how many times I have tried to reply

    Alex
    3. Januar 2016 at 19:22 #17549

    Hi noop
    Just lost my last message to you so here we go again

    Thanks for sounding upbeat

    Alex
    3. Januar 2016 at 19:05 #17548

    Hi Noop

    Thanks for sounding upbeat

    Alex
    3. Januar 2016 at 19:05 #17547

    Hi Noop

    Thanks for sounding upbeat

    Alex
    3. Januar 2016 at 19:04 #17546

    Hi Noop

    Thanks for sounding upbeat

    Alex
    3. Januar 2016 at 13:04 #17538

    Hi noop

    Guess what !!!!

    Great news, you’ve done it

    Its the same as yours ????????????????????????

    BUT…………………….

    Only when I hard wire it to my router as I can’t get into the setting (GUI) unless its hard wired, well it won’t let me in if I try doing it wirelessly

    So I fired up ipeng and tried to see what was happening there.
    ipeng saw my URL, but it was not coming up with a Mac address (using wireless).
    Then I checked in my settings/wifi on my iphone and still could’nt see it there.

    So I connected the M2P back up to my router and sure enough the Mac address appeared, which kinda is like was I was saying before, but now at least you have proved, and got the wifi dongle working. Another step closer, which feels good to be honest after several months of working on this. I just don’t know why I keep hitting brick walls

    Anyhow, I thought every Pi/PC etc had a mac address, so why should it not be there when its wireless but it is when hardwired. Odd

    And I did compare the mac address issue with my squeezplug I’m running, that has both the URL and Mac, which you’d expect ( when hard wired)

    Maybe its something in M2P I’ve not ticked, or need to install another plugin ?

    And noop, I’m aware this is eating into your time, so if you like, maybe I just get the other dongle then see what happens.
    But you have been a really great help, and thanks for your help.

    But if you do have any ideas I honestly would be very thankful if you could let me know

    Thanks Noop
    Alex

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    Alex
    2. Januar 2016 at 11:02 #17529

    Hi noop

    I have just reloaded the accesspoint plugin
    It’s asking me to reboot so I did

    At this point I dropped out to the command prompt and started entering the above commands as they are above
    All looked like it went well with no errors

    Then I rebooted again went to my iPhone opened up the settings wifi to see if I could see this new network, unfortunately I could’nt.

    I tried with ipeng and LMS and I knew they were not going to work and they didn’t .

    What I did notice in the M2P shop, they recommend a edimax dongle.
    So as I think this script has been installed ok, and as it mentions edimax, if I order an edimax 7811, do you think that will work as I would be happy to pay the £10 to end this 3 months of stress,

    Noop, did you have any problems setting your accesspoint , well if you have one?

    But after saying this it’s possible I have totally misunderstood your instructions and I have loaded the new script at the wrong time / point

    I can uninstall it and try again if that’s so.

    Just another point, I did’t alter or add to the boxes in the accesspoint set up at any point until after the 2nd reboot so after entering the SSID, PASSPHRASE AND TICKING the standalone box , rebooted again by disconnecting the power) and again it failed to work sadly

    30 mins on I have just stopped writing to uninstall the accesspoint plug in and reinstall and to no avail

    Maybe I’ve just loaded the script at the wrong point, here’s hoping

    But thanks for all your help, if you think a new dongle would be the best path to go down no problem

    Alex

    Alex
    1. Januar 2016 at 20:43 #17526

    Noop
    its new years day so please whatever you do, this has been going on for months, there’s no rush, I’m just thankful for any help you can give me

    Thanks again
    Alex

    Alex
    1. Januar 2016 at 20:21 #17525

    Hi Noop

    now back (early) and I did try what you said and sadly it’s still not working

    I will tell you what I did.

    I reformatted the SD card, then installed all the plug-in’s until I got to the access point (AP) plug in.

    I went to the AP set up page and hit the install button. This eventually brought up the SSID, Passphrase and standalone options

    I then dropped out of that to the Pi command prompt and put in the above. I did have a couple of goes at this as it was’nt liking it. But it did all go smoothly

    My only worry was I hope this was the right point in the proceedings to do this ?

    But Should I have filled in the sssid etc saved it THEN put this (above in) ?

    Anyhow, once this was inputted at the command prompt I then went back to M2P GUI page and rebooted it, and just to make double sure, I then disconnected the power and did a major reboot

    But sadly, still no accesspoint working.

    I have since ran the ifconf and lsusb commands and it all seems to be functioning. Well I looked on the web to see if I was getting what I’m suppose to get and it seems like I am.

    so I’m still hoping for a miracle..

    hope this makes sense
    Alex

    Alex
    31. Dezember 2015 at 12:50 #17522

    Thanks for the encouragement noop,

    I’ve never done a job like this before so minor but has taken so long
    But I really do appreciate your help

    It’s New Year’s Eve and sadly I have to go to relatives and just leaving now and will be away for a couple of days so I’ll not be able to try this now, but I will, can’t wait actually

    So thanks again noop really appreciate it

    Happy new year to you

    Alex

    Alex
    30. Dezember 2015 at 20:22 #17520

    Noops
    When I access the GUI page when the Pi is hard wired into the lan it has a different IP address than it has when I access it via the wifi.

    I know this happens as a fact, but if I say load the access point plugin while wired, then disconnect it from lan and access this via the wifi, I am right in thinking they are different ip’s but looking at exactly the same thing ?

    I’m 100% sure I’m right but it’s been such a pain this that I’m starting to question my sanity with this project, this being one example
    Thanks Alex

    Alex
    30. Dezember 2015 at 20:11 #17519

    Hi noop,

    Thanks again for your help
    Programming isn’t my forte but I will give it a go IF I can understand what you mean, it’s me that’s the problem being unable to understand this level of programming which I guess to you is quite low

    Ok can I clarify what I think you mean

    I’m going to wipe my SD just to make sure, now this is what I’m getting really good at!!!

    When I’ve done that I will load the all the plugin’s I need the last one will be the access point
    Now this is what I think you mean, I load up the access point plug in and save it

    Then do I enter the above at the point where I have logged into the Pi, which I think Is the command line shell prompt, Is this right or am I talking rubbish….

    Or do I enter this the boot/config.txt…

    Sorry noop but my knowledge even having worked on this for must be over 300 hours now, is still limited

    very very very frustrating and very very soul distroying but I am always thankful for ANY help anyone can give
    Thanks
    A

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