[Addon] Addons Menu - Install addons the easy way

rern

Hi R101,

Making previously installed and current addons to behave nicely in this Addons Menu has been very challenging. Even more to make it simple enough for anyone to use as delivery method for their addons.

For your situation, it could be:
- somehow the update uninstalled everything but the uninstall file, /usr/local/bin/uninstall_enha.sh
- installed and update status trigered
- or may be the uninstall file was from earlier version that get installed status differently
- delete /usr/local/bin/uninstall_enha.sh should get it back to normal

Some notes along the way...

Addons Menu:
Get addon installed status from existence of its uninstall file, /usr/local/bin/uninstall_<alias>.sh
Get installed version from database addons

Any addon installed before Addons Menu:
- its uninstall file triggers installed status and saved as version 1 in database
- this version 1 vs current version in addons list triggers update status
- update uninstalls then reinstalls the addon with current version

Cleanup/Reinstall vs Update:
- Cleanup/Reinstall deleted Addons Menu database (addons versions data)
- Addons Menu will preserve the database across update
- each addon should preserve its configuration across update of that addon

R101

Hi rern,

Yes, the uninstall file was still present and deleting it allowed SSH reinstall of the enhancements.

It must be impossible to allow for every possible variation in a personal setup, particularly when you are not starting from a clean install, so I am amazed at how well this test version works. It seems fine now, the only irritation for me is that my preferred main page layout does not "stick".

Thanks.

rern

cmh714 wroteSmall issue with Web Radio Import...sorted properly but the "Add New" needs/should be at the top ...

This was fixed.
By the way, the original + add new bar is located at the bottom of the list. So I kept it that way. But once the list long enough to push it down the screen, I think it should be at the top as you mentioned as well.

cmh714

rern wrote
cmh714 wroteSmall issue with Web Radio Import...sorted properly but the "Add New" needs/should be at the top ...
This was fixed.
By the way, the original + add new bar is located at the bottom of the list. So I kept it that way. But once the list long enough to push it down the screen, I think it should be at the top as you mentioned as well.

Just grabbed the update and yes, thanks for fixing. And considering the move to the top

Cheers and again, nice work!!

ianhaynes

When I launch the add-ons panel from the menu I occasionally get an error dialog "Addons server cannot be reached. Try check and set date to current".

Is this indicating a local connection error or something more serious?

Ian

rern

ianhaynes wroteWhen I launch the add-ons panel from the menu I occasionally get an error dialog "Addons server cannot be reached. Try check and set date to current".

Is this indicating a local connection error or something more serious?

Nothing serious. It happened when the install file download failed.
Most of the time, it's caused by RPi system date not current.

RPi doesn't have a real-time clock chip to tell current time. Every boot will take it back to 1970. A workaround is to install fake-hwclock to store and tell current time on each boot. I think RuneAudio doesn't use it because it's not critical.
RuneAudio gets the current time from Internet time servers which take sometime after boot.

According to my test, CA certificate verification with GitHub will fail and download will not start if the system date was more than 180 days back.

Anyway, I'll make Addons Menu update the RPi time and try again if download failed before give up.

rern

20171001 update

Fix missing installed status
Fully auto update
Improve terminal messages and errors handling

Please force update.

As of 20170925 update, installed status was missing. Update notification will not be shown.

Click Install.
Addons Menu will notify "already installed" and show Update button.
Click Update.

If get stuck, like @[deleted] reporting in the next post, reinstall by:

rm /usr/local/bin/uninstall_addo.sh
redis-cli hdel addons addo
wget -qN --show-progress https://github.com/rern/RuneAudio_Addons/raw/master/install.sh
chmod +x install.sh
./install.sh

ianhaynes

Thanks for the explanation of the 'time' error, the message now makes sense.

When I opened the Add Ons just now I got a message saying an update was available so said 'yes' to install. It stopped with the following error:

Please wait until finished...

/usr/bin/sudo /usr/local/bin/uninstall_addo.sh u
[[ $? != 1 ]] && wget -qN https://github.com/rern/RuneAudio_Addons/raw/master/install.sh
chmod 755 install.sh
/usr/bin/sudo ./install.sh u
 Remove files ...
removed '/srv/http/addons.php'
removed '/srv/http/addonsbash.php'
removed '/srv/http/addonsdl.php'
removed '/srv/http/addonsdl.sh'
removed '/srv/http/addonshead.php'
removed '/srv/http/addonslist.php'
removed '/srv/http/addonslog.php'
removed '/srv/http/assets/css/addons.css'
removed '/srv/http/assets/js/addons.js'
sudo: ./install.sh: command not found

The Addons entry in the Rune menu has been removed (as I'd expect). If I try to install again from scratch, the script tells me that the Addons menu is already install, 'Please try update instead'.

I've tried using uninstall_addo.sh, which says several files don't exist ( they were removed by the update script) but still get he message that Addons Menu is already installed.

How do I get out of this?

Ian

rern

To reinstall from scratch, this will clear all installed markers:

rm /usr/local/bin/uninstall_addo.sh
redis-cli hdel addons addo

This update should smooth out most of the issues.

On start, it downlads latest addonslist.php.
If there's a download error because the unset date, it will be set with time servers.
If there's an update, it will be downloaded and update. So it always be up-to-date.

Thanks for reporting.

ianhaynes

Thanks, I was able to re-install and get the Addons menu back.

Having done that I noticed the new Webradio Sorting and installed that. It appeared to install correctly but all I then got was the spinning 'Connecting' indicator. Having rebooted via SSH the autostart track plays but still no proper Rune screen, so perhaps the Webradio sort has upset something else?

Ian

PS: This on 0.4b v20170229

rern

@[deleted]

Try uninstall_webr.sh from terminal.
If it's back, I'll mark it as 0.4 incompatible.

R101

I am having a problem with the Enhancements update. It actually tries to update the Addons package instead of the Enhancements.

rern

@[deleted]

Please update / reinstall Addons Menu first then try again.

This update has some new functions that each addon depended on to allow better normalization. So it's very likely to break something. But this with the revised auto update method will make fixing bugs much easier.

R101

Thanks rern. Another uninstall and reinstall seems to have sorted it out.

ianhaynes

Try uninstall_webr.sh from terminal.
If it's back, I'll mark it as 0.4 incompatible.

Yes, thanks, that got the normal page back.

On reflection 0.4b has webradio sorting in place anyway.

Ian

R101

A couple of minor bugs:

The alphabetical selection bar does not display correctly in my 7" Android tablet. Either the last 3 letters are off the screen, or only alternate letters are displayed. I have not worked out what causes the variation - at the moment it seems random. This problem does not occur in Firefox.

Another bug which shows up in both systems is that a radio station name is displayed on top of other information in the playlist entry.

janui

Hello Rern,
I have been testing your Addons Menu for RuneAudio and some of the individual components on my Pi1 arch6h build (for the Pi A, B, B+, Zero, Zero W). The components which I have tested and their status are listed below:

1. Addons Menu for RuneAudio > Status: Fails to install. After removing ‘--show-progress’ installation works. After installation all Rune UI functions fail (black screen), cannot be recovered with removal instructions, reflash SD card required.
2. Expand Partition > Status: Don’t use it. The SD partitioning is different.
3. MPD Upgrade > Status: Fails, cannot be recovered, reflash SD card required.
4. Rank Mirror Package Servers > Status: Works fine.
5. Samba Upgrade > Status: Fails, cannot be recovered, reflash SD card required.

I think it would save a lot of time for users if you disable the whole Addons Menu and it’s components for this version. Several versions of this build have been published, these can be identified with ‘uname -r’ which returns ‘4.9.17-1-ARCH’ or ‘4.9.58-1-ARCH’ and ‘redis-cli get hwplatformid’ which returns “01”.
janui

tuna

Hi Rern,

I have ported the Youtube script into a rune addon!

Please find it here:
https://github.com/xortuna/RuneYoutubeAddon

Let me know what I need to do next

ianhaynes

Well, I don't know whether this falls under the scope of an add-on or not. With your MPD update we can now play the BBC 320k feeds, but the artist name and song title don't show as the do in most other streams. It would be good to have these. I know that the Moode player also shows radio station logos too, rather than the generic radio mike shown in Rune.

Ian

janui

Hi ianhaynes,

but the artist name and song title don't show as the do in most other streams

Unfortunatly there are no standards which the radio stations use for their information display. They do not seperate artist or title, its just a text string.
janui

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