LEDSpicer, LED animation controller for Linux.
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@MeduZaPaT ... Aquí escribo el journal...
May 08 23:17:01 retropie systemd[1]: Started Cleanup of Temporary Directories. May 08 23:17:01 retropie CRON[905]: pam_unix(cron:session): session closed for user root May 08 23:30:53 retropie sudo[949]: pi : TTY=pts/0 ; PWD=/home/pi ; USER=root ; COMMAND=/usr/sbin/service ledspicerd start May 08 23:30:53 retropie sudo[949]: pam_unix(sudo:session): session opened for user root by pi(uid=0) May 08 23:30:53 retropie systemd[1]: Configuration file /etc/systemd/system/rgbcommander.service is marked executable. Please remove executable permission bits. Proceeding anyway. May 08 23:30:53 retropie systemd[1]: Starting LEDSpicer a LEDs controller and animation daemon that will handle LEDs of different devices.... May 08 23:30:53 retropie LEDSpicer[976]: Error: Unable to read the file /etc/ledspicer.conf May 08 23:30:53 retropie systemd[1]: ledspicerd.service: Control process exited, code=exited status=1 May 08 23:30:53 retropie systemd[1]: Failed to start LEDSpicer a LEDs controller and animation daemon that will handle LEDs of different devices.. May 08 23:30:53 retropie systemd[1]: ledspicerd.service: Unit entered failed state. May 08 23:30:53 retropie systemd[1]: ledspicerd.service: Failed with result 'exit-code'. May 08 23:30:54 retropie sudo[949]: pam_unix(sudo:session): session closed for user root
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@MeduZaPaT
I'm almost finished with my project and doing now the final polishing on the software configuration.
Do you have by chance a configuration example for the Pulseaudio animation?I'd like to use it as the default profile once ledspicer is loaded, so it can react to the boot video. However it doesn't seem to do anything atm. do i need to ledspicer the audio device?
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@mdsavio
possibly a little late response to your issue.
Make sure your ledspicer.conf is located in /etc/
If not you can do the followingsudo apt-get update Sudo apt-get install locate sudo updatedb sudo locate ledspicer.conf
This will install locate, a quite easy to handle search for files. with the command locate you can then search for files throughout the filesystem. I recall that I also had an issue in the beginning with the ledspicer.conf not being correctly read, although it was at the correct location. But first try that and post the results.
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New version 0.3.6 is now available, this version includes:
- New Rom detection system based on a data file (using Mame is not a good option on retropie)
- Added a new kind of plugin, Input plugins, three of them:
- Mame Connects to mame and reads the output events to light elements or groups on the layout
- Impulse Lights elements when a button is press
- Actions Allows the creation of interactive input, like when you insert a credit, the start will blink and stuff like that
- Added more debug modes
- Improved speed
- Lot more!
I left some demo videos on the facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/LEDSpicer-2393969390678210/
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@MeduZaPaT Thanks! I understand that the mame output lights only work with the standard mame but not with any retroarch-based version (mame2003, mame2003-plus, mame2010), do they?
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@janderclander14 said in LEDSpicer, new LED animation controller for Linux.:
@MeduZaPaT Thanks! I understand that the mame output lights only work with the standard mame but not with any retroarch-based version (mame2003, mame2003-plus, mame2010), do they?
I was unable to test them, basically they need to support the OSD output via network, anyway I added another plugin that simulates this feature somehow.
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New Input plugin demo video:
https://www.facebook.com/2393969390678210/videos/870935216617871/
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How do we incorporate the input code?
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@nukeray
I have LEDspicer running. Everthing is setup using ledspicerd -e and -l. Not able to figure out how to LoadProfile command line test. More importantly though I would really like to know how to use the input code for MAME. I am running the latest version of SDLMAME not Retropie so OSD is working fine. Any help would be awesome!!Doug
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@nukeray Excellent, the first part is done, can you msg me throw FB so I can help you easily?
https://www.facebook.com/LEDSpicer-2393969390678210 -
New Release of LEDSpicer is out, 0.3.9
this version includes:- Improves Pulseaudio plugin render.
- New PulseAudio mode "Wave" (check video).
- Adds new actor plugin FileReader, this plugin allows the user to create frames on an XML file, right now only RGBA format, more coming soon.
- Lot of bug fixes.
- Code improvement.
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This is awesome!
How difficult would it be to add support for the howler?
The software was written in C and the source is available on github already.
https://github.com/wolfwaretech/Howler-Arcade-Controller-Firmwarewould love to be able to use the controller I have rather than have to buy a new one.
Keep up the good work.
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I'm trying to install LEDSpicer using the latest Retropieimage on a Raspberry Pi.
I am at the part where it says
./configure CXXFLAGS='-s -O3' --prefix=/usr --sysconfdir=/etc
it goes all the way through it OK but right at the end I get
configure: error: tinyxml2 not found.
Now I can see you need version 6, but I can only get version 4, so I assume that is why I'm getting the error?
I can't figure out how to install version 6.
I've been looking all over the net for a solution for hours and I'm completely stuck.
My knowledge of Linux is pretty basic, so as detailed a response as possible would be much appreciated ;)
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@Whoremoan
Sorted it with the help of MeduZaPaT.
I'm going to try to repeat what I did on my other Rpi to make sure I can replicate the fix and I'll document it and put it up here in case anyone else has the same issue I had. -
@Whoremoan
OK here is what I didInstall tinyxml2 version 4, which is the newest version available in the repos of the pre-built Retropie v4.5.1 image.
You need this as none of the other versions bellow seem to install the tinyxml2.pc filesudo apt install libtinyxml2-dev
Now change the tinyxml2.pc file to match the version LEDSpicer is expecting
sudo nano /usr/lib/arm-linux-gnueabihf/pkgconfig/tinyxml2.pc
Change version to 6.2.0
Ctrl X and save changesNow download and install version 6a of tinyxml2
wget http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian/pool/main/t/tinyxml2/libtinyxml2-6a_7.0.0+dfsg-1_armhf.deb sudo dpkg -i libtinyxml2-6a_7.0.0+dfsg-1_armhf.deb
This version does not update the tinyxml.h file, so install the version bellow which will install an updated version of this.
git clone https://github.com/leethomason/tinyxml2 cd tinyxml2
Edit Makefile so that the lib files are installed in the directory LEDSpicer expects to see them.
sudo nano Makefile
Change
prefix = /usr/local
To
prefix = /usrChange
libdir = $(prefix)/lib
To
libdir = $(prefix)/lib/arm-linux-gnueabihfCtrl X and save changes
Now install
make all sudo make install cd ..
Finally delete the old version 4 library files and you should be good start the Installing section on the LEDSpicer without errors
sudo rm /usr/lib/arm-linux-gnueabihf/libtinyxml2.so.4 sudo rm /usr/lib/arm-linux-gnueabihf/libtinyxml2.so.4.0.1
It is possible that not all of these steps are needed, but it's the process I went through to get it up and running and it only takes a couple of minutes to do all of this, so you might as well
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@Whoremoan this is really good, thanks for the update!
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I am having a problem with the command:
sudo service ledspicerd start
It responds with this error:
Job for ledspicerd.service failed because the control process exited with error code. See "systemctl status ledspicerd.service" and "journalctl -xe"
When I view journalctl -xe this is the error I am greeted with:
-- Unit ledspicerd.service has begun starting up. Feb 06 15:26:49 retropie LEDSpicer[9229]: Set interval to 100ms Feb 06 15:26:49 retropie LEDSpicer[9229]: Opening USB session Feb 06 15:26:49 retropie LEDSpicer[9229]: Reading /usr/share/ledspicer/.xml Feb 06 15:26:49 retropie LEDSpicer[9229]: Program terminated by error: Unable to read the file /usr/share/ledspicer/.xml Error=XML_ERROR_FILE_NOT_FOUND ErrorID=3 (0x3) Line number=0: filename=/usr/share/ledspice Feb 06 15:26:49 retropie systemd[1]: ledspicerd.service: Control process exited, code=exited status=1 Feb 06 15:26:49 retropie systemd[1]: Failed to start LEDSpicer a LEDs controller and animation daemon that will handle LEDs of different devices.. -- Subject: Unit ledspicerd.service has failed -- Defined-By: systemd -- Support: https://www.debian.org/support -- -- Unit ledspicerd.service has failed. -- -- The result is failed. Feb 06 15:26:49 retropie systemd[1]: ledspicerd.service: Unit entered failed state. Feb 06 15:26:49 retropie systemd[1]: ledspicerd.service: Failed with result 'exit-code'. Feb 06 15:26:49 retropie sudo[9157]: pam_unix(sudo:session): session closed for user root Feb 06 15:27:00 retropie sudo[9591]: pi : TTY=pts/0 ; PWD=/home/pi ; USER=root ; COMMAND=/bin/journalctl -xe Feb 06 15:27:00 retropie sudo[9591]: pam_unix(sudo:session): session opened for user root by pi(uid=0)
It looks like I am missing the file with this directory
/usr/share/ledspicer/.xml
Thanks in advance.
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Have you tried running ledspicerd -d
This should tell you if any of the .xml files are missing or if there is an error in the .xml files. -
@12ale you need to set the ledspicer.conf file, that error is maybe the missing colors file.
you can check the logs also like this:cat /var/log/syslog | grep ledspicer
Use sudo if you get access denied.
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Part of the issue was the missing color files.
I still get this:Job for ledspicerd.service failed because the control process exited with error code. See "systemctl status ledspicerd.service" and "journalctl -xe"
When I run
ledspicerd -d
I get this message:Program terminated by error: Missing attribute 'port' inside root
Thanks for the help.
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