HQPlayer Embedded Discussion [2021-2022]

Audio Gear Talk HQ Player
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Tried this multiple times. I’m experience enough to try a few reboots before asking for help. I tried the hqplayerd command multiple times. No go. Tried initially to use this command to set my web username and password but it didn’t seem to work because I changed the username to ‘admin’ but couldn’t get it to work and the username ‘hqplayer’ - the default - did work and I was able to change that user password from the web admin. Thought I was golden at that point. Are you saying that if I issue this command again with a new username and password that those credentials should now be accepted from the web admin?

UPDATE: so I just tried again: ‘hqplayerd -s admin foo’ from root. Then moved to my other PC and tried those credentials in the web admin. They don’t work.

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I would reimage and start fresh.
It is faster than undoing things sometimes.
In this case. I think it would be.

I agree that there should be a way to reset items and I think it should be well documented.

I’ve been an admin a while, so fixing it is habit. Not everyone wants to. I hear your frustration.

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I was just going to say, could be file corruption or a bad USB stick. Try a new image on a different USB stick if possible.

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Yeah. Appreciate that POV. I just came to same conclusion. Reimage and start over. But wow. Something is amiss here if web admin works one minute and then stops working. But thank you very much for the help.

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Did you try private/incognito window? In case it was a ‘saved passwords’ issue on browser…

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I did not. That is a good suggestion. Too late however. Just reimaged the USB stick. :slight_smile:

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That is not normal behavior, something is amiss, don’t discount that it may be the image burning process, bad sectors on the USB stick, or unusual file corruption or as @dabassgoesboomboom suggests, saved passwords?

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image

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Trying again with same USB stick which validates just fine with Etcher. WIll report back in case any of this is helpful to some future user. But I would say for @jussi_laako benefit that just a few basic admin features added to the web admin help would go a LONG way to helping new users.

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What would you suggest? I have not been a new user for awhile, what could he add to help?

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NEWBIE HELP FOR HQP OS:

  1. What to do if you lose your web access, i.e. how to reset your web admin credentials.

  2. How to setup SSH for HQPe for accessing from another device. (I suppose experienced linux folk know how to do this already. But the whole HQP OS thing is accessible to non-linux people who know how to image a USB disk.)

  3. What to do if you are not seeing your NAA device from your Server. (In my case my NUC NAA was grabbing my Holo Audio DAC as its ALSA backend and that meant the Server wasn’t seeing the NUC apparently. Someone suggested I plug in another USB Audio device to the NUC and select it to release the Holo Audio DAC. Once I did that I was able to see the NAA NUC from my HQPe Server and everything worked. If I hadn’t gotten that piece of advice from this forum I would have been totally stumped as to why it wasn’t working.)

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I asked that few posts above.

Tried to save you a hassle !

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UPDATE: Reimaging appears to have resolved my issues. Big surprise. :wink: All I did this time was set a root password and change the password for the hqplayer user in the web admin. That is all I’m going to do at this point. I guess I really don’t need ssh access as doing updates requires reimaging and restoring my config file from the web admin each time. So I guess I can live without it. Any other reason I might need ssh into the HQPe server?

Edit: and let me say again how awesome it is to have this help from this forum. Thank you!

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No reason to use ssh, except if you want to do geeky stuff like looking at CPU info, load, temp, processes, etc.:wink:

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Froths at the mouth

:drooling_face:

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I have 2 - 16gb USB sticks. I burn the newest version of HQPe on one, upload config, library, and license to it and keep the previous version on the other just in case I have issues with current. And I keep a backup somewhere else of settings.zip, library.xml, and hqplayerd_license.xml

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Dear @jussi_laako and the community , any issue to install HQPlayer Embedded on Fedora 35 ?
I’m trying but blocked on on missing libraries (libgupnp1.2 and libgupnp-av-1.0

Thanks a lot for your support.

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What is the command you use to get the CPU load and temps etc?

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htop for CPU load

Are you using USB bootable HQP OS or Embedded on Ubuntu?

On Ubuntu I use this to get temps at 2s intervals

watch -n 2 -d sensors

You need to install sensors on Ubuntu first

sudo apt-get install lm-sensors 

sudo sensors-detect

sudo service kmod start

sensors
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Thanks - I am using embedded on ubuntu server.

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