How To Install HQPlayer Embedded On Ubuntu

[cpcat]

….and ipaddress:8088 should bring up the HQPe web UI.

[stefano_mbp]

10 minutes ago, cpcat said:

….and ipaddress:8080 should bring up the HQPe web UI.

…. the right port is 8088

[cpcat]

2 minutes ago, stefano_mbp said:

…. the right port is 8088

Thanks - sorry will edit.

[Sunny_Player]

Gents, thank you. Everything is up and running. Nevertheless, one issue. 

 

In the Logfile I see the following (ecores="filter", multicore="1"). 

2024/02/27 18:23:44 Processors physical=24 logical=32 performance=24 efficiency=0 groups=1 packages=1 nodes=1

 

System: 13900k i9, Ubuntu Server 22.0 (min installation), no GPU. 

 

Why is efficiency=0?

 

Seems the performance of hqplayer embedded standalone was a little better... Or did I miss something here? 

Thank you. 

 

Cheers. 

[stefano_mbp]

@Sunny_Player what kind of cpu do you have?

[Sunny_Player]

1 minute ago, stefano_mbp said:

@Sunny_Player what kind of cpu do you have?

i9 13900k

[Sunny_Player]

4 minutes ago, Sunny_Player said:

i9 13900k

I can see ecores are used in htop... 

[stefano_mbp]

6 minutes ago, Sunny_Player said:

I can see ecores are used in htop... 

which HQPe version are you running?

This is my 5.4.1 log (i7 14700)

 

 

[Sunny_Player]

2 minutes ago, stefano_mbp said:

which HQPe version are you running?

This is my 5.4.1 log (i7 14700)

 

 

Hqplayer embedded 5.4 1

[stefano_mbp]

3 minutes ago, Sunny_Player said:

Hqplayer embedded 5.4 1

… quite strange … @Miska could explain …

…

just realized you’re running it on Ubuntu, mine is HQP OS, maybe that’s the difference 

[Miska]

1 hour ago, Sunny_Player said:

Gents, thank you. Everything is up and running. Nevertheless, one issue. 

 

In the Logfile I see the following (ecores="filter", multicore="1"). 

2024/02/27 18:23:44 Processors physical=24 logical=32 performance=24 efficiency=0 groups=1 packages=1 nodes=1

 

System: 13900k i9, Ubuntu Server 22.0 (min installation), no GPU. 

 

Why is efficiency=0?

 

Seems the performance of hqplayer embedded standalone was a little better... Or did I miss something here? 

 

Which kernel version do you have (see output of "uname -r")? If you are on 5.15, you need to either install "linux-lowlatency-hwe-22.04" meta-package, or one of my custom kernels.

 

[Sunny_Player]

1 hour ago, Miska said:

 

Which kernel version do you have (see output of "uname -r")? If you are on 5.15, you need to either install "linux-lowlatency-hwe-22.04" meta-package, or one of my custom kernels.

My kernel version is indeed 15.05. What is the code for installing the low latency kernel properly? Thank you. 

Edit: I was successful in installing the low latency kernel. 

 

@Miska how do I update the hqplayer embedded to version 5.5 on ubuntu? I am asking because I have installed the wrong version of hqplayer (without avx2). 

[Miska]

21 minutes ago, Sunny_Player said:

@Miska how do I update the hqplayer embedded to version 5.5 on ubuntu? I am asking because I have installed the wrong version of hqplayer (without avx2). 

 

You just "dpkg -i" another package version over the earlier one. The OS package management system will handle the rest.

 

[Sunny_Player]

Just now, Miska said:

 

You just "dpkg -i" another package version over the earlier one. The OS package management system will handle the rest.

 

thank you, done

[shum3s]

Late to the party and know nothing about Linux to setup HQPlayer Embedded (currently using desktop version).  My goal is to use JPLAY IOS > UPnp SoTm-200 > Hq

My question, is Chris method setting up Hq embedded at the begetting of this thread still relevant for someone like me to get things rollin?   
   Thanks, Sam 

[stefano_mbp]

29 minutes ago, shum3s said:

Late to the party and know nothing about Linux to setup HQPlayer Embedded (currently using desktop version).  My goal is to use JPLAY IOS > UPnp SoTm-200 > Hq

My question, is Chris method setting up Hq embedded at the begetting of this thread still relevant for someone like me to get things rollin?   
   Thanks, Sam 

I recently installed HQPe on Ubuntu 22.04.

Only the last part of instructions is still relevant, you just need to use the last releases of libgmpris and hqplayerd.

In your setup it seems a upnp mediaserver is missing, it is mandatory in order to use JPlay for iOS 

 

wget https://www.sonarnerd.net/src/focal/libgmpris_2.2.1-8_amd64.deb

sudo dpkg -i libgmpris_2.2.1-8_amd64.deb

wget https://www.signalyst.eu/bins/hqplayerd/focal/hqplayerd_4.25.1-83_amd64.deb

sudo dpkg -i hqplayerd_4.25.1-83_amd64.deb

sudo apt install -f

sudo hqplayerd -s hqplayer hqplayer

sudo systemctl enable hqplayerd 

systemctl start hqplayerd

sudo systemctl status hqplayerd

[shum3s]

Thank you Stefano for your feed back! It was my understanding that once HQPlayer is up and running that I could use it as my UPnP rendering.  If not what would you recommend that is missing with what I want to accomplish. 
  Sam
 

[stefano_mbp]

25 minutes ago, shum3s said:

Thank you Stefano for your feed back! It was my understanding that once HQPlayer is up and running that I could use it as my UPnP rendering.  If not what would you recommend that is missing with what I want to accomplish. 
  Sam
 

An upnp setup has three main components:

1. upnp mediarenderer
2. upnp renderer
3. upnp control point app

where 1) can be Minimserver that can run on pc/Mac/nas, 2) can be HQPlayer embedded and 3) is JPlay for iOS .

 

Minimserver is a very smart upnp mediarenderer and it is very well integrated with JPlay (I’m using it sine ten years more or less), you can read about it here

[cpcat]

Can’t Roon be the upnp server?  It (Roon core) did fine for me while I trialed it on my NAS- @shum3s already has it according to signature….

 

mconnectHD player is also another option for control point, and if you use Roon they have a Roon control app.

 

Ahh, I see -the goal is to use JPLAY iOS, never mind. 😆

[stefano_mbp]

12 minutes ago, cpcat said:

Can’t Roon be the upnp server?

Roon is not upnp ….

[cpcat]

2 minutes ago, stefano_mbp said:

Roon is not upnp ….

Sorry, I forgot and looked it up-RAAT- but it works with HQPe and Roon control app..  Alphabet soup!

[Miska]

1 hour ago, cpcat said:

Sorry, I forgot and looked it up-RAAT- but it works with HQPe and Roon control app..  Alphabet soup!

 

Roon uses HQPlayer's control protocol with HQPlayer. It is not RAAT or such.

 

Same protocol used for example by HQPlayer Client and HQPDcontrol.

 

[shum3s]

9 hours ago, stefano_mbp said:

I recently installed HQPe on Ubuntu 22.04.

Only the last part of instructions is still relevant, you just need to use the last releases of libgmpris and hqplayerd.

In your setup it seems a upnp mediaserver is missing, it is mandatory in order to use JPlay for iOS 

 

wget https://www.sonarnerd.net/src/focal/libgmpris_2.2.1-8_amd64.deb

sudo dpkg -i libgmpris_2.2.1-8_amd64.deb

wget https://www.signalyst.eu/bins/hqplayerd/focal/hqplayerd_4.25.1-83_amd64.deb

sudo dpkg -i hqplayerd_4.25.1-83_amd64.deb

sudo apt install -f

sudo hqplayerd -s hqplayer hqplayer

sudo systemctl enable hqplayerd 

systemctl start hqplayerd

sudo systemctl status hqplayerd

So after I boot from a usb stick, can I follow the above script to get embedded up and running?  
 Sam 

[Miska]

14 minutes ago, shum3s said:

So after I boot from a usb stick, can I follow the above script to get embedded up and running?  

 

This is for an old version on an old OS version, not applicable anymore.

 

If you use HQPlayer OS, you don't need to do anything of the above. You just write the USB stick, boot up from it and you are ready to go.

 

[cpcat]

7 hours ago, Miska said:

 

Roon uses HQPlayer's control protocol with HQPlayer. It is not RAAT or such.

 

Same protocol used for example by HQPlayer Client and HQPDcontrol.

 

Even better -makes me want to pay for Roon, almost. 😉