piCorePlayer 11.0.0

The pCP Team has released an new version of piCorePlayer.

For support—see this topic on Squeezebox Forum.

Significant changes

• Kernel 6.12.42
• Squeezelite 2.0.0-1542
• Addedd Pi4/5 Bootloader Display and Update (Not Automatic) (On the Diagnostics/Raspberry Pi Web Page)
• LMS default install is 9.0.3 (As of the date of this posting)
• Fixed guided config for Mac/Safari users
• Automatic USB Ethernet driver loads for devices without onboard ethernet.

Notes

• There is no default ssh password, it must be set on first connection to the web interface.
• Adding wpa_supplicant.conf to the boot partition will automatically enable Wifi—see Setup Wifi without ethernet.
• See https://github.com/morrownr/USB-WiFi for some information about wifi drivers with linux in-kernel drivers.
• Adding a file named netusb to the boot partition to force loading of the net-usb kernel modules.
• Write your image, boot the RPi, and find it by http://pcp.local This is broadcasting the hostname of your player, so please change your hostname on the tweaks page if you have multiple pCP devices.

Download

• Best using RPi Imager
• piCorePlayer will be listed under the Media Player OS section.
• Selecting the Rpi board type will show you compatabile images.
• RPi Imager image customization support is NOT supported at this time.
• For Lyrion Server
  • Pi0-3, best to use the 32bit image for better memory usage.
  • Pi4/5, use the 64bit version.

New images or insitu update are available. The released versions can be downloaded from here.

• piCorePlayer 11.0.0 - 32-bit Kernel sha256: e5909ee568014a1e9ed1213a1f10a4802746e4dab712db80f48bec42da0bb1a4
• piCorePlayer 11.0.0 - 64-bit Kernel sha256: 10b3632fa342bd3699647206cc7e3ed57ffff8b1a1f29a1b62aa470dd5cfe107

The pCP Team
Paul, Greg, Ralphy and Steen