As I understand it, the app on the PC is a front end for programming the
Roku. In fact, after I sent it to my mom, I read in the User Manual that
there is a telnet interface to the Roku for command line commands.
Programming the Roku for the stations directly is very easy. For
example, I wanted to program public radio stations, so, using the remote
and the display on the radio, I just keyed in WETA and it found the url
and I set it as a preset.
b_s-wilk wrote:
Is the applet for the radio itself or to use on your computer? It
sounds like a browser interface for the radio on the computer for
setup, like there are for switches, routers, modems. It should be
self-contained within the radio instead.
Short-wave radios often have a big display, relative to size. My
portable Kaito/Degen shortwave radio is tiny but has a display that's
bigger than the iPhone or any other mobile phone or PDA. The WiFi
radio could have a display like that too, with its own browser. If the
WiFi radio had a touch-screen or good menu like Nokia phones and PDAs,
that would make it much easier to find and save stations, and create
presets of your favorites.
Handheld devices are evolving quickly along some very exciting paths.
Betty
I think I mentioned previously that the Roku site provides a free
applet you can download and which provides a web browser interface to
the radio to setup and program presets. Check the link to the user
manual I had in a message earlier today for screen shots.
Fred Holmes wrote:
At 11:15 PM 12/9/2007, b_s-wilk wrote:
Best feature is finding all the stations on its own. Worst
feature is finding stations you like out of the thousands it
loads. Finding a dozen or so out of thousands of radio stations
on a shortwave radio is hard enough. I'd like to see what kind of
listening guide or list they provide for WiFi radio--online of
course.
It sure would be nice if these things had network (or other, e.g.,
USB) connectivity that allowed setting them up (selection of the
small set of stations you really want to listen to) using a
computer, with its large screen and full-size keyboard. I would
think that sort of capability would be obvious. Sort of like what
one does with a PDA, although I don't have a PDA, so I don't really
know how they really work.
Once the "receiver" is set up, it surely saves a whole lot of power
without having a spinning hard drive or large display needed.
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