vidurapparao Wrote: > > > > 5. Whilst connected to the SN, I looked at my slimserver UI, > > and my player was no longer listed. Is it not possible to > > connect/disconnect to/from the SN from the slimserver? I was > > kind of expecting my local slimserver to override the SN on > > demand, such that when my local server is not present, it can > > fall back to the SN, but when the slimserver is available, it > > could switch back to it. > > Currently, you have to make an explicit decision to switch > between the two. We're definitely open to ideas on how to make > the transition smoother.
Ideally you could do this from the web interface on the local SlimServer, which would stay in contact with the Squeezebox even if the SB is connected to SqueezeNetwork. I have no idea if Slimproto supports (or can be made to support) more than one server connection. But I want to see all of the Squeezeboxes on my network from SlimServer and if I queue up a song and hit 'Play', then it needs to play. If it's not possible to do from the local SlimServer, then maybe: * A SqueezeNetwork option to sign off after N hours/minutes of inactivity? This would just save the user the trouble of manually doing it if he forgets he was connected to SqueezeNetwork, but normally uses the local server. This would have to be an option, and would probably need to defaul to staying connected to SN. * An option for behavior after a powering ON. Either 1) connect to local SlimServer, 2) connect to Squeezenetwork, or 3) Resume last connection. This would essentially be a quick way of signing on or off, rather than going through the menu selections you just hit the ON/OFF button twice. * Have the SB periodically look for a local SlimServer. If it sees one, then connect to it. Continue playing whatever radio stream you were connected to. In the same manner that it would be desirable for the local SlimServer to be able to "grab" the SB connection for itself, with talk of alarms and notifications coming from the SqueezeNetwork you're going to need the ability to talk to an SB even if it's not explicitly connected to SqueezeNetwork. Now, I'm sure _that_ suggestion will raise a few eyebrows! Imagine, the ability for SlimDevices to talk to a Squeezebox even when it's not currently connected to SN. :-) But if you don't have this ability, then with people setting alarms and reminders from SqueezeNetwork you're going to have many of them never going off because the device wasn't connected to SqueezeNetwork. Needless to say, this will also need to be an option - "Allow SqueezeNetwork to connect to this Squeezebox" or else the privacy advocates will be up in arms. This could also be implmented in the other direction by using some type of polling - the SB when NOT connected to SN polls SN once every 60 seconds to see if there are any alarms or reminders to process. -- JJZolx _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
