surly wrote: > Mainly i think of a Unit that might be worth to be sold by Slim > Devices/Logitech. The Idea is, that you could use the server that runs > SqueezeCenter as a Player too, without the need of a Monitor. > Therefore i See two Scenarios > 1.) Your Squeezecenter is running on your Mediacenter in the living > room and You want to use it without switching the TV on > or > 2.) Your Squeezecenter is running on a server that is sitting in your > Hobby Room/Garage/Office and you yust want to listen to musik there > again without a Monitor. > What i just want to know is if anybody else woulf be interested in > something like this or not? > I myself could live with switching my TV on when listening to > Sofsqueeze if that dammn thing wouldn't use so much energy. > > The unit could have the size of a optical drive bay to make it easier > to mount it in a standard computer case. It still would be possible to > take it out of that housing and mount it directly in a custom or > aftermarket HTPC/Server Case.
I couldn't agree more about not having to turn on the TV. Hence the effort in that little video demo in my last post. But, Surly, you are missing the point. The Squeezecenter "server" does not contain any software to play back music. That's the job of the clients. When you start up something like SoftSqueeze on your media center you are starting a completely different program which is a client of the SqueezeCenter server. Squeezecenter and SoftSqueeze could be running on different computers for all they care. > As a IR starting Point this 'IrTrans IR Unit from OrigenAE' > (http://www.origenae.com/en/accessory_ir210.htm) would Do the Trick. > The unit comes with a very flexible driver architecture for Windows and > Linux. > The Unit handles the MCE stuff pretty well. The Sqzeezeplayer stuff > might work with girder. I doubt this will turn out to be a plug-n-play effort unless someone has already done it. And I don't recall anything about anyone using a remote control with SoftSqueeze. However, SoftSqueeze is an open source effort and you could get the software and have a go at contributing some code: http://svn.slimdevices.com/7.3/trunk/softsqueeze/README?view=markup > I am Curious if the new Sqeezeboxes still have Character VFDs or if > they have graphic VFDs and which size they are? > > Greetz surly The older SlimDevices used character VFDs (2x40) and the new ones use graphic. If I were going to write new code for SqueezeCenter I would stick to characters. They are cheaper, used more extensively and are simpler to control. ---------- I don't think this is the best solution, but it occurs to me that this SqueezeCenter client: http://ex-parrot.com/~pdw/slimp3slave/index.html ..is about as simple as it gets. Get it, re-write the code to send the display characters out the USB (to some sort of USB enabled display (Matrix Orbital probably makes one)) instead of using CURSES to display them on the computer screen. As for the remote, this client uses the keyboard. If you get a wireless keyboard there will be no need to bother with drivers and what not. The only tricky part would be to make sure this client had focus (i.e. takes over the screen (which you are leaving off)) of the media center when you invoke it. ...have fun. _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
