bobkoure wrote: > st2000;386652 Wrote: ...<cut>... >> Why not just skip the SB and stick a computer in the closet complete w/a >> ASK IR receiver (dongle) >> thingy and softsqueeze? I can't believe a USB IR receiver being more >> than $50, more like $30. I don't know how much of a hassle this would >> be in Windows, but in Linux it would be a snap.
> Not a bad way to go, if you feel softsqueeze is reliable to just run > for weeks on end. My experience (admittedly on win as I tend to use > linux for servers) has not been that positive. Well, there are alternatives clients which run on PCs. The most lean I can think of (so perhaps the most robust??) would be slimp3slave. Totally written in C and compiles out the gate from linux. I don't know what you would have to do to get it to work for windows (I usually find windows make tasks which are simple in linux unbearably complex). I know you don't want to add 10BaseT wiring, but I'll tell you I would want if the set up was mine and you stuck to the analog distribution. I'd like a local display at the most used outlets. If you used slimp3slave you could easily re-write it to send the text to internet appliances. And, I should think, you could find VFDs with 10BaseT interfaces. They will probably cost a arm but that doesn't sound like it would matter. And, as the VFDs would ultimately be controlled by SC, many plug ins should work "out of the box" (i.e. weather, time, stock market, news scrapers...). Sounds like fun! _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
