Chris, actually that was what I meant. However, if iPeng's got to support it, you also need some UI, and just having menus may be a bit too little. Although it has the big advantage that it will work with the Controller and Squeezeplay, too. But you can still re-map menu items to something else and part of this is what the upcoming iPeng 1.2 interface is about. For example, I plan to include a "Power" button for servers that can shut down a server using the SvrPowerControl plugin and will wake it up by sending a WOL packet. Of course this is all proprietary but once it works you could as well define some standardized interface.
Another idea I had, especially with local playback in mind, was that you could connect players to the server that are not really players. They would have only part of the capabilities, most notably not the actual playback capabilities, but you could for example use the interfaces for play, pause, skip, volume... If a plugin did that and used these commands to drive an external unit, it's a way to wrap your whole entertainment into the SB architecture. IRBlaster is going into the direction but not fully so. Your plugin does the same but only in connection with an amp connected to a player, if I understand it right. But theoretically you could write a plugin that wraps a TV control into this, since essentially all you need for a TV is power, skip and volume and then you could have a player "TV" controlled through your SC based equipment. Cool? -- pippin --- see iPeng, the Squeezebox iPhone remote, at penguinlovesmusic.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------ pippin's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=13777 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=55514 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
