This news is mostly a rehash of the Android@Home demo they did at their developer's conference last year. There is an IPv6-based, low-power, mesh networking scheme under the covers. This seems to support a discovery, command and control protocol. Devices need to carry a chip that implement the protocol, or I suppose it can be done all in software on an Android phone/tablet.
On their demo they had NXP (ex-Philips) show light bulbs that were network enabled, and audio players controlled via this new network, and streaming music from Google Music. I think they were synching players, too. Youtube surely still has the demos, check it out if you're interested. So as far as I understand it: - You'd better include a chip in your device, but proxying via LMS could be technically possible in software. Same story as Airplay. - This goes beyond audio applications, in theory at least. -- epoch1970 Daily dose delivered by: 3 SB Classic, 1 SB Boom iPeng (iPhone + iPad) Squeezebox Server 7.6 (Debian 5.0) with plugins: MusicIP Server Power Control by Gordon Harris WeatherTime by Martin Rehfeld IRBlaster by Gwendesign (Felix) Find cover art by bpa BBC iPlayer, SwitchPlayer by Triode PowerSave by Jason Holtzapple Song Info, Song Lyrics by Erland Isaksson SaverSwitcher, ContextMenu by Peter Watkins Just Covers by Tom Kalmijn. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ epoch1970's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=16711 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=93538
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