alfista wrote: > None of the firmware for the real slim devices have ever been open > source I believe and it's not likely to change, for the fatter devices > (Touch, Radio and possibly Controller) some source is available, some > isn't. For the older products we can pretty much forget a third party > FW, for the more recent devices it's technically not trivial (legal > issues aside) and I rather doubt there will ever be a third party FW > based on Logitech sources. > > In short, there are differences in that respece but I doubt they have > any practical consequences.
Most of the source for the Touch firmware is is available online. There are several people here (including me) who have compiled this and it does run quite well on a Touch. A while back all the source files were changed to a different license which if I remember correctly is much more lenient and done on purpose to allow third parties to modify them. I'd have to look carefully to see if this allows others to distribute a binary. The parts that are not available are some codecs and the wifi driver. So as long as you stream pcm or wav and use ethernet you can use a Touch with non Logitech compiled firmware. The Wifi issue can be dealt with by using an external "wifi bridge" and the codec issue can be dealt with by having your local server to format conversion for you. I realize there might be some issues with certain internet streams, but again if these get converted in the server it's not an issue. As an interesting aside on this issue Triodes EDO applet is distributing some significant changes to the firmware by a third party, it works and Logitech has not been trying to shut him down. John S. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ JohnSwenson's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=5974 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=96191 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
