JJZolx wrote: > > Would you see this as basically mimicking a Touch, and then use the Lua > code from that product? > For a headless box there isn't any need to take any lua code from the Touch.
At the moment the easiest would be: Linux based OS + Squeezelite (or squeezeslave) In the future this can be adapted to: Linux based OS + the player software of your choice As long as it's Linux based and is a headless device, there is no reason to bring in the whole Touch lua based firmware which would introduce all kinds of copyright related complication since icons and similar things isn't freely re-distributable. As long as we don't have a display on the device it's much better to base it on something more lightweight, like Squeezelite. This way it's also just the player related code that have to be adapted if we want to use the box with another system in the future, like turning it into a AirPlay receiver, UPnP renderer or even a completely new system with similar features as the Squeezebox but independent from Logitech. Having a web server for configuration should be a piece of cake, there are plenty of people around here that can help implementing that. Some drivers would probably have to be implemented, but as long as you choose chipsets which have Linux support I suspect most of it is already available so it's more a matter of compiling/packaging them in suitable way. Having a display on the box would be attractive and so would IR support be, but since a UI adds a lot of complexity on the software side (and possibility also on hardware side) I would skip the display in the first iteration. If you want to make the hardware future proof, it might be reasonable to add a HDMI output so it in the future will be possible to add video drivers and output a image on a TV or external display, I'm just not sure if this would introduce a lot of extra complexity on the hardware side. If it introduce a lot of extra complexity it might be better to advice users to get an old used smart phone/tablet and put it in a docking station and use that as the display together with a suitable smartphone/tablet app. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ erland's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=3124 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=97881 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
