Gen05 is going to have an ethernet jack, serial port, RCA analog and TOSLINK digital, and two host USB ports, thats it. It just enough to be able to get drivers going for our audio interfaces. I'm thinking that this just has Squeezelite for the first launch of Gen1 boards.
Gen1 as I'm envisioning it now will have the above plus HDMI out, coax S/PDIF and headphone jack. I'm going to include the module connector for the wifi module I've mentioned, we will have to decide whether we want to go that route or use onboard wifi on the dual wandboard. Putting the connector on the board doesn't add much to the complexity/cost. The linux image developed with gen0.5 should be enough for Gen1 to be usable as a headless player out of the box. All the rest can be done once more people have Gen1 in their hands. The wandboard module has all the pins brought out to do an onboard LCD and touch interface, either separate from the HDMI, or driven with the same image. So a later version could add a touch/LCD display, without needing too much in the way of software change. Thanks everybody for chiming in on this, I think it's an important discussion to have. Triode, if we go with Jivelite, one thing I would find VERY helpful is some better documentation on the applet graphical API. I tried for a year to write some fairly simple applets but could never figure out how to get on the screen what I wanted. Even after spending months with the source code I still couldn't figure out how the "style" system worked. Now I know I'm a hardware oriented guy and some of the aspects of this are probably obvious to you software guys, but a few little hints would go along way. This is probably one of my main reasons for not wanting to go with Squeezeplay as it is, I found the lack of documentation for applet writing to be a major stumbling block for me. I was kind of hoping we could put something together that was a lot easier to learn. John S. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ JohnSwenson's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=5974 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=98179 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
