Mnyb wrote: > Will this include any custom player fw or is it "only" a server+cloud > service with apps thing . > Kind of in-between. Currently, for the Squeezeboxes, it's an Applet. Custom firmware is difficult, lots of proprietary stuff in there that's actually needed so adding to the standard firmware is easier as long as that one still works. > > Will the compatibility to all kinds of devices happen in the server > software :) > No, it's in the API/on the client side. It might be possible to simulate that, similar to LMS exposing the Squeezeboxes as UPnP devices but me thinks at least syncing will be difficult with such a scenario (but who knows... if the latency is known).
> > and can you have some kind of synergy with a collection of devices from > anyone , this would be almost to good to be true ? > Well, not anyone. We can't make dumb devices more intelligent. But our system is simple enough to fit into a lot of devices. > > I can imagine that you figured how to serve squeezeboxes as some of the > devs involved have mastered the art of making a player for the LMS > server , and it's not far fetched to assume that if you understand the > player you understand the server protocol . Well, our "server protocol" is very different from what the Squeezeboxes do. We do NOT have the intelligence in the server. That's the one fundamental decision we have made, we believe that embedded devices these days are powerful enough to be able to have the controller in a controller and to be able to give the player some kind of autonomy. This gets us around the problem that the server always needs to be present and reachable, at all times. A problem haunting the Squeezeboxes when you don't run the server 24/7. It's pretty much what Logitech _should_ have done for the Smart Radio but it involves a much bigger change in architecture. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ pippin's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=13777 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=98467 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
