pippin wrote: > It's not so much the question of "power" of an App. The issue is: if you > want to run something in a web browser you need a web server. > With the Squeezeboxes, that's not a problem, they are always being > controlled through a server anyway. > > But on ickStream there is no central server that needs to be always on > and that the player is always connected to so it's much more difficult > to do a web controller. > > We do want to eventually have this and have some ideas about how it can > be done, but for now Apps are simply the more simple solution :) > > BTW: we do NOT plan to limit this to iOS or Android. In fact we'll have > an openly published API so everyone can write a controller for any > platform. We just started with iOS because that was the easiest thing > for us to implement. Fair enough, but I won't be able to use this until there's a controller I can run on a linux laptop. At an extreme pinch an android app on a smartphone would be OK, but I'd much rather not - those of us whose eyes are a bit older may find smartphone screens too small.
I guess I might have to buy a tablet, although that would cost me more than the Touch, and about the same as my VB server, which seems a lot for a control device. However, don't get me wrong, I am interested and keen to see what you come up with, and hopeful it would help me, even with my somewhat limited local-use-only needs. LMS 7.8 on VortexBox Midi, FLACs 16 or 24 bit. Touch on Ethernet (in another room), digital out to a Musical Fidelity M1 CLiC. Old wireless laptop running Linux Mint Debian controls server using Chromium. Squeezelite on Ubuntu & Windows desktops plus the laptop. Meridian Explorer USB DAC to listen directly to Vortexbox & other PCs as required. Spare Touch in loft! ------------------------------------------------------------------------ PasTim's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=41642 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=98467 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
