benshead;248308 Wrote: > > My plan is to take apart a squeezebox remote and mount the remote's PCB > inside the clock radio. Buttons mounted on the outside of the case will > be wired to it and it will in turn control the Squeezebox. > > The only volume control necessary will be the squeezebox's, but I have > to admit to preferring a big analog knob, so I am not sure if I lock > the SB volume control and just use a potentiometer or whether I will > set the Amp6's output where I want it with a resistor and use the SB to > control volume.
This sounds like a great project! What about a jog-dial style knob that would be tied to the volume up and volume down contacts on the PCB? And I'd use a pot for the amp volume, sticking out the back of the enclosure. You could use a subset of the remote control buttons -- probably the top 11 buttons (sleep & power to the 4-way d-pad) from a current Transporter-style remote control. Hmm, maybe the 0-9 buttons would be good for Favorites presets (and SaverSwitcher, of course!) Instead of gutting an offcial Slim/Logitech remote, consider using a relatively cheap universal remote. You could teach it codes for the Slim buttons, and you should also be able to teach it other (non-Squeezebox) IR codes that you could map to specific functions with SlimServer/SqueezeCenter. E.G. map some specific non-SB IR code to the snooze function in your alarm plugin of choice and wire that to a nice, big physical snooze button. For a real hacker flourish, use a JP1 remote control and leave the JP1 jumper block accessible on the back of the unit for reprogramming the buttons. I'm not sure where you'd place the buttons. My first thought is on top of the enclosure, like an old clock-radio, but then you want to see the VFD when you're reaching out to press the buttons. Are you handy enough to mount the buttons on the front? Do you remember the old clock radios that had a nearly horizontal panel for buttons below and in front of the displays? Mount the IR emitter and IR receiver such that the unit can respond to IR codes from an actual remote control. I second the suggestion about monophonic sound. My bedroom and kitchen units are mono, mainly for placement/WAF reasons. I'd rather have one good speaker enclosure than two poor, tinny enclosures -- or stereo sound in a location where I can't, or simply won't, listen from a good location between the speakers. -Peter, looking forward to progress reports (& pictures!) -- peterw http://www.tux.org/~peterw/ free plugins: http://www.tux.org/~peterw/#slim AllQuiet BlankSaver BottleRocket FuzzyTime SaverSwitcher SleepFade StatusFirst VolumeLock ------------------------------------------------------------------------ peterw's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2107 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=40983 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
