I'm currently using a Dell Axim as a dedicated controller for my SB3 and it really is a dedicated device, I have no extra software installed and just have the IE home page set to <SlimServerIP>/Handheld. It looks to me as if, after reading all 20 pages of this thread, the new Duet controller (DC) might work better for me.
I really only have one serious issue with my PDA solution. OK, the interface is a bit slow, but the real issue is that when I pick up the Axim and turn it on to change the music then there is a 5-10 second delay before the Axim re-registers onto my wireless network. If I've understood various posts here correctly then this shouldn't be an issue with the DC as it never disconnects itself, it just goes into a power saving mode but keeps the WiFi connected. Is this correct? Does this mean that as soon as I pick up the DC I will have instance access, much like browsing with the IR remote on my SB3 right now? Dean said that under constant use the battery life is about 3 hours. What is the life on power-save mode? What I'm really looking for is the equivalent of the cellphone talk-time and standby-time figures. Dean's 3 hour figure is essentially a talk-time figure. What is the standby-time figure? I'm trying to work out whether the DC would survive (battery-life wise!) an 8 hour party without being put back in the charger. Parties are when the connect delay on every switchon of my Axim becomes most annoying because non-technical guests aren't expecting it. My other question is when will we get more details of the browsing experience? The screenshots on the web site only show a now-playing screen and the Engadget video isn't zoomed in on the screen when the reporter is browsing so it is hard to know what the interface will be like. For what it's worth, here is what I'm hoping for (my dream interface) I mostly browse by artist and then album and, with 6.5.4, have started browsing albums by artwork. Ideally I would like to be able to configure the options on the home page (top level menu) much like an iPod so that one of my top-level items is Artists (i.e. Browse by Artists). Selecting that menu option then takes me to the alphabetical list of artists (maybe with some A-Z tabs to move quickly through a big list). When I select an artist I then have the option (depending on how I have it configured) to either show a list of that Artist's album titles or to show the albums via artwork, probably a scrollable list of one on screen at a time with the title below it. An option of 4 thumbnails per screen with title beneath would also be good. In all cases I would want the option to sort an artist's albums in date order (like the current SlimServer can do). I would then want the ability to either play an entire album or drill down to the track list to play or enqueue on a track-by-track basis. Is the browse-by-artist functionality able to offer an experience anything like the above? If not then when will there be screenshots and/or video/flash demos on the site? - Julian -- JulianL ------------------------------------------------------------------------ JulianL's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1088 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=41813 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
