bpa wrote: > Didn't Pippin suggest an applet not a plugin ? if it is a true Applet > then not the same as a plugin.
Nope, on the contrary. I found the Ickstream applet and wondered if and how it could be installed on the Squeezebox Touch. On that subject Pippin was kind enough to respond and tell med that the applet would replace the Squeeze firmware on the Touch instead of augmenting it, and that it was only developed as an experiment for something else, required an Ickstream controller and wasn't really the focus right now. Further he noted about the applet: "..the applet does something else, it's a software that runs only on the Touch and plays locally there, it can't be controlled with e.g. iPeng. But in the case of the ickStream applet it could be controlled with an ickStream controller, but what you can not do that way is control all the other Squeezebox functionality on the Touch. It was really meant to offer a compatibility path to a different system." Then he suggested that I might try to install the Ickstream plugin on the Squeezebox server(TinySC) embedded in the Squeezebox Touch, which might give med the functionality I was looking for(Ickstream functionality without turning on my PC server with LMS and my whole music library and without putting load, perpetuate HDD activity and hight temperature on my Mybook Live NAS): "Now... LMS can run on the Touch as well as you know and although it lacks an installer you can technically (if done manually) also install plugins there and this might actually even work with the ickStream plugin (haven't tried it)." This I tried, but failed. And when I asked for help on this thread, Michael, was kind enough to answer and inform me about the scarce memory resources on the Squeezebox Touch, that installing the Ickstream plugin there probably wouldn't work, and that installing LMS on a Rasberry PI probably was a better idea to acheive the functionality I'm looking for. Now, for the time being, LMS is running with the Ickstream plugin on my Mybook Live NAS, which is really driving me nuts with the etarnally spinning disks, its scary high operating temperatures and my fear of disk crash and data loss. Since I today mostly listen to streamed online music and it's soon Christmas, I'm seriously contemplating a ready made Rasberry Pi solution with a cabinet and a decent soundcard... In the meantime, if anybody against all odds has any luck and could share their experience in installing Ickstream as a working plugin on the Squeezebox Touch TinySC or installing LMS with the Ickstream plugin on a WD Mybook Live NAS while managing to get the disks to spin down on inactivity, I'd be happy to hear about it! Have a nice day! Vegard ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Vegz78's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=32897 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=77474 _______________________________________________ plugins mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/plugins
