I'm working on some under-the-covers networking code...
Squeezelite-X currently will not connect to a remote LMS server. For example if you try to connect from your office to an LMS on your home network via port forwarding, it will not find the server. Now, I am not suggesting it is a good idea to open your LMS to the internet via port forwarding. (Read the sticky in the General area for all the reasons you should not do this.) I have never tried this until yesterday just to see if SLX would work. It didn't. I had some code in there whose purpose was the distinguish between a server that was there, but LMS was not running, or was running on a different port, versus a server that was completely turned off or didn't exist. Anyway it doesn't work in this scenario. That got me looking into the some of the networking code and methodically testing all sorts of different things and failure scenarios. Such as, password required, username/password incorrect, http port is wrong, telenet port is wrong, service can't be found, server can be found, but LMS is not running, LMS is being restarted/reinstalled/upgraded, etc, etc. So I have made a few under-the-covers improvements that will improve how SLX responds when it runs into these sorts of issues. So in the next version, 1. Connecting across the internet will work. 2. A specific "can't connect" scenario was taking to long to respond and freezing the GUI for 10-20 seconds. (Specifically, the case where you provide a username/password, but the one or both of the port ids are incorrect.) This will be fixed. For the vast majority of you (I hope), you have not seen these scenarios. But they will be fixed in the next version. As for opening LMS to the internet via port forwarding, it is generally not a good idea. Even with password turned on, it is not a good idea. Passwords are passed in the clear over http and LMS has no defense against brute force attacks. So for my test, I turned on "Block Incoming Connections" and then allowed only the IP address I was testing from. And I used a unique password not used anywhere else. And I am still not sure how secure that is. But I have SLX able to work in this scenario. (WOL will never work in this scenario, by the way.) As for new features, I am always entertaining new ideas, or even old ones that I forgot about. R Greg Dawson Squeezelite-X ------------------------------------------------------------------------ rgdawson's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=65236 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=108550 _______________________________________________ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/plugins
