philchillbill wrote: > It's a combination of several JSON roundtrips from the cloud to your > house to your LMS and back. If e.g. you have slow internet upload speed, > even a fast LMS might not help. But be warned that a pi2 is not going to > be much better than a zero, although at least you have 1GB of RAM then. > If you can just swap the card from the zero into the pi2 then sure give > it a try. For a permanent solution, I'd say do yourself a favour and > get a pi4 with 2GB RAM for fifty quid. Unless you have rural internet > speeds, that is. > > The touchscreen player controls work on Echos with screens (if you touch > the screen briefly they appear) so that's the screen-reference you saw. > It's trivial for the skill to display the metadata but from testing I > found it quickly becomes wrong because of the buffer in the Echo - LMS > thinks playback is way ahead of where it actually is because the Echo > gobbles data to buffer it. At song-transition it all goes awry.
Thanks for the excellent explanation. I think I'll just accept the limitation rather tthan try to explain another gizmo in the house! If only the echos had upnp//dnla .... LMS server: Pi Zero Amp: Denon PMA-50 Players/Speakers: Touch, Logitech Radios, Sonos Play 1s & Beam, Libratone Zipp, GGMM E2 & E3, Yamaha WXAD-010, Loewe Airspeaker, Google Chromecast Audio, Home Mini & Nest Hub, Amazon Echo 2,3 and Show5, Pioneer WX-SMA1, Roberts S1, O2 Joggler, Cisco Joggler, Avantree Priva BT transmitter Brexit = ∞ stupidity ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ castalla's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=15624 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=111016 _______________________________________________ plugins mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/plugins
