@Jens:

It's good, but does display a lot of information. I wonder if this
could be an option to turn on in the settings? (Or the simpler version
could be an option to turn on!) We'd have to put a longer delay into
the journey-switching too, as I can't read it fast enough...

I really do like the improvements you've made to the HTML parsing.
Regular expressions are good at what they do, but I can never debug
them if I've slept since writing them! ;)


@Ceejay:

Thanks for the kind words :)

With Jens' version, starting SlimServer in debug mode gave me the error
"Can't locate WWW/Mechanize.pm".

(To fix this, I installed the Ubuntu package "libwww-mechanize-perl")

I'm torn; Mechanise, at a glance, will make the thing much easier to
maintain, but do we force folks to install extra libraries? -I'd be
interested to hear people's views on this.-

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Re: your enhancement request for extending the number of possible
journeys: yes, I've wondered about that. I've also wondered about
having journeys set per squeezebox too.

But how to switch between them? To use the digits would probably
conflict with the SaverSwitcher plugin. Could use up/down, I suppose,
to switch...

-(Aside: I use SaverSwitcher in its manual mode: pressing 1 displays
DateTime, 2 gives LiveDepartures, 3 gives _'GoalRush'
(http://www.insignificant.org/wiki/index.php/GoalRush)_, 4 gives
TimeSpeller. I don't want or need LiveDepartures to be running full
time)-

This might lead to a wider discussion about the direction of
ScreenSavers - whether we need to extend the Saver API somewhat, or
come up with something new for this type of application: it's clear
that people are now using their Slim devices as 'information gathering'
devices. I'm not totally convinced that the ScreenSaver route is the
best suited device for stuff like LiveDepartures...

Matthew


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