My SlimServer host is primarily a MythTV backend/frontend combo, but I have a Squeezebox sitting next to it, atop the stereo. I could see using the TV to control the Squeezebox, but not for audio playback (I use the TV speakers for nearly all MythTV content, and the hifi for the Squeezebox, DVD player, and analog stereo sources).
The Jive Platform looks like it should be a good choice for using the TV to control the Squeezebox -- both because of the capabilities of Jive Browser, and my hope that Jive will be easier to use with the up/down/left/right buttons that Lirc provides than a typical web browser is -- I have to use my keyboard and mouse to really get anything done with Firefox on the MythTV desktop. I'd expect Jive might be a very nice app to spawn from the frontend client menus. Now, there is some MythTV integration I've wondered about -- having a SlimServer screensaver that showed MythTV status. It would be nice to have a progress bar display on my Squeezebox as I watched a program, but it would also be nice to see other information like Backend/Capture Status and Upcoming Recordings. I have a number of custom MythTV programming schedules and it would be nice to use any Squeezebox in any room to quickly cycle through Upcoming Recordings and cancel any that I don't want, or go through Recorded Programs and delete any that I failed to cancel ahead of time. The web UI (I'm still on 0.19) stinks for canceling upcoming recordings and when the TV is on, we're typically watching something & not in the mood to look at a screenful of upcoming shows. I think it might be more pleasant to go through the list on a SB display while listening to good music. -Peter -- peterw http://www.tux.org/~peterw/ free plugins: http://www.tux.org/~peterw/#slim BlankSaver BottleRocket FuzzyTime SaverSwitcher SleepFade StatusFirst VolumeLock ------------------------------------------------------------------------ peterw's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2107 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=35306 _______________________________________________ plugins mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/plugins
