I would like to have a now-playing display on my TV. My setup consists of the following: An Amazon Fire TV running SB player which is hooked up to a Pio AVR which is connected to my TV. LMS is 7.9. The controller is an Nexus 7 (2013) tablet running OrangeSqueeze (sorry).
Some time ago, I asked wt0 about a now-playing display. He pointed me to the Chromecast feature in Squeeze Ctrl: wt0 wrote: > If all you want is a big screen display of artwork and song info, > Squeeze Control supports showing that on a Chromecast. > I have a belated follow-up question to that. Suppose I purchase a Chromecast and Squeeze Ctrl for my Nexus device. My AVR can only be set to one channel at a time. To play music, it needs to be set to the HDMI input to which the FTV is hooked up to. But the Chromecast would be on another HDMI input of the AVR. So, to switch to the Chromecast, I need to switch the channel and the music stops, no? Hooking up the Chromecast directly to the TV wouldn't be exactly elegant, either. When I switch to the Chromecast on the TV, by virtue of HDMI CEC, the AVR switches its channel to the TV as well. So the music stops once again. To prevent that from happening, I'd have to disable HDMI CEC on the TV. But that I don't want to disable it as it's needed for other purposes. Hence, it seems to me, the Chromecast wouldn't really be the solution to the problem. Is there another low-cost way to get a now-playing screen? I realize I could just buy another RPi setup. But I find that too big of an investment for that room. The FTV + SB Player works reasonably well, I don't wanna spend a lot of money merely for a now-playing display... ------------------------------------------------------------------------ poing's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=63617 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=96757 _______________________________________________ plugins mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/plugins
