bluegaspode;648511 Wrote: > It's just historical reason. > A company called SlimDevices (later bought by Logitech) created slim > devices. They were really dumb, had a display (the content was provided > by the server) and could play streams (when told so by the server). > > Classic + Boom still belong to these 'slim' devices.
I happen to own an SB3 with Slim Devices logo on it, hope it never dies.. > Then came Controller+Radio+Touch running a full Linux, but the > architecture stayed the same. Only some extra code on the client was > created to account for all possible server problems (i.e. the fallback > alarm). > > The Radio even today does not know what stream to play when its time > for the alarm - that's why it still needs a trigger at the right time > from the server. That clarifies things for me, thank you. I's not totally understandable to me why it has to be like that, but I'm not a software architect, so I'll shut up. On the other hand: shouldn't it be dead easy to create an alarm app (or whatever those programs are called that run natively on the radio and touch) that simply powers the unit on and starts a stream at a given time, totally independent from the server? -- cran ------------------------------------------------------------------------ cran's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=10961 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=89292 _______________________________________________ Radio mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/radio
