Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] XM radio plugin with 7.4?
I am using 7.4 and 3.5.1 and it plays music fine. The only problem I have is that it does not display the current Artist and Song title. I have tried many stations and this is not working. Is anybody else experiencing this? Thanks! -- huytere huytere's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=35094 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=68420 ___ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/plugins
Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] what is the point of buying the SB Receiver or Controller??
i understand now why a softplayer will not work well. We can close the thread, my question has been answered. -- huytere huytere's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=35094 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=72872 ___ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/plugins
Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] what is the point of buying the SB Receiver or Controller??
the home run system is way more scalable than putting local hardware in every room, there is no doubt about that... The av matrix makes it so I could have squeezebox receiver playing music in all 16 rooms/zones, or just one or two, it is totally controllable. Like you said, mom could listen in the kitchen, dad could listen in all the upstairs rooms, and kid could listen in garage. It is infinitely flexible. If you see in the hardware list below, I am buying 3 SB hardware receivers... one for everybody in the house. I could always get more later. I do not intend to use the software player at all. The av matrix switcher has 16 audio inputs, and it is easily expandable. It scales out easily to 48x48... no worries! -- huytere huytere's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=35094 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=72872 ___ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/plugins
Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] what is the point of buying the SB Receiver or Controller??
I am a SB newbie. For the last few days I have been waiting for my SB Receiver to arrive. In my excitement about the SB device I registered on mysqueezebox.com and downloaded the sb server exe to my laptop. I installed it and ran the sb server interface and saw that i could install softsqueeze or squeezeplay. I installed squeezeplay and it worked perfectly. I added XM plugin and lots of apps. I was thrilled. I started writing some Crestron code to control it via my "whole house control system and GUI". My equipment cabinets in the closet contain: 12 Marantz sr6001 AV receivers 1 Crestron Pro2 Control System (I am a SB newbie. For the last few days I have been waiting for my SB Receiver to arrive. In my excitement about the SB device I registered on mysqueezebox.com and downloaded the sb server exe to my laptop. I installed it and ran the sb server interface and saw that i could install softsqueeze or squeezeplay. I installed squeezeplay and it worked perfectly. I added XM plugin and lots of apps. I was thrilled. I started writing some Crestron code to control it via my "whole house control system and GUI". My equipment cabinets in the basement contain: - 12 Marantz sr6001 AV receivers http://us.marantz.com/689.asp?category=AV&model=SR6001&go.x=18&go.y=9 1 Crestron Pro2 Control System http://www.crestron.com/products/show_products.asp?jump=1&model=pro2 2 DishNetwork DSS receivers 1 Bluray Disk player 1 Dvd Player 1 Wii 1 Crestron CEN-TRACK AM/FM/XM Tuner Rack 1 Video Storm 16x16 HDTV/Multichan Audio Matrix Switcher http://www.video-storm.com/proddetail.asp?prod=CMX1616V 1 Security Camera IP Camera DVR 3 Squeezebox Receivers (future) 1 DSL Modem 1 DLINK DNS-323 NAS (stores files, music, etc) 1 Lenovo ThinkCenter (a dedicated Squeezebox Server) 2 Netgear 24 port switches The crestron PRO2 control processor has a progam (that I programmed). And this PRO2 processor controls the 12 AV REceivers, the 16x16 AV Matrix Switcher, the Cen-Track, the 3 Squeezebox Receivers, the IP Security Camera DVR, the BluRay player, Dvd player, DSS Receivers. Here are the rooms in the house and what they contain: Master Bedroom - 7.1 Surround speakers in wall, 1 Plasma TV Master Sitting - 7.1 Surround speakers in wall, 1 Plasma TV Bedroom 1 - 7.1 Surround speakers in wall, 1 Plasma TV Guest Bedroom - 7.1 Surround speakers in wall, 1 Plasma TV His Office - 7.1 Surround speakers in wall, 1 Plasma TV Her Office - 7.1 Surround speakers in wall, 1 Plasma TV Garage - 4 speakers Living Room - 2 speakers in wall Family Room - 7.1 Surround speakers in wall, 1 Plasma TV Dining Room - 2 speakers in wall Powder Room - 1 speaker Master Bath - 3 speakers, 1 Plasma Foyer - 1 speaker Kitchen - 2 speakers, 1 LCD Bathroom One - 1 speaker Bathroom Two - 2 speakers All the in-wall speakers and plasmas home run directly into the equipment room cabinets and terminate at the AV Receivers (speakers) and the Video Switcher (plasmas and lcds). All the rooms have a TPMC4X in wall touch screen controller that controls lighting, music, satellite, bluray, climate, security, etc. Rooms with Tvs also have a handheld TPMC3X wand remote that allows the user to control lighting, music, satellite, bluray, climate, security, etc. But normally these handheld remotes just control music and satellite. The Squeezebox Receivers will simply be sources that will be controlled. They are just filling the need for music in the system. The in wall speakers are used for many things, like announcing Caller ID when somebody calls, intercom to the front door visitor, watching TV, listening Squeezebox, watching Bluray, watching Youtube, Home Automation, etc. I do not need the SB handheld remote, or any SB UI because Crestron will always be controlling my SB receivers. Since I have been using it for a few days, I really love the squeezebox community, it seems the best in the world. And I love the open architecture. I finally found out why I need to buy the SB Receivers, it is because the sound card on PCs have buffering issues that cause the audio to sound very slow motion because of buffer/timing issues. -- huytere huytere's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=35094 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=72872 ___ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/plugins
Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: FindArt plugin beta
thanks alot for the fast response. After I am done my current programming tasks I will take a look at that. Thanks for your great support! -- huytere huytere's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=35094 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=49245 ___ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/plugins
Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: FindArt plugin beta
For most stations I listen to, there is no art. How can I make FindArt work automatically so that if it detects that there is no artwork it will automatically search amazon? I do not want to be involved with anything, just do it for me automatically. This will be better than looking at the boring icons that are displayed when there is no related art on internet stations. Or even make it just show a random image from Flickr, to make life more exciting. Hope this request makes sense? Can it be done now with a workaround? -- huytere huytere's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=35094 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=49245 ___ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/plugins
Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] what is the point of buying the SB Receiver or Controller??
Thanks for the quick replies. I am on the same wavelength as you eventually everybody in the family will have their own dedicated SB Receiver. All the SB Receivers will be located in the centralized AV cabinet. That way they could have everything setup like they love it If mom goes to the kitchen, she could use the Crestron control system to control the output of SBmom receiver device to ouput the digital audio thru the AV matrix switcher so it plays in the kithcne only. Then as the food cooks she could relax in family room and the audio will flow into there. meanwhile, dad is in the office listenting to his dedicated sb receiver The sb receiver really is priced perfectly at $149! -- huytere huytere's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=35094 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=72872 ___ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/plugins
Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] what is the point of buying the SB Receiver or Controller??
the funny thing is that i already ordered the receiver (without controller) and I have been sleepless for two days with thoughts of developing plugins and GUI for it!! and now I found I could get started without even buying the hardware LOL -- huytere huytere's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=35094 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=72872 ___ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/plugins
Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] what is the point of buying the SB Receiver or Controller??
For the "looks", I am not worried about it. It will be installed into a proper AV cabinet. All the amplifiers, av matrix switcher, crestron system is located centrally in the equipment room of my house. It is a whole house AV distribution system. So the "sources" will be wii, satellite tv, bluray, squeezebox pc, security camera DVR, etc. Hope that makes sense. I am playing devils advocate so I can understand more about squeezebox. Is there any chance that the audio will have synch issues if the server and player are located on the same physical machine? In my mind, the performance should be "even better" if it is all located on a single machine. -- huytere huytere's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=35094 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=72872 ___ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/plugins
Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] what is the point of buying the SB Receiver or Controller??
Ok, understood. For me, that is not a problem because my homemade SB rig will have its SPDIF output feeding directly into a Video Storm 16x16 SPDIF Audio Matrix Switcher (http://www.video-storm.com/proddetail.asp?prod=CMX1616V) and this will allow me to send the audio to every room in my house. Every room in the house has a dedicated Onkyo receiver. In my previous question, I did not tell this because I wanted the scenario/question to be clear. Are there any other disadvantages to just running everything on a "single always on home built PC"?? I will be controlling the SB PC with Crestron control system, and be using my own handheld remotes (TPMC3X). You can see the control module and GUI examples here: http://www.controlworks.com/Modules/Product.aspx?pid=60 Are there any other disadvantages I should know about? -- huytere huytere's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=35094 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=72872 ___ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/plugins
Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: SqueezeDroid - Open Souce Android Remote
Hi Chris, nice good clean code. Today is my first day using SB and I want to write a player/GUI for it that will run in Adobe Air/Flex. I have been googling like crazy trying to find documentation on the "CLI" telnet control interface and cannot find it! I have seen your CLI calls in CliSqueezeService.java and it helps me understand a little bit about the CLI. Do you have a cheatsheet or any kind of documentation on the CLI protocol for issuing commands? How did you figure it all out!?!? Help, please send me something... -- huytere huytere's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=35094 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=68373 ___ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/plugins
Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] what is the point of buying the SB Receiver or Controller??
THanks Phil! ok, so if I understand, the main reasons to buy the Receiver would be to get the device closer to the audio amplifier, and do it wirelessly... it is very convenient for some users I guess. And, as you said sound quality. So, I could just build my own PC, buy a good sound card with SPDIF output and wire it directly to the SPDIF on my Onkyo and in that case the DAC is not even being used because the signal path stays in the digital realm the whole time! -- huytere huytere's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=35094 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=72872 ___ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/plugins
[SlimDevices: Plugins] what is the point of buying the SB Receiver or Controller??
I have an old laptop and decided to turn it into a squeezebox rig. I registered an account at mysqueezebox.com, installed Squeezebox Server on the old laptop, installed Squeezeplayer on the old laptop. Then I configured the SB system to use my Pandora account, my Last.FM account, and added 10 of my favorite Shoutcast stations. Everything is working perfectly! I put the laptop on top of my Onkyo amplifier and wired the headphone out directly to the audio input on the Onkyo receiver. Again, perfect sucess!! Everything is working so great!! What is the point of buying the SB Receiver!!?? Since a PC is required to run SB Server, I do not understand the point of buying the SB REceiver! It seems very stupid device to buy when an old laptop could be used "all in one". Am I missing something???? -- huytere huytere's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=35094 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=72872 ___ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/plugins
