GeekDragon wrote: > Mark, that's genius! Totally went over my head to do this. I've set this > up and tested it with great success and now I can automate this action > with a Zigbee button attached to the frig so my GF can simply shut > everything down. > > Thank you again and if you have any other cool Material tricks that you > wish to share please do! > > And Yes, calling it quits at 62 has been great! Never thought I could > just chill out but it's quite easy when you give it a go.
wait until you get to the point where you are pretty sure you know what day of the week it is (most of the time) but have no idea of the date. :) I'm there... Material things to know/I have discovered: 1) If you have android devices, the apk is the way to go. 2) Related, even if you are an apple family, the Amazon Fire HD tablets are super cheap, especially if you buy them via their "deal" business "woot!", or you buy the older generation. I prefer the HD8, and you can get them $25-$50. They are cheap because they are an advertising machine with the built in ad lockscreen and everything goes through amazon. But the XDA developers site has developed a "fire toolbox" to remove all of this (read the disclaimer in the process), add the google playstore (for adding your apps), and more. It restores it to "looks like" stock android. And it's real nice hardware, great display, and fast enough for general use. Load the apk from F-Droid. I bought a few extra and have them laying around the house as "controllers" but they are a full tablet in functionality (browse apps, email, etc). I am thinking about making a pi player and using a tablet as the UI. I deployed a couple sb system to friends (after they saw mine), and I have been waiting for deals, but and configure them a tablet, and say "here, you owe me $40" :) 3) Podcasts - come into LMS as most recent episode on top, but people want to listen bottom (first) to top (last). So, you add, say a season to the queue in material, drag and drop to reorder, then you can save the queue (say "pc season 1") and it appears in your playlist for revisiting. Load it, play from the top, episodes play in order. 4) I recently started playing with using material as a preset handler for internet radio stations. I have all of my stations in favorites, under folders and subfolders, and when I want to switch, I have to navigate the folders. What I am playing with is adding my favorite stations (from different folders) to the material queue, then saving the queue which creates a playlist. I can call up the playlist and select, listen, don't like this song, select another. So I might have I'll edit if more pop into my head. Jim ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Redrum's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=33806 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=116165 _______________________________________________ Squeezecenter mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/squeezecenter
