aubuti;566663 Wrote: > Glad to hear things are running better now. One thing, note that SomaFM, > Last.fm, etc are "apps" not applets. "Apps" are really services, and > even though the interface talks about "installing" them, they really > aren't installing anything. Applets, on the other hand, are things that > you actually install and run on the player. Applets only work with newer > players (SB Controller, Radio, and Touch), whereas "apps" also work with > older players like the Boom, SB3/Classic, etc. So there are plugins, > apps, and applets. Confused? You're not alone. Basically Logitech > decided to jump on the iThing bandwagon and get "app-happy" with what > are basically internet services for the SB. Yes, I'm very happy! And thanx for the clarification about the app(lets). I already was confused by TinySC, TinySBS, TouchSBS and SBS/Embedded to name a few ;)
> Since you have your server running on-demand via WOL, I don't understand > why you presume a SB server would have to be on 24/7. SBS can be run > on-demand as well. In fact the SrvrPowerCtrl plugin has lots of great > options, including switching your players over to mysb.com after a > certain idle period, and then suspending/hibernating/shutting down your > server. Getting that to play nicely with your video serving could take > some work, but running a local music server does _not_ imply it has to > be on 24/7. > I'm using WHS as the OS and LightsOut to control suspending the server, so I can't use the nice switching functionality of SrvrPowerCtrl I guess... And yes, I didn't imply that the server must be on 24/7, the Touch does a nice job sending WOL to wake up the server, as does the Controller, altough the Controller does it a bit to often in some cases > > Granted, you'll want to get your SBC WOL problem sorted out first -- > did you ever check if audio playback was enabled on the SBC, and if it > was, disabling it? > No, audio playback is disabled on the Controller. > Oh, and if you're waiting for SBS plugins to be compatible with TinySBS > you'll be waiting a long time. The current lack of plugin support on > TinySBS was a conscious decision related to hardware limitations. I > doubt you'll ever see many (any?) plugins for TinySBS on the current > Touch hardware.Grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr -- Mars Warrior ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Mars Warrior's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=31857 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=80884 _______________________________________________ Touch mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/touch
