erland wrote: > Correct, it's even an issue both with an internal drive and an external > drive, but the risk of someone disconnecting it abruptly is a lot higher > with an external drive. > > > Good idea. It's still going to be tricky to make an automatic solution > work in all different scenarios, but generally it's a good idea. > If the LMS library files aren't stored on the drive, it feels like the > drive should only be active when playing music, which should make it > easy to trigger the unmount, just stop playing music and wait for 2 > minutes for the LED to be turned off. > > Do I remember correctly that there are connections available that will > make it possible to attach a software controlled LED to the board ? Or > was it already in the plan to have a software controlled LED available > as default ? > > I'm also guessing a soft power off button/eject button would be possible > to connect via USB which triggers the necessary software ?
I had originally thought of a software controlable LED, but the implementation got messy so I decided on just a simple power LED. A USB controlled LED or two are so inexpensive these days it seemed better to go that route for now. At least for the first round of this when we are still trying to figure out exactly what we want it to do. John S. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ JohnSwenson's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=5974 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=97881 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
