Mnyb wrote: > > They are happy to handle help and APi keys to Sonos or Logitech or > whatnot but not "John Doe" the hobby developer .
John Doe the hobby developer is one thing, general public in an open source module is even worse. There is another thing, and it's the primary cause why you haven't seen large-scale commercial projects using the Squeezebox platform so far: don't get fooled, some of the services supported by the server live by the mercy of Logitech having paid for them or licenses for them. TuneIn being a nice example. Everybody here seems to assume that just putting the radio code into LMS will save that feature forever. This might be true for hardware Squeezeboxes but it someone picked up on this and started selling new hardware in large volumes relying on LMS with TuneIn support you might quickly see some change. Integrating services based on a hacked API in an open source server is something that is nice and fine and tolerated as long as the overall exposure is low and it's primarily being used in DIY systems but with such solutions you will not see a striving platform in the long term but it will only be acceptable as a "OK, this is some legacy support for that old hardware" case. --- learn more about iPeng, the iPhone and iPad remote for the Squeezebox and Logitech UE Smart Radio as well as iPeng Party, the free Party-App, at penguinlovesmusic.com *New: iPeng 8, the Universal App for iOS 7 and iOS 8* ------------------------------------------------------------------------ pippin's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=13777 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=98467 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
