Hi, While my many years ago promised Opera plugin to control LMS went nowhere, I still have lots of fun with SqueezeBox' LMS API. The openness is probably the reason why I want to stick with SB as long as possible.
Some of my more noticeable home-brew projects have been: 1) A Opera browser (12 Presto and 19-upwards) plugin that shows artwork and title or artist of the currently playing song in a Speed Dial entry. A click opens LMS on the selected player. I have been using this plugin myself for years, but I have not released it on Opera's add-in store, as it will require tons of finishing touches. Password protected servers and mysqueezebox.com are not supported. Of course I am willing to upload it somewhere if someone's interested. As it has not been released on Opera's Add-on store, it requires enabling Opera's Developer mode, that would be a security risk. Also note that as long as Opera is running, it is polling LMS every X seconds (configurable from 5 to 60 seconds), I do not expect WebSocket support is on the LMS roadmap ;) It can be configured to stop polling after X unsuccessful tries however. Again it was mostly made for my personal enjoyment, but if there's interest I'd be willing to work on it. 2) I bought a new Logitech keyboard (at least they still make those ;) ) with neat media keys. Still I hardly play music on my desktop PC, I wanted to control LMS with these keys. Unfortunately Logitech's SetPoint utility's UI does not let me re-assign the Media Keys. With a bit of research I found out that you can edit a XML file manually to add functions to almost any key, including the Media Keys. I'm a developer, so I created a native Win32 program that simply connects to LMS' TelNet interface (the compiler I used did not have built-in support for JSON, so I chose the TelNet interface) and sends parameter-driven commands to LMS. Now I can rewind, play/pause, forward, mute/unmute and volume up/down with a press of a button. I have been using this for a week now, on a Windows 10 desktop PC, and it seems to work remarkably well. I hope Logitech will not introduce major new versions of SetPoint for a long time ;) Are there other people that have been playing with the various SqueezeBox-related APIs and created some noticeable home-brew projects that you wouldn't want to miss? :) Squeezeboxes: Touch (on Yamaha AVR667) + Radio connected to LMS 7.7 (Mac mini running MacOS X 10.7) . Plugins used: Spotify and LastFM Scrobbler. SquuezePlayer and Orange Squeeze user on HTC Desire Z (Android 2.3) phone and Asus TF300 (Android 4.1) tablet ------------------------------------------------------------------------ tablemate's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=57007 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=106168 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
