I wasn't sure where to post this as it is not a plugin, it is not a mod, and it does not fit the tone of DIY; so here it comes.
I hae been working on setting up my house so that the Pronto PRO will be the only Remote in the house. I am almost there. There are three main areas I am concerned with: (1) Theater: Replacement of the IR based iPronto with the TCPIP based Pronto PRO with no Extenders in the loop. The theater is controlled by a PC and the PC talks to the Pronto PRO over TCPIP doing in effect "IR Emulation" (2) Music; A fully mobile control system for the Slim Players which run with Slim Server, their companion Music server software. The control system must allow me to do selection (multiple ways) and full control over what is playing with a reasonable graphic interface.It must be usable from anywhere in the house including the pool area as one of the players drives the whole house music system. (3) Control of the Homeseer System which runs lighting, HVAC, CallerID, Security, the Pool, and a myriad of other subsystems to provide full ouse control I am well along and have had some excellent support and help in the graphics and testing area from LowPro. I decided to share some pics of the music control system. These are digital photos, and photography is not one of my strong points The Main screen is the initial screen of the activity where you select which player you want to deal with. The select screen allows you to select what is to go into the "Now Playing List". You can do it by artist, album, genre, saved playlists and songs. The Info screen shows you the Now playing list which you can edit, the "Now Playing" song and the "next up" song along with the modes of the player (repeat, shuffle, sleep). It is dynamically updated by the server as things change (there is actually a song progress bar that is updated every 2 seconds or so); and if the Pronto goes to sleep (happens a lot when I listen to my music as I am often reading, or I doze off) it fully recovers the current state as soon as the pronto wakes up. LowPro is a stylus man and I am a button man so there are configuration options for how you want the system to operate. In general both the Stylus and buttons are provided for. The Icon on the upper left corner is a picture of the Slim Devices Squeezebox and shows system status, going as far as an animated marquee display when playing a song. I am distributing this activity (needs a little more tweaking) but only on request and with a very simple set of rules. If you are interested drop me a line. I will answer questions on how I did things and the prontoScript is not too hard to follow once you get the hang of the model I use. +-------------------------------------------------------------------+ |Filename: Select Screen small.jpg | |Download: http://forums.slimdevices.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=3159| +-------------------------------------------------------------------+ -- barrygordon ------------------------------------------------------------------------ barrygordon's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=7468 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=37827 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
