Now when the Touch and Radio devices has been officially launched, it feels like a good idea to open this applet for beta testing by more people. Please, note that this is still a beta version but I like to offer it for testing to get some early feedback and new ideas.
I'm personally using it daily on both my Touch and Radio beta testing units and it seems to work pretty good. Besides the Touch and Radio it also works on the Controller and Squeezeplay Desktop. For everyone that have used the previous alpha versions, this first beta version is the same as the last announced alhpa versions. It's a plugin/applet combination that makes it possible to configure what should be shown on a screen saver. A little bit similar to what MusicInfoSCR does on Classic players combined with Saver Switcher to switch between different kind of information. The plugin is currently bundled with a number of templates: - A now playing screen where you can configure which information you like to show, as an example, you can configure it to show any title format supported by Squeeze Center, for example those provided by the Custom Scan plugin. - A clock with configurable time and date formats - A configurable three line text screen where you can add the title formats of your choice, adjust the font size and it shows them over the whole screen and doesn't show any cover art. - A cover art screen that shows the cover art over the whole screen - A screen template for showing random album covers from your library The default configuration switches between the now playing and clock screen every fifth second, but you can change this and use any of the templates provides. To install you will need to setup my usual beta testing repository url in the Plugins tab (Extension Downloader) in Squeezebox Server 7.4: Code: -------------------- http://erlandplugins.googlecode.com/svn/repository/trunk/testing.xml -------------------- After you have configured this you will get a "Information Screen *Beta*" in the plugin list which you will need to install in your Squeezebox Server. Then after the plugin has been installed, you will have to goto "Settings/Advanced/Applet Installer" on the Touch, Radio or Controller. In the Applet Installer you will also find a "Information Screen *Beta*" applet which you need to install. Finally, you will need to select the new "Information Screen" screen saver on the Touch, Radio or Controller. You will find the configuration in Squeezebox Server Settings under Plugins/Information Screen/Manage screens. KNOWN LIMITATIONS - The volume controls doesn't exist in the Now Playing screen since they needed more lua code than I wanted to write at the moment. - The screen saver polls the server every fifth seconds to check if there are any updated information, due to this it can take a few seconds before you see visible feedback on the screen after you have clicked a button in the Now Playing screen. - Clicking on album covers in the screen template that shows random album covers currently doesn't work correctly on the touch, it's supposed to start to play the album you click on. Some screenshots follows below. +-------------------------------------------------------------------+ |Filename: clockwithplaying.png | |Download: http://forums.slimdevices.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=8060| +-------------------------------------------------------------------+ -- erland Erland Isaksson 'My homepage' (http://erland.isaksson.info) (Install my plugins through Extension Downloader) (Developer of 'TrackStat, SQLPlayList, DynamicPlayList, Custom Browse, Custom Scan, Custom Skip, Multi Library, Title Switcher and Database Query plugins' (http://wiki.erland.isaksson.info/index.php/Category:SlimServer)) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ erland's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=3124 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=67422 _______________________________________________ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/plugins