TechHome;549453 Wrote: > Seems friendly enough to me. OK, I'll take a look at that.
> This sounds great! I'm amazed at how little interest there seems to be > in apps like this and IR Blaster. IMO, the SB receiver would be an > ideal unit to hide away in a closet with an integrated amp or receiver > but is a non-starter since it has no equivalent functionality to IR > blaster. With the requirement to purchase a Global Cache or Sena unit > AND a SB Touch, I start to question whether the cost is worth it. > Replacing the GC-100 or Sena with the SB Touch plus USB to serial > adapter is a big step in the right direction. I think there is a fair amount of interest in these sort of extensions -- Logitech staff have even admitted publicly that omitting IR Blasting capability from Receiver was a mistake. (But I don't know how to reconcile that with Touch repeating the mistake; maybe they're really embarcing Apple's "80%" design mantra.) I've been looking again at Lua coroutine information, and it really looks like it shouldn't be too hard to make it work, at least for DenonSerial -- I just have to overcome the inertia of having not yet written an applet. I think it would also be very cool to offer something for Touch that would turn Touch into a replacement for a Sena LS-100 -- that is, something that would act as a TCP-to-serial bridge and not care what sort of RS232 device was connected; unfortunately it looks like that would need to be a standalone application and not merely a Squeezebox applet, due to the design of the Lua network socket APIs. Since Logitech doesn't include the standard Lua interpreter on Touch, it would need to nbe compiled code, and I've never much liked setting up cross-compiling environments (and have enjoyed taking a break from C and C++ code). Finally, it would be cool to have a 100% applet version of DenonSerial so Touch would retain control over the amp even if using its internal server or MySqueezebox.com. But I haven't been terribly motivated because I don't need those sorts of things myself. -- peterw http://www.tux.org/~peterw/ Free plugins: 'AllQuiet' (http://www.tux.org/~peterw/slim/AllQuiet.html) 'Auto Dim/AutoDisplay' (http://www.tux.org/~peterw/slim/AutoDisplay.html) 'BlankSaver' (http://www.tux.org/~peterw/slim/BlankSaver.html) 'ContextMenu' (http://www.tux.org/~peterw/slim/ContextMenu.html) 'DenonSerial' (http://www.tux.org/~peterw/slim/DenonSerial.html) 'FuzzyTime' (http://www.tux.org/~peterw/slim/FuzzyTime.html) 'KidsPlay' (http://www.tux.org/~peterw/slim/KidsPlay.html) 'KitchenTimer' (http://www.tux.org/~peterw/slim/KitchenTimer.html) 'PlayLog' (http://www.tux.org/~peterw/slim/PlayLog.html) 'PowerCenter/BottleRocket' (http://www.tux.org/~peterw/slim/PowerCenter.html) 'SaverSwitcher' (http://www.tux.org/~peterw/slim/SaverSwitcher.html) 'SettingsManager' (http://www.tux.org/~peterw/slim/SettingsManager.html) 'SleepFade' (http://www.tux.org/~peterw/slim/SleepFade.html) 'StatusFirst' (http://www.tux.org/~peterw/slim/StatusFirst.html) 'SyncOptions' (http://www.tux.org/~peterw/slim/SyncOptions.html) 'VolumeLock' (http://www.tux.org/~peterw/slim/VolumeLock.html) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ peterw's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2107 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=67182 _______________________________________________ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/plugins
