Re: [SlimDevices: Beta] 7.6 eta

2011-03-04 Thread peterw
ations and marketing. -- 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.ht

Re: [SlimDevices: Beta] Onebrowser and mixers

2011-02-26 Thread peterw
ment a richer context menu model and use that to implement whatever mixers Logitech chooses to ship. Thanks. -- 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/

Re: [SlimDevices: Beta] server dies with all loging

2011-02-23 Thread peterw
menno;613371 Wrote: > > Turned out to be related to the SettingsManager plugin. Seems to have > gotten itself into a loop updating linked preferences. Explains the cpu > usage. Sorry about that. How many players' settings did you have linked? -- peterw http://www.tux.o

Re: [SlimDevices: Beta] Clear presets

2010-10-21 Thread peterw
under /etc. Good hunting, Jim. -- 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/Blan

Re: [SlimDevices: Beta] 7.6 memory usage

2010-08-22 Thread peterw
s to be an empty array? -- 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.

Re: [SlimDevices: Beta] Bugzilla is broken

2010-08-21 Thread peterw
they can't seem to shake the old SlimDevices 7-days-a-week work habits. :-) -Peter -- 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/AutoDi

Re: [SlimDevices: Beta] Home menu customization in 7.6

2010-08-09 Thread peterw
JJZolx;567831 Wrote: > there's no way to promote anything in the Diagnostics menu to the home > menu. Needs to be added. What from Diagnostics do you want on your home menu? -- peterw http://www.tux.org/~peterw/ Free plugins: 'AllQuiet' (http://www.tux.org/~pete

Re: [SlimDevices: Beta] Home menu customization in 7.6

2010-08-05 Thread peterw
tery connector also acts as a serial port that can be used for emergency device updates, but I don't think anyone outside Logitech has working knowledge how to do that, plus it requires a cutom cable, and most new PCs lack any serial ports... -- peterw http://www.tux.org/~peterw/ Free plugins

Re: [SlimDevices: Beta] Home menu customization in 7.6

2010-08-02 Thread peterw
reload the structure at reboot so a 3rd-party app can modify the preference). And if you stored the translated string in the preferences, maybe you could also offer a Rename option so users could further customize without hacking strings.txt files? -- peterw http://www.tux.org/~peterw/ Free

Re: [SlimDevices: Beta] Bug process, unconfirmed bugs ?

2010-08-01 Thread peterw
so perhaps they're so swamped with existing, prioritized bugs that they have no time left to investigate new ones. All the more reason, I fear, for keeping expectations low for bugzilla tickets. -- peterw http://www.tux.org/~peterw/ Free plugins: 'AllQuiet' (http://www.tux.or

Re: [SlimDevices: Beta] Bug process, unconfirmed bugs ?

2010-08-01 Thread peterw
ech's attention. I'll file bugs as I see them, but in the years I've used Squeezeboxes, never before has time spent in bugzilla felt so unrewarding. -- peterw http://www.tux.org/~peterw/ Free plugins: 'AllQuiet' (http://www.tux.org/~peterw/slim/AllQuiet.html) 'A

Re: [SlimDevices: Beta] Home menu customization in 7.6

2010-07-26 Thread peterw
use SCP to get/overwrite userprefs .lua files? -- 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/~

Re: [SlimDevices: Beta] Playlist's showing as empty

2010-07-26 Thread peterw
Do the file paths in your M3U match the SBS Music Library path? For instance, if SBS has "/media/music" as your music library dir but your M3U has paths like "m:/music", SBS won't be smart enough to figure out that "m:/music" == "/media/music" and you

Re: [SlimDevices: Beta] onebrowser branch question..

2010-07-04 Thread peterw
ect? Surely Logitech wouldn't pay you & Alan to work on something that's not on the roadmap...! If it's a spare time project, that's great. -- peterw http://www.tux.org/~peterw/ Free plugins: 'AllQuiet' (http://www.tux.org/~peterw/slim/AllQuiet.html) &

Re: [SlimDevices: Beta] Is 7.5.1 released ?

2010-06-14 Thread peterw
andyg;554785 Wrote: > On Jun 14, 2010, at 7:24 PM, peterw wrote: > > Just music browsing, or is this more like a replacement for INPUT.*? > > No, it's just for all the music library menus. Bummer. Still sounds like an improvement, of course. Thanks for the clarification

Re: [SlimDevices: Beta] Is 7.5.1 released ?

2010-06-14 Thread peterw
to music? -- 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) 'C

Re: [SlimDevices: Beta] Recent WebUI volume control change?

2010-06-11 Thread peterw
Mnyb;554145 Wrote: > > Btw why so few increments to begin with ? it was not so good 10 years > ago either ? But, but, it *goes to eleven!* (You have seen This Is Spinal Tap, right?) -- peterw http://www.tux.org/~peterw/ Free plugins: 'AllQuiet' (http://www.t

Re: [SlimDevices: Beta] Recent WebUI volume control change?

2010-06-10 Thread peterw
Mark Miksis;554004 Wrote: > I think I'd prefer a slider. +1 (pun intended). Slider + +1/-1 louder/softer buttons + click anywhere on the slider to jump to a certain N/100 volume. -- peterw http://www.tux.org/~peterw/ Free plugins: 'AllQuiet' (http://www.tux.org/~peterw/

Re: [SlimDevices: Beta] Does SqueezePlay desktop software work remotely?

2010-06-10 Thread peterw
#x27;t work without password protection, the answer shouldn't be turning off passwords, it should be layer-level security like VPN. -- peterw http://www.tux.org/~peterw/ Free plugins: 'AllQuiet' (http://www.tux.org/~peterw/slim/AllQuiet.html) 'Auto Dim/AutoDisplay&#x

Re: [SlimDevices: Beta] Does SqueezePlay desktop software work remotely?

2010-06-09 Thread peterw
lrossouw;553825 Wrote: > Is your server password protected. I couldn't get it to work with > password protection. This gets worse and worse! -- peterw http://www.tux.org/~peterw/ Free plugins: 'AllQuiet' (http://www.tux.org/~peterw/slim/AllQuiet.html) 'A

Re: [SlimDevices: Beta] Does SqueezePlay desktop software work remotely?

2010-06-09 Thread peterw
tunnels, Jim, have you considered that? -- 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/~peter

Re: [SlimDevices: Beta] Radio not compatible with 7.6.0?

2010-04-30 Thread peterw
by sending UDP packets to the LAN broadcast address -- some users have even been burned by opening udp:3483 to the SBS server's specific IP address but not *broadcast* packets to udp:3483. -- peterw http://www.tux.org/~peterw/ Free plugins: 'AllQuiet' (http://www.tux.org/~peterw

Re: [SlimDevices: Beta] SBS webUI + Firefox 3.6 experiences?

2010-01-21 Thread peterw
s fast, but so what? I care a lot more about the breadth of features my browser offers than any of Chrome's two or three strong points. Maybe that's why I'm a Squeezebox user. :-) -- peterw http://www.tux.org/~peterw/ Free plugins: 'AllQuiet' (http://www.tux.org/~p

Re: [SlimDevices: Beta] SqueezePlay 7.5 binary for x86 Linux

2010-01-17 Thread peterw
lared in the flac-1.2.1 source from Logitech. I've applied Kevin Kofler's PulseAudio patch to the portaudio code from Logitech, still no sound in 9.10. -- peterw http://www.tux.org/~peterw/ Free plugins: 'AllQuiet' (http://www.tux.org/~peterw/slim/AllQuiet.html) '

Re: [SlimDevices: Beta] SqueezePlay 7.5 binary for x86 Linux

2010-01-17 Thread peterw
ly build it on 9.10 and audio only works on 8.04. -- 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:/

Re: [SlimDevices: Beta] SqueezePlay 7.5 binary for x86 Linux

2010-01-17 Thread peterw
ralphy;507534 Wrote: > Have you tried updating the portaudio library source directory to a > newer snapshot? > Yes, I tried both the generic pa snapshot and the v19 snapshot, no luck (on ubuntu 9.10, anyway). Fortunately I personally don't really need audio to work. --

Re: [SlimDevices: Beta] SqueezePlay 7.5 binary for x86 Linux

2010-01-16 Thread peterw
peterw;507311 Wrote: > Thanks, I'll keep looking. Installing Ubuntu's libmad0 and libmad0-dev > (and doing make clean; make to rebuild everything) did not fix playback. > I'd only tried VBR MP3, but I've now also tried playing WAV without > luck. And I'v

Re: [SlimDevices: Beta] SqueezePlay 7.5 binary for x86 Linux

2010-01-16 Thread peterw
ng Ubuntu's libmad0 and libmad0-dev (and doing make clean; make to rebuild everything) did not fix playback. I'd only tried VBR MP3, but I've now also tried playing WAV without luck. And I've tried running SP through aoss, even though I'm pretty sure you're not using O

[SlimDevices: Beta] SqueezePlay 7.5 binary for x86 Linux

2010-01-16 Thread peterw
I've uploaded a compiled SqueezePlay for Linux from the 7.5 "trunk": http://www.tux.org/~peterw/slim/squeezeplay/ I'm providing this because Logitech's daily build process is still having trouble ('7.4' (http://downloads.slimdevices.co

Re: [SlimDevices: Beta] Suggestion for better "touch to play" behavior

2009-12-10 Thread peterw
ard Ben & his colleagues have to work (sorry). I don't care is a few more if/else constructs "bloat" the code. What I do care about is having a product that works the way I want it to. Increasingly it seems that means sticking with Squeezecenter 7.3 and my old Squeezebox Classic p

Re: [SlimDevices: Beta] Suggestion for better "touch to play" behavior

2009-12-09 Thread peterw
the web UI https://bugs.slimdevices.com/show_bug.cgi?id=9702 so that both Logitech and 3rd parties could offer users a lot of control without overwhelming every screen with too many choices. -- peterw http://www.tux.org/~peterw/ Free plugins: 'AllQuiet' (http://www.tux.org/~peterw/slim/AllQuiet.html) &#

Re: [SlimDevices: Beta] 7.5 embedded: default for multiple tag separator

2009-12-05 Thread peterw
gharris999;492656 Wrote: > I'd vote for this. So would I. -- 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&

Re: [SlimDevices: Beta] Suggestion for better "touch to play" behavior

2009-10-15 Thread peterw
changed, a fast single tap on a track item makes it play now (and destroy the playlist). What different action are you suggesting that a double-tap would do? -- peterw http://www.tux.org/~peterw/ free plugins: http://www.tux.org/~peterw/#slim AllQuiet BlankSaver ContextMenu FuzzyTime KidsPla

Re: [SlimDevices: Beta] Suggestion for better "touch to play" behavior

2009-10-14 Thread peterw
useful", it makes it more likely that I'll foul up my playlist on a "new" player since the new player IR UI has the awful right=play behavior. "Less useful" would be an improvement. -- peterw http://www.tux.org/~peterw/ free plugins: http://www.tux.org/~peterw/#slim

Re: [SlimDevices: Beta] Suggestion for better "touch to play" behavior

2009-10-13 Thread peterw
trying to do as little work as possible on the old, pre-SqueezePlay players, and the maddening UI inconsistency is a result of that decision. Oh, Sue, I like your suggestion. :-) -- peterw http://www.tux.org/~peterw/ free plugins: http://www.tux.org/~peterw/#slim AllQuiet BlankSaver Conte

Re: [SlimDevices: Beta] Don't think I like the 7.4 button semantics

2009-10-02 Thread peterw
the current playlist. Since My Boom/SB2/SB3 players still have right=info, it's very easy to get confused in SBS 7.4.) -- peterw http://www.tux.org/~peterw/ free plugins: http://www.tux.org/~peterw/#slim AllQuiet BlankSaver ContextMenu FuzzyTime KidsPlay KitchenTimer PlayLog PowerCenter/Bot

Re: [SlimDevices: Beta] Don't think I like the 7.4 button semantics

2009-10-01 Thread peterw
ogitech's new UI paradigm: increase the ratio of buttons to actions. Why have one play button when you can have two? Why one way to get a context menu when you can have two? Yes, I'm being sarcastic. I'm glad I have a local server and can stick with 7.3 until/unless this gets sorted out.

Re: [SlimDevices: Beta] Users of pre-release 7.4.0 builds: pleaseupdate to the official 7.4.0 release

2009-09-30 Thread peterw
Maybe you should use DNS and server config to make the old "test" server name resolve to the new prod server. Make "test2" if you still need a test server. -- peterw http://www.tux.org/~peterw/ free plugins: http://www.tux.org/~peterw/#slim AllQuiet BlankSaver ContextMen

Re: [SlimDevices: Beta] 7.4 appearance on controllers - dull and ugly?

2009-09-19 Thread peterw
so the image resources would be valuable. Ideally Logitech would release all past, present, and future screensavers under BSD, Apache, etc. :-) -- peterw http://www.tux.org/~peterw/ free plugins: http://www.tux.org/~peterw/#slim AllQuiet BlankSaver ContextMenu FuzzyTime KidsPlay KitchenTim

Re: [SlimDevices: Beta] 7.4 appearance on controllers - dull and ugly?

2009-09-19 Thread peterw
o, somebody could port to 7.4 and release as a 3rd party applet. -- peterw http://www.tux.org/~peterw/ free plugins: http://www.tux.org/~peterw/#slim AllQuiet BlankSaver ContextMenu FuzzyTime KidsPlay KitchenTimer PlayLog PowerCenter/BottleRocket SaverSwitcher SettingsManager SleepFade

Re: [SlimDevices: Beta] Don't think I like the 7.4 button semantics

2009-09-18 Thread peterw
bout SqueezePlay, right, so Code: Tap + (add.single) Hold + (add.hold) Touch/Radio Open context menu Add to end of playlist Boom/ClassicAdd to playlist Insert after current track -- peterw http://www.tux.o

Re: [SlimDevices: Beta] Don't think I like the 7.4 button semantics

2009-09-18 Thread peterw
; can override specific buttons, right? CM shouldn't break mode/windows that remap buttons. Currently CM only registers for arrow_right.hold. IIRC, it won't even do that for modes that use arrow_right.hold (I don't think even any 3rd party code does). So your remapping of + isn'

Re: [SlimDevices: Beta] Don't think I like the 7.4 button semantics

2009-09-17 Thread peterw
having ContextMenu hijack "+"/Add would help minimize the differences and make it easier to incorporate new gear or slowly migrate to a "colony" of SqueezePlay-based devices. -- peterw http://www.tux.org/~peterw/ free plugins: http://www.tux.org/~peterw/#slim A

Re: [SlimDevices: Beta] Don't think I like the 7.4 button semantics

2009-09-17 Thread peterw
not available in the core context menu code in 7.4. ;-) -- peterw http://www.tux.org/~peterw/ free plugins: http://www.tux.org/~peterw/#slim AllQuiet BlankSaver ContextMenu FuzzyTime KidsPlay KitchenTimer PlayLog PowerCenter/BottleRocket SaverSwitcher SettingsManager SleepF

Re: [SlimDevices: Beta] Don't think I like the 7.4 button semantics

2009-09-17 Thread peterw
tap "+" for some stuff and hold Enter for others, and have to remember which is which, it sounds messy. Shortcut to a search function? Text entry on the Controller? Are you kidding me??? The Controller is a nice piece of hardware, but not for searching, not for anything that requires a

Re: [SlimDevices: Beta] Don't think I like the 7.4 button semantics

2009-09-13 Thread peterw
icon, not even a ">" character, on the line with a track listing. On Touch, Arrow Right on a track = Play (and as noted Logitech says it will not change that decision), but on Classic, Arrow Right on a track still means Navigate. Same remote control, similar visual display, different behavior.

Re: [SlimDevices: Beta] Don't think I like the 7.4 button semantics

2009-09-13 Thread peterw
MeSue;457908 Wrote: > It would be easier to get used to if there was a clear indicator in the > UI when a button press was going to trigger the play action. +1 on that suggestion. -- peterw http://www.tux.org/~peterw/ free plugins: http://www.tux.org/~peterw/#slim AllQuiet Blan

Re: [SlimDevices: Beta] Don't think I like the 7.4 button semantics

2009-09-13 Thread peterw
quot;More" button. Hopefully this means that it will always be "safe" to tap "+" to get more options, and we'll all learn when we need to use "+". -Peter -- peterw http://www.tux.org/~peterw/ free plugins: http://www.tux.org/~peterw/#slim AllQuiet BlankSa

Re: [SlimDevices: Beta] New MySqueezebox.com (test.squeezenetwork.com) site layout

2009-09-04 Thread peterw
very, very few netbooks have screens wider than 1024. The latest crop are actually smaller: 1024x600 used to be the norm, but now some major vendors are shipping 1024x576. And netbook sales are on the rise: http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/08/31/report-netbooks-now-a-fifth-of-all-portable-computer-

Re: [SlimDevices: Beta] changes to internetradio without good reason ?

2009-08-31 Thread peterw
27;s exactly what we need. -- peterw http://www.tux.org/~peterw/ free plugins: http://www.tux.org/~peterw/#slim AllQuiet BlankSaver ContextMenu FuzzyTime KidsPlay KitchenTimer PlayLog PowerCenter/BottleRocket SaverSwitcher SettingsManager SleepFade StatusFirst Sy

Re: [SlimDevices: Beta] Bizzare setup procedure with new SBC FW ? should i file a bug

2009-08-25 Thread peterw
x27;s tradition of changing names combined with Microsoft's changes in directory structure has made it increasingly difficult for users to know where any files or directories reside. -- peterw http://www.tux.org/~peterw/ free plugins: http://www.tux.org/~peterw/#slim AllQuiet BlankSaver C

Re: [SlimDevices: Beta] Radio station doesn't auto-resume when internetconnection temporarily lost

2009-06-28 Thread peterw
is. IMO, you should keep improving the problem Philip describes with Internet Radio, and completely rewrite the podcast support so Squeezecenter behaves more like most other podcast clients. -- peterw http://www.tux.org/~peterw/ free plugins: http://www.tux.org/~peterw/#slim AllQuiet BlankSa

Re: [SlimDevices: Beta] SBServer nomenclature question..

2009-06-14 Thread peterw
"system running Squeezebox Server" or "computer running Squeezebox Server" -- peterw http://www.tux.org/~peterw/ free plugins: http://www.tux.org/~peterw/#slim AllQuiet BlankSaver ContextMenu FuzzyTime KidsPlay KitchenTimer PlayLog PowerCenter/BottleRocket SaverSwit

Re: [SlimDevices: Beta] LOL! It's "Squeezebox Server" now? Should have just called it "Bing Server"

2009-06-08 Thread peterw
comments there that even I find useful. Linux users seem more likely to hit the web UI (even if you get the wx stuff working, you have to figure out different distros' ways of configuring what goes in the normal menu hierarchies, right?), but I think the stuff I suggested in bug #9702 would

Re: [SlimDevices: Beta] LOL! It's "Squeezebox Server" now? Should have just called it "Bing Server"

2009-06-07 Thread peterw
m back in as we find time and see fit." Could you say more? Are there some design documents you could share? What's the timeframe for this work? Thanks. -- peterw http://www.tux.org/~peterw/ free plugins: http://www.tux.org/~peterw/#slim AllQuiet BlankSaver ContextMenu Fuzzy

Re: [SlimDevices: Beta] LOL! It's "Squeezebox Server" now? Should have just called it "Bing Server"

2009-06-07 Thread peterw
For many users, SquuzeCenter means the web interface. It would be nice to give the web ui a clear, distinct moniker somehow. Esp. since with TinySC/--no-web there is no web ui. -- peterw http://www.tux.org/~peterw/ free plugins: http://www.tux.org/~peterw/#slim AllQuiet BlankSaver ContextMenu

Re: [SlimDevices: Beta] Latest 7.4 - deprecated messages

2009-05-28 Thread peterw
Yeah, but from what Andy's written, it sure sounds like sqlite/noweb will be the official 7.4 release. :-/ -- peterw http://www.tux.org/~peterw/ free plugins: http://www.tux.org/~peterw/#slim AllQuiet BlankSaver ContextMenu FuzzyTime KidsPlay KitchenTimer PlayLog PowerCenter/BottleR

Re: [SlimDevices: Beta] miss a master volume on the controller to all my clients at once

2009-05-26 Thread peterw
How should this work? Two SB3s. Player A is at 20. Player B is at 50. If A jumps to 40, does B go all the way to 100 (double)? Increase 10 dB to 70? Attenuation cut 25% to volume 62? -- peterw http://www.tux.org/~peterw/ free plugins: http://www.tux.org/~peterw/#slim AllQuiet BlankSaver

Re: [SlimDevices: Beta] Merging "Plugins" and "Extension Downloader" tabs ?

2009-05-25 Thread peterw
now, that you're joking, right? -- peterw http://www.tux.org/~peterw/ free plugins: http://www.tux.org/~peterw/#slim AllQuiet BlankSaver ContextMenu FuzzyTime KidsPlay KitchenTimer PlayLog PowerCenter/BottleRocket SaverSwitcher SettingsManager SleepFade

Re: [SlimDevices: Beta] Merging "Plugins" and "Extension Downloader" tabs ?

2009-05-23 Thread peterw
use PluginBuilder at all b/c I dislike how the internal .par it builds makes it more difficult for others to read my source. -- peterw http://www.tux.org/~peterw/ free plugins: http://www.tux.org/~peterw/#slim AllQuiet BlankSaver ContextMenu FuzzyTime KidsPlay KitchenTimer PlayLog PowerCenter/Bot

Re: [SlimDevices: Beta] New scanner performance - not bad, not great

2009-05-16 Thread peterw
expect a desktop os w/ gobs of ram would perform better w/ mysql having large caches than sqlite relying on dumb os filesystem buffers. -- peterw http://www.tux.org/~peterw/ free plugins: http://www.tux.org/~peterw/#slim AllQuiet BlankSaver ContextMenu FuzzyTime KidsPlay KitchenTimer PlayLo

[SlimDevices: Beta] where's the new scanner C code?

2009-05-14 Thread peterw
est of SqueezeCenter, right? -- peterw http://www.tux.org/~peterw/ free plugins: http://www.tux.org/~peterw/#slim AllQuiet BlankSaver ContextMenu FuzzyTime KidsPlay KitchenTimer PlayLog PowerCenter/BottleRocket SaverSwitcher SettingsManager SleepFade StatusFirst Sy

Re: [SlimDevices: Beta] 7.4 nightlies - important info

2009-05-14 Thread peterw
andyg;423304 Wrote: > We are moving the 7.4 nightly builds to the bleeding edge code from > the noweb-sqlite branch tonight. That's http://svn.slimdevices.com/repos/slim/7.4/branches/noweb-sqlite/ right? -- peterw http://www.tux.org/~peterw/ free plugins: http://www.tux.org/~p

Re: [SlimDevices: Beta] IMPORTANT - Automatic download of SC updates(7.4)

2009-04-15 Thread peterw
e it smarter. Make a SqueezeCenterUpdates directory. After sucessfully downloading a new version, remove any older versions in that folder. -- peterw http://www.tux.org/~peterw/ free plugins: http://www.tux.org/~peterw/#slim AllQuiet BlankSaver ContextMenu FuzzyTime KidsPlay KitchenTimer P

Re: [SlimDevices: Beta] Errors in server log during startup with today's SC 7.4

2009-03-15 Thread peterw
which are being used by this plugin. (please see the > "Strings > loss ahead" or similar thread in the devs forum). Please let peterw > know > about it. Thanks, I'll fix this shortly -- SM really ought to use a different method in Strings.pm to avoid this noise. Meanwhi

Re: [SlimDevices: Beta] Kitchen timer plugin problem with latest SC 7.4

2009-03-06 Thread peterw
dates to my "test" repo. I'll promote them to my live repo in a day or two if they work OK in my system. -- peterw http://www.tux.org/~peterw/ free plugins: http://www.tux.org/~peterw/#slim AllQuiet BlankSaver ContextMenu FuzzyTime KidsPlay KitchenTimer PlayLog PowerCenter/

Re: [SlimDevices: Beta] Playlist Mode - Party Mode

2008-11-18 Thread peterw
fferent behavior for select.single and select.hold. select.single asks if I want to replace the playlist, or do nothing. I have to press select.hold to get a selectable "Playlist" item which then offers the full list of choices. This is clunkier than it should be, but the basic idea that

Re: [SlimDevices: Beta] Playlist Mode - Party Mode

2008-11-17 Thread peterw
usual settings locations in the normal UIs. If you want to tell power users how they can tweak the button mappings, fine. But please don't make the remote control behavior more complex! -- peterw http://www.tux.org/~peterw/ free plugins: http://www.tux.org/~peterw/#slim AllQuiet Blan

Re: [SlimDevices: Beta] Playlist Mode - Party Mode

2008-11-16 Thread peterw
ndle this? -- peterw http://www.tux.org/~peterw/ free plugins: http://www.tux.org/~peterw/#slim AllQuiet BlankSaver ContextMenu FuzzyTime KitchenTimer PlayLog PowerCenter/BottleRocket SaverSwitcher SettingsManager SleepFade StatusFirst SyncOptions V

Re: [SlimDevices: Beta] More API changes before official 7.3 release ?

2008-10-22 Thread peterw
to load a plugin where maxVersion was OK but maxSupportedVersion was not, it could offer a checkbox and warning in the web plugins page to force loading that plugin on the next restart of SC. Casual users probably wouldn't see & use the checkbox, reducing support headaches. -- peterw http:/

Re: [SlimDevices: Beta] Any plans for new Sync user interface(s)?

2008-10-19 Thread peterw
ved playlists have names like "SyncOptions-Player Name-00_04_20_11_22_33"). I've only tested simple scenarios, and only on SC 7.2; please let me know if you see any problems. http://www.tux.org/~peterw/slim/SyncOptions.html -Peter -- peterw http://www.tux.org/~peterw/ free plug

Re: [SlimDevices: Beta] Any plans for new Sync user interface(s)?

2008-10-19 Thread peterw
rather sarcastic & insulting. Frankly, I think this is tricky business, as evidenced by the wide range of opinions and degree of interest expressed by many customers. -- peterw http://www.tux.org/~peterw/ free plugins: http://www.tux.org/~peterw/#slim AllQuiet BlankSaver ContextMenu Fuzzy

Re: [SlimDevices: Beta] Any plans for new Sync user interface(s)?

2008-10-19 Thread peterw
e. Jonnio, I really like the idea of saving a player's playlist so it could be restored when the player drops out of a sync group/creates its own zone. That may well be something I could add to SyncOptions if it didn't make it as a core function. -- peterw http://www.tux.org/~p

Re: [SlimDevices: Beta] Cleanup script

2008-10-14 Thread peterw
Fletch;349487 Wrote: > Why can't you use the playlist dir? Great idea. That seems to work fine, so, yeah, I'll just move my playLOGs to the playLISTs dir. :-) -Peter -- peterw http://www.tux.org/~peterw/ free plugins: http://www.tux.org/~peterw/#slim AllQuiet BlankSave

Re: [SlimDevices: Beta] Cleanup script

2008-10-13 Thread peterw
when something's *very* broken. But from my perspective it'd be nice if it were less aggressive. Perhaps another option would be making another directory for plugins' use? -- peterw http://www.tux.org/~peterw/ free plugins: http://www.tux.org/~peterw/#slim AllQuiet BlankSaver Conte

Re: [SlimDevices: Beta] Any plans for new Sync user interface(s)?

2008-10-06 Thread peterw
named sync groups, but that could get cumbersome. I "only" have 6 players, but that's dozens of possible sync group combinations. Let's say I have a 2-player "main level" zone -- how would I decide which player should be the "master" (whose current playl

Re: [SlimDevices: Beta] Any plans for new Sync user interface(s)?

2008-10-05 Thread peterw
start listening in Room A, walk to Room B, decide I want to have both play what Room A is streaming; 2: Room A and Room B synced. I'm in Room B. The phone rings. I want Room B to drop out of the sync group so I can talk, but don't disrupt the music someone else may be listening to in Room

Re: [SlimDevices: Beta] Plugins 'broken'

2008-08-29 Thread peterw
Michael released a new version of MusicInfoScr in the last few weeks that fixes that text layout problem. I can't comment on WDT, as I don't use that plugin. -- peterw http://www.tux.org/~peterw/ free plugins: http://www.tux.org/~peterw/#slim AllQuiet BlankSaver ContextMenu FuzzyTi

Re: [SlimDevices: Beta] SB3 - FW97 - Analogue volume fixed?

2008-07-11 Thread peterw
nt to have the different squeezebox2_N.bin in the Firmware directory, have squeezebox2.version only suggest the old version and use brightness on the "split" player to downgrade it. -- peterw http://www.tux.org/~peterw/ free plugins: http://www.tux.org/~peterw/#slim AllQuie

Re: [SlimDevices: Beta] Very small 7.1 web ui enhancement request

2008-06-23 Thread peterw
did find some sites that outline what cursor values are supported by which browsers, but don't have the URLs handy. -- peterw http://www.tux.org/~peterw/ free plugins: http://www.tux.org/~peterw/#slim AllQuiet BlankSaver FuzzyTime PlayLog PowerCenter/BottleRocket SaverSwitcher SettingsMan

Re: [SlimDevices: Beta] Very small 7.1 web ui enhancement request

2008-06-22 Thread peterw
Thanks for the idea -- I stole that for a couple small improvements to PlayLog. The AJAX Play/Add links are sooo much nicer now that I get the wait spinny cursor. :-) -- peterw http://www.tux.org/~peterw/ free plugins: http://www.tux.org/~peterw/#slim AllQuiet BlankSaver FuzzyTime PlayLog

Re: [SlimDevices: Beta] SB3 press and hold left

2008-05-11 Thread peterw
You can easily get to the top level with Now Playing or Browse + a short Left. Holding Left is likely to drop users to the setup screen. So why would we ever try to map arrow_left.hold (or power.hold or brightness.hold) to anything? Thanks, Peter -- peterw http://www.tux.org/~peterw/ free

Re: [SlimDevices: Beta] SC7 comment

2008-02-28 Thread peterw
000/settings.html?p0=rescan;cauth=fa8cff2e0c26ab8256b067840d21fdb0 Bookmark that second, longer URL. This is documented in the Technical Information area. -Peter -- peterw http://www.tux.org/~peterw/ free plugins: http://www.tux.org/~peterw/#slim AllQuiet BlankSaver FuzzyTime PowerCenter/BottleRocket Sa

Re: [SlimDevices: Beta] Favorite key numbers

2008-02-22 Thread peterw
Phil Meyer;272147 Wrote: > I have added a comment to bug 6973, but I can't reopen it (no permission > to do that?). > Apparently I can. :-) -- peterw http://www.tux.org/~peterw/ free plugins: http://www.tux.org/~peterw/#slim AllQuiet BlankSaver FuzzyTime PowerCente

Re: [SlimDevices: Beta] Favorite key numbers

2008-02-22 Thread peterw
mber > when a favorite is created, but not changed when the favorite is moved. > Either approach sounds great to me. Since not all items that can be Favorites are really playable with N.hold, I think it's probably best to make N.hold asignments manually, and only allow mappings that would

Re: [SlimDevices: Beta] Favorite key numbers

2008-02-22 Thread peterw
, displaying the hoykey associations in the web UI is helpful for those of us who do use N.hold. It both helps us remember the assignments, and give us a visual reminder of the affect that re-arranging the order in the web UI will have on N.hold. -- peterw http://www.tux.org/~peterw/ fre

Re: [SlimDevices: Beta] Favorite key numbers

2008-02-21 Thread peterw
yed subtly in the web UI (tooltips?) or presented in a differnt place (a Hotkeys menu that's only displayed if there's at least one player with a VFD attached?), but it ought to be there. -- peterw http://www.tux.org/~peterw/ free plugins: http://www.tux.org/~peterw/#slim AllQuiet Bla

Re: [SlimDevices: Beta] Favorite key numbers

2008-02-20 Thread peterw
in the contacts > list, rather than the first 10 numbers in the list. > My phone defaults to using the next available slot. Actually that does bring up a good point. If I have 5 favorites and delete the 3rd, it might be nice if, like my cell phone, that wouldn't affect favorites

Re: [SlimDevices: Beta] offsaver/time not updating?

2008-02-16 Thread peterw
averSwitcher release for SC7 that omits the mode stack code that caused trouble. http://www.tux.org/~peterw/slim/slim7/SaverSwitcher/ -Peter -- peterw http://www.tux.org/~peterw/ free plugins: http://www.tux.org/~peterw/#slim AllQuiet BlankSaver BottleRocket FuzzyTime SaverSwitcher SleepFade

[SlimDevices: Beta] offsaver/time not updating?

2008-02-15 Thread peterw
.Lately (last week or so), sometimes I notice the clock on a sb3 getting 'stuck'. Not always the same sb3,and I have only seen one stick at a time. Anyone else? -- peterw http://www.tux.org/~peterw/ free plugins: http://www.tux.org/~peterw/#slim AllQuiet BlankSaver BottleRocket

Re: [SlimDevices: Beta] MusicInfoScr settings for Receiver?

2008-02-10 Thread peterw
} Another item to add to my SC7 todo list, perhaps, as I guess FuzzyTime settings for an SBR don't make much sense. -Peter -- peterw http://www.tux.org/~peterw/ free plugins: http://www.tux.org/~peterw/#slim AllQuiet BlankSaver BottleRocket FuzzyTime SaverSwitche

[SlimDevices: Beta] upgrade to SC7: did you lose your Favorites?

2008-01-28 Thread peterw
Favorites. Did anybody else see this? -- peterw http://www.tux.org/~peterw/ free plugins: http://www.tux.org/~peterw/#slim AllQuiet BlankSaver BottleRocket FuzzyTime SaverSwitcher SleepFade StatusFirst SyncOptions VolumeLock ---

[SlimDevices: Beta] tracking down obscene memory leak in SC7?

2008-01-23 Thread peterw
erDateTime SyncOptions TimeSpeller VolumeLock -- peterw http://www.tux.org/~peterw/ free plugins: http://www.tux.org/~peterw/#slim AllQuiet BlankSaver BottleRocket FuzzyTime SaverSwitcher SleepFade StatusFirst SyncOptions VolumeLock --

Re: [SlimDevices: Beta] Password for External Connections Only?

2008-01-16 Thread peterw
number of vulnerabities even with password protection enabled, and I haven't seen any real evidence of any attackers exploiting the vulnerabilities. -Peter -- peterw http://www.tux.org/~peterw/ free plugins: http://www.tux.org/~peterw/#slim AllQuiet BlankSaver BottleRocket FuzzyTime SaverS

[SlimDevices: Beta] should ${model}.version files be cached like JHB firmware?

2008-01-03 Thread peterw
swear by Firmware 15 (or whatever), or users who don't want SC7 phoning home for privacy reasons, to keep pegging their players at that old firmware level. Thoughts? -Peter -- peterw http://www.tux.org/~peterw/ free plugins: http://www.tux.org/~peterw/#slim AllQuiet BlankSaver BottleRocke

Re: [SlimDevices: Beta] SlimServer 7 sync updates

2007-12-09 Thread peterw
ms. Personally, I'm not concerned about gapless syncing. Thanks for all the work you've done on this! -Peter -- peterw http://www.tux.org/~peterw/ free plugins: http://www.tux.org/~peterw/#slim AllQuiet BlankSaver BottleRocket FuzzyTime SaverSwitcher SleepFad

Re: [SlimDevices: Beta] SC Web Interface cookies classed as "Tracking"

2007-11-04 Thread peterw
ou try to > contact its support? > Find out how Spy Sweeper decides a cookie is "tracking". It might only take a simple code change in SqueezeCenter -- like adding a P3P response header -- to appease Spy Sweeper and similar apps. -Peter -- peterw http://www.tux.org/~peterw/ free

Re: [SlimDevices: Beta] New Default skin

2007-10-11 Thread peterw
m, I still have a big cover image and have to scroll the left/browse pane to see the song list. -Peter -- peterw http://www.tux.org/~peterw/ free plugins: http://www.tux.org/~peterw/#slim AllQuiet BlankSaver BottleRocket FuzzyTime SaverSwitcher Sleep

Re: [SlimDevices: Beta] New Default skin

2007-10-11 Thread peterw
splay cover art. Thanks, Peter -- peterw http://www.tux.org/~peterw/ free plugins: http://www.tux.org/~peterw/#slim AllQuiet BlankSaver BottleRocket FuzzyTime SaverSwitcher SleepFade StatusFirst VolumeLock peterw&

Re: [SlimDevices: Beta] New Default skin

2007-09-20 Thread peterw
sibly) competing for screenspace. "display:none" > does not use placeholders. Yes, you've got it! At 13138, the wizard's working fine with all my regular extensions enabled, etc. Cross that one off your list. :-) -- peterw http://www.tux.org/~peterw/ free plugins: http://www

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