Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] LInux client (controller) currently maintained

2022-11-18 Thread brainchild
cpd73 wrote: > Just published a very early 0.0.1 release - see > https://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?117099-Announce-Melodeon > for announcement. That's great, and while saying so probably seems to be beating a dead horse, I appreciate the publishing of the Debian package. -

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] LInux client (controller) currently maintained

2022-11-18 Thread brainchild
RobbH wrote: > But that approach made for a misguided and unhelpful response to you. > What was needed was simply to read what you wrote and refrain from > inferring anything. This exchange has been a good reminder that that > should always be an option. > Yes, quite right. Even a slight impro

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] LInux client (controller) currently maintained

2022-11-17 Thread brainchild
cpd73 wrote: > What makes you think Electron is any more generic than Qt? It's fine. I wasn't being critical. I think I probably have tied Qt more closely than is accurate to KDE, due to a historical association. brainc

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] LInux client (controller) currently maintained

2022-11-17 Thread brainchild
RobbH wrote: > Guilty as charged! I thought I had inferred what you wanted and found a > way you might achieve that. My inference was wrong and I apologize. Perhaps my enthusiasm about expressing a solution I considered as an ideal, and one which I think others might also share in principle, wh

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] LInux client (controller) currently maintained

2022-11-17 Thread brainchild
cpd73 wrote: > The "qwebappwrapper" is working (barring any bugs), and you can (and I > already do) use this to access LMS. The newer app takes this one step > further, makes it LMS specific, and adds features such as auto-discover > of LMS and MPRIS (so that player controls, etc, are shown in P

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] LInux client (controller) currently maintained

2022-11-17 Thread brainchild
cpd73 wrote: > As previously stated I have already written a Qt-based wrapper - this > was to allow any page to be installed as a web-app. Now grated this > means creating a .desktop file, but that is fairly easy (and an example > LMS .desktop file is provided). Although not Electron based speci

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] LInux client (controller) currently maintained

2022-11-16 Thread brainchild
RobbH wrote: > There have already been some misunderstandings in this thread, and I > think we now have another one. I cannot speak for others who have posted > suggestions, but when I posted the directions for manually installing > SqueezePlay, I was under the mistaken impression that you wante

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] LInux client (controller) currently maintained

2022-11-11 Thread brainchild
manx wrote: > Nativefier (github.com/nativefier/nativefier) is a little open source > program which allows you to turn any website/URL into an app with native > integration. It uses Electron/Chromium and provides many options. It's > easy to use. > WebCatalog (webcatalog.io) is even easier to us

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] LInux client (controller) currently maintained

2022-11-06 Thread brainchild
Thank you for the responses. I understand that Material Skin is a single-page web application that may be served from LMS or stored on a client. For a cleaner style, it may be preferred to load it from an application that operates as a standalone wrapper. In principle, the application might be p

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] LInux client (controller) currently maintained

2022-10-18 Thread brainchild
slartibartfast wrote: > Which Windows desktop front end are you referring to? So many different variations of the theme have crossed my path that I can't keep it all straight anymore. brainchild's Profile: http://forums.

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] LInux client (controller) currently maintained

2022-10-18 Thread brainchild
RobbH wrote: > Where was this mentioned? I do not find any mention of Material Design > in this thread, before your post. (I searched for the word "design" in > this thread and your recent post was the only thing that came up.) Seems I wrote -Material Design-, instead of -Material Skin-.

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] LInux client (controller) currently maintained

2022-10-18 Thread brainchild
Someone mentioned that -Material Design- is a web page that may be run without a browser or even an Electron shell. I would like to understand this better. brainchild's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?use

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] LInux client (controller) currently maintained

2022-10-16 Thread brainchild
Greg Erskine wrote: > hi brainchild, > For control on any computer with a browser I would use the LMS GUI with > the "material" skin plugin. > To be clear, "LMS GUI" refers to the web page that is served by LMS when a browser requests from the machine on whic

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] LInux client (controller) currently maintained

2022-10-16 Thread brainchild
Man in a van wrote: > I'm a bit slow sometimes, but why can you not use the LMS web interface > ? Of course I can use it. I am just asking whether a native alternative is available, for Linux, as there has been for Windows and MacOS, that remains well maintained and easy to install. Man in a

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] LInux client (controller) currently maintained

2022-10-16 Thread brainchild
kidstypike wrote: > Good luck finding that for which you seek, with an attitude like yours > you'll need it. I am only trying to understand what is currently available. I have preferences and constraints just as everyone else. There is no need for you to invoke a judgmental tone.

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] LInux client (controller) currently maintained

2022-10-16 Thread brainchild
sodface wrote: > There may be a package available for the distro he's running, but unless > I missed it, he hasn't provided that info. I am running Linux Mint 21 on an x86 laptop. What I have come to understand is that Jivelite is targeted for a player device such as a RPi running piCorePlaye

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] LInux client (controller) currently maintained

2022-10-16 Thread brainchild
Paul Webster wrote: > Jivelite > https://sourceforge.net/projects/lmsclients/files/jivelite/ Yes, I found the download location on SourceForge. There is one file for download in the Linux folder. It is called `jivelite-0.1-20170220gitde9ea58-fbdev-armv6hf.tar.gz`, indicating that it is target

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] LInux client (controller) currently maintained

2022-10-16 Thread brainchild
Paul Webster wrote: > Jivelite / Squeezeplay can be run on Linux desktops. Would you please help me understand the overall scenario by naming an application I would run on a Linux desktop? brainchild's Profile: http://fo

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] LInux client (controller) currently maintained

2022-10-16 Thread brainchild
cpd73 wrote: > I know you seem to be explicitly asking for a native app, but I use > Material Skin as a web-app on my KDE/Plasma desktop. I believe what you are describing is largely the same as I have done in the past for some applications using the Webapp Manager, available in Linux Mint. Ho

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] LInux client (controller) currently maintained

2022-10-16 Thread brainchild
HB64 wrote: > That's what jivelite does. We are not understanding each other. I am looking for an application that runs on a Linux desktop or laptop. Jivelite runs on a player device. How would it help with my request? ---

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] LInux client (controller) currently maintained

2022-10-15 Thread brainchild
sodface wrote: > What about 'jivelite?' (https://github.com/ralph-irving/jivelite) Thanks for the response. It's not clear what this application does, but when I mentioned a Linux controller, I had in mind an application to run on a Linux desktop or laptop, to connect to the player or the medi

[SlimDevices: Unix] LInux client (controller) currently maintained

2022-10-15 Thread brainchild
For controlling the piCorePlayer from a Linux desktop client, is any software currently maintained, or is the web interface to the Media Server the only feasible option? I see some very old discussions on this topic, and I am seeking up-to-date information.