VMat wrote: > Hey Greg, thanks for replying. > > I already expanded the second partition, it's a 4GB card, so there's > plenty of space (I guess). I'm running piCorePlayer 1.18b. > > I added an LCD to the RPi and I'm controlling it via GPIO. It's working, > but it has some drawbacks. I have borrowed the code from a python script > I found in one of the forums, not sure which... and it keeps polling the > server to detect any changes in track names, artists, albums, or elapsed > time. The polling routine takes about 0.3s, and there's always an extra > delay when changing tracks. I need to poll the server every second to > have the elapsed time correctly displayed, and that puts some > unnecessary/undesirable load on the server too. It's not really bad now, > but I'd like to try something better. So I'd like to sniff on the TCP > packets there are coming from the server and get the changes from there, > instead of polling the server all the time. That's why I'm trying to > install RPIO, which extends GPIO and adds the TCP callbacks that I'm > interested in. > > I also added a couple of buttons and I'm using the input callbacks in > GPIO to have them do things. No problem with that. In the end, if I have > enough IO pins left, I'll add a few leds and a dimmer for the LCD. > > Thanks, > > VMat
Hi VMat, Nice project! It seems you have it under control. Please keep us informed. regards Greg ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Greg Erskine's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=7403 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=97803 _______________________________________________ unix mailing list unix@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/unix
