Re: Dell Rio/Sonic blue support - xAP your Rio.

[James Traynor]

Patrick,

I have noticed that my rio when it has finished playing outputs a
message: (from memory just closed viewer)

transport.info
{
power=on
mode=play
}
track.info
{
title=
artist=
elapsed=0.00
}

Could it in this state have :

mode=stop
&
elapsed=

set instead? Seems more logical and looks nicer in Desktop!

James

Patrick Lidstone (Personal E-mail) wrote:
> Primarily motivated by my obsession with muting music when I get an
> incoming call on the asterisk phone switch, I finally got round to
> dusting off the Dell Rio's this weekend and setting up the development
> environment. xAP enabling has given them a new lease of life! The
first
> cut of the results can be had from:
>
> <a href="http://patrick.lidstone.net/xapbin/my.arf";>http://patrick.lidstone.net/xapbin/my.arf</a>
>
> To install:
>
> - Download my.arf
> - Locate either receiver.arf or mercury.arf within your Dell RIO or
> jreceiver server set up
> - Copy the receiver.arf/mercury.arf to some where safe so you can
> recover later if need be
> - Stop the Dell server software
> - Put my.arf in its place, renaming it to receiver.arf/mercury.arf
> - Restart the Dell server software
> - Reboot the RIOs by pulling the power plug out, waiting 10s and then
> plugging them back in.
>
> If all goes well you should see the Rioplay splash screen. You rio has
> now been xAPped! :-) My dell server software is certainly a bit
> temperamental, it can take a couple of go's for it to pull the image
> down correctly.
>
> What you get:
>
> * Simple web gui, with transport controls, music player status info,
xap
> config data and event log. Go to the web page to set the UID and
> instance name.
>
> * Support for Whole House Audio transport and audio control/events via
> xAP - this is pretty much complete I think. These schema documented on
> xapautomation.org and xapframework.org websites.
>
> * Support for variable duration on-screen display (5 lines x 35 odd
> characters!)
>
> * Support for infra-red "drop through" - if you press a key
which isn't
> consumed locally, it's broadcast as an IR event.
>
> * No support for playlists yet, I'll tackle that next.
>
> Still to come:
>
> * Integration of a decision engine.
> * Notification icons in response to xAP messages.
>
> Known issues:
> * There seems to be a software issue with turning the units
off/putting
> the units in standby(!)
> * Line-out volume is fixed (it doesn't track the volume control, in
the
> same way off-the-shelf rios didn't. I will look into this, but
technical
> info is scant.)
> * Not all browsers render the webpages correctly.
> * Pause doesn't work (this is a feature of the original Rioplay code,
> and I'll fix it in due course).
>
> Bug reports and feature requests gratefully received.
>
> Patrick
>
>
>
>
> Yahoo! Groups Links
>
>
>
>
>
>