First xPLRioNet with Music Synch Beta v2.2

[Tony Tofts]

Hi all,

Have published beta v2.2 of xplrionet at www.xplhal.com

This is the first release to attempt to synch playing music between units

it uses port 8081 for synch control, this can be changed by adding
synch="1234" (or whatever) to ports list in xplrionet.xml

Can't synch with a Rio that's already playing, but we'll look at joining a
playing stream in the future

The update includes a new rio.bin, so the rio's _must_ be rebooted after
the
update

Still got an issue with booting multiple rio's at the same time, so need to
boot one at a time please

Have gone for a simple form of synching for now, as it has almost no
overheads. Should be sufficient for multi-room synching, but maybe not for
people who want multiple units in the same room (not sure why anyone would
though, but it was tested in this scenario). Will almost certainly need
some
tweaking still, but seems to work fine for me (have tested rio's on
cascaded
hub's/switches too).

There are a few other minor improvements in the update too (rio.htm is
included for those who did not update to v2.1)

There's an updated virtual rio too, which identifies itself to the server
as
a virtual rio as these cannot be synch'd at the moment.

Regards
Tony


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