[mythtv] SlimServer integration ?

stuart stuart at xnet.com
Wed Sep 3 14:10:55 UTC 2008


(Resurrecting a really old thread)

Erland Isaksson wrote:
> Hi
> 
> Has someone done any work on a plugin which integrates with SlimServer ?

Wow, I didn't know anyone was talking about this over here in mythtTV 
land (I'm from mvpmc.org land).  You might find this interesting:

http://sourceforge.net/projects/mythsqueezebox/

...however, I haven't been able to successfully install it.  And, I 
haven't heard back from the author (although it's only been several days).

George... you out there?

(BTW, George, if you are out there - how hard would it be to drive a VFD 
from this plugin, that is if it doesn't already, assuming you'd use the 
same linux lcd driver that mythtv uses.)

> Unless someone already has started I'm thinking about making a try at 
> this, my idea is to base it on the mythmusic plugin. Instead of reading 
> the information from the MythTV database it would retrieve the 
> information from SlimServer either via the CLI interface or by using 
> direct database access towards the SlimServer MySQL database.
> 
> Has anyone an idea if this would be the best way to do it or if I should 
> base it on some other plugin code ?

CLI would be the way to do it.

> Could I base it on the 0.20 version of mythmusic or has there been big 
> changes in the 0.21 version of mythmusic so it would be better to use that ?
> 
> I'm running MythTV 0.20 in my living room, so it would have to be 
> compatible with the 0.20 release.
> 
> The main functionality I am thinking of is:
> - Make it possible to browse the music in SlimServer in some different ways
> - Show album covers
> - Make it possible to start playing selected music on the SqueezeBox
> 
> Regards
> Erland

And, it sounded like, in one of your follow ups to this post, that you 
only wanted to control the server and use a real SqueezeBox to play back 
the music.

That makes it even simpler!

You don't have to emulate a local sound buffer or abstract the 
SqueezeBox VFD.  You can just tell the server using the CLI port what 
you want to do.  All you need to do is identify your self as the client 
you want to control by using the SqueezeBox's MAC address and toss 
commands to the SqueezeCenter's CLI port.  You could even open a telnet 
session right now and do it by hand (although typing the MAC every time 
would be a pain and the commands are a bit cryptic).

If you need technical specs just download and install SqueezeCenter. 
All the info on the CLI protocol (and other stuff) are built into 
SqueezeCenter's (locally generated by the server) web pages.  Opensource 
is great, let's hope logitech doesn't screw it up.

...have fun.








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