<div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, May 5, 2008 at 11:46 PM, Kevin Kuphal <<a href="mailto:kkuphal@gmail.com">kkuphal@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
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<div class="Ih2E3d">On Mon, May 5, 2008 at 6:15 PM, Yan Seiner <<a href="mailto:yan@seiner.com" target="_blank">yan@seiner.com</a>> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid">I have some speakers and wifi on the deck. During the summer, I run<br>mythmusic on a frontend in the house, and pipe the music outside.<br>
<br>Controlling it is a challenge though. Last summer I used a laptop, which<br>sucked. You can't see a laptop screen in bright sunlight and running into<br>the house to change the volume or skip a track sucks.<br><br>
Sunlight visible LCDs are way too expensive and completely unrealistic for<br>this, so I'm looking for something really basic; an old reflective laptop<br>would be ideal if I could figure out a way to hook wifi up to it....<br>
<br>Is anyone doing this? If so, how?</blockquote>
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<div>Honestly? Unless it is less expensive than an RF remote, you're not going to find a better option than something like a Roku Soundbridge or a similar device that runs about $150 that can simply read your ID3 tagged music and playback. Sometimes Myth is the perfect answer and sometimes it just isn't. </div>
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<div>Or, you could go uber-geek and rig up some kind of VFD display with a remote</div></div></blockquote>
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<div>Oh, and I use an Apple Airport Express in the kitchen connected to a set of wireless speakers that I take outside when I need to. I run all the music from iTunes and just set a playlist and don't worry about playing DJ on the deck :) iTunes is simply pointed at my MythMusic folder via samba and imported.</div>
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<div>Kevin</div></div>