Michael Auerswald

24/02/2010 – version 0.16d

• this is a beta release before 0.17 to test the new last.fm features
• added a last.fm tab that display artist information and the album cover of the currently played song
• added mini cover in trackinfo
• added setting to hide trackinfo and statusbar (change it for the current session in the “view” menu, or save the setting in your Settings tab)
• Note: the last.fm info that is returned from the receiver is somewhat unreliable and often incomplete, so you may need to refresh the info with the refresh button in the trackinfo – this can cause the application to seemingly hang while it’s grabbing the last.fm data.

• reworked most of the UI
• added a third row of custom buttons (a total of 54 now)
• fixed some minor bugs
• custom button names are auto-set now if “-/-” or blank
• added a colour parameter to the custom buttons – set it in the Command Builder dialog
• removed some buttons from the UI – those functions are in the menus

As always, get it here.

Just uploaded a new version of OyRemote with some requested features added.

• PAUSE (in ms) command added – certain actions take the receiver longer to react to than the standard Batch Delay time, so you can add some extra delay here
• Added Title/Artist/Album info to network controls – this will show ID3 tags, Internet Radio stations etc.
• Some minor layout changes to fit new labels

As always, get it here

OyRemoteCL has been updated to 0.2 as well, to include the PAUSE command.

Example:

oyremotecl.0.2.exe -ip 192.168.0.101 -port 60128 "MVL10,PAUSE2000,MVL20"

Ok, looks like I’ve worked it out now.

Add this to your website, for example to the header of your index.php:

<link rel="me" type="text/html" href="http://www.google.com/profiles/your.username"/>

your.username should of course be your google profile username.

In theory the next time Google’s search engine crawls your website, it should find this and add your page to your “connected sites” in your Google Buzz profile. As this can take a while, here’s a shortcut:

https://sgapi-recrawl.appspot.com/

Log in with your Google account (the one you use with Buzz) and tell it to crawl your site (you have to add that site to your list of sites in your profile first).

A bit convuluted, but should work in the end.

Edit: well, the post still has not made an appearance on buzz even though it’s almost an hour later. Looks like something is still off…
Edit 2: Works. Turns out it just took a while.

Finally got around to write a basic manual for OyRemote, based on v0.14. Hope it helps.

• Using XML file now instead of registry to store config data. This is to make it for portable and easier to edit for users (although some would argue the registry is easier, but it’s easier to break your system by fiddling with the registry, so…)
• Input Device IDs and labels can be changed via the XML file now
• Listening Mode buttons are gone, in favour of more and larger custom buttons – just make your own Listening Modes together with Input Selection etc.

Note that especially the XML stuff constitutes a major change, so expect bugs (and please tell me about them!).

(also note that this does not affect OyRemoteCL – that one uses no configuration file at all)

Because it was a popular request to send commands to the receiver via the command line (e.g. to automate certain tasks, schedule them to run at certain times etc.), and because OyRemote relies quite heavily on the GUI, I have decided to fork of a quick command line version of OyRemote, OyRemoteCL. It’s very straight forward and easy to use and uses no configuration files, registry settings etc. at all. Just run it like this:

C:\>OyRemoteCL.exe
OyRemote Command Line - Version 0.1

Usage:
oyremotecl.exe -ip xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx -port xxxxx "commandstring"

Example:
oyremotecl.exe -ip 192.168.0.1 -port 60128 "SLI01,MVL35,SLP30"

Optional Parameter:
-delay xxx (in ms)

C:\>

C:\>OyRemoteCL.exe -ip 192.168.0.101 -port 60128 -delay 400 MVL20,MVL25,MVL30
Sent: !1MVL20
Received: !1MVL20
Sent: !1MVL25
Received: !1MVL25
Sent: !1MVL30
Received: !1MVL30

Loads of improvements (at least I think so). Should be more stable too. Made a lot of changes under the hood, so there is a good chance that new bugs have been introduced too. Please let me know!

Next step is to finish writing the manual.

Ooph. I don’t even know where to begin, so many ideas, so little time. I’m currently working on a Command Builder interface that will let you select commands from a list of all available commands for all zones. You can then assign these selections to custom buttons or the batch commands.
I’m trying to decide whether it would make sense to replace much of the existing buttons with custom ones, so that the user can basically build his own interface. However, I’m sure some don’t actually want that and are perfectly happy to use the default interface. So I’ve put another thing on my to-do list: three different interface. The one currently in use, once compact one and one that consists purely of custom buttons (loads of them). Should make everyone happy? I guess theoretically custom sliders are possible too, but that’s further down on the list.
All config settings are still stored in the registry. I’m planning to move those to an XML formatted config file, to make things more portable (or at least have an export/import feature).
Oh, and another cool thing would be a separate interface to set up bass/treble per speaker. Again, on the list.
The next release should be done by the end of the week, we’ll see what makes it in until then!