Michael Auerswald

St. Albans Winter Vista

Michael — Sun, 07 Mar 2010 00:15:32 +0000

Winter Vista in St. Albans

OyRemote 0.16d uploaded – now with Last.FM support

Michael — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 20:51:57 +0000

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.

OyRemote 0.16 released

Michael — Sun, 21 Feb 2010 02:09:46 +0000

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.

OyRemote v0.15 and OyRemoteCL 0.2 released

Michael — Sun, 14 Feb 2010 22:28:48 +0000

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"

Adding your RSS enabled website to Google Buzz

Michael — Fri, 12 Feb 2010 14:58:31 +0000

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

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

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.

OyRemote Manual

Michael — Sat, 06 Feb 2010 18:48:40 +0000

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

OyRemote 0.14

Michael — Sat, 06 Feb 2010 17:50:08 +0000

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)

OyRemoteCL 0.1

Michael — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 22:49:32 +0000

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

OyRemote 0.13 now online

Michael — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 19:03:55 +0000

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.

OyRemote – new version soon

Michael — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 13:35:50 +0000

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!