For those of you who haven't read my post from last week, see here: [Link: remotecentral.com]

I have spent countless hours on the phone with reps, distributors, and level 4 tech at logitech and they all are telling me the same thing; "the platform has been changed and will continue to change to make it very difficult for custom installers (people like us) to continue to use the squeezebox." Their business models have drastically changed and is continuing to evolve and they have cornered themselves out of the custom market. This is a MAJOR issue for those of us wanting to use the SBox with our Pronto remotes. If you want details on how the platform works now, let me know and I'll be more than happy to post info here, but I'm just curious to know how these changes will hurt the use of the pronto with EITHER script available here. Currently, if your SBox is configured and was working prior to this change, it will continue to work...for now. If you are thinking about getting a squeezebox to use with your pronto for the first time, forget about it...for now, at least until we can be sure things will continue to work. Logitech obviously doesn't care about the custom field and the fact that their CEO has changed 3 times in the last year makes me nervous! Thanks a lot Logitech! Anyway, Let me know what your take is here. -Neal

Well, provided you keep the "SqueezeCenter" (now "SqueezeBoxServer") at a version that works you have a functional system. People may complain, but there's nothing wrong with the SqueezeBox's current configuration.

Yes, 7.4 was an annoying change as it barely added anything of use to me (personally), but my custom Python script still works (itruns on the same box as the SqueezeCenter / SqueezeBox server, I use TCP to hit it from the remote, so any reprogramming goes there).

It is a bit annoying that they have no "backward compatibility" view, and as a personal user of prontoscript (family home use, replacing an old Marantz POS -- and I say that knowing it before someone else got it) I expect it'll be an issue. However, provided they don't touch the telnet stuff too much each update I'm not sure why it's such an issue. They basically cannot shut us out entirely because we can just use the older software until we have the time to patch it to a new version.

I'm not sure how much of an issue this is when the enduser may auto-update, but you could just stop it from autodetecting updates... I can't see how anything would be "mission critical" in the updates, at least from the recent past.