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| Topic: | Displaying Coverart This thread has 11 replies. Displaying all posts. |
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| Post 1 made on Monday December 24, 2007 at 15:01 |
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I was wondering if anyone knows if it's possible to show coverart (you know, those small bitmaps showing the front cover of your CD/album) on the Pronto.
I think i should be able to get the bitmap data into the pronto, but then? Don't know how to go from there...
Any hints or tips are welcome.
Robert.
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Robert Hekkers www.hekkers.netBuilding an automated and online home |
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| Post 2 made on Monday December 24, 2007 at 15:37 |
I'm using the MCE plugin for this...about 80% of the cover arts are showing correct.
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| OP | Post 3 made on Monday December 24, 2007 at 15:57 |
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You mean the plugin for Homeseer, right?
Well, i don't use Homeseer, i'm doing all coding myself, but at least i know it's possible now. That's a start ;-)
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Robert Hekkers www.hekkers.netBuilding an automated and online home |
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| Post 4 made on Monday December 24, 2007 at 16:07 |
Robert, MCE plugin is running on the Media Center it will play your music and show it on the pronto http://pronto.hd-tec.com/select quickbuy for more screen shots.
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| Post 5 made on Monday December 24, 2007 at 16:44 |
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To grab a picture from a url, i think thats something for the new release. The one we hoped would be out this month ;-)
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| Post 6 made on Monday December 24, 2007 at 17:18 |
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Rumor has it that cover art capability (dyamic image constructuion) is in the next firmware release.
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| OP | Post 7 made on Monday December 24, 2007 at 17:22 |
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Well, then just tell me why hd-tec (see Chak's reply) doesn't need this new release to display coverart? I'm assuming their product doesn't work in a way where you have to embed all coverart into the xcf to be able to display them... ;-)
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Robert Hekkers www.hekkers.netBuilding an automated and online home |
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| Post 8 made on Monday December 24, 2007 at 17:38 |
Fun thing is also the select wheel is working in MCE plugin.
You can very easy select the songs
I think hd-tec is working for Philips and they have more inside info about the possibilities.
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| Post 9 made on Monday December 24, 2007 at 20:45 |
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There is special code that was installed for the escient servers and the like. It is not available in the general release for use by protoscript. End of discussion. It is not there for general use period. End of story.
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| OP | Post 10 made on Tuesday December 25, 2007 at 06:33 |
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Too bad... then i'll wait and see if rumor becomes reality...
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Robert Hekkers www.hekkers.netBuilding an automated and online home |
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| Post 11 made on Wednesday December 26, 2007 at 18:23 |
Lyndel McGee RC Moderator |
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They will.
However, to use such capability, you will have to know and understand the HTTP protocol as ProntoScript only provides you TCP sockets, not an HTTP client. If you have written any ProntoScript already to access web pages, then you likely understand how to move forward.
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| OP | Post 12 made on Thursday December 27, 2007 at 04:16 |
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I'm very curious what 2008 will bring... :-)
Although i'm quite new to the Pronto (worked with it for 20 hours or so) i helped someone with reading a traffic jam RSS feed, and i wrote a small script with which i can send commands to a TCP server (for controlling X10 devices with my HA app). So that should be ok.
Actually i'm more worried about creating a nice looking UI; that's not really my favorite thing :-(
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