iPhone / iPod touch skin for SlimServer

[pippin]

This is really cool, well done! Looking forward to the internet radio implementation.

Cheers
Felix

Expect it within a few days, even though not everything works yet. For example the LastFM plugin does not really work yet (sorry for me since I use it, but it keeps crashing the default skin on my system, too...) and you do not yet have album art covers for internet radio in the NowPlaying screen, but the basic functionality is there, the rest will follow when I rework NowPlaying, which currently is #2 on my to-do-list (after "Favorites" which is the only thing missing for the 0.2 release).

Other functionalities:
- Playlist management
- Reworked Main Menu
- Search
- Generic Plugin Support
- and maybe Alarm and Timer

Cheers

Jörg

[Toy Maker]

ok, stupid noob question.....

is this just a skin to run on your PC, or is this suppoed to work ON my iPhone ?? using the iPhone to control my Squeezebox ?

I'm just confused.

[erland]

is this just a skin to run on your PC, or is this suppoed to work ON my iPhone ?? using the iPhone to control my Squeezebox ?

It's a skin for the iPhone, you use it by connecting with the Safari web browser in the iPhone to:
http://xxx:900/iPeng
(Where xxx is the IP-address or hostname of your SlimServer computer)

[Toy Maker]

Ok, good... them I am on the right track.

I DL'd SC 7 and coppied the folder to the html dir. I can pull it up and see the iPhone app running on my PC, but can't get it on my iPhone yet... I don't know the exact text to put in the "http://???.???.?.?:9000/iPeng" I am doing something wrong with the numbers I think.

how do I find out the correct numbers to put in there, I am no networking geek, that's for sure !!!

[Toy Maker]

I GOT IT !!!!!!!!!!!!!

Went onto the Squeezebox itself, and looked up the IP it was looking at, and typed that one into the iPhone.. WORKS PERFECTLY

Dude... this is FKN' SWEET !!!!!!!!!!!!

you have done an amazing job on this so far !!!!
you take PayPal donations at all ???

Now I just need a bigger battery for the phone

[pippin]

In Custom Browse I have my skin in the directory:
HTML/DefaultCB/

For example from the server root:
Plugins/CustomBrowse/HTML/DefaultCB/

The skin has a skinconfig.yml in this directory that specifies that it inherits from the default skin. The skin is accessible through http://localhost:9090/DefaultCB and does also show up in the SqueezeCenter Settings skin selection list box. There is no references to the skin from anywhere in the plugin code.

Are you saying that this isn't supposed to be working ?

Or is the reason it works for me that I also implement a plugin ?

The latter. You need a plugin (that registers with SC) to make it work, but a dummy one does it.

Considering to use this for iPeng 0.2 just one little problem: I have no clue on PERL and the dummy plugin I wrote keeps SC from starting up every second (!) time :-?

What am I doing wrong? Here's the code:

package Plugins::iPeng::Plugin;

use strict;
use base qw(Slim::Plugin::Base);
use Slim::Control::Request;
use Slim::Utils::Log;
use Slim::Utils::Prefs;
use Slim::Utils::Strings qw(string);

sub getDisplayName {
return 'PLUGIN_IPENG';
}

sub initPlugin {
return;
}

sub getFunctions {

return{};
}

1;

[erland]

Where can I file that feature request?

http://bugs.slimdevices.com/

[pippin]

http://bugs.slimdevices.com/

Thanks, but my original statement was wrong, nested plugin skins do work, I just screwed up with a test folder. Now I still got that problem with the plugin code...

[erland]

Considering to use this for iPeng 0.2 just one little problem: I have no clue on PERL and the dummy plugin I wrote keeps SC from starting up every second (!) time :-?

What am I doing wrong?

I'm not sure exactly what you did wrong, it might be that you need an install.xml or something else. The attached zip file contains an empty plugin ready to cotain the iPeng skin.

There is a version number in the install.xml file which you should update with the correct version number, this will show up when viewing plugins in SqueezeCenter Settings/Extras. If you don't want to update the version number every time you make a release, you can just put some static text in the version field in install.xml.

All the iPeng skin code should be placed in the iPeng/HTML/iPeng directory in the zip.

[Ur[s]uS]

excellent - thanks for all the work, looks great

this works very nicely already (v0.1a on iTouch with SC 15720 on WinXP)

some comments/suggestions (in no particular order, but which I hope will be helpful or useful):

- Using Now Playing:
a) In list view, I cannot scroll passed the first 8 titles on the now playing list. I may be doing something wrong, but I cannot get this working. [Thanks davep - two finger scroll is the answer. Good tip for within frame scrolling on other sites. http://forums.slimdevices.com/showpo...&postcount=51]
b) I like the subtle arrows for modifying song order in the playlist.
c) Exiting from Now Playing, I think the two options are Left Arrow (top left) or browser back? Would it be more intuitive for the Left Arrow (top left) to have the Home/More symbol? (Also, should "More" be replaced with "Home" in all cases?

- Using Browse Albums:
a) Would it be possible to display more text or to change how it is cut off. Example. "1962-1966 The Red Album" fits nicely, but "1967-1970 The Blue A..." is displayed for the Blue Album. Oddly, the shortened text actually uses less screen width than the title given for the Red Album. Looking at it, it seems another character or two would still be tidy?
b) Would be be possible for the top ribbon and bottom ribbon to remain on screen at all times, with the list scrolling in between? I know the workaround is shorter lists, but I like 50 or so! [Maybe like the scrolling for the Now Playing playlist, where top and bottom ribbon are static.]

- Using Browse Albums > Songs: The font size for albums is smaller than for the track titles. I think the smaller font is good and if it means more track on screen when you burrow down, all the better?

- Using More > Database > Albums Sorty By: I really really like the scroll wheel and click.

- Using Lists > Search:
a) "Home" (top left), does not appear to function. "More" (bottom right) does.
b) The layout is optimised for landscape, where the rest of the skin is optimised for portrait (a Nokia770 hangover?).
c) With search results, the Album/Artist/List/Radio/More ribbon floats to underneath the result and does not stay at bottom of screen. (Note: from here, "Home" (top left) does work.)