Announce: Squeeze Display for Android

[JohnSwenson]

Hi Erland, this sounds great, unfortunately the description says it will only run on android 2.3.7 and up. This precludes anything I've got. Is there anyway to get this to run on older versions? The most recent I have is 2.2.

There are a number of inexpensive tablets that have older versions such as 2.0 or 1.8, is there anyway this can run on them?

Thanks,

John S.

[maggior]

I've installed this on my Xoom WiFi (running ICS) and it won't find any players. I suspect this is because I'm not using the default port (I'm using 9001) and my server is password protected. I tried specifying the server as "remote" and put the port at the end (peter:9001), but I still get "no players found".

Is there a way to get it to work in this configuration?

Thanks!

[erland]

I've installed this on my Xoom WiFi (running ICS) and it won't find any players. I suspect this is because I'm not using the default port (I'm using 9000) and my server is password protected. I tried specifying the server as "remote" and put the port at the end (peter:9001), but I still get "no players found".

Is there a way to get it to work in this configuration?

Thanks!

It doesn't support password protected servers, only way to get it to work is to remove the password from your server configuration.

[Chrobrego]

Hi,

Thanks a lot for this initiative. My #1 request would be to have a screensaver displaying the lyrics of the current track. For that purpose, it would be enough for me to read the LYRICS tag.

[lrossouw]

This is not activated as a default dock app? Or is it supposed to?

[erland]

This is not activated as a default dock app? Or is it supposed to?

Do you mean so it's launched automatically when you dock the phone/tablet ?
In that case, it's on my wish list too, but I haven't got the time to actually implement it yet.

[lrossouw]

Do you mean so it's launched automatically when you dock the phone/tablet ?
In that case, it's on my wish list too, but I haven't got the time to actually implement it yet.

That is what I meant.

[sternenjaeger]

I just installed "Squeeze Display" and this was one of the most complicated software installation i ever did:

1) I bought a cheap chinese tablet pc (Odys Loox) and installed "Squeeze Display" on it

3) I installed a DOS Emulator (based on DosBox) and on this a copy of my all-time favourite peace of software. It's called El-Fish (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/El-Fish) from the russion company Animatek.
This is a beautiful old DOS Program which i bought in the early nineties that displays a simulated aquarium.

4) I rooted the tablet and installed an SSH daemon.

5) I removed the case, ripped of a few unnecessary parts like touch screen layer, battery etc. and installed display and board in a picture frame.

5) I am not familiar with Android so i searched for Android commands to control applications (/system/bin/am) and to control the standby mode remotely (/system/bin/input keyevent).
Then i wrote a bash script which controls the tablet by sending commands to the SSH shell on the tablet. It uses the Squeezeserver CLI (via the netcat command) to switch to "Squeeze Display" whenever a new album is played and goes back to El-Fish after a time. It also puts the tablet after some time into sleep mode when no album is played because this saves a couple of watts power consumption.

Now i am listening to one of my favourite peaces of music, the "Nocturnes" by Frédéric Chopin, played by the wonderful Elisabeth Leonskaja. It's awesome - the quiet music, the virtual fish tank and the app from Erland that displays photographs of the pianist.

Thank's a lot to Erland for this and all the other software you wrote for the Squeezebox environment.

[gorman]

Erland, first read about this now. Really cool idea. This goes to show how useful the flexible architecture from Slimdevices (not Logitech) has still to give. Thank you!