Remote "NowPlaying" Display

[Stoker]

Ok, thanks Russell

I have done this, but I'll try it again this evening.

Cheers

[JJZolx]

What seems to happen for me is that if I open up the Squeezeserver web interface on another tab the NowPlaying screen will pick up the details for whatever player I have selected on the web interface.

Out of the box I don't think that it's geared for multiple player setups. I believe it works exactly like you say, which is fine if you only have one player.

[starfleetcommand]

Out of the box I don't think that it's geared for multiple player setups. I believe it works exactly like you say, which is fine if you only have one player.

I have multiple players and the HTML works fine if you followed the instructions in the readme file. It is designed to only show the info being played on the the device selected in the Sueezebox GUI. Once you initially setup which player (from the same computer as that which is running this HTML), NowPlaying will show the info.

I am hoping to add more features but I don't have a lot of spare time. I hope others can build upon it to improve it.

[Stoker]

Interesting development, or not!

Whilst messing about I found that if I try to connect with:
"http://192.168.1.199:9000/html/SqueezeJS/nowplaying.html"

I get the empty black page and a clock in the top left corner, however if I connect with:
"http://ubuntu2:9000/html/SqueezeJS/nowplaying.html"

Everything works correctly.

Both the addresses point to the same machine, I've treble checked! It seems that I can only use the "ubuntu2" version of the address from my PC, possibly something to do with workgroups (not sure). If I try the "ubuntu2" address from my PlayStation webrowser (which is what I want to do) it can't resolve the address with a DNS error message

Any suggestions?

[mark-e-mark]

Won't fit on my monitor

I've got my Linux plug up and running and the Mozilla browser will run this page, with some oddities. I am using a 15 inch square monitor, so the page doesn't display all of the elements without scrolling. I would like to use screen real estate next to the album cover, and I would like to use huge font so my wife can see it from across the room. (After all, she let me put that stack of equipment in the den!) I've tried to hack the html code to get it to display on my monitor, but I am clearly over my head.

Would someone familiar with CSS be willing to help reformat this page for a 15 inch monitor? I've attached my hack to serve as a wire frame.

The only other oddity is the clock; It has a white background. I checked on the settings and they are correct, so I have no idea why.

[ChrisNY]

I recently remembered this and decided to load it up on my Boxee Box to see what displayed on my 50 inch TV. It works, but it's cutting off the bottom. Similar to the last poster, anyone have any tips where to begin to adjust the code to display better on this screen? Thanks.

-ChrisNY

[Henry66]

What is the smallest device with HDMI 1080 out that can run a web browser?
Would a Raspberry Pi work?
Has anyone set up such a device to run NowPlaying?

[jump]

What is the smallest device with HDMI 1080 out that can run a web browser?
Would a Raspberry Pi work?
Has anyone set up such a device to run NowPlaying?

Remote "NowPlaying" will be a very nice feature.
I search a solution to display "now playing" on different TVs (via HDMI) simultaneously (for a public place).

[Henry66]

Has anyone made any modifications to nowplaying.html that they'd like to share?
I would like to make a version that works correctly with Chrome/Chromium.
Also I want to get rid of the clock and all other Flash content.

[sockenschlumpf]

Hello Henry66,

this is my version of nowplaying, it works with Firefox, Chrome and my iPhone / iPad.

Peter

[Henry66]

Thank you very much Peter!

I bought a 1GB MK802 mini PC for $74 and installed Ubuntu on it to get 1080p output via HDMI to my big flatscreen TV. I launch Chromium to access nowplaying.html and view it full screen.

I may try to tweak nowplaying.html a little more to make best use of 1920x1080 resolution.

[Viragored]

Anyone still watching this thread?

On the off-chance that someone is still watching..

I've got Logitech Media Server 7.7.2 running on a Vortexbox machine - that runs under Linux, about which I have much to learn, being only a beginner.

The LMS web interface runs happily on either of the two PCs on my network, both Windows 7 machines which find LMS at [n.n.n.n.]:9000

I've been using Filezilla to search around inside the Linux box, but haven't been able to find where LMS keeps its html files, to add "nowplaying.html". I got quite excited when I found a folder at /var/www/html with various files and folders in it, but that seems to be for Vortexbox's own web interface, and not for LMS.

Can anyone point me to where the LMS web files are?

[MillmoorRon]

I have been monitoring this thread and wondering why it was so quiet. I thought that now that the Raspberry Pi is out in the wild this would be a popular application for it!

On my Ubuntu Linux the files go in '/usr/share/squeezeboxserver/HTML/EN/html/SqueezeJS' if that helps.

I will soon be posting my effort at modifying the html, if I can just sort one more seemingly minor (yet infuriatingly difficult) issue...

[Chunkywizard]

I would love this now playing screen to look like the one from JiveLite, ie basic and uncluttered, don't suppose anyone has changed the HTML to emulate that have they?

CW

[MillmoorRon]

Mine looks a bit like this at the moment - but I'm still playing!



Have very little knowledge of HTML/CSS/JavaScript so just Googling lots...