WebServer Cmd- How to Get Server Player Info to "Fat Client"

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WebServer Cmd- How to Get Server Player Info to "Fat Client"

Postby smarty on Mon Apr 21, 2008 12:44 pm

This might be an easy question, but I am befuddled :(

I am using the new Webserver Command from my touchscreen to control the Xlobby audio and video (default) players on my server.

How do I get the audioplayer & mediaplayer variable information (see below) back to the fat client touchscreen so that I can display the players status (this particulariliy important for IP radio, since some of those stations appear to "hang").

Below is the type of information I would like to display on the touchscreen; but I don't know how to get it off the server machine. Ideas?

audioplayer>now>%trackname%
audioplayer>now>%albumname%
audioplayer>now>%artist%

Title: %mediaplayer>title%
Chapter: %mediaplayer>chapter%
Total Chapters: %mediaplayer>totalchapters%
Elapsed: %mediaplayer>elapsed% minutes
Total Time %mediaplayer>total% minutes
Audio Format: %mediaplayer>audioformat%
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Re: WebServer Cmd- How to Get Server Player Info to "Fat Client"

Postby Jay on Mon Apr 21, 2008 4:58 pm

Sounds likw you've progressed. I just got back into this and simply trying to figure out how to choose an album or movie.
I'm sitting here with a 5-button screen like Wes described, but I can only control the first album in the collection.
How do you focus?
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Re: WebServer Cmd- How to Get Server Player Info to "Fat Client"

Postby Jay on Mon Apr 21, 2008 8:49 pm

Smarty. Just got off the phone with Wes.
We can't do these things yet. They're coming. Right now, we can just fire events from fat clients.
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Re: WebServer Cmd- How to Get Server Player Info to "Fat Client"

Postby smarty on Mon Apr 21, 2008 9:42 pm

Thanks for the update Jay :D .
I haven't looked into the CD/photos/movie items yet, I was first going after IP radio control.

The good news is that I can indeed control the server audio player via IP radio button presses, but there is no audioplayer "feedback".

I guess we will have to wait for focus "controllability" in the future.
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Re: WebServer Cmd- How to Get Server Player Info to "Fat Client"

Postby Jay on Mon Apr 21, 2008 9:57 pm

I think you'll find the same.
There's no db connection yet.
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