RE: Web control of DDARs

["Broadfoot, Kieran J" <Kieran.Broadfoot@xxxxxxx>]

Mark,

Rather than spending the money a couple of ideas spring to mind:

i. The displayserver hack?

ii. VNC?  Theres references to VNC control of the dell unit on the
rioreceiver.comms.net board.

iii. Wait for me to complete the windows hack for my pronto software ;-)

iv. Take the displayserver servlet apart, work out the links into the
player
(which is almost definitely done over a socket connection using a simple
protocol) and then write your own command line utility in java.

Im happy to work on iii and for that matter id quite like to start thinking
about iv so I can use mine for an alarm clock.

k.


> > THIS IS WHERE WE TAKE THE GROUP INTO UNCHARTED WATER....
> >
> > - I'd potentially be interested in paying someone to do this!
> > Considering what I'm prepared to pay for other parts of the
> > HA/HEntertainment system, I don't see why this should be handed
to me
> > free...
> >
> > Obviously, the price I'd be expected to pay would need to be
agreed in
> > advance, and would depend on whether this was something you wrote
and
> > sold me a licence for, or you subcontracted to me, so that I
ended up
> > owning the source code and the exclusive rights...
> >
> > ... my _guess_ is that there's a market for some enterprising
Unix
> > person to issue this as paid shareware...
> >
> > Comments?
> >
> > Mark Harrison
> > Head of Systems, eKingfisher