Re: SLIMP3 email notification

["Quinten Uijldert" <yahoogroups@xxxxxxx>]

> On Wed, 12 Mar 2003 15:07:51 -0000, "Ward, David"
> <David.Ward@xxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> >I've just been asked by a freind who is :-)))))))))) with his
shiny new
> >SLIMP3 if
> >there is a plugin available to display a notification message of
incomming
> >email.
>
> As Mark mentioned earlier, there are. I've written one part of this,
> but it's *very* early on that. I only wrote it on Monday evening!!
>
> >Couldn't see anything on the Slimdevices site but I do recall
seeing a
> >mention of xAP and SLIMP3 here so thought I'd ask before we go
down the
> >'merry' route of outlook plugins and UDP messages :-/
>
> If you're thinking UDP messages, you're already thinking of xAP.
> xAP's perfect for this kind of thing.
>
> Here I think you'd need some widget for Outlook or whatever that
> detects incoming email and sends out new email notifications as xAP
> messages. I personally don't have this kind of capability myself yet
> but others likely do.
>
> These email notification messages could then be picked up, repackaged
> and sent out as OnScreenDisplay notifications to such devices as
> TiVo's, other computers, even TTS announcers and the like. In this
> particular case we could send out a message to a SliMP3 telling it
> what to display.
>
> A final xAPp, a SliMP3 xAP Connector, will know what to do with the
> SliMP3 display xAP messages, resulting in an output appearing on the
> Slim's display.
>
> It's the last part I've sort of written but it isn't finished yet.

A site I stumbled upon offers an alternative:
http://www.gwendesign.com/slimp3/development.htm

Have not looked yet at the specifics, but it might be a possible start for
future development.

Q.


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