Re: Display JPEGs on your Tivo from ANYWHERE

[Stuart Booth <lists@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, 23 Nov 2005 10:00:05 -0500, "Sullivan, Glenn"
<gsullivan@xxxxxxx> wrote:

>Have some spare time at work, so I'm working on this xAPplication.

At work?! Nice! It's ten balls in the air where I am, so I can only
wish.

>How about targeting?
>
>For example, let's say you have two TiVo's... Would you want the
>Display.Service message to be sent out for each instance?    IE, if the
>xAPplication is BushSoft.xAPTiVoJPEGWriter.GMSServer, should the TiVo's
>be individually addressable:
>	BushSoft.xAPTiVoJPEGWriter.GMSServer:LivingRoom
>	BushSoft.xAPTiVoJPEGWriter.GMSServer:MasterBR

That's how my SlimServerConnector addresses all the Slims in the
house. And I believe my nobby little TiVoYAC tool does the same as I
recall. Certainly it's what I'd expect of similar xAPplications.

I daresay a single Display.Service is all that is required from the
Connector rather than each individual hardware subaddress (TiVo):

BushSoft.xAPTiVoJPEGWriter.GMSServer

But that will only tell you the general display properties, rather
than allowing you to find all the available devices unless you listen
for heartbeats.

>And individually respond to display.locate (and message.display)
>messages?

Well, Message.Display, definitely, with .Info and .Event messages
(because you might target a single TiVo), but Display.Locate/Service
go hand-in-hand. Heartbeats serve half the purpose if the Connector
itself responds with a single format device, but if different
capabilities are present on individual TiVo's, then individual
responses would be required.

For example, in my case, Slims of different display capabilities
exist, graphical vs textual.

>I guess it makes sense to do that, and then an app can send out a
>display message to either the whole set of TiVo's (by addressing to
>BushSoft.xAPTiVoJPEGWriter.GMSServer), or to an individual TiVo (by
>addressing to BushSoft.xAPTiVoJPEGWriter.GMSServer:LivingRoom)

Or even grouped via additional subaddress nodes e.g.:

BushSoft.xAPTiVoJPEGWriter.GMSServer:Downstairs.LivingRoom
BushSoft.xAPTiVoJPEGWriter.GMSServer:Downstairs.Kitchen

thus:

BushSoft.xAPTiVoJPEGWriter.GMSServer:Downstairs.>

S
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