[slinkelist] FAQ: linux driver?

[Don Messerli]

Does anyone know where the linux slinke list is?

Don

> -----Original Message-----
> From:	Sami-Pekka Haavisto [SMTP:shaavist@niksula.hut.fi]
> Sent:	Tuesday, October 19, 1999 5:29 PM
> To:	slinkelist@nirvis.com
> Subject:	Re: [slinkelist] FAQ: linux driver?
> 
> > Does anyone have a slink-e controlled from a linux box?  Are there
> > alternative
> > solutions for building S-link based jukebox systems for linux?
> 
> I have written a small software to control my CX350. It's 100% in Python,
> so it should work in other unix-like systems as well, probably with slight
> modifications to the serial port code. It could even work in Windows,
> Python and GTK have both been ported...
> 
> It has basically a simple server, which communicates with Slink-e through
> serial port, and listens to a TCP-port. Client software can connect to
> this server and allocate any Slink-e port. This makes it simple to have
> different programs to use different Slink-e ports, and also simplifies
> the programming while it's the server that handles parsing multi-part
> messages.
> 
> The actual CD-controller client software uses GTK widget set, and has
> already simple but working playlist editor. I have used it myself for a
> month or so. It still depends on my own little CD-database I've been
> using since 1994, but I'm going to move the data to a simple ASCII-based
> datafile later, and also add CDDB support. I've been too busy lately to
> make it completely self-contained, but perhaps I'll look into it soon,
> seems like there would be interest :-)
> 
> I haven't released any of this software yet. But after I fix some bugs
> I'll release it under some open source license, possibly GPL. Also, only
> the server module is of general use at the moment, the actual
> CD-controller has several things hardcoded to work with specifically my
> CX350. I don't have access to any other changers, so I couldn't test it
> myself even if I coded some more functionality into it.
> 
> I have a little page with an old screenshot of the playlist editor at
> <URL:http://www.iki.fi/sph/slink/>. It still looks pretty much the same,
> though I've made some changes since. Oh, and there's also a link to my
> WWW-playlist, which is updated by the software in real time ;-)
> 
> Any thoughts? If there are more people interested in coding this thing
> in python something could be organized. Something like a CVS-tree for
> development might not be a bad idea at all.
> 
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