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Rockbox mail archiveSubject: RE: Remote control with displayRE: Remote control with display
From: Andreas Stemmer <Andreas.Stemmer_at_web.de>
Date: Thu, 3 Oct 2002 16:54:15 +0200 > The problem with that is that it would require the remote to > 'poll' the Archos for screen updates, even when there are > none. This would drain the battary in the remote. Yes that's true, but I think it's the best way, because it is very simple and doesn't need many changes in the archos firmware. The jukebox's remote commands have to be extended a little bit, because most of us want to have every function remote controlled and we need one command for data request. The whole thing would be compatible to the standard remotes from archos, just extended. If you try to send data from the jukebox to the remote without the remote knowing, you'll get problems if you use the standard remote control from archos or any other solution that doesn't expect data to be transmitted. One could think of a "tell me if something changed" message as well, which should be transmitted in a very short time, reducing the traffic (and power consumption) if there are no changes. With the data-request commands, you'll have the advantage of being totally free concerning the type of data beeing transmitted. I have a sony car stereo for example which can display only one line of text. Most of the time, this should be the song title, of course, but I can imagine I want to have the album title or artist sometimes. The car stereo has got a button "display" for that, which cycles through different settings (a cd with cd-text displays artist - album - track title). When connecting my archos to the car stereo, I mostly need the song title and nothing else. This could be done perfectly with data-request commands. If the next song starts and the display doesn't change instantly would not be a big problem for me but could be solved with shorter polling times. Andreas Stemmer Received on 2002-10-03 Page template was last modified "Tue Sep 7 00:00:02 2021" The Rockbox Crew -- Privacy Policy |