mt-daapd client for dsl
Forum: Multimedia
Topic: mt-daapd client for dsl
started by: RigasW
Posted by RigasW on May 15 2007,19:39
Hello,is there a daapd client for DSL?
daapd is the streaming protocol that is used by iTunes.
I run the mt-daapd server "Firefly" on a tiny linux device (nslu2 aka slug) and can listen from my Windows PCs to the music on the slug over the network.
So my idea is to use a DSL thin client (booting from a stick) and install a daapd client on that machine.
A tiny, but well working daapd client is called "Get it together", but it depends on Java. No idea, how to install java on DSL.
How can help?
Rigas
Posted by ^thehatsrule^ on May 15 2007,22:59
For java, see mydsl.If "daapd" isn't available in mydsl, you may have to manually install it, or request a package.
Posted by RigasW on May 16 2007,05:30
I tried it with mydsl; the only thing I found was the jre for firefox.I installed that, opened a command shell and entered
java -version
but java was not found. (Maybe jre is only used by the browser ... but I am really no Java expert.)
Rigas
Posted by ^thehatsrule^ on May 16 2007,05:53
Well its probably not in your PATH. Run it from where it's installed, or edit that variable, or add a symlink somewhere.
Posted by RigasW on May 16 2007,21:23
Thank you soooo much!I set the path temporaryly ... It works!!!
Now the mt-daapd client "Get it Together" shows and plays the music of our 3000 mp3 files that reside our nslu2 device (a nas device with a usb disc attached to it).
The next plan is to make a permanent DSL installation on a a flashcard or an usb device and built a nice little via epia machine in a tiny box for the living room.
At the moment I run dsl from a PXE image over the network, but I have no idea, how I could permanently install something and then make a PXE image out of that.
Regards,
Rigas
< Get it together >
< mt-daapd Sound Server >
< NSLU2 - the Slug ... >
Posted by ^thehatsrule^ on May 17 2007,00:19
If you use it to pass all of DSL's contents - including the KNOPPIX image - you can remaster that to add the things you want.
Posted by RigasW on May 20 2007,12:16
So,I am more or less finished ... :-)
To get everything running on my PXE running DSL, I had to to do the follwing:
< Howto DSL PXE > (This is quite a good howto for booting DSL over the network.)
The mt-daapd client "Get it tegether" needs the java runtime edition.
The loading of the jre mydsl package never worked for me with the mydsl=sda1 boot option.
So I copied the jre1_5_0.tar.gz file into my minirt24.gz file
In addition, I extracted the git.zip into the minirt24.gz
I wrote a little script that starts the mydsl installation using
mydsl-load jre1_5_0.tar.gz
Waits for 20 secs
then starts the git client.
(I had to copy this script to my minirt24.gz too.)
So after starting DSL over the net, I just have to run one single script:
It installes java
It sets the path
It starts the client software GiT
And then I can listen to my music on the nslu2 ...
Rigas
Posted by chaostic on June 02 2007,18:13
You should package it up for the my-dsl repository.Now if we could only get a daapd server for DSL working :/
Posted by RigasW on June 07 2007,10:41
Hi Chaostic,I added "git" to the package wishlist ... (I have no idea how to make a package).
As far as I understand it you could use GIT as a mt-daapd server too. So it could serve as a mt-daapd server under DSL too ...
Rigas