Yeah, I know I can look at source (and I am) but I'm wondering if there's anything that for instance the player binary understands that neither emptool nor jemplode know about. If the documentation exists, I'm searching for the wrong thing; I can't even really find someone asking an analogous question.

And actually, assuming there's not, I just had a scary thought.

Everything I want can probably be done as IR commands. I just need to give myself a useful interface for spoofing IR commands, which it actually looks like I can do by stealing some disabled code in hijack and tweaking slightly.

What I want to do is run a crond/atd sort of thing. Near top and bottom of the hour, insert a liner to be played. Depending on (something) look at the date and insert, say, my Christmas playlist, and reshuffle. And so on.

Most IR commands have serial commands, which would probably be even more usefull?

Matthew

How so? The cron job would already be running on the player. No need to involve the serial at all. Or did I miss your point?

In fact I misunderstand. Maybe I should sleep now.

Actually, if the complete list is at
http://www.empeg.mars.org/devel/software/player.php3
then none of the commands I want have serial commands, and I need to esstentially reinvest fvgestel's "writable /dev/ir" hack.

The mars.org stuff is hopelessly outdated. There are new serial commands in beta13 that allow you to do things like insert/append/enqueue specific FIDs. Those are in the release notes for beta13...

Well, at least you didn't get to point me at the FAQ.

Of course, I still need to fake sending "serial" anyway.

Of course, I still need to fake sending "serial" anyway.

that's already in Hijack....

Right, sorry, still being unintelligible. Reference to what I posted 4(?) messages ago, where I was talking about "not using real serial port'.

I swear, I'm just going to play with this and go to bed. Well, after I feed the hamsters.

So you'd figure if I said something like
echo "SERIAL=#13360" > /proc/empeg_notify
where FID 13360 was a playlist jEmplode stored as the result of a Wendy flag search, I'd get that, and not always a one song "playlist" where the song is FID 78688. And you might be right, except that the serial command wants the FID to be in Hex.

Good enough.

Tony, can we get a FAQ entry with the serial commands listed? I've come up with a list from empeg.mars.org and a few posts on this board, and here is what I have:

q - Drop to Shell
r - Restarts Player
[ - Switch to empeg channel
] - Switch to radio
= - AUX Input
s - Full Screen On/Off (CD-MD CH button)
+ - Volume +
- - Volume -
x - Volume +
z - Volume -
C - Play
p - Previous Song (Previous Menu Item)
F - Fast forward
B - Rewind
K - Loudness down
L - Loudness up
<space> - play
W - pause
\ - Sleep On/Off
f - Seek?
v - Next Vis
b - Seek?
n - Next Song (Next Menu Item)
1-9 FM Preset
. - FM Down
; - FM UP
` - Radio preset store
O - FM preset

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(commands gleaned from posts/documentation)

m - go down a menu level
* - go up a menu level
#xxxx - Play (Replace) FID xxxx
#xxxx+ - Append FID xxxx
#xxxx- - Enqueue FID xxxx
#xxxx! - Insert FID xxxx

Are there any that I have missed? I don't know of one single place where these are all listed and thought the FAQ might be an appropriate place.

Serial commands are listed in the developer's section of RioCar.org, in an area which I do not maintain. I have just updated the "Hypterterminal" entry in the FAQ to link to that entry now that I looked and realized that it did not link when it should have.

Thanks, Tony. I've e-mailed Drakino about the changes.

1-9 FM Preset
In tuner mode. In player mode, at least, 8 does "swap" just as it would from the remote, and 0 does "shuffle".

I mean to play some more; I need to figure out how the radio preset storage works, because if I can get it, the "set up my stations from gps" can work.