RE: Pardon me for being the n00b here...

Richard,

Looks good - I went ahead and checked it into CVS.

Perhaps a good interface for the "second line" feature would be to use
HTTP.  You could easily update it from external scripts (or remote
machines) by doing `lynx http://server/secondline?YOUR_TEXT_HERE`

Sean


On Mon, 15 Oct 2001, Richard Smith wrote:

> Ok, the diff is here...
> http://www.chatbear.com/personal/changes.diff
>
> CVS still means nothing to me, so hopefully that's right.
>
> I don't have much time to do anything else with it (like clean up some of
> the stupid things I did as I got the hang of the code) but I'm sure one of
> you can make it nice. Or at least take inspiration and write your own
> version. :)
>
> The main change is the displaying of the clock and using the second line to
> display other information like weather, email details etc. To make this is
> as easy as possible to adapt to your own needs, these second lines are
> stored in a file called secondlines.txt that goes in the same directory as
> the server.pl (at the moment I'm afraid to say the path to this file,
> c:\server\secondlines.txt is hardcoded for my machine in Timers.pm, so you
> should probably change this). Each line can be no longer than 40 characters
> (well it can, but it'll be cut off) and they cycle in five second intervals
> (shows the first line of the file, waits 5 seconds, shows the second, waits
> 5 seconds etc).
>
> If you download this...
> http://www.chatbear.com/personal/secondline.txt
>
> You'll see the script I'm using to generate a file of secondlines (again,
> the file path of the output is hardcoded, so you should change this). It
> uses a similar timer layout to Timer.pm and includes code for getting BBC
> headlines, weather and mail box counts. You should find the relevant lines
> in the code for the weather city it checks, the email server it connects to
> etc and change them to suit yourself. Oh yea, and rename it from .txt to .pl
> of course. :) It needs LWP::Simple and Weather::Underground and Net::POP3,
> all of which are available from CPAN (everything apart from
> Weather::Underground is really in a standard Perl install, win version
> included).
>
> Basically run this file as a daemon, just like server.pl. Or in the case of
> windows, just run it and it'll stay open. The timers will fire and update
> the information. I moved it into a second script (instead of just putting it
> in server.pl) so that the server was hung up checking your mail while you
> were trying to play music.
>
> You'll also find in Timers.pm the code to scroll the text if it's too long
> for the width of the screen. It's commented out, but it does work. It just
> annoys me because it only scrolled at the same speed as the clock updated -
> once a second. And without a higher resolution timer system (ie, not just
> using unixtime) it's kinda hard to do better than that. So I commented it
> out. If somebody wants to move it to a better timing system, they can.
>
> Final big change in the code is that when you pause it, the word pause
> flashes on and off on the top line. This stops the player shutting down
> because it's always receiving from the server. This solves the problem of
> crackly sound if you unpause it after the player has fallen asleep (as it no
> longer falls asleep). It's a dirty hack, but many people would say all Perl
> code is. :)
>
> There's a LocalAddr setting added to the IO::Socket call in server.pl which
> you want to remove or change to your server IP address. I had problems on
> multihomed machines without it.
>
> Code is now win2k compatible (previous version wasn't).
>
> Damn this turned into a long email. Hopefully somebody finds the changes
> helpful or worth fixing up and rolling in for the masses. Any code
> questions, just give me a shout.
>
>
> Richard Smith
> [email protected]
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>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: dean blackketter [mailto:dean-qV/[email protected]]
> > Sent: 15 October 2001 17:19
> > To: [email protected]
> > Subject: RE: [slimp3-dev] Pardon me for being the n00b here...
> >
> >
> > Richard,
> >
> > Can you post your changes as a diff?
> >
> > After you are updated to the most recent version (with "cvs update")
> > the command to use (per Daniel Sully):
> >
> > cvs diff -upB
> >
> > this will output the differences in a way that's reasonably easy to
> > read and can be automatically applied to the source by somebody with
> > write access to the server.
> >
> > -dean
> >
> > >http://www.chatbear.com/personal/server.zip
> > >
> > >Download that. I took a dump of the CVS and zipped it up. Just unzip the
> > >whole lot to a directory with pathnames, it includes all the Perl modules
> > >you need.
> > >
> > >Trouble is - it doesn't work on win2k. This is a bug in the
> > server that's on
> > >the CVS right now so you'll need to edit the code to make it work.
> > >
> > >I'd tell you the line you need to add, but I don't have my code here at
> > >work. I'll check when I get home if you can't do it yourself
> > (it's a double
> > >path issue, and the fix goes into fixPath in server.pl, but
> > unless you know
> > >Perl, you'll be screwed :)).
> > >
> > >And btw, I don't have a clue about CVS either (I'm a perl coder
> > who's just
> > >never used it), so downloading from the repository was really
> > about as far
> > >as my CVS skills could take me. :)
> > >
> > >I'll also upload the version of the server I'm now using so you can grab
> > >that. As well as all the stuff in the version on the CVS, it
> > also displays a
> > >clock (and date) when you've haven't used the remote for 10 seconds. It
> > >displays this on the first line of the screen. On the second line it
> > >alternates between the weather forecast in my local city (Glasgow, but
> > >easily changeable), the number of messages on my email server, news
> > >headlines from the BBC and the number of users etc signed up on Chatbear
> > >(the free forum service I run). It is already fixed to work with Win2K.
> > >
> > >I'm sure somebody familiar with CVS can take the code and merge
> > it with the
> > >current code base and resubmit it (all my changes are clearly marked).
> > >
> > >
> > >Richard Smith
> > >- Development Manager
> > >- Traveltek
> > >- [email protected]
> > >
> > >
> > >>  -----Original Message-----
> > >>  From: woo_49-/[email protected] [mailto:[email protected]]
> > >>  Sent: 15 October 2001 16:40
> > >>  To: [email protected]
> > >>  Subject: [slimp3-dev] Pardon me for being the n00b here...
> > >>
> > >>
> > >>  ... but I'll go ahead and risk making myself the laughing stock of
> > >>  the list by admitting that I can't even spell CVS.  Nevertheless, I'd
> > >>  really like to update my nearly-a-month-old 1.0 server to something
> > >>  that can handle shoutcast streams, and I don't know how.
> > >>
> > >>  Would anyone like to educate me on mining Sourceforge for the latest
> > >>  slimp3 code?  Please?  I'm running on Win2K, if that makes a
> > >>  difference.
> > >>
> > >>  Thanks for not beating me up too badly,
> > >>
> > >>  Steve Wootton
> > >>  happy owner of #36
> > >>
> > >>
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