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Author Topic: Adding items to "Drives and Devices" side menu  (Read 2612 times)

morgan

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Adding items to "Drives and Devices" side menu
« on: March 30, 2008, 08:20:03 am »

Is it possible to add items to the "drives and devices" side menu with a plug-in?
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JimH

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Re: Adding items to "Drives and Devices" side menu
« Reply #1 on: March 30, 2008, 08:21:51 am »

No.  But it may be possible to add a service.  What's your plan?
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morgan

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Re: Adding items to "Drives and Devices" side menu
« Reply #2 on: March 30, 2008, 09:50:41 am »

I've added uPnP device discovery to JR via an "interface plug-in", and the plan is to add the discovered devices (renderers and media servers) to the Devices menu...
From there, I'd want to be able to attach a (upnp renderer) device to a zone, and have it follow the currently playing track.
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Re: Adding items to "Drives and Devices" side menu
« Reply #3 on: March 31, 2008, 10:01:15 am »

This is a nice idea. Keep in mind it is something we might choose to do in house as well. I'd suggest getting the plug-in working without modifying the device tree, and then we'll take a look at getting it in the device tree.

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morgan

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Re: Adding items to "Drives and Devices" side menu
« Reply #4 on: March 31, 2008, 05:43:38 pm »

Great to hear you consider it a useful feature too.  There are a handful of decent UPnP media renderers on the market, but they all need a much better user interface.

I'll keep hacking...



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